The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-08-13

John and finally adopted, as was also . | motion to reconsider the vote by which l the bill WIS ordered to q third read | ing. Then followed the motion of Mir. | Lyons ot Mobile to indefinitely post | pone after Mir. John had offered an amendment to limit the cities to amuse- ments not forbidden by statute. The Mobile delegation did all they could to save the bill but their tactics failed.
 MT. Sanford of Taliadega introduced a House joint resolution to submit at the next general election an amend- ment to the Constitution to allow the formation of new counties
 A message from the Governor was | read enclosing a letter from Con- | gressman S. H Dent, offering his aid in securing for Alabama the Buric on the prov of the battieship Alabama as an ornament on the Capitol grounds. It was explained that 1t was the rule of the Government to allow the gift of such fsure-heads. when detached from boats that are out of commits | sion.
 | MT. Johns bin to regulate and bond the clerical forces of the House and Senate was called up. It would re- | quire engrossment and enrolling on | typewriters and MT. John wanted the bill to go into immediate effect. charg- ing that already there was sioveply | work coming over from the Senate and 1t was necessary to stop It.
 Mir. Ktrby's amendment to postpone the execution of the law until Janu- ary 1. 1911. was voted down. but the amendment of MT. Sample of Morgan | was adopted. providing that the bill should not apply to the present ses- sion.
 Mir. Tunstall of Hale opposed the feature of the bill which required type writers to be used In making up the Journal. because he said that most of the fatal omissions and disappearances of matter from bills of she Legisla- ture were due to the slips of typewrit- ten sheets. He suggested commis- sion of the Legislature to Inspect the records between the time of final ad- journment and the deposit of .he jour nals with the Secretary of S.ate.
 Mir. sherrod of Lawrence offered an amendment to strike out tho section of the bill requiring bond in rhe gum of s5.oc0 of the clerk of the House and | secretary of the Senate, and the sureties should forfeit s200 for every act of the Legislature iecla:sd uns cn- stitutoinal as the result of an inten- tional error or act of the officers bond ed.
 Mir. Sherrod pointed out that the two houses elect their officers only after they assemble and that to require bond | before the clerks can get to work might block legislation, especially since surety companies are often slow in allowing their bonds.
 The House here adjourned to : o'clock.
 AfternOen session. | MT. Sherrod continued at the after l noon session his argument against the John bill to regulate the clerical forces of the Legislature. He declared that | no surety company would enter into the bond of the Clerk of the House or Sec | retary of the Senate when, according to the bill. the liability might extend over a period of twenty years. for the Supreme Court could at any time in- quire into the validity of a law. And If at that late day 1t was discovered that the bill was passed unconstitution- | ally as the result Of clerical error, the company could be sued on the bond. l Mir. Long, Qf Butler. supported the I bill but said hez believed that If the Sherrod amendment was a good one 1t l ought to be passed.
 | Mir. Hoffman, of Mobile. was in face tious mood, and said he was in favor of | the bill because 1t called for the ex- penditure of more of the peoples i money and there is plenty of 1t in the | treasury.
 | Mir. John was provoked by Mir. Hoff- man to defend his work on the Code Committee of the Legislature in 1907. He said that tne code errors were printers mistakes and that in the main the Committee had been commended by men high in the,4egai profession and ln open courts of Alabama.
 Praise for Cy Brown.
 Mir. King, of Jefferson, in the course of his support of the bill, praised Clerk Cy Brown of the House as being one of the best Clerks the Legislature of Alabama had ever known, which brought forth applause.
 By vote of 3s to 2e, the House adopted the Sherrod amendment which strikes out the bonding provision of the bill.
 By a vote of 32 to 47 the bill was lost. It provided for the ofice of Su- pervisor of the Journal with the pay of s1O per day.
 A new bill by MT. Cranford of Walk CT. was introduced, providing for the exemption of State banks from the payment Of a municipal license.
 There was favorably reported the bill to employ stenographers for circuit courts and courts of like Jurisdiction.
 The bill to re-enact the child labor law was next called. Mir. Smith, of Elmore, offered an amendment to al- low children of 12 years and over to WOrk III cotton mlli6 instead or l4 years. Mir. John and Mir Pitts, of Per ry. opposed the amendment because they claimed 1t struck at the most vital part of the bill.
 MT. John said the bill had been ''as- sassinated" in the Senate Clerks of- flee and 1t was necessary to re-enact 1t.
 Mir. Smith, of Elmore. offered an amendment to change the time limit of working the children under Is years of age from sixty hours a week to ten hours per day. This was lost by d vote of 59 to 23. The bill was passed by vote of q to 3.
 A bill of MT. Gunter, of Montgomery. was introduced. providing the right of appeal from the assessments of county courts of commissioners.
 The House adjourned until 10 o'clock -------------------
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