The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-24
High Lights in Yesterdays
 Session Of the Legislature

1 proved by the senate The bill was by | Representative Dansby of Choctaw county. The senate also approved the house bill of Representative John J. Rus- sell of Mobile county. which provides that courts of county commissioners or boards of revenue shall provide telephones for | clerks. registers, sheriff and jailer and probate judge of each county. l
 The Waddell bill, from the house. which | provides for the suppression of parasites among live stock, was enacted by the senate.
 Teachers in schools of Alabama, SUD- ported in whole or part by public i funds, must make tho Holy Bible part l of the course of study. under a senate bill by MT. MeDowel enacted by the house on Tuesday. Representative Pres ton of Etowah county. delivered long speech on the necessity of making the Bible part of th~school work. The bill provides that schools cannot get public | funds if they refuse to teach the Holy Bible eachaand every morning. 1 By the decisive vote of 52 yeas to l9 nays the house tonight passed Repre- sentatives Holmes bill for the protection l of sheep in Alabama Under the pro- visions of the bid all dogs except fox dogs must be tagged and muzzled ana the license tax required to be paid on such tax will be ured to reimburse sheep owners for losses resulting from depre- i dations of dogs running at large. Part of the fund may be used in defraying the expenses of persons bitten by dogs sus- pected of having the rabies to the state 1 pasteur institute
 The house of representatives tonight passed the Scale bill, appropriating out Of the states general funds s5pO to-paS premiums on Alabama raised steers. These premiums will be distributed through fairs and other exhibits of live stock.
 After the house of representatives, by a vote of 39 to 34 had refused to concur in senate amendments to the circuit court judges salary increase bill, it re- considered and adooted the report and suggestions of the joint conference com mittee, which recommended adoption of the senate amendments which raised the salary of each judge to 5000 per annum Purchasing of food for prisoners in fails of Alabama is conferred upon courts of county commissioners and i boards of revenue under a bill of Repre- sentative Sparks, enacted by vote of 8 to 21 by the house Tuesday. In plac- ing the details of his bill before the ! house. MT. Sparks said there was no Oh ] lection to 1t on the ground the sheriff 1 of the state need the small amount of money which they save on feed bills an- nually. He made the point that every nickel appropriated for the feeding of i prisoners should go for this purpose. 1
 l Bv a viva voce vote the state senate I Tuesday went or record as cpposnE "hazing" in schools and colleges of Ala bama. when it adopted the resolution o1 ] Senator Watt Brown. The resolution l the author said was presented upor suggestion of the Mothers circle o1 Montgomery It also was approved b, college professors and officials who ap peared before the educational commit tees of the two houses.
 
 Financial relief for the Confederate veterans and pensioners of Alabama wa provided for Tuesday, when the stat senate: by vote Of 2b to U, enacte the Acker bill, which appropriates s1,07o, 900 for the veterans annually. The meas lure was called up by Senator Car michael An amendment, providing a annual appropriation of S ,35o, GOO, instea Of s1,070,oDo, was offered by the authe and adopted.
 The Acker bill takes care of tf Brown bill. which provides for month
 ly pension of s12.5o for each pension' ' in Alabama
 Because of objection of Senator Hut
 dleson of Elmore county, the state SCI ate Tuesday could not consider for in ) mediate adoption a resolution whlt . originated in the rules committee ar : which would limit debate to five mil utes on senate bills, providing also tn; :, senator could not speak more than tU
 times on a biIl That is known as u
 '.gag rule" and has been in force in Il
 house many days. Such rule usual 1 comes a few days before time for fin
 adjournment of the legislature. In u
 early days of session there is no ol Ijection against long debates, but wht
 time begins to quickly pass and the ca = endars are crowded the ''gag rule' say
 the day and the life of many bills.
 The two houses of the legislature Tue |, day afternoon killed the resolution Y last Friday, which willed for legislati sessions on Tuesday, Wednesday al
 final sine die adjournment on Saturda
 The resolution adopted Thursday afte n noon provides that the next legislati
 shall be on Thursday and the last o on Saturday. The resolution orlglnat n in the senate and was by MT. Ca $ michael
 @ The recess of one day was necessa ,c so that the clerk of the house and SC retary of the senate might catch up wi
 their work.
 E Authority to authorize the attorn l. general to direct circuit solicitors of ce 5, tain circuits in Alabama to perform d IS ties of the solicitor of the 18th circ, > was conferred by the senate Tuesds l. when it enacted a house bill of Repr
 sentative Lynne of Morgan county. T l. vote was 24 to O.
 II Another important bill enacted by t I' senate provides that all counties in t
 state may adopt the budget system u
 der which Alabama is now operatir l A house bill of MT. Woodward, success
 full in the senate, abolishes the court l county commissioners of Madison coun and establishes the board of revenr
 while another measure of Representati lCobbs of Mobile county regulates t