The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-12
CHILD LABOR BILL
 PASSED BY HOUSE Effort of John to Postpone
 Action Fails NEEDLESS ARGUMENT Bill Provides Age Limit of l3 for Em- ploying Children and IA After Sep tember, 1916-To Reinstate
 Confederate Pensioners
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Montgomery, February 11.-tSpecial) } By vote of S2 to 10, the house today passed the compromise child labor bill, which was agreed upon by the Alabama child labor committee, the Federation of Women's clubs, and the mill operators. The bill was called up as special order on the calendar by Representative WealSley of Jefferson, who introduced the original measure.
 An unsuccessful effort was made by Representative John of Dallas to post pone the consideration of the bill un- til the third legislative day after re- cess, and the motion to postpone was argued at length. The Dallas represen- tative opposed the passage of the bill at this time on the ground that the bill, in his opinion, did not fill the necessary requirements, and, when the house refused to postpone the meas ure, MT. John moved that his child labor bill reported by the judiciary com mittee, be passed as a substitute meas urs. This the house refused to do by an overwhelming vote
 The consideration of the compromise child labor bill brought on the only discussion during the morning session, and precipitated considerable amount of needless argument Representatives Weakley, Merritt and Shapiro expressed vigorous opposition to the motion to let the bill go over until after the re- cess, and so ably did they protes. against the postponement of the meas ure that the members were almost unanimous in favoring immediate con- sideration.
 Features of the Bill
 Under the provisions of the substi- tute, or compromise, child labor bill, on any after September 1, 1915, no child be employed in any gainful occupation, except agriculture and domestic serv- ice, and that on and after September 1, 1916, no child under the age of 1a shall take such employment. The pres ent age limit is IF years.
 Another important provision of th'' bill, and this is the compromise divis- ion, regulates the hours of employment. limiting child labor to II hours per day and 50 hours per week. The original bill, which was sponsored by the Ala bama child labor committee and rne Federation of Womens clubs limited the hours of employment to 4S hours per week.
 Representative John opposed the bill on the ground that 1t does not conta n sufficient requirements, and that it docs not, as he said. contain certain pro- visions for the enforcement of the law by the state prison inspector.
 The Dallas represcntouce declared that he had written every child labor law on the statute books of the state, with the exception of the law written in the Jelks administration. and stated that his bill was infinitely better than the one under consideration. He re- -ferred caustically to Hershell Jones, secretary of the Alabama Child Labor association. who has been in Alabama several months in the interest of the passage of the bill. The Dallas rep- resentative referred to him as "the man from God knows where"
 To Reinstate Pensioners
 In the absence of Captain Walden of Morgan, who was detained at his home