The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-18
DETAILED LEGISL LATIVE
 SESSION OF YESTERDAY
By l.. s. BETTY

Montgomery, July 17.-(Speeial.) )-Intro- duction of bills and the passage of a num- Der of minor measures. interspersed with debate on inconseauential matters, fea- tured the days session in the senate. Seventy bills were introduced at the morn- ing session, making upwards of 300 bills that have been presented to that body during the two legislative days of the present session.
 Senator Thach of Limestone introduced a bill to authorize the several counties of the state to work Its convic,s upon the public roads. bridges, or In ferries or gravel pits and plants owned and used for the production of road materials.
 Bills seeking to regulate the office of sheriff in the county of Jefferson, to pro tect women and children from desertion and nonsupport by husbands and parents ana to provide for the annual payment out of the general fund of the county by boards of revenue and county commis- sioners of counties in which there is a city of 100000 population of s2oo.Oo0 of taxes collected for the maintenance of the police force and public highways and bridges within its limits. were introduced by Senator Judge of Jefferson.
 Pay State Debt
 Senator Denson introduced a bill to ap- propriate the sum of s1.oO9.SS to pay Whitehead & Hoag Co., of Newark, N J., for the purchase in the name of the state of certain medallions and buttons to be used for the purpose of raising money for the Alabama state exhibit al the Panama-Pacific exposition at Sar Francisco.
 These medallions were purchased by the former department of immigration and were delivered on the proclamation of the governor calling upon citizens oi the state to contribute money for the Alabama exhibit at San Francisco.
 Senator Denson at the afternoon session introduced resolution memorializing Congress to pass a law for constitu- tionai amendment prohibiting polygamy in the various states of the union. Among the bills introduced today were the following:
 Bills Introduced
 By MT. Denson: To require mifrtary in- struction, in the high schools of this state By Mr. Hartwell: To authorize the state harbor commission of the port of Mobile to issue s500O,00o bonds for the improvement of the port of Mobile By Mir. Hartwell; To make appropria- ton for buildings, lands, machinery, equipment and other necessary improve ments at the Alabama Industrial schoo for white boys.
 By MT. Hartwell: To authorize public school authorities of counties of this state to pay pensions to aged and indigent teachers out of the public school funds.
 By Mir. Hartwell: To aid and encour- age teachnical education in the state of Alabama by providing increased facilities buildings and maintenance for the Ala. bama Polytechnic institute.
 By MT. Pride: To provide a limita tion in which proceedings to charge lands for the payment of debts of a decedent must be instituted so far as the same applies to the rights of bona fide purchasers for value from the heir or devisee. By MT. Pride: To regulate the pay ment of costs in the case of conyicts heretofore and hereafter sentenced to hard labor In Madison county, Alabama whenever and so long as said convicts or any of them are worked on the public roads of said county, and to require the court of county commis- sioners of said county to pay the costs of such convicts who were sentenced to hard labor for the county and who actually worked on the county roads