The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-09-09
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.
 Montgomery. September s.--tspe-
 ciaL)-with Lieutenant Governor I<iI-
 ny voting, the Brown anti- Cigarette
 bill wns defeated in the senate today,
 r to 10. The vote of the presiding
 officer was necessary to untie the first
 ballot, which was 10 to 16
 The defeat of the anti-cigarette bill
 was not accomplished without strenu-
 ous work on the part of the opponents
 of the measure. Even then the bill
 might have carried had not action been
 delayed in the consideration of a. num-
 her of ridiculous and impossible amend
 ments, all of which were finally lost
 But the proposed amendments accom-
 plished the purpose of their authors, for they drew attention as no other means might have done 10 the drastic legis- lation under consideration.
 When the bill was first called up by Senator Brown, the author of the meas ure, it appeared to have fair chance of success. and had the vote not been delayed the bill would certainly have carried. At this point Senator Hill of Montgomery offered an amendment to
 make the provisions of the bill apply to all kinds of tobacco as well as cigar cites, including snuff.
 Immediately Senator Lusk. not wish ing to prohibit the use of chewing to- bacco, snuff and cigars. moved that the amendment of Mr. Hill be tabled, but before a vote could be taken on the lIlusk rrotion, senator Zee tneved that the bill and the pending amendments
 be indefinitely postps -sd.
 This motion was lost by a vote of 17 to 10 Senator Lewis of Macon then, speaking for the Hill amendment. de-
 clared that it challenged the sincerity of the senate. and made a vigorous af : gument in opposition to the bill. Hill Amendment Lost The Hill amendment was defeated by a vote of IT to 13 whereupon Senator Elrod offered an amendment making it a penalty for parents to permit their offspring to use the deleterious cigar ette, imposing fine of $10 upon them for the first offense and $25 for the second offense
 The senate declined to table this amendment, but later defeated it by a vote of 20 to 9.
 It was then that the most brilliant amendment of the day was offered. Senator Hill sent up an amendment making it felony for any bull to chew his cud in Tuscaloosa county or Tn Wilcox county on Sunday. The amendment was declared out of or der TOT me reason tHdt lI WAS oi too frivolous a nature to be entertained. l though it would doubtless have re- ceived good vote had it been enter tained
 Absurd and Unreasonable Senator benson of Greene then made q strong argument against the pass age of the bill. He declared that the people of Alabama would not stand for the enactment of so drastic piece of l legislation as that proposed in the 1 Brown bill and pronounced the measure absurd and unreasonable.
 The speaker declared that If Sen l ators Lusk and Brown were sincere 1 they would vote to prohibit the use | of snuff and chewing tobacco in the counties of Marshall and Tuscaloosa, In which counties. he declAred, tobacco l in that form was used more than in any other counties of the state. 1 Following the speech of Senator Den : ! son the previous question was called
 and on the vote being taken the clerk 1 at first announced that the bill had l carried by IT to 16. Newspaper men l at the press table had followed the vote however, and their count showed 1 d tie.
 The attention of Senator Winkler of Butler was at once called to the ap- 1 parent error in the count, whereupon 1 he called for a verification of the vote. | When the vote was verified 1t was shown that the vote was really tie with 16 for the bill and Is against It. l Lieutenant Governor Kilby then promptly voted against the measure with the result that 1t was defeated.