The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-01-21
Attempt Being Made in Leg
islature to Repeal Pro-
hibition Laws.
HOUSE AFTER PROLONGED DE-
BATE ADOPTS A RULE PRO-
HIBITlNG ANYONE EXCEPTING
MEMBERS AND NEWSPAPER RE.
PoRTERs FROM BEING ON THE
FLOOR WHILE THE HOUSE Is IN
SESSION.
by Associated Press.

MONTGOMERY, Ala, Jan. 20---Antici-
batting a bitter contest over the effort
to repeal the prohibition legislation,
the house today after a prolonged de-
bate adopted a rule prohibiting any
body from being Oh the floor OF the
house while it is in session, except
the members, employees and active re-
porters This shuts out the lobbyists.
Senator Frank Moody, known as the
father Of temperance in Alabama IN
troduced a bill providing for the estab-
lishment of dispensary in every coun-
ty in the state The Mobile delegation
introduced a bill to allow the sale OF
liquor in that county.
COMMITTEE BILL PROBABLE.
John v. Smith Of Montgomery. chair
man of the temperance committee OF
the house, said today:
TT would be impossible to consider
at length all the bills dealing with the
LIQUOR question which have been intro
auced. The toll in arranging the many
ideas into one measure which would be
popular is too great. No report will be
made on any bill which has been intro
ducedJ up to the present moment. 1t Is
highly probable that bill will soon be
presented, however. which will be In
the nature Of committee bill"
When that committee bill is pre-
sented. then will ensue the battle which
will be the feature Of the current ad-
nninistration. That committee bill Is
house Is strong prohibition In
In other words, it is believed that that
bill will have the approval OF Governor
O'Neal, and that the friends OF the ad-
.rninistration will know that 1t comes to
the house with the approval OF the
governor. -.
II ia expected that the bill will pro-
vide for the repeal of the Fuller and
Carmichael hippodrornes, will pave the
way for the return Of local option Tor
all of the counties in the near future
and will provide for the legal1zed sale
Of yinous liquors in Birmingham, Mo-
bile and Montgomery almost imme-
diat tely.
PERSONNEL OF COMMITTEE.
The temperance committee OF the
house is strongly anti prohibition IN
frs belief. On the committee are L
men who have no sympathy Tor the
Hesitation of the Comer-LaWrence-
Weakley regime.
From the personnel of the commit
tee. therefore, it is a safe prediction
that the bill, which comes as that com
rpittee.s bill. will be, while temperate
of course, one which will appease the
majority of the people of the state
There is no reasonable doubt but tha'
the bill, when it is presented. will pass
the lower house without serious oppo-
sition. AS is generally known, the
majority of the members of the lower
house are opposed to the retention o'
the present drastic legislation.
SENATE COMMITTEE STATUS.
AS a matter of fact, no serious d1ffi-
culties are expected in the senate. The
senate temperance committee is not as
nositiye in its views as is the mouse
committee OH temperance. But tne
senate committee is one which, 1t Is
believed, will proceed judiciously to-
ward the correction of the evils of the
present. slowly indeed. but certainly
withal.