The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-13

 (Escambla), Jordan, Lee. (Butler), Long (Sumter). Matthews (wilcoD, { Milford, Mitchell. Moore, Murphree. Mcdonald, Orr. Parker. Partridge, Peters, Pittman. Ross, Russell. Scale. Smith. Sparks. Stewart, Tompkins, Truss, Tunstall, Warner, Williams, 1 Wilson, Woodward.
 Against highway bill, Albright, Carnley, Clayton, Edwards CPike), Ellis (Elmore). Graham, Guy, Hall, Johnson. Lawson. Lee (Perry), Long | (Butlerl, Jongshore, Trammell, Van deGraaft, Williamson.
 Mir. Alexander and Mir. Arnold were paired, while Mir. Faulk and MT. Dansby were paired. Mir. Alexander and Mir. Faulk would have voted against the bill and Mir. Arnold and MT Dansby would have voted for 1t. Members of the house revived the highway bond issue bill Wednesday after defeating it late Tuesday and put 1t on the house calendar again for l consideration as & special order for next Tuesday morning. | The action of the house in revers- ing itself came as a surprise. Alfred M. Tunstall of Hale, tho veteran leg islator, made the motion to recon slider the vote Immediately after the house convened for the day. Mem | bers of the blockade who had suc- ceeded in defeating the bill by with | holding the constitutional majority of 64 jumped to their feet and protested against the motion, contending that MT. Tunstall had no right to mako it. as he voted with the losing side.
 Thinks Minority In Control | Speaker Lynne ruled that any per son who voted with the majority could make the motion, but MT. Long 1 of Butler insisted that in reality the
 minority, which voted against the l bill. became the majority in this in- 1 stance, and held the controlling 1 power over any motion to reconsider, and that no motion to reconsider could be made except by a person l who voted with the minority. This reasoning didn't take well l with the speaker, who pointed out ] that if 63 persons had voted for the bill and none against 1t 1t would have been defeated, and no one could have made a motion to reconsider. Mir. Long of Butler declared this was
 not the issue in the case, but the speaker held that it was logic which applied.
 w. A. Reynolds of Chiffon, who voted with the minority, surprised even the blockaders by rising in his seat and making the motion to re- | consider thus settling the dispute as to the authority of a member of the majority to make the motion.
 After Mir. Reynolds had made his motion 1t was put by the speaker and was adopted without a record l vote. The highway bond bill was Immediately returned to the calendar and placed on the special order list for consideration immediately after i the preliminary work of the House next Tuesday morning.
 To Recess Today
 | Administration forces contended during the morning that there were enough votes in the house during the day to break the blockaders, but in order to be fair to all they desired to postpone action until next week. l The legislature will recess late | Thursday until Monday afternoon at l2 o'clock Reports indicate that practically all members Of tho house | will be in the seats when 1t Is called
 to order for the third week of the 1 special session.
 Many telegrams came to the mem bers of the house Wednesday as 8 result of the publication Wednesday
 morning of the story of the defeat | of the bond issue bill Some urged | lHG tneIlDtIS LO to6psAVi tV pass the bill, while others requested the blockaders to cof<inue their ef-
 forts for, the abolition of the tax aljusters.
 Without Recomme c ndation l The house committee on ways, means and appropriations returned to | the house without recommendation | during the day the bills of Repre-
 sentative J. Lee Long of Butler and J. A. Carnley of Coffee abolishing the
 tax adjusters and returning to the code of 1907T for the assessment and | collection of taxes. Those bills, un- der the law. will appear on the call
 endar for passage on the next 1egis- l lative day.
 Representative F. o. Deese of Dale offered a resolution Wednesday aft