The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-20
EDITH OPPONEN NTS AND HACKERS IF
 MEASURE ACTIVE
House Calendar Is CIogged With Over 100 Printed
 Pages Of Bills
STATE CAPITAL BUREAU l
 THE AGE-H ERALD !
Montgomery. Ala. Sept. 19 ]


 The fight for the removal from the house adverse calendar of the Ellis primary election bill will be one of the features of the forty-seventh session of the Alabama legislature which will be held Thursday. Rep resentative Travis Williams of Franklin gave notice Tuesday that he would make the motion to take the bill from the adverse calendar after the reports of standing com mittees Thursday. The house com mittee on privileges and elections made the adverse report by vote of nine to one.
 Throughout the recess Wednesday friends and opponents of the primary election bill worked among members of the house. The bill has already passed the senate by a good majority. Friends of the measure insisted that it was drawn at the command of the state democratic convention and the state democratic executive committee, the actual work of drafting it being done by a subcommittee of the state executive committee.
 Opponents of the bill insisted that it was an effort to oust some persons now in office and was also intended to bring about a return to the con vention system for the nomination of judicial officers in Alabama.
 When the bill was adversed last week if was freely stated that majority of the members or the house were opposed to it and would vote against taking it from the adverse calendar. Since that time much work has been done by those appealing for it's passage.
 Calendar CIoGged.
 The calendar of the house will contain more than 100 printed pages. Members of the house realizes that their efforts to obtain considera- tion of their bills is hopeless and that unless they are made special orders by the grace of the rules com mittee they can not be passed.
 The house has worked on special order calendar prepared by the rules committee during a greater part of the session. It will continue to do so until the end. The rules committee has made special orders of what it termed the most important measures. However. it has declined to approve resolutions making special orders of large number of bills. In this list of those not receiving the favor of the rules committee is the bill put ting upon the railroads the burden of justifying rates which are brought to issue either by petition to or cita- tion by the public service commis- sion.
 The burden of proof bill has been OH the Cd16nudE TUT S6N6Gdl udyS Oul cannot receive action unless it Is made a special f:der for considera- tion Thursday Members of the rules comr.ittee Tuesday declined to take any action on it. If another day passes the bill will die on the house calendar.
 Consider Farm Code.
 One of the most important bills which is yet to receive action in the senate is the agricultural code, which was passed by the house with little opposition last week and which was given d favorable report by the sem ate committee on insure and taxa tion Tuesday. No opposition has been shown in the senate and it is probable the bill can be passed without great delay
 Much interest surrounds the bill of Senator J. C. Inzer of Etowah abol- ishing the gallows and providing for the el sctrocution of all condemened felons at Kilby prison. This bill was passed by the senate several weeks ago and after much discussion was placed on the house calendar The rules committee made it a special order several da 8 ago but it has not been reached during the legisla- tive sessions.
 Under the Inzer bill condemned felons would be brought to Kilby prison immediately after conviction and would be incarcerated there until the time for their execution.