The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-22
GREENE INTRODUCES SUFFRAGE MEASURE Provides for Election in
 State in November REFERENDUM URGED Shapiro Offers Bill to Alter Bir- mingham's Commission Form of
 Government-Activities in
 House Yesterday
REFERENDUM URGED
By |. S, BETTy

Ny L- s. BETTY
 Montgomery. January 21.-(Special) Representative Greene of Dallas intro duced in the house today an equal suffrage amendment. providing for an election in November, 1916. to deter mine whether or not women shall have the right to vote. The constitutional amendment proposed in the equal suf frage bill is brief. and provides that ''the right of citizens of this state to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of sex" The bill was referred to the committee on privileges and elections.
 The introduction of the equal sui frsge bill makes the third measure pro- posed for legislative consideration In
 which women are displaying consid- erahle interest and for whose passage | they are laboring with arduous dili- gence and determination. | The first of these bills was the child labor law which has not yet been re- | ported Tho second bill provides that women shall have the right to serve on county, district and city school | boards. This measure has already re- | ceived 8 favorable report from the house committee on education and will | likely pass. The equal suffrage bill is the third measure to which the women are lending their support. Many Bills Introduced The Introduction of bills featured the days session In the house, nearly 100 measures having been presented for legislative consideration. The most important of these bills in their general nature contemplate changes fin the educational system Of the state. These bills provide for com | pulrsory education. local taxation for | the support of public schools. the ex- penditure of public school funds for the purchase of transportation wagons for the transportation of pupils living one and one-half miles or more from school, asd for the election and ap- l pointment of county and state boards | of education. Another important bill | relating to a revision of the educa- | tional system proposes the suspension | of that section in the constitution linn l iting the amount of money which shall 1 be paid teachers. The bills were intro ! duced by Representative John of Das. | las and referred to the committee on education, of which he Is chairman. l Jefferson county representatives main. tained their past record in the number of bills introduced in tho house, 2s out of | 93 having been presented by members | from that county
 | Representative Shapiro of Jefferson in- troduced bill to amend the act pro- viding for a commission form of gov
 ernment for Birmingham. The amend ment proposes the initiative and refer-
 endum clause for the Birmingham com
 mission law.
 1 Birmingham Commission Bill | MT. Shapiro also introduced bill pro- | hbiting cruelty to animals in Jefferson | county. to prevent dissertation and im- proper use of the United States and state | flags, and to establish an inferior court 1 in Jefferson county to be called the Bir- mingham intermediate court. This bill ! provides that the intermediate court shall
 have Jurisdiction over all disdemeanor l cases.
 Representative Scott of Jefferson also l introduced a number of bills. practically | all of them relating to municipal or | ganization One of these measures pro- | vides for the collections by cities and l towns of assessments heretofore levied against street. electric or other railroads. | Other bills introduced by Mir. Scott pro- vide for the requirement and improve
 ment of public highways in cities of more | than 100000 population. to authorize the
 holding of elections for tho purpose of
 obtaining authority to issue bonds for | public purposes, to provide further for
 the purity. wholesomeness and health- fulness of milk. and various other meas- ures relating to code amendments.
 Would Abolish Agricultural Schools I Ambition of mi iatr eric tura schools is proposed by Represen- tative Morris of Dale, according to a bill he introduced in the house today. Mir Morris also introduced bills providing for | a reduction In the governors salary from $7500 to $5000 and for the repeal of the
 law allowing the governor 5000 annually
 for the maintenance of the mansion.
 A constitutional amendment to allow
 farmers to borrow money from the state
 was proposed by Representative Rogers
 of Sumter in bill he introduced in the
 house.
 Other bills introduced were:
 By Representative Sorrell To require
 teachers to teach all branches of learning
 upon which they were examined for
 teachers certificates.
 By Representative Hogan: To author ize autopsies to be held on the bodies of
 persons who die in any county poorhouse
 or In any charity hospital By MT. Henderson: To create the de- partment of pensions and to regulate and systematze the distribution of the pension fund.
 By MT. Johnston of Madison: To au- thorize the game and fish commissioners to bring elk into the state. By MT. King: To provide that all funds
 received by the department of agriculture
 from the sale of fertilizer tags shall be paid into the public school fund.
 Bills Passed
 Several bills relating to Montgomery
 county officers were passed today by the house. The most important of these was } the bill by Representative Vaughan to , abolish the office of county treasurer. and
 to delegate the powers of that tofficer to
 the county board of revenue. Another i, bill which passed the house requires the
 county superintendent of education to pos sess a first grade teachers certificate. A third bill provides that beginning May next the clerk of the city court of Mont l gomery shall receive a salary of $2o0 per month.
 [ The house also passed Representative Griffins bill providing for the election of , the solicitor of the Marengo law ana
 equity court.
 The rules committee reported favorably l Representative Johns joint resolution calling upon the auditor and state treas-
 urer to furnish financial statement Tho
 committee also reported favorably tho , resolution providing for the appointment 3 l of a committee to investigate the amount .tl ~~1-~A