The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09
CITY ATTORNEYS ARE
 AFFECTED BY BILL Senator Proposes To Allow
 Them Employment TO REPEAL OLD LAW Present Law Prohibits Them From Ac- cepting Employment From Public
 Corporntions-Routin Pro-
 ceedings in Senate
TO REPEAL OLD LAW
BY BERRyMAN c. BETTY

BY BERRHMAN G. BETTY Montgomery, February S.-(Specia1.) Whether or not the bill which seeks to authorize city attorneys to be em- ployed by public corporations will re-
 main on the statutes of Alabama. as ordered today. is a matter which will
 wait for developments at tomorrow's
 session of the Alabama senate. In that
 body today an act to that effect writ ten by State Senator Atkins, was
 passed by vote of 26 to 2, the 'op- posing voters being Senators Fite and Spra gins.
 No discussion was given to the meas ure prior to its consideration by the
 senate, though just before the body ad-
 journed for the day Senator w. C. Crumpton announced that he would call for reconsideration of the meas ure tomorrow. in order that it can be made to conform with some technical tiles in the municipal commission stat utes He will offer opposition to the measure if such technicalities can be offered.
 The bill Is one of the most far reach ing ones which has been introduced in either house of the present legislature. and because of this bids fair to be further discussed when 1t Is presented to the house of representatives Un- der operation of the bill which Senator Atkins succeeded in having repealed in the senate the city attorney of Mo- bile was recently convicted and fined, and similar prosecutions~ haves been entered in many of the municipalities. As it now stands on the statutes the l.. o~11 1e oil ntt tA. neys. aldermen and city officials from holding office with any of the public corporations.
 Attorney General Assistants The senate accepted the amendment to Senator Morrow's bill which sought to
 employ an extra assistant In that office, and which sought to increase the salary of the first assistant. Under Senator Morrow's bill the first assistant was to be paid a salary of
 s240O, and the second assistant a salary of $500. In the house the bill was
 amended so that the first assistant could receive only $500 and the second assist ant $500.
 The amendment was concurred in. Session in Detail The senate was called to order prompt | ly at Il o'clock with prayer by the Rev.
 
 Seed was in the chair and 2s senators were in attendance. Reading of the jour ral was dispensed with.
 Message was received from the house announcing the adoption of an amend ment to senate bill No. 12 relating to | salary Of two attorney general assist ants. UpoA motion of Senator Hugh Mor-
 row, author of the bill. the amendment | was concurred in, Senator Moulthrop | | bill was the one introduced in the house yesterday by Representative Lee Long. | ir which an extra assistant to the at-
 torney general is allowed at a salary of | $500 instead of $500, and in which the | salary of the first assistant is made
 $500 instead of s2400.
 Bills Introduced 1 Bills were introduced In the senate as | follows:
 | By MT. Brown, w T.-To provide for the establishing of libraries in the rural, town and village schools of Alabama, to | make an appropriation therefore, to pro- | vide for their maintenance and fer their | improvement and to authorize the com nlssioner's court or the board of reve- hue of the several counties to make ap- propriations for the establishment and support of said libraries and to provide
 rules and regulations under winch said | libraries shall be established and main 1 iained.
 | By MT. Moulthrop-To ratfy, confirm and validate all ordinances, resolutions and laws heretofore passed by tie city and town councils of any municipality in | this state of less than TOGO inhabitants, according to the census of such cities | and towns on file in the office of the secretary Of state as provided by the
 code of Alabama of 1907. and to rarify, confirm and validate all ordinances and laws he. etofore printed in book ard pam phet form by authority of the munich palties of cities and towns under 1000, according to the census on file in office of the secretary of state. and to pro vide for their reception as such ordinances end laws in the courts of Alabama By MT. Moulthrop-To ratify, confirm and validate the census of the cities and towns in the state of Alabama of 1000 and iess where the same has been taken as provided by the code of Alabama of 1907
 and the report of the same filed in the | office of the secretary of state. | By Mr. Ropy-To dcfne the governing body and the method of the exercise of | legislative functions by the same in cities I of less than GOOD population and in towns | By MT. Espy-To appropriate s1o.000 for tre purpose of building dormitories for the Southeast Alabama Agricultural School and Experimental station, located | ir the Third congressional district, in
 Henry county. at Abbeville. Ala | By Mr Lovelace-To prevent the catch 1 ing of fish from Alabama waters for commercial purposes by non-residents of l Alabama.
 | By MT Walden: To amend section S234 | of the code of 1907 of Alabama. | By MT. Godbold: To render competent | as witnesses husbands and wives. Would Honor Dead | Communication was received from w. | G. Robinson of Carrollton, addressed to l President Walter D. Seed in which at- 1 tention was called to the obscurity of the | grave in which reposes the dust of Gov. Samuel B. Moore, for many years one of
 the most distinguished politicians of Ala
 bama Governor Moore was during his | lifetime member of the house of rep l resentatives for 16 years, and later presi- | dent of the state senate, from which of- | flee he was elevated to the governorship
 upon the death of his brother, who was | in office.
 | Senator Sprott advised the senate that | pr. Thomas M Owen. director of the de- pertinent of archives and history, was
 ment for the ex-governor. Because of this the communication was referred to
 the committee on rules.
 | Communication was read from the Cen | tral Baptist association, petitioning the senate not to change the status of the
 present prohibition laws. The communi-
 cation was referred to the committee on 1 temperance.
 Petition from headquarters of the Ala
 buma Good Roads association urged the
 senate to cooperate in having the AL mon good roads bill passed