The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-24

sorbed. a bill was passed. The bill was drawn by Mir. Gunter.
 A bill by Mir. Haley, to provide for I compensation for extra help in the off, fce of county treasurers when the as- sessments exceed $5o,ooo.0oo. was pass | ed.
 Mr. BaIlard's bill. providing for the service of process, on unincorporatee organizations, was passed.
 | Mir. MeDuf1e's bill to amend an in- definite expression in Section 4os2 of the code, was passed.
 | A bill of Mir. Long. of Butler, to amend Sections 6620s and 662l of the code, which applies to the packing of corn meal. so as to cover chops. was passed. &F
 ANHouse resolution, to request of the National Congress the Installation Of a National Bureau of Mines looking to the investigation and prevention of loss of life. was reported adversely by the Rules Committee.
 House Bill g9, to amend Section 12s3 of the Code. relating to sanitation, ana providing that when resident fails to install sanitary connections or to connect with sewerage systems after proper notice, then tine city shall make the installation and connection. and the expense shall be Hen on the property in favor of the city.
 | the payment of expense incurred In the litigation accompanying contested claims against the county, was passed.
 Mir. Mastin's bill to exempt Confed- crate soldiers from payment of ped diers licenses. was called. Senator | Gamble offered an amendment exempt I ing the veterans from hunting. phy l sicians and lawyers licenses. It was I adopted.
 I A bill transferring J. R. Harper, | Confederate veteran, from fourth to I first class pensioner. was passed. The Fuller bill. which allows phy- sicians who are retail dealers in drugs to sell pure alcohol for medicinal pur- poses only, providing he files notice of the saleA with Probate Judges. was passed. #
 The Senate refused to comply with the Houses request to return to the House Senate Bill 9.
 MT. Buiger's bill to pay for publica- ton of Tallapoosa County reports. $74. was passed. | A local bill to provide for holding Circuit Court of Coffee County to be held twice each year at both Elba and Enterprise. was passed.
 J A bill to increase the salary of the Attorney Generals stenographer from sfS750 to $500 was passed.
 There was cry on the part of some at the, si5o raise. of expense cutting and determinations. but rne voice of i the dissenters was drowned by that oi those favoring the raise.
 Night Session.
 Roll call at B o'clock failed to pro- duce the quofum which had been on the verge of unfulfilment during the day. and recess was taken until S:3O o'clock
 At twenty minutes past eight o'clock the necessary eighteen were present and business was taken up.
 House bill 3s0, providing that seed
 for planting or sowing in Henry coun-
 ty be tagged with guarantee of un- adulteration and purity. was passed.
 A second Henry county bill, to pro- tect the travelling of people on the pub. lie roads of Henry county. against dangers of automobiles providing that auto or motor owners whose machines
 injure a person, shall be responsible for the damages. was called. It pro-
 vided that the sheriff shall capture
 and imprison the injurious automobile
 until the damages are paid The Sen.
 ators scented something queer about
 the bill. declaring that 1t was genera
 in its nature, while purporting to be
 local, and the bill was passed until tn,
 arrival of Senator Forester.
 MT. Glover's bill to authorize Boafdl ; of Revenue to make appropriations fo , the installation and maintenance of ex hibits of the agricultural and minera resources of their counties was pass
 ed.
 MT. Gunter's bill. providing tha county Boards of Health shall have unqualified and final authority ant
 jurisdiction in the appointment ot
 city bacteriologists and health officers
 was passed, although the influence anC
 desire of the Birmingham municipa
 government was felt against 1t in proposed amendment which was offered by Senator Gamble. and tabled on th' motion of Senator Miller. of Jefferson The Gamble amendment provided
 that the provisions were not to appl!
 to cities of more than 50,000 inhabi
 tants. Birmingham's City Council haC been opposed to the authority of thu County Board of Health as to thu } naming of the city bacteriologist ant health officer for some time. and { ] fight has been waged for some tint
 In that city, when the Council named E. W. Duncan as bacteriologist, an( the Board of Health named Dr. Hark ness There were two warning fac tions, and the question was a bittel
 one.
 The bill which Gunter proposed gives to the County Board of Healtf final Jurisdiction, and settles the Bir mingham fight.
 Doctors Morris, J. M. Mason, D. F
 TalIey. Cunningham Wilson and others were here from Birmingham yesterday
 fighting for the Gunter bill. The figh
 of the other side was manifest in Sen
 ator Gamble's amendment. Several of Dr. Duncan's friends were
 here to combat the authorities of thu Birmingham Board of Health, and tC
 uphold the cause of the Councils nom -inee.
 By the law as Is made by the Sen . ate's action last night, the County Board of Health has power to nam'
 county health officers and bacteriolo } gists The Mayor may depose the off cer should he see fit. but, when h' names a successor, the eligibility o
 the Mayors appointee is left with thu Board of Health as final.
 MT. Glover's bill to require Count!
 Commissioners to pay one-half of th' ' county road tax whose portion Is col lected in any municipality to that city was passed. It is the re-enactment O , the road tax law which was declared
 unconstitutional by the Supreme Cour . several months ago.
 a MT. Pitts (Dailas) bill amending ' Section 6572 of the Code, relating t' court costs. was killed. It raised thu
 fees of justices and constables Iron s5 to S10 in preliminary hearings = among other raises and this proved 7 unpopular.
 l The House refused to concur in th' Senate amendment to the Mastin bill f whereby the Confederate veterans ar' allowed to- practice medicine and law r t,,,ot xuithout license com