The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-04

1 judicial circuit of the state of Alabama, from March 31, 1862. to July 20. 1865, and which was not paid to the said A A. Cole man during his lifetime, and has not since been paid to his estate. By MT. Tunstall: To authorize the gov 1 ernor to rent office apartments in the city of Montgomery for the official use of state officers for whom adequate offices cannot be obtained in the capitol.
 Bills Reported
 Bills were reported in the senate today as follows:
 By Mir w. T. Brown (education): To provide for the establishing of libraries in the rural, town and village schools of Alabama, to make an appropriation therefor. to provide for their maintenance and for their improvement and to au- thoTize the commissioners court or the board of revenue of the several counties to make appropriations for the establish ment and support of said libraries and to provide rules and regulations under (which said libraries shall be established and maintained.
 By Mir Moody (education; with amend menb: To regulate the practice of veter nary medicine and surgery in the state Of Alabama.
 By Mr.. Tunstall (commerce and com mon carSers): To amend section of an 'act to provide for the appointment of railway and street railway policemen, to prescribe their duties and compensa- ton, and to fix the liability for the torts. acts of negligence or misconduct of such policemen approved February 2S. 1911.
 By Mir. Allen (coinmerce and common carriers): To amend section 56+ of the code of Alabama.
 By MT. Spragins dudiciary): To further J,1tf 0f cicta ant r. torney general.
 By MT. Tunstall Cudiciary) To amend section 44S0 of the code of Alabama. By Mir Lavender dudiciary): To amend section 2974 of the code of Alabama. By MT. Chamberlain twith amendment: notice and proof: local legislation): To provide for an official stenographer for the law and equity court of Mobile. Adverse Report-By Mir Butt (peniten- tary prisons and punishmenD To de- fine the crime of burglary in the first de- gree and to prescribe the punishment thereof.
 Afternoon Session The chief discussion in the senate this afternoon was on the bill of Senator Spraglns of Madison to establish a dis pensary at Huntsville, Ala, which passed the senate by a vote of 17 to 8. Senator Spragins said that he he'd been elected on dispensary platform. Senator Norman said he would oppose any bill by which the sale of liquor was authorized in the state. He declared that the Spragins bill was worse than the dry law. He said under the Spragns bill whisky might be sold by the whole sale.
 l Senator Atkins asked Senator Norman if he had rot voted for statewide dis pensary.
 Senator Norman replied that -he had voted for the Moody dispensary bill in order that it might be killed in the house.
 Senator c. W. Brown said that Alabama was certainly for local representative government. and that one county had no right to dictate to another county what sort of law 1t should have. Senator Spragins declared that when he had called up his bill that he did rot know it was going>t to precipitate a general local option discussion 'The question:" said Senator Spragins, ''is not the saloon, prohibition or dispen- | sary It is the question of whether one election in Madison county is enough. or whether it takes two to suffice" The bill was called for third reading and was passed by vote Of lf to s. ] MT Spragins' bill prohibiting the
  | then passed by a vote of 2l to 0.
 Other bills passed this afternoon were az follows:
 By Mir. Long on local legislation. | Notice and proof.) H. 9. To alter or rearrange the boundary lines of the city of Greenville so as to exclude from the city of Greenville that certain ter | ritory described as the east half Of the east half of section 13, and east half of ga st half of section 24. all in town | shin 10 north, range 14 east. Passed
 q to 0. .o. ,r
 Bv Mir. Walden on military. s. S26. Te regulate and provide for the volunteer
 military forces of the state of Alabama Passed, 23 to 0.
 By MT. Walden: TO authorize the hold ing of an election by the legally qualified
 voters of the cities of Decatur and New Decatur in Morgan county, Alabama, to
 determine whether said cities shall be
 consolidated and merged into one city Il under the name of Decatur, Ala; to pro vide for the holding of said election: and in the event a majority vote be cast Tor consolidation, to provide for the con solidating and merging of said cities in all things necessary and incident thereto | Passed, 20 to O. By MT. Tunstall: To authorize and eni- power the judges of the several law and leouity courts in this state established DS the present session of the legislature oi
 senate bill 32s 1t was again called uE by Senator Crumpton, who proposed U amend the measlXe by striking out th'
 word foreign. thereby fixing a licens. basis to be paid by all ire insurance marine and casualty and accident com V-a.1 onf