The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-07-30
LEGISLATURE WILL
STAND BY GOVERNOR
IN FIGHT VS.. LIQUOR
ALBANIA soLoNS TO BACK CO
MER IN DEMANDS FOR LAW
ENFORCEMENT.
PUT IT IN The CONSTITUTION
Prohibition Question to Be Settled for
All Time to Come BY Having It
Written Where it Won't Come
Out.

Out.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, July 2S.-
The legislature met here in eXtraor'
binary session at noon Teusday, and
il soon became evident that there
would be no formidable opposition Of
fered to the propositions Of strength
ening the prohibition laws, of pro-
yiding for the impeachment OF officers
who fail to enforce the laws and OF
repeating certain corporation statutes
Many favorable comments on GOV
Corners message, which was read be-
fore both houses OF the Legislature,
have been heard
Among the measures introduced in
the senate is bill providing for two
months continuous school attendance
for children between s and IA years.
The provisions of the measure, which
was introduced by Senator Reynolds,
of Bibb, are such that it will not APP
ply to negro children, except IN coun-
ties where there are four months free
school for negroes.
In a short session of two hours IN
the house of representatives Tuesday
afternoon sixty-seven bills were intro
duced by the state solons, just as
sembled at the capitol in eXtraordl-
nary session. Matters that started off
with an easy pace livened up at
quick rate before the first adjourn
ment.
OF especial interest in the opening
of the senate session was the almost
unanimous reelection of Secretary |
Kyle to the office Of secretary, which
he held at the last session. Many |
bills of legislative passage were found
bad by the supreme court, owing to
alleged imperfect recording on the
senate journal, and as a consequence,
a strenuous fight was expected, when
did not materialze. Senators Miller
of Birmingham, Reid of Andalusla, |
Strother of Dadeville, and Wilson OF
Onesentee, were the only senators to
oppose the election.
Paul A Savage of Birmingham was
elected to the office of assistant sec
rotary over William ]. Commit, also
of Birmingham, who had the job last
year. The latter got in bad on plac-
ing the blame on Kyle
OF especial interest in the late pro-
ceedings was the offering OF resolu-
ton by Col. Sam Will John, of Birm-
ingham, providing for legislative con-
sideration of the income tax measure |
at the present time before congress- |
Of the bills presented for considera-
tion those of chief interest provided |
for municipal government by commits
sion, prohibition matters, number OF
insurance laws, the formation OF new !
counties and anti-pistol act and nu'
merous railroad bill amendments.
In his message to the legislature
Gov. B. B. Conner advises making pro-
hibition constitutional, because OF
members who passed the present law .
no doubt intended a revolution in the
relation of the state to liquor and had .
in mind fixing it so the state would
never again have saloons or liquor
licenses. In his opinion, prohibition
should be disposed of so that it will
not be recurrent at every election, and
a disturbing factor in the politics OF
the state.
Il believe you could render no great I
er benefit to every business interest
of the state than to enable the people
to settle this question once for all
time he urged.
Necessity for further statutory pro-
hibition acts are found, the governor
thinks. in the fact that in many sec
tions the law has been disregarded
and defied and it has become almost
question, he argues, whether Whls'
XIV shall control and dominate the
state or the state control whisky. He
deplores the effort to defeat the laws
by spending money to this end, and
thinks it a sad state of affairs when
citizens have to organize law and or
der leagues to enforce the laws that
officers are paid to enforce, conciud-
ing that when officers of the law COM