The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-08-14
REYNOLDS PRAISES COMER
 FOR SUCCESS OF POLICY
Resolutions in Senate Recite the Many Things Governor Has Done for Alabama-Long Arises to
 Personal Privilege.
BY HERVEY w. LAIRD.

l Montgomery. August 13-(Special. )-Ths 1 passage of the Fuller bill In the house. 1 and the Greater Birmingham bill in Inc
 senate drew the general pubt, 70 the
 south wing and the Magic City contin- gent to the other side. Thera wns 1ittla
 Of fight on either side, Mir. Miller be-
 ing the only one to work oa the opposite
 to the Greater Birmingham measure. and l the lew who did work agalnst the Fuller
 bill were not effective.
 The Fuller bill was amended to pro-
 hibit business houses using any pict,1res
 Of alcoholic products, or to use in any
 way the word saloon" in describing a
 business The idea Is to keep away from business any signs that will tend to indi- i cate the sale of drinks of any kind. 1 These amendments, like the bill itself, ] were drawn by Former Chief Justice s. l D. Weakley. who is the real author of i all the prohibition measures It Is said
 that by the workings of the bill every known violation of the prohibition laws can be reached
 The prettiest fight over the bill was on the amendment to exclude the sec ] ton prohibiting newspa pers from printing 1 advertisements of liquors. MT. Sanford of Talladega. MT. Pitts of Dallas and MT. Benners of Hale. fought this measure as not only unconstitutional but an unwar- ranted invasion of the rights of the press. But MT. John. who. with Mir Fuller. keeps close watch over the bill, would have none of the amendment and spoke
 with vigor against 1t. It was barely lost.
 indicating that with good work 1t might 1 have been saved
 Senate Session.
 1 The senate committee on temperance ] took up the Fuller bill to prevent for 1 eign corporations from violating Alabama
 prohibition laws, but because of a doubt as to some of the features, which are to be looked up, postponed it.
 The senate committee on Judiciary ad- versed MT. Reynolds bill looking to ap- propriations of the school funds on A basis of attendance rather than popuis- tion. The black belt members voted solidly against the proposition.
 MT. Reynolds introduced a joint resolu- ton congratulatfng Gov. B. B. Conner On his administration, reciting that railroad laws are being enforced and the state prospers, that the people are prosperous, that railroads doing well, increasing price of stock and issuing new stock that schools get more money and old soldiers more pensions. that good laws are being enforced, etc, as a result of which the legislature congratnlates the governor heartily. The resolution follows:
 Congratulate Conner.
 Whereas, During the former session of this legislature, when the railroad reg ulation bills were under consideration, the stock of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad company was selling at ss6 per share, and the stock of the Southern Railroad company was selling at $ per share, and the stock of the United States Steel company was selling at $10 per share; and whereas, many persons and newspapers attributed the extremely low prices of these and other stocks and property to the action of this legisla- ture; and whereas, since the passage and enforcement of the railroad rate reg ulation laws in Alabama the stock of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad com pany has advanced to $162 per share, and the stock of the Southern railroad has advanced to about <B per share, and the stock of the United States Steel com pany has advanced to nearly S5 pGP share, and these and other stocks and
 
 as the saving to the people of the state has been. under the operation of these laws more than $500000. and still the div idends of these and other companies af- fected by the said laws are larger now than when said laws were passed. and the facts. as submitted to the railroad com mission of Alabama, actually show that some of the railroads in Alabama are doing better under the new laws than they have ever done before. and it is pub lished in the daily papers in the Asso- clated Press dispatches that the Louis- vile and Nashville Railroad company is preparing to issue stock dividend of O000,o00 on which they will doubtless expect the people of this state to con- tribute their pro rata to pay interest and dividends; and whereas. it has only cost the state up to this time out the state treasury less than $25, 900 to see that the railroads submit to the laws of Alabama: and whereas, there was spent in Alabama by the state for public education more than s25Qo. GOO during the scholastic year ending October l, 1908, and the cause of public education has been fostered as never before in this state; and whereas. when this administration came into power the money expended for pensions was only $4S20O0 per year, and the of ficial figures show that during the last fiscal year $s42OOO has been paid to the needy old Confederate soldiers or Ala bama. and the amount paid for pensions is steadily increasing; and whereas. yielding to the insistent demands of the people of the state the legislature has passed laws driving whisky from the state and have also passed a joint reso- lution submitting to the sovereign will of the people a constitutional amendment sc that they may say whether or no 1t is their desire to make this benencent change permanent policy of our great state; and whereas. the prohibition laws of Alabama are being enforced almost to the letter. and 1t has been amply dem onstrated by recent developments that prohibition does prohibit. thus taking away from those who have fought prohi- ---~~----------------~---
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