The age-herald., 1901-06-09
He Thinks t is Time to Dis- card the OId Motto,
 ''HGre We Rest TOOMANY LEAVES OF ABSENCE  Delegate Gives Notice That He Will Object Hereafter-The Commit tees Will Begin Reporting To-
 morrow and Debate.
BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.

BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.
 Montgomery, June S-(Special )-Colonel Sanford of Montgomery is not satisfied with the present state seal, but he is not meeting with much encouragement in his efforts to get a new one.
 The other day he introduced a resolution to provide for committee of nine to de- sign new seal. A newspaper reported the colonel as wanting great State steal Instead of a great State seal. Then the committee on rules to whom his resolu- tion was referred returned 1t to the con venton without any recommendation. The colonel then moved that the rules be sus- pended and his resolution put on its pass age, but the convention voted this down. The present State seal bears the motto: 'IIere we resi- but there was no resting for Colonel Sanford. and the convention having refused to appoint a committee to design new seal the colonel proceeded to design one himself. Today he offered resolution that the great seal of the State should be a design showing a general on horseback with girl mounted behind him. her arm pointing oyer his shoulder and the motto. ''I will show you the way" A ripple of laughter passed over the con- yention as this resolution was read.
 Colonel Sanfords purpose, however. was to commemorate very pretty and TO- mantle incident of the late war. Not the lat ,st war. by the way, for the Spanish Amtri affair was hardly more than a slxirfnish but the late war, which Ta--t grim and tragic enough to suit the most exacting war crank.
 The story runs that General Forrest. Nf 46A Gadsden came to Black creek, which was so swollen by recent rains that no one rould find the ford. The general rode to nearby house in search of guide, but there was no one there but young girl named Emma Samson, about 16 years old. The general explained the object of his visit, and the young girl, exclaiming 1T Will show you the way, mounted behind him and directed him to the ford, which his command passed over under the 'hre of the enemy. It is certainly a pretty story Illustrating the devotion of the southern women to the southern cause, and if the convention sees fit to adopt new State seal 1t Is doubtful if this de- sign could be improved on. Many COIL slider the present State motto as .inappro- priate to growing and progressive state, but state seals and notices, ike oao iabits, are hard to change
 I,The call of the ron for the purpose or introducing ordinances was. completed to- day in less than an hour and only dozen ordinances and resolutions were in troduced. Among them was one py MT. CsNeiIl of Jefferson to regulate taxation ana the charge for business licenses.
 Leaves of absence are so numerous that Mir Malone of. Henry gave notice that after next Monday objection would De made to further leaves. Leaves or absence are usually granted a a matter or course. As soon as the roll is first called to as- carfain the presence of quorum the y,ernbers begin to spring to their feet to ask leaves of absence. They resemble school boys asking for holiday. Ino rra.,dent' has a set formula which he ,sos .T T,eave of absence" he says, lis astad for MT of -. Unless there is ohiection leave will be granted Here toforc no one has interposed any op9ec- t,on but now MT. Malone has given notice that he ''is gwine to nust up lhis nr,etice so to speak, and thus the gooo sia Have of full pay and no work seem to be at m. end.
 Next week the pot will begin to boil ana the convention begin the serious business of constitution making. Heretolore .ie sdeIeeates have been chunidng various ln- cradients into the pot in the shape Of or Enhances of all sorts and kinds. but the convention must now turn COOK anu evolve from this mixture a good, whole some constitutional broth which can be fed to tho people of Alabama for many vears to come This convention. too. rronnises fo be an exception to the old sdage that too many cooks spoil the broth.
 Convention Opens.
 The fifteenth days session of the Con- stitutional Convention was called to order bv President Knox at 10 o'cock. A pray or was offered by Rev. MT. Howell
 Roll call showed 1N members present. The committee on journal reported it was correct and the report was adopted.
 The convention then adopted a motion that when 1t adjourned today it adjourn until 12 o'clock Monday.
 The committee on suffrage asked leave 10 sit during the day. This was granted. A number of leaves of absence were ask ed for and granted These became so numerous that MT. Fletcher of Madison finally moved that no further leaves be granted.
 The roll was then callded for the pur- pose of enabling delegates to introduce ordinances.
 MT. Pettus of Limestone offered a reso- lution to provide for reading the consti- &ution tax limit.
 MT. Blackwell of Morgan then arose to correct an error in the stenographic re- port as to his suffrage ordinance.
 Mr. Burns of Dallas offered resolution to save expenses in publishing ordinances, by not printing the explanatory notes.
 Also, to make uniform throughout the State the fees of constables and deputies in cases of arrest. It fixes $2.50 the amount whether the defendant is dis charged or bound over.
 Mir. Case of DeKalb offered an ordinance to amend section 4s so as to provide that poor parents who have children able to support them, shall be entitled to such support and the Legislature to pass ap- propriate laws to carry this into effect.
 Mr. Glover of Choctaw offered a resolu- tion to authorize the Legislature at any time to reconstruct the judiciary of the State.
 Also an ordinance to abolish the right