The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-03

gotten in the haste to properly enroll
 and act on measures which had been
 passed at the eleventh hour. Recesses
 during the afternoon were longer than
 the working period, but it was essential
 that the senators remain on the job to
 receive messages from the governor and
 the house, the latter having become
 gagged in a lengthy debate on the merits
 and demerits of a proposal of the gov
 ernor that an amendment be made to the
 so-called $500,000 school appropriation.
 Senators spent much of the afternoon
 and early evening in the house cham
 Der, being attracted there by the elo-
 quence of those who were making an
 eleventh-hour attack against the dog
 law and the school appropriation. Sound-
 ing of the gavel in the senate by Pre-
 siding Officer Miller nearly aways, how ever, brought quorum to the senate,
 and in brief time the house again was
 the attractive part of the legislature. There was no disposition on the part of the senators to break a quorum dur
 ing the last hours of the special session However, many senators left the city on early Saturday afternoon trains, they making the statement that it was im- possible for them to remain longer. It was late in the evening before the legis- ldIOTS p6Sdu lO iDSlSl lHdl lb WSAo NiIiS to eat"
 SENATE CO-OPERATES The senate did not argue about amend- ments proposed to bills by the gover- nor As fast as the executive amend ments were sent in the senate co-op- erated and sent the bills to the house. The senate did not tarry long before adopting the executive amendment to the school appropriation bill, although the house argued and argued and finally by a large majority refused to grant the wishes of Governor Kilby.
 The only important bill defeated by the senate was one increasing salaries of thief clerks of the department ot archives and history, secretary of state state prison inspection department and department of agriculture.
 When this bill was called, the senate saw for the first time a division of opinion so far as the senate leaders are concerned. Senator Acker of Cal houn county opposed the bill, while senator Carmichael fought for it's pass age. The bill was killed because it did not get two-thirds majority. and it later killed a motion of Senator Beale of Tuscaloosa to consider the vote.
 The special session died as peace fully as 1t came into life, there being no effort to kill time with humorous speeches, all seemingly being seriously inclined and anxious to- end their la bors and go to their respective homes. Senators formed in small groups dur ing lull in proceedings and discussed various subjects of the day.
 WANT COX INVITED "A resolution, asking Governor Kilby | to invite Governor James M Cox to | in, Ia har dtyr fpsp dan l.. tiaf campaign. has adopted in both | houses. The author was Senator John | Craft of Mobile, who paid tribute to 1 the Ohio governor. The resolution said l the Ohio governor is a Header of the | great democratic hosts of the nation | and is making superb fight for the l vindication of our national honor and l in behalf of progress as against reac- l tion for which his opponents stands: Senator Carmichael introduced d | resolution which was adopted by both houses. putting the legislature on rec l ord as being in sympathy with rela- l lives of Dr. Thomas M. Owen, deceased l Probably no citizen of the state more | thoroughly comprehended within his l vision and affection in all Alabama and all Alabama loved him" said the resolution. The resolution became part of the journal of each house. . Among the bills passed in the senate l and which will become law unless per l gnitted to die on the desk of the governor, are the following:
 AMONG BILLS PASSED
 To prevent destruction of dwelling houses by dynamite or other explosion with an amendment permitting destruc- ton to prevent the spread of fires; amending acts of the 1919 legislature re- lating to absent voters participating in l elections, and requiring that ballots for l this purpose be obtained in person by the ones who desire to vote while away from their voting places exempting. | however, soldiers who might be in other places; requiring operators of vehicles in Jefferson county to make daily reports of personal property moved therein. the time and place where moved, etc.; making an appropriation of s65,000 or any part there- l Of shown tc be owed after an examina- | tion of the books of the Alabama Poly technic Institute, an amendment having been adopted by agreement providing for the examinations: providing for punish | ment of persons who fail to work the roads after due warning; amending sec tion 6S50 Of the code and adding words which will prohibit the enticing of labor | from farms while crops are being made; making mandatory examination of every | school pupil between the ages of and 1 16 by the county health officer for the purpose of developing a child into