The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-25

explanation of the small part he had act ed in the McKinstry affair
 The legislators spent month in Christ mas holidays. On January 29, following Representative Simmons from Colbert. rose to a question of parliamentary priv ilege. He read from Randolph's Monitor and denounced the article as "couched in such language as to leave no doubt 1t was intended to bring this house into public contempt" A resolution was carried, 57 to IS. to expel the editor of the paper.
 The expelled member rose and requested the privilege of delivering a valedictory. Leave being granted, he spoke:
 MT. Speaker, before l take leave of this so called legislative body, feel 1t incumbent on myself to perform the dis agreeable part of policeman who turns the rays of his dark lantern upon the skulking forms of bevy of burglars. l have had no desire to remain, except for the purpose of watching for and expos ing villainy in all it's underhand and ras- cally ramifcations.
 T came here, believing with religious confidence that you were a body of or ganized plunderers and thieves. I leave you fully impressed with the justice of my previous convictions.
 Go on if you will in your legalized rob cry of the state treasury. Go on in your
 
 bribery, your unlicensed partisan vilainy, your multiform corruptions, and the time will come when the tax burdened people of Alabama will rise up in their injured majesty, expelling scalawags and negroes like so many miserable lazaroni from these polluted but historic halls, and driv- ing the carpet bag regency back to their proper constituency in Maine Ohio and other hibernal gravitations of the meanest hot fb<ax hae. in the proud day of the white mans tri- umph. l may reappear here to aid in striking off the handcuffs you have riveted upon our downtrodden people
 Tn bidding you farewell. I would say that l feel proud that I have been ex- pelled from your midst Our future horo- scope. methinks, may be prophetically read in the famous distich
 The man recovered of the bite:
 1t was the dog that died ?
 More than once a formal complaint was read to the house from the senate of the ungramma tical construction of bills that came from the house expressing clerk" The expressing clerk was the sheriff or Morgan county and the enrolling clerk of the house was the probate judge of Butler county. The trouble did not cease Nitu tucsc OlIlcers. The senate passed d resolution declaring: 'J. B. Cloud. assist ant expressing clerk of the house. has withheld bills and has refused to give them up, thereby showing himself to be incompetent to discharge the duties of said clerk and that he be discharged. A resolution of the senate to enquire 't6 what extent the constitution was vic- lated by one person holding several offices at one time
 The journals overflow with protests of members against gross abuses of legisla- tion. A bill passed the senate giving aid to the extent of q. 10000 to the Mobile and Grand Trunk railroad and the protest of certain senators showed the vote was a bare majority The constitution required two-ti 'rds majority.
 An act by the first session of 1868 to send commission. led by the carpet bag ger secretAry of state, Miller. to confer with the go sernor of Florida on the ques- ton of annexation of west Florida to Ala bama The commission spent $1o.500 in their mission.
 JOHN wITHERsPOoN DUBosE.