The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
TAKEN FROM ADVERSE SIDE

The ways. means and appropriation committee promptly adversed 1t, but oh the showing that the state treasury ii' a year or two probably will be able 2 stand a dent totalling five hundI thousand dollars. The house took ' from the adverse calendar
 Friends of the public schools insist that the money be divided and this pr posal was accepted by those who ia lored further appropriation Tor tAa higher schools. Only four votes we l cast against the bill on the roll call. Every member of the house with tbs four exceptions seemed interested lN the passage of the public school appro priation bill, while it seemed tha every member had a sword drawn the supporters of the dog law. Tae committee had reported substitui 2 for the bill which made general amenA- ments in order that the law might be enforced
 Then the members began pouring amend ndments to the substitute. Ihe first amendment struck out the section which placed all money in the state treasury and instead placed fifty per cent of all fees into the public schooi fund Another reduced the dog tax to s1.25. Another put male and female dogs in the same class. The amend l. ments finally were turned to the IT. | diculous and those opposed to the Dill finally sought to laugh it to death They didn't succeed in this but senator Carmichael, who was named member | of the conference committee by the senate afterwards said the house had l killed the bill half dozen times al 1 ready.
 PASS INSPECTION BILL ! Another bill which caused great op- l taa.t S<sir 1 m Xt 1 pa ssed only after it had been stolen {, two times, the measure providing for the inspection of all motor fuels. was passed by the house again without a l dissenting vote, and without any oppo- sition. This bill takes the place of the l one passed last year which was de
 clared unconstitutional by the United l States courts. The new bill provides l for the inspection of all gasoline and
 other motor fuels by the state highway 1 department and each owner of the gas inspected must pay an inspection fee 1 of one twentieth of one percent.
 l Senator Acker's bill permitting mu- l nicipalities and counties to pay 2 greater rate of interest on bonds than l five percent, which is now permitted was passed with no opposition. This 1 bill will permit Jefferson county to dis pose of it's highway improvement bonds | and continue us rDdu WOTk anu Wil benefit a large number of other coun' ties and cities which have been unable l to dispose of bonds because of the con dition of the financial market whicf
 called for greater interest rate thar l five percent
 The bill of Senatoi Rogers Of sumter 1 establishing the official cotton stand
 ards of the United States as the officia
 standards of Alabama was passed. | l was declared that this bill will be { great aid to the agricultural interests
 The only other general bill passe'
 by the house Curing the day give;
 counties the right to establish public
 i libraries and to make appropriations
 1 from the county treasury for the pur
 pose. The bin is intended mainly t'
 apply to Jefferson county.
 BATTLE IS BREWING
 Although Saturday will bring to af
 end the special session of the Alabama
 ilegislature. one of the most interestins
 battles of them all was imminent whe'
 l the senate took recess Friday eve
 ming until nine o'clock the next morn
 ing. The fight if it comes off a
 sch eduled. will be made on the hous
 bill which appropriates s65,00o to talk
 care of an alleged indebtedness of tn 1 tContinued on Page Three