The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-07-06
Conference Held At Tut wiler Hotel Is Highly Sue ceSsful = Immortal 70" Renew Fealty to Each Other
FINAL ACTION ON PENDING BILLS TO
 BE TAKEN TODAY
Will Support Bills Proposed By Three Legislative COmmittees-Favor Fite City Manager Bill

Invited by the prohibition members of the Jefferson county legislative del- egation. score of other members of the legislature came to Birmingham yesterday and last night were enter tained by those prominent nonmembers who in collective sense are known as the "Iobby."
 Except to state that at the banquet no alcoholic liquors were served, the cele- brants were exceedingly reticent. The dinner was conceived and prepared In secret. As to the food which comprised the menu and the number of courses, nothing of descriptive nature was ut tered. So closely, as a matter of fact, was every detail guarded that one of the ban queters might have succeeded in balanc- ing pass on a knife and suffered humilia- tion in that it was contrary to the sign" to advertise his feat.
 AS a result of the dinner, the prohibit tion majority of the legislature is raid to be a closer corporation than ever oe- fore. That majority, it is now believed, stands prepared to meet any emergency, to do as 1t did last winter the things it was bidden to do, to scale any height 10 which the guiding finger pointed.
 Among Those Present Those present are enumerated under six heads, the lobby, the constabulary mem bers of the senate, members of the house, hand picked" newspaper men and in- vited partisans. Other than those who re- quested that their names be left unspoken when The Age-Herald printed the list, the following answered the roll call; Of the lobby, l.. B. Musgrove of Jasper, Fred NJ Jackson, Walter Sessions Borden Burr, B. A. Thompson, Charles E. Rice P. c. Radcliffe and George E. Estes; of the vonstabulary Con- rad w. Austin, Hugo Black and Perry Turner; of the press, Editors Fennell of Guntersvile, Gernon of Albertville. Ste venson of Roanoke, Cruikshank of Bir- mingham, and Johnson of Sel- ma; of the senate. Lee of Etowah, Miner of Lamar, Key of Franklin. Green of Nor gan. Holmes of Baldwin, and Dem son of Greene; of the house, Judge of Shelby, Grady and Burton of Chambers, Stewart of Talladega, Beale of Northport, Darden of Coosa, Kaylor of Randolph Davis of Walker. Merritt of Macon, Griffin of Marengo Davie of Bibh,
 
 and Vaughan of Montgomery, Henderson of Limestone and Weakley, Copeland Welsh, Tarrant, and Scott of Jefferson; of the guests Lieutenant-Governor kilby, Thomas w, Vert of Decatur and W. A. Darden of Anniston.
 The representatives of the immortal 70'' arrived throughout the day They were greeted by local representatives md members of the lobby. Last night at ' o'clock they gathered at the Tutwiler. At the appointed hour MT Sessions guided them one by one up the elevator shaft to the banquet hall. MT. Jackson, the ls st to proceed to where the viands lay smok ing spent some minutes on the outside of the hostelry for the purpose of ''round- ing up the late corners, and not as later ested spectators supposed to prevent those already rounded up'' from escap- ing.
 Birmingham Situation Ideal
 At o'clock the Legislature" sat down to appease the inner man with all the sweets the rich larder of the hostelry could afford For two hours course after course was rushed forward by perspiflng 1 la ckies, and passonatey devoured. When that state poet,cally described as rich and calm content that in which well fed men incline their chairs and wield tooth | picks as dexterously as knights of old | their gallant blades was reached one of the members of the lobby announced 1t IS said, that prohibition was in effect De- spite the secrecy with which the session was surrounded. it is said that certain of the banqueters formally discussed the effect already produced, the course which must be followed in order that the reign of the present dynasty might be perpetu- ated and how, by diligence and diplomacy, violators of the statutes might be cap- tured and put into chains
 The situation In Birmingham was de- sorihed, it is said, as ideal one in which no loss of revenue was sustained, no l liquor consumed, no broils precipitated, no unpleasantness engendered, one in which every man was in love with his neighbor and all that his neighbor called his
 Pending Legislation Discussed Informally. according to the leaks" rding legislation was discussed It is said that the ceebrants agreed ardently to support the bills prepared by the three recess committees of the legislature. It
 is said too that with favor the city manager bill of MT. Fite of Tuscaloosa the plan to take the convicts out of the mines and the workingmans compensation bill. and with disfavor the public utility ccnnission idea were discussed. Final action regarding these several measures and others of equal impor- tance, will be taken this morning, 1t Is