The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-03-07
BOTH CALENDARS ALMOST SWAMP ID Feeling Strong Against a
 Split Session SCREWS TO RESIGN Becomes Judge of Inferior Court April 10-Fuquay's New Edu-
 cation Bill Attracts
 Attention
SCREWS TO RESIGN
By HERMAN G. BETTY

ny DEANAA MAN Montgomery, March 6.-(Special )--When the two houses of the legislature assem- ble in Montgomery at noon tomorrow after resting spell since Saturday. both bodies will find themselves up to their | neck with work. The senate will find a | calendar of some IS pages. while the house will find calendar of more than
 9 pages. Important bills are to be con- sidered In both of the houses, a fact
 which will add to the general congestion and help to augment fl.
 l In the senate the most important bill | that will be considered this week is the Smith regulation measure. which last week passed the Alabama house Of rep | resentatives. It Is expected that the bill will be reached by Friday. number of educa ton bills will be given consideration | in both of the branches on the. theory | that if split session should prove at all | possible, it will be the course of wisdom | to relieve the calendars of the most in,- portant appropriation measures.
 Senator to Retire
 | Senator Michael Screws. who represents Montgomery in the senate and who is one of the most popular of the senators, an rounced today that he will retire from l the senate April 10 in order to take up | his work as judge of the inferior court l of Montgomery. to which office he has l just been elected by the voters of the city | In all probability no successor to Judge Screws will be appointed Should the ses- | sion be continuous, the office could not Ia. for the year.
 Senator Screws also announced today | that he would endeavor to have the Mont gomory commission bill given considera- ton at this weeks sessc, of the senate. A pretty scrap is expected to ensue over an attempt that will undoIbtedly be made | to have the governor name the commits | sioners, rather than to have the people | elect them.
 Split Session Talk
 | There has been much discussion among the legislators for the past few days re- garding the possibility of split session. | To many members of both houses the | plan does not seem practicable, while to | others there is an equal amount of argu-
 ment in favor of split session. During the past few days the matter has per | naps been more generally discussed than
 any other topic during the present session | except local option.
 | It is believed that the delay in acting
 upon the report of the rules commit | tee may be regarded as a pretty fair indication that the session will not
 split This report was presented to | the house on last Friday, when, after | a brief argument the further consid- eration of the matter was deferred un- I til the next day. On Saturday there was another debate on the proposition.
 after which action was again post poned Tomorrow morning the report will be taken up at II o'clock. at which | time definite action will probably be taken so far as the house Is con l cerned.
 There are many who believe that tn e lreport will never be adopted In the house. The chief argument which the opponents of the plan present Is the l fact that there are more than 200 bills on the calendars of the two houses. | It is pointed out that while many of | the pending measures may be passed
 over until the summer session should | there be one at that time, there are.
 nevertheless. large number of inn
 portant bills which should be acted l upon before the legislature adjourns. | Whether or not these bills can be dis-
 posed of in the six days that remain
 before the thirty-ninth day Is a mat ter about which there is much doubt. Others contend that even should the | two houses be able to dispose of all | the important matters 1t is more than | likely that these measures would be
 rushed through with haste that would
 not be to the best interest of the state.
 They contend that some of the meas | ures on the calendar are of so much | importance that they should be act
 ed upon with calm and sober deliber-
 ation which would hardly be possible should the legislature decide to ad- 1 journ on the thirty ninth day. Fuquay's Educational Bill l In the lobby of the hotels and in | capitol corridors much speculation Is being indulged in as to how the legis- | la ture will take to the bill of Repre- sentative Fuquay, which seeks to have
 the state withhold all appropriation | from state schools other than the com
 mon schools. The bill provides that all | colleges and normal schools shall not be allowed appropriation but that all funds heretofore given to these insti- tutions shall be applied to the common sch ool cause. Representative Fuquay
 calculates on having the state schools
 atone for the losses iron. appropria- tion by charging tuition, a levy that would largely aid the institutions in replenishing their treasuries. f,. All in all about $1,000,000 is appro- priated to the state schools, sum of money which the advocates of com
 mon schools are looking at with covet- ous eyes.
 It is understood that the Fuquay bill Is meeting with many friends and that
 bill of the sane provisions will be
 introduced in the senate this week in
 order that the measures might be hur-
 red through the legislature before this