The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-19
THOMPSON QUICK TO RUSH TO DEFENSE OF
 ABLE LEGISLATORS
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serious mood it ordered the statement oi the gentleman from Butler enrolled or thc minutes. And there it is today and there 1t will ever bean alleged acI curate testimonial of what the legisls$ ture has actually accomplished after tts passage of 40 days and the expendituIt pf well righ S50,0o0.
 Statement of Accomplishments
 Mir Thompson, for fear that the news papers might misquote him (blast tha though,) reduced his statement to writ ing. In full, it follows:
 MT. Speaker: I rise to point of personal privilege. rom time imme- niorial the correspondent of The Bir- Iningham Age-Herald has seen proper tv publish base canard to the ef- feet that this legislature has accom- plished nothing. I have reduced this statement to writing in order that no reporter might follow his natural in clinations and misquote me. I wish to prove that this legislature, despite The Aye-Herald, has really been body which has worked and has achieved. In the first place we have enacted MT. Weatherly's prohibition laws. under which we cannot buy whisky of Alabama merchants, but unlimited amounts from merchants of other states; under which we have excluded from our news stands all metropolitan newspapers and maga- zines, and under the terms of which the homes of all people, on the merest suspicion of officious consta bles, may be searched.
 And MT. Speaker, this legislature has restored to being the Blue Back" speller so that the children of the fu- ture might become an intellectual i'm proyement on their fathers. And we have practically enacted the Bonner bull bill that which will keep from our highways young cows of the mas culine gender after they have reached and surpassed the age of puberty. And we have defined in unmistakable terms the boundaries of Mignon, and of Flint, in Morgan county, and con- siderable legislation has been at tempted regarding the pestiferous tick and other diminutive and destructive insects.
 NO, MT. Speaker, let not one cit izen of this state believe that we have done nothing. Let us make it so plain that our accomplishments have been unparallelable that he who, despite our efforts to disprove, persists in his belief. be denominated one of the people whom we have gone on record as holding subject to the corruption of liquor money and the banefu1 in- fluences of railroads and other nefar- ious corporations.
 Correspondent Redeems Himself
 This correspondent of The Age-Herald having seen the error of his way, l prepared to make admission. He ha charged that this legislature was the mos industrious in the history of the stat and the most lacking in accomplished re suits. However, he has overlooked severa of the achievements of the solons For in stance he has not treated with due con sideration the effort of a distinguishe! member of the house to restore the 'Bll Back speller. And he has not give sufficient attention to that bull bill gl MT Bonner, the foster father of prqh hition in Alabama. Each of these meas ures have served another purpose say to incite the citizenry of the state laughter. Each has proved, in fact tn charge that the legislature, having com plcted prohibition legislation. knew nc what else to undertakes
 And the correspondent pleads guilty t having overlooked necessary legislatio regarding the tick, the boil weevil, tn pelican and the whale that hath wings. And thus having confessed to the errc of his way, the correspondent will b held apart from the people whom Speake Carmichael holds to be subject to tn corruption of liquor money or the raj roads or other nefarious institutions.
 If ia believed that the incident is closed