The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-12
LEGISLATURE MEETS
 PRIMARILY ID CIV [ VOTES ID WOME [ N
Other Important Matters, However, May Keep Body In Session for Thirty
 Calendar Days
By FRED IF. GORMLEY Montgomery Bureau The Age Herald
 22i-2 First National Bank 6uIidins

Montgomery, September 11.- (speciaID-The Alabama legisia- ture will meet in extraordinary | session at noon Tuesday primarily
 for the enactment of legislation which will permit women to vote in the November election and sec- ] ondariiy to dispose of several sub | jects of legislation included i'm the l proclamation of Governor kiiby | two weeks ago.
 | All preparations have been Lorn- Ipleted for the session and the senate will be called to order at l2 o'clock l by Lieutenant Governor Nathan L. Mill l Ter, and the house of representatives | by Judge Henry F. Merritt. speaker at
 the session in 1919. who has since le- | signed to become a member of the | court of appeals. Immediately after
 the house has been called to order $.
 A. Lynne of Decatur. floor leader of
 the administration, will be elected
 speaker. He has received pledges from more than majority of the mem oers
 and probably will have no opposition.
 In so far as is known, this will be the
 only change in the organization If he l Legislature.
 WILL DISTRIBUTE COPIES | Governor Kilby has completed lis
 message and copies will be printed in
 time for distribution among the mem.
 bers the first day. It is probable the 1 governor will read his message at a
 joint session of the two houses in the l house of representatives. He followed
 this custom in his other messages asst
 year. The. governor promises to rem der an account Of his stewardship since he became governor and will make a report on the financial condition of the state as well as the work done by various departments of the state gov ernment. His message will contain thirty-one typewritten pages.
 Governor Kilby will give reasons
 why the legislature should enact laws
 In line with the subjects included in his call First and foremost are the
 suffrage measures. One bill will pro- vide for m emergency registra tion. pe- ginning about October 1 and continu- Ing throughout the month. A temoo- Irary board Of three registrars is pro- posed for each county in order that he work may be done with dispatch. This board would cease to exist Novem Der 1,
 Another election measure proposed
 the abandonment of the old system of lplacing names of candidates in alpha oetical order on the primary ticket. It lis proposed to substitute the Ohio sys- ,l tenn, which places the name of every
 candidate at the top of the ticket the
 same number of times. It is believed
 this will remove the advantage which la candidate with name beginning with an early letter of the alphabet
 has over his opponents
 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
 bill has been drawn which will re- write the laws relating to the public serv- ice commission and will give the com
 mission funds with which to operate with out cost to the state A schedule of fees against public utilities has been worked
 cut which probably will not be opposed i by the corporations and will give the
 commission about SO,000 year This will
 permit the employment of examiners for
 the inspection of books of all public serv- (COntinued on Page Three)