Birmingham age-herald., 1895-02-16

who is at all times courteous to his oppo- nents and ready with reply, arose to the rescue of the red commodity.
 MT. Boykin of Russell, the dignified and supporter of silver, was here.
 Mir. Manning, tue Clay county :evan- gel' was on the scene but, he did not advo- cate the coin the color of the soil on which he was reared, nor did ne fall 10 lash With fury the leader of the democratic patty.
 Mir. O Brien, the logician and matter of fact man from Jtffsrson, emphaticalIy placed himself on record for the gold clause.
 Mir. Mayfield of Tuska kaIoosa, the modern Webster Of the house, stood up with the friends of the ," sternal'' money.
 Speaker Clark, whose generous and gen. manner always commands re- spec, made strong argument for the clause.
 Mir. Kelley of Calhoun, who gets seri- ousy in earnest when this question is mentioned, did not forget his hobby at this discussion.
 The voice of MT. Sanford from Mont gomery came forth from the stiffness in all It's oratorical force and charged without hesitation upon the yellow coin.
 Mir. Dav1s of Marion closed the argument in favor of the clause.
 After the discussion had ceased to be those who were present reached the con- clusion that the great benefits of democ- racy and firm faith in the prin- ciples of the grand old party had received more thorough discussion than the merits of the senate amendment. 1t was reunion of the veterans of the cause of democracy and not a debate upon the a3visability of concurring in the senate amendment. A final vote resulted-yeas 42, nays 4l, and the amendment was con- cured in.
 NIGHT SESSION.
 In the house tonight nothing but local bills were passed. The governor ccmmuni- cated his veto of the alien railroad bill, and MT. O'Brien made strong fight for its immediate consideration, but the popu. voted against immediate consideration 80 the measure goes over until Monday for further consideration.
 message was received from the gov ernor immediately after the reassembling of the house tonight setting forth at length bis reason's for withholding his signature and affixing his veto to house bill No. 821, better known as the "alien octopus bill. '
 Immediately after the reading of the veto MT. Davis of Marion, in an ton of the message be postponed until Monday next. MT. O'Brien promptly moved to lay that motion on the table and made lengthy argument as to why his motion should 1prevail. Several speeches were made in favor of postponement and only two against, one by MT. Smith of Mobile, who came to the rescue of MT. O'Brien in n able argument in favor of the position taken by that gentleman.
 During the discussion several gentlemen of the populist persuasion arose to ques tions of personal privilege because of a re- mark made by MT. O'Brien in rehearsing the status of the bill from it's first introduce tion into the house up to the present mo- ment. The gentlemen from Lee, MT. Jackson, populist, made an offensive al- fusion to Mr. o'Brien, who promptly re- marked, '.If it were parliamen tary to say the gen ntleman lied would say so, but as 1t would be exceedingly unparliamentary to use such language can not say he lied. ' moment, which was promptly suppressed by the gavel of the speaker. On the mo- tion to lay on the table the vote stood yeas P, nays 30, and the speaker declared the motion to lie on the table lost. At the close of MT. Smiths argument he called the previous question, that is, the motion of the gentleman from Ma iron to postpone action on the governors message until Monday, which motion pre- vailed by close vote.
 In the debate Mir. O'Brien and MT. Jack son passed some strong words.
 The senate passed the assessment bill, with many amendments. Vote-yeas 20, nays 5. It was referred to the ways and means committee to report Monday.
 House bill 1140-To confer chancery ju- risdiction on the circuit courts of fMorgan and Madison counties and the circuit court of Jefferson county, holding at Bessemer, in said county. Passed.
 House bill 271-To amend sections to 21 of an act to create the office of inspector of mines.
 A large number of local house bills were passed.
 MT. O'Brien arose to question of per sonal privilege. He said:
 sMr. Speaker, I was informed on my return last night that my colleague, MT. Montgomery, had made some reply to MT. McCarti n s card, the force of which l did not at the time exactly understand as do now after reading his statement in the as follows:
 s.sThis paper contains the charge that sent word to the friends of the alien rail- road bill in the senate that land my friends they would vote for the court bill, and want to denounce this accusation h the presence of this assembly as abso- iutely false.' He said further: The allegation that MT. O'Brien charged upon the floor of this house that was in- strumentaI in passing that bill through any agreement with members of the senate is absolutely false. He made no such charge, as the gentlemen of this house know. And the charge that he came to me and said, ssI mean you, MT. Montgom- cry, is absolutely false. HeIsaid nothing of the kind.'
 asHe concluded by saying: ssI am per- sonally responsible for everything say, as l 10 the charges that the legislature acted disgracefully in nominating me am will ing to leave that to the opinion of this house.u He referred to the charges against the white haired senator from Jeff ferson and denounced them. He said that the mayor of Birmingham and one of the aldermen had written their cousent and approval of the passage of the inferior court bill.'
 ssMr. Speaker. l regret exceedingly my Iuko llnof al uI,uar ractc 1,fr at the hour of adjournment this afternoon tc be present tonight ,as had something to say which wished him to hear, and had no desire to take advantage of his absence as he did of mine yesterday. My colleague de- nies that, he sent word to the friends of the allan railroad hill in tta sanafa that he and