The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-25
VICTORY SEEMINGLY SITS PERMANENTLY
 ON MR. HENDERSON
Another Distinct Triumph Scored by the Governor Over Prohibition
 Faction
By HUGH w. RoBERTs

Montgomery, July Especial )-Victory ders of the governor Today marked an- other distinct triumph achieved by the chief executive over the forces of the lobby or majority faction of the leg islature
 Yesterday, as is remembered, the mem- bers of the house committee on ways prepared by the recess committee on finance and taxation during the summer by annulling that section which trans ferred the appointve power respecting the tax commission. from the governor to the legislature. Today, the house com mittee on prisons and criminal admins- tration adversed the bill of the recess Investigating committee, which would have combined the convict bureau, the highway commission and the office of prison inspector. Had the bill been favor ably reported and enacted into the law, the governors appointment of P. J. Rog CTS of Birmingham, Dr. R. A. Smith and J. M. Kyser as members of the convict bureau. would have been nullified. When the committee failed to carry out the directions of the lobbyists, the ma jority faction submitted an apparently innocent amendment providing that the appointments of the governor be indorsed but that the successor of the appointees. following the expiration of their terms, be not appointed, but elected by the peo- pie.
 Effect of Victory
 The defeat of this bill of the probe com- mittee involves more than the winning by the governor of another great victory IL is certain now that instead of becom- ing an integral and necessarily secondary part of the convict bureau, the depart ment of prison inspection, over which Dr. William II. Oates presides, will be continued as distinct and therefore virile institution. It is certain, too, that the state highway commission will con. tinue to exist as permanent and dis tinct department. and that it will not be materially handicapped in carrying to logical conclusion the programme of road building already initiated and in rart completed
 The two notable victories scored on suc- cessive days means too. that the lobby has yielded in It's effort to retire to pri- vate life men recently appointed by the governor to places on the tax commission and the convict bureau. It is understood that against each of the members of the first named, Thomas w. Sims of Mobile, Leo oLTdSSDuI6ci oi $noHtSohicly, anu Frank Marquis of Cordova, and against one member of the convict bureau, J. M. Kyser of Guntersville. the lobby had sworn eternal vengeance. The defeat of the lobby means that these gentlemen will serve the people for the conclusion of their terms of four years.
 Struggle in Committee
 It required two sittings today of the house committee on prisons and criminal administration before victory of the gov ernor was made certain.
 At o'clock, the committee met for the purpose of voting on the bill of "amalga- nation" that under which three depart ments would be combined into one. At the time of meeting. only F members of the committee were present, and they were evenly divided. The body adjourned with the vote standing to 6.
 In the afternoon, however. the commit tee came together again. MT. Rogers of Elmore, brother of the president of the convict bureau, who had been absent in the morning session, was present. This fact turned the tide It was evident. therefore, that the fight against the gov ernor was lost. and the substitute was submitted and put into effect. As a re- suit. the situation will remain as it Is with the single exception that the success sors of men presently in charge of the convict bureau will be elected by the peo- pie.