The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-15
MOODY PRES|DES OVER THE SENATE Joint Committee to Revise
 Jury Law SEVERAL NEW BILLS Senator Crumpton Submits Measure for Future Regulation of Employ ment of City Officials By Public Corporations
SEVERAL NEW BILLS
By BERRYMAN G. BETTY

VlSement number Of new b1llS Whlcf are calculated to make news at some time within the next 10 or 15 days The body did not meet until one houi after scheduled time owing to the ab- sence of both Lieut.. Gov. Walter D Seed and President Pro Fem Hugh Nor row. and because of the lateness oi convention adjourned before the cal endar for the day could be passed upon Fifty minutes to the dot after the scheduled time of meeting the senate was called to order by Secretary Kyle who proposed the election of a tenn porary president for the day. Senator Stevens promptly moved tie electionsof Senator Moody of Tuscaloosa. which was ordered upon viva voce vote Prayer was offered by Senator Norman of Chambers county and 2S senators answered to their names upon the call of the roll
 Following upon this. in order that the constitution might be complied with, Senator Moody was formally elected temporary presiding officer, roll being called for that purpose. The eau GUS was unique In that no other can didate was before the house.
 Revise Jury Law
 For the purpose of having the two houses appoint a joint committee to re- wise the jury law passed at the last legislature. Senator Crumpton offered a resolution for immediate passage, which was unopposed. Under the reso- lution three senators ana five repre- sentatives are to be named to under take the revision. The matter was deemed of esp,cial importance owing to bill of Senator Sprott now pending in the senate. which measure Is cal : culated to eliminate the obiectionable features of the document now on the statutes.
 senator Crumpton also introduced in the senate at today's meeting a bill to further regulate the employment Of city officials by public corporations. Senator Atkins bill to exempt city at torneys for employment with such cor porations is to be postponed, accord ing to agreement until the last named measure is introduced.
 Another of the bills of especial in- terest at today's session of the upper house was a measure of Senator F'ite. which seeks to abolish the office of state fish and game commissioner.
 .s7 Other Bills Introduced
 Other bills introduced in the senate today were as follows:
 By MT. Allen: To amend section 3O43 of the code. relating to the term of holding the chancery courts of the northern division; to amend section 6S9S of the code, pertaining to the obstruc- tion of streams.
 By Plowman: To provide pensions for the Confederate soldiers and their widows, with further regulations; to authorize and legalize the appropria- tion of the last legislature for the es- tablishment and operation of the State Sanitorium for Tuberculosis Patients
 By Screws: To amend section 457O of the code, relating to insurance.
 By Godbold: To submit to the cleo tors the question of a constitutional amendment for biennial sessions of the legislature.
 By Folmar: To authorize county com missioners of Pike to employ clerk d, per diem expense for the circuit court.
 By Atkins: To create the office of state pension examiner
 By Fite: To further regulate pen sions; to amend section 536 of the code relating to bond issue for roads.
 By Stevens: To amend section 4S40 of the code, relating to the debarment of attorneys, and to amend sections 2s96 and 30O5 of the code, pertaining to the same subject
 By Merrill: To amend section 134S of the code, relating to public schools; to establish a state agricultural and manual training school at Lineville.
 Constitutional Amendment
 The constitutional amendment bill of Seator Godbold is expected to be the cause of some discussion in the upper house, but it is known that the meas ure is much favored by number 9f the leading solons of the two houses.
 The bill of Senator Atkins to create A state pension examiner, it Is believed, will be passed, inasmuch as sentiment duting the past year has tended large ly towards guaranteeing such an insti- tuition, should the proper efforts De brought to bear. It is pointed out that the services of such an examiner would be indispensable to the state.
 Bills Reported
 Ry,s were reported at today's meeting of the senate as follows:
 Bv Stollenwerck: To regulate the sale of stocks of merchandise in bulk or sub stantial portions thereof not in ordinary course of trade, and to establish rue of evidence relative to the same.
 Bv MT. Lovelace: To amend section 11ss of the code of 1907 of Alabama.
 ,Bv Mir. Miller To create the office of court reporter for Marengo county; to provide for his appointment and compen- sation. to provide him powers and duties; and to provide for the taking and col lection and disposal of court reporter S fees in the courts of record of Marengo county.
 Rv MT. walden: To authorize and em- Y.ower the court of county commissioner of the county of Morgan to make ap- nronriation to the Salvation Army, to be used exclusively for charitable purposes in said county.
 By Mr. Morrow: To regulate the min ing of coal in Alabama.
 By MT. Morrow: To amend an act ap- nroyed August 26 1909. entitled an act to bama of 1907.
 Rv MT. Huddleston: To amend sections cos nj. TIP 71s, 7s0 and 731 of the code of Alabama of 1907.
 Rv Mir. Chamberlain: To authorize counties to appoint and to fix the com pensation of officers to enforce the pro- visions of law for the prevention of cruelty to animals and the provisions of law for the prevention of cruelty to chil- dren, and to confer upon said officers the powers of deputy sheriffs By Mr. Motion: To amend section 664s of the code of Alabama.
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