The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-07-15
CALL MAY
COME TODAY
Probable Items For Ex-
ira Session.
NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION
Legislators Are Expected to Act
Quietly.
Unique In General Understanding that
Member. are Not skaplnx Leg
islation. But VIII Pass Bills
ALREADY Drawn.

Another day passed and notwith-
standing the presence in Montgomery
of Judge s.. d. weakley and Henry
c.. Selheimer. the legal advisers OF the
Governor. the call for the extra ses-
sion OF the Alabama Legislature was
not issued. 1t may come today, or II
may not.
It is generally understood that the
contents of the call. that is the mat
ter on which the Legislature will be
asked to legislate, has been decided
upon. but none of II has been made
public 1t Is also generally UNDER
stood that Judge Weakley, as attor-
ney for the Anti-saioon League. has
decided upon what form the prohibi-
ton legislation shall take, put what It
will be nobody knows with dei1niteness-
The proposed extra session 10 unique
In the general understanding that mem
bers of the Legislature are not draw
ing bills or shaping Legislation. but
that outsiders will have the bills ready
made for them, and they will be ex-
pected to pass them as quickly as
possible. This feature Of the proposed
extra session has been infavorabiy
commented upon, 1t being declared BY
some papers that the Legislature At
the extra session to all fntents ana
purposes Is to be rubber stamp TO
o. X. bills drawn up and presented
by outsiders. Certainly no leader OF
the Legislature has been mentioned as
shaping any OF the proposed Lesisla-
tion
The report comes from Birmingham
that the prohibition leaders Will have
the Legislature pass a bill denying the
defendants in prohibition cases the
right OF appeal. It 10 said that they
will have a law passed under which
the lower courts will have final turfs-
diction in prohibition cases. THIS re-
port, which Is given creden,e, coca
stoned surprise in Montgomery. be-
cause 1t was not believed that any law
could so evade the Constitution as to
do away with the right of appeal. Put
still the prohibition leaders may have
found a wav.
1t is regarded as absolutely cer-ain
that the prohibition leaders will come
down with q number of bills for the
Legislature to pass to evade the recent
locker decision of the Supreme Court.
One of the proposed laws Is to allow
an injunction to prevent the organi-
cation Of locker clubs. In other words
when an application for a charter for
a locker club Is either filed Or grant.
ed, the way will be left open 10 go
into the court for a charter to pre-
vent the organization Of such club
and to have 1t dissolved. Another bill
will propose to limit the amount OF
liquor that can be stored. Still an
other bin will put such q license
charge on locked clubs that they will
have to go out of business. Thsre viii
| be at, least a half dozen Wills 70 go
around the decisfon' of the Supreme
Court in the locker club case.
MONTGOMERY. Mobile and Jefferson
counties will all come forward, on the
other hand, and ask the legislature
to relieve these counties from the OPP
Grafton of the prohibition law. They
have but a scant hope for success. But
the bills have already been advertised
in Montgomery and Jeeffrson counties.
Undoubtedly prohibition has not oper-
ated satisfactorily in the three cities,
but there Is slim chance of persuad-
ing the Legislature to change the state
wide law. Still there will be some
lively oratory in the House and Senate
over prohibition.
We'll informed politicians say that
in addition to the compulsory education
bill which the Governor has endorsed
and to several corporation and railroad
measures which may come up, the Gov
ernor will have stuck somewhere In
the call a clause which will authorize
the Legislature to deal with the Treas
ury situation. This has undoubtedly
given the administration great deal
OF concern, but what the Legislature
can do to remedy a deficit in the Treas
ury is not known. The Legislature
could easily increase the size of the
deficit, but IL IL hardly in position
to remove the deficit entirely.
In the meanwhile there IL consid-
cradle interest in the proposition to
establish the New York Public Utilt-
| ties Law in Alabama. Under such
law the Railroad Commission would be
tran sferred into a commission to have
general supervision Of the corporations
which serve the public in Alabama. 1t
Is said in Montgomery that the light
and power companies and others after
their experience with various city
councils would not seriously object to
having the power of controlling them
lodged in a central body.
Whatever goes in the call, 1t can be
depended upon that the present extra