The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-07-31

in this line of legislation. will be the sub mission of an amendment to make prohi- b1tion & part of the constitution.
 Up to the last day or so there were many who felt that the amendment could be beaten, but now 1t is more and more evident that so much of the feeling for this will be put into active use that the members, practically all leaning to anti liquor laws. are going to be swept into the movement in its behalf
 Governor Conner Solid.
 While there has been some intimation of independence of Governor Conner shown about the two houses during the week. in the main the head of the house seems to sit solid in his p~Ss. Ten votes against a motion to table a >Sotim to adjourn were recorded yesterday in the senate, but it Is a safe guess that on a straight vote to quit and go home several of the ten would have fuked. The fail ure of the compulsory education bills in hhe house committee on education does not spell anything in the matter of final sen timent, as the fight Is to be made on the Reynolds bill already reported fav- orably in the senate.
 Brooks Lawrence Has Word.
 Say this much for me-" said Brooks Lawrence, head of the anti-saloon move ment: ''The statutory prohibition bills are going to pass and the constitutional prohibition bill too That is all I have to say. but it is a fact" Indications are that MT. Lawrence is on the right line as a guesser. Speaker Carmichael apparent ly impatient over some of the fighting against prohibition, has given 1t out that the whole hog is going to be served up before the end
 Bessemer and EnsIey.
 
 Bessemer is fighting to get out of Jef- ferson county, and Ensley is pleading not to be made a part of Birmingham. And all the time the rest of the state has been thinking what a great place is Bir- minsham and congratu1ating 1t and everybody about it.
 The fight by both influences is a game one, though in the main the belief Is that both will lose. J. A Estes, at work for the new county of Pettus, which is the fight of Bessemer, never sleeps A man walked into the Exchange hotel Thursday night with a smile on his face and told J. M. Perkins, burdened with the Ensley fight, how Estes had held up MT. Pitts of Dallas
 Haley on the Ground.
 MT. Estes, ever on the alert, stood on the corner with an eye to windward. Ere long Mr Pitts of Dallas, corpulent and happy, congratulating himself on his escape from the lobbyists on the inside. turned the corner and in half d second Estes had him backed into lamp post and was shaking a short forefnger in his face while talking like a streak. But Sherlock Haley of the Jefferson dele gation was also on the gum shoe trail and before Estes found a period in his argument Haley tapped Pitts on the shoulder and the large man from the black belt smiled and walked away. Estes none the less interested, stepped aside for the next man.
 Babb After Perkins.
 But the fun was not all here J. B. Babb of the Birmingham Commercial club. burdened also with the Greater Bir- mingham idea, had Perkins of Ensey backed into corner laying him out with a talk fest that Babb learned in the leg islature of Tennessee and to be found no where eles on earth. After two and a half hours Babb proudly announced that if he had had little time to talk to Perkins he would have converted him to the belief that the only place on earth for Ensley was right down on the cross way of First avenue and Twentieth street, Birmingham Wiping his brow with bandana, long wet from like serv- Ice. Perkins, a modest man, said: "Mebby so."
 The movement of MT. Teasley to pre-