Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-19

them; stand by your people; stand by your state, and uphold :he purity and integrity of manhood. ss to the measure of men; {; acquit yourselves as such, and cast your vote against this measure.
 MT. Kelly said:
 Mir. Speaker, do sincerely hope, and sincerely believe, that the members of this house will come up like men. They will vote like men and they will think like men. Men do their own thinking. Men do their own acting. Men weigh their own acts, and they are not led off one day by threats and by cajoling the next. They are not to be led to support measure the opponents of which have at one time gone into the cssspooi of abuse and abused until they did not know who they were abusing. They have been hitting here and every where-hitting at the whole business, hop ing to strike the negro in the woodpie somewhere, and when they see that sort of treatment will not do, they come up and try to plaster the matter over. 1 say this house will act on this question as men. Every man will act under tho silent sane tum of his oath. l take it at this stage of the proceedings that the merits of the bill are not to be discussed, and that it is ques- ton wholly as to whether or not it is con siitutional, and take it that when the members of this house come to, to consider tha, question they here that Governor Somebody told soms other governor that the bill was not con stitutional; that they will not go and take an attorney practicing at the bar who said to the governor tbat the bill was not con stitutional and give weight to this, but they will take the supreme court of this and Of other states to guide them in this matter. Colonel Tompkins is not on this floor; he has not been brought here. This has nothing to do with it. My opinion is that Colonel Tompkins is an able and hoa- orable man, but he stated, in reply to the question if he had ever read this bill, that he had not; whether he had examined 1t or whether he had investigated the ques- tion as to it's constitutionality, he said no and this, MT. Speaker, was on the day, the very day, that this veto was sent into this house. We are not to be led away by what Governor Jones or Colonel fompkins said to Governor Oates. Are they the constitution of Alabama? Are they the statutes of Alabama? No. As to the railroad companies offering to pay fee Of 5000, do not know anything about that and do not care anything about it. What is the object of it? It Is to poison the mind. Has that got anything to do with this discussion? submit that 1t has @ bso- lutely nothing to do with it. The sole question is whether the legislature of Ala bama has the right to regulate the manner in which foreign corporations may hold property in Alabama.
 Time will not suffice for any lengthy dis cussion of this question or citation of au- l u6SlTe, tuOuRuy MT. 6p6akoT, the opening of this discussion to etatc some propositions which do not believe the gentlemen on the other side can con trovert or deny. In the first place our friend, Captain O'Brien, in this matter, 1t si son so m nd s applying as oass tss ras sbi. concern crasping monopoly; he has tried to get the start of the other side in calling hard names; he says that the Southern Railway company is 8 grasping monopoly aud that it is trying to steal a road of 400 miles. l say that if this bill result of the case IS to ownership new pending in the supreme court, because the issues in that case are the issues of law--ia- evitable-just as the issues of life are ma @ up when you lie down in death. The fas' , that necessitated the bringing of that tsr,s in the supreme court illustrate the neces-. sity for legislation along the line which this bill points out. It but shows that leg islation is needed and was badly needed. The reason is that you see herea minority holders of the property on both sides, while ths legal title to 1t is in the people that own it-are it's stockholders. If there is any body whose feelings are hurt, 1t Is the stockholders.
 This bill is an effort on the part of the legislature of Alabama to prevent recur- renee of the minority of the stockholders requiring people owning a corporation in Alabama, who get control of the corpora tion and run it in defiance of the stock holders. This bill is based on one of the fino principles of democracy, because it recognizes the principle that the majority ought to rule. The majority ought to rule, says democratic principle. This bill ought to do that, and this is all it does.
 My friend, MT. O'Brien, talks about the English cofporation stealing railroad. We see concern in London absolutely stealing a railroad, with tbe courts of Ala bama utterly powerless to afford protection. Can you tell me that great sovereign state like the state of Alabama should He down in lamb-like quietude and be poWerless to protect these interests? Our foreiathers, who were the framers of the constitution of Alabama, knew that such might be the case and so they enacted a law whichsssys that the charter of any corporation may be altered or amended at the pleasure or the legislature. Crime called
 Mir. Knight said:
 Mr. Speaker, when this bill was before us before voted against it. When vote was taken to table voted for the bill. Thus you see have voted on 10th sides of this question. It is very important ques- consideration. It has been returned to us of Alabama with his seal of dis whom helped to elect aud for whose public and private acts my party is stand fairly and squarely by that adminis- tration, though it may differ with me in matters of policy and in questions of law; nevertheless, owing to the responsibility that the democratic party took when 1t placed that man in that office down wonder, l shall not be found one among the mum per refusing to sustain the action of him whom they have vested with this power, and shall vote no. M M
 The vote on the bill was to sustain the governor's veto, 53 as against 35, and the sbill is dead.'
 On the question te-pass over the govern nor's veto house bill No. 821 those voting no were:
 Messrs. Barron, Boykin, Brooks, Brown of Russell, Calhoun, Cameron, Camp. Cook of Wilcox, Curtis of Dale, Davis, Fleming, Fletcher, Fulton, Gib- bons, Grant, Graves. links. John. Ken uedy, Kyle, Lipscomb, Naples, May