The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-07-13
CONVINCED AND FEELING GOOD

1 lobbying for something. l And how do the men feel about being
 button holed" and talked to? l Well-just put yourself in the place oi these legislators and senators down il Montgomery.
 of weighty CD cares on your mind, such l as whether a quail is a song bird or ar "entree" or what kind of limestone t.
 use in paving or compelling a railroad 1 to cut out the fiction on it's bulletin
 boards, would you be "peeved' if pretty
 woman sdetracked you from all those important issues and asked you to pay l just few moments attention to hel | hobby that she is lobbying for
 Well, say, if you were that statesman 1 how would you feel about it? | I'll answer, for I know; you'd be tickled ! to death; I didn't see a single solitary legislator who looked anything but "dee- | lighted
 They remind me of the story of the old countryman who went in to the oyster house to get some oysters and the oyster man said to him:
 How do you like en?'' , The old countryman replied q like em pretty well-how do you like 'em?"
 When the house opened it's session on Friday morning with Speaker Henry P Merritt presiding sloughs of women in the gallery in lovely white gowns, aigret- ted bonnets and French heeled shoes { beamed down upon the august body and
 I was impressed with just one thing;
 while the role was being called, every legislator in the assemblage behaved just like married men behave at home; they
 read the morning paper and paid no at tention to anybody or anything. I had just a word with Speaker Mer- ritt before he went into the house; had asked him to tell me how he stands on the suffrage" question and his tall, lean, lank form towering above me, his bright eyes snapping quickly he said; q haven't minute to talk about suffrage; I've got to call the house to i order''
 'It won't take over two minutes for you to say whether you are for or against the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony amendment" I suggested, cheerfully
 "It would take me two months to say all I've got to say on the subject, saiu inc Speaker" and I immediately labeled him FOXY" , One bill after another was introduced; was puzzled, non-pulssed and apsolutely
 at sea because the only bills know anything about are bills that l ow| at the first of the month, and often can pay so every now and then when .he .gayel' sounded particularly loud, and . heard the clerk reading "an act entitled an act" I listened to see if those legiss lators were speaking the same language I sneak when suddenly my attention was riveted on Jefferson popular attorney and representative in the legislature, the Hon Augustus H. Benners.
 may say in passing that the keh,,e
 ,an from Jefferson and the Hon. Shelby
 Fletcher from Madison are the pea brummes' of the house.
 The clerk was intoning q mean reading) hill 1s7 introduced by the gentleman rom Jefferson:
 "An act entitled an act" and then an ;rd;st;nct murmuring about labor ana help and migration and lot or other things which resolved themselves ihto a nerfectly good bill which have christen ed ,The Anti-African Migration Biil' snd when I asked the gentleman from
 Iefferson to explain it to me later, he said tersely.
 "Nhv. it's very simple it's bill pro- viding a way to keep a cook
 Jf the honorable gentleman from Jef- ferson is successful in putting through a bill that will provide this commodity, any office within the gift of the people that he may ask for will be unanimously handed to him lon silver walter
 From tha house to the senate is but sten and with Lieutenant Governor Mill Ter presiding this august body was naho- Iinp questions of the utmost importance.
 There are many notable characters in the present senate; four are eligible to election as Beau Brummels' or the sen ate. Senator Charlie McDowell. Flu faula. Senator B. A. Rogers, Florence; Senator Jim" Ellis, Selma. and Senator w. A. Gunter, Jr.. Montgomery.
 These four handsome, well groomed gentlemen are great favorites with the ladies and vie for honors when 1t comes to popularity with the fair sex
 Few people visit the senate chamber without being impressed with Senator J. A. Rogers, Gainesville, and the unique manner in which the delectable senator s.drapes" his manly form over his desk; a characteristic pose of the senator's is with his feet perched upon his desk, the while he Tolls" back comfortably in his chair reading some important doc ument or glancing at the morning paper.
 By the way, Senator Rogers is one of the staunchest advocates of woman suf- frage, and he gives his approval to the ratification of the Susan B. Anthony amendment
 I can't leave the senate without paving my respects to our lieutenant governor, who presides with so much ease and grace over this great body of men.
 Lieutenant Governor Miller is one of