The age-herald., 1901-07-16
NO RECEDlNG FROM
 ACTION OF DELEGATES
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 house bill for the delegates to see, and said the evidence showed 1t had been passed in a damnably fraudulent manner. He referred to the tell-tale pin holes in the cover of the courthouse bill which tallied with pin holes in the body of the Calera land limit bill. He spoke of the bill being kept off of the calendar and stated the testimony of MT. Brown, who had the contract for printing the calen- dars. MT. Brown had said that MT. Oli- yer and MT. Deans came to his office and had this bill kept off the calendar. MT. Browne continued by exhibiting two iden- tical Calera land limit bills which had been introduced in the Legislature and referred to two committees. but which were afterwards pasted together. He showed how, by holding the bill to the light, the bill underneath could be read. He moved to lay upon the table tho mil norsty report.
 Mr., Wilson of Washington rose to question of personal privilege. He wanted to reply to MT. Browne. who had said that Mir Albert Wilson, his brother, had had some connection with the matter. The chair ruled that this was not ques- ton of personal privilege.
 Retalners Offered President.
 An aye and nay vote was demanded on this motion to table. President Knox, whose name Is always called first, said he had been offered retainers on both sides of this question and did not feel authorized in voting. The roll call proceeded. Cap tain White of Jefferson when his name was reached said he also had been offered fee from one side of this controversy and that he would like to be excused from voting. The motion to table was adopted by vote of "A to 29.
 Mr. Whiteside of Calhoun then offered an amendment to section to strike out the words ''two-thirds." This section re- Quired a two- thirds vote of the electors to remove county site. A motion to table this amendment was adopted by a vote of 49 to 38.
 MT Pearce of Marion offered an amend ment to strike out the words two-thirds and insert the word majority.
 The hour of adjournment here arrived and the convention adjourned until 3:30 o'clock.
 Afternoon Session.
 The convention met at 3:S0 o'clock with s1 members present. MT. Pearce of Marion resumed his remarks in favor of his amendment to require only majority vote to change a county site instead of two-thirds vote as reported by the com
 
 was required there would be no more re- movals. The majority rule was one of the great principles of the Democratic party, it was because this majority vote was not made applicable to Shelby county that caused all the trouble there. He moved the previous question on his amendment, but withdrew 1t to allow MT. Waddell to speak.
 Mr. Waddell said that our government was not founded entirely on the rule of the majority. There were vested county rights which ought not to be uprooted by a mere majority vote.
 A two-thirds vote gives the taxpayers a chance to vote and makes the people feel more secure from unreasonable attempts to move the court house. He demanded the previous question. MT. O'Neal of Lauderdale moved to table the Peace amendment. An aye and nay vote was demanded on this and the convention declined to table the section by vote of 45 to 59.
 The previous question was then de- manded by a vote of 52 to 36 and the sec- tion as amended was adopted.
 The convention then took up the report of the committee on banks and banking This readopted the present article on this subject except that new section was added authorizing an examination by banks by some public officer.
 Section one of this article was adopted as follows:
 Section l. The General Assembly shall not have the power to establish or incor-. porate any bank or banking company or money institution, for the purpose of, issuing bills of credit, or bills payable to order or bearer, except under the condi-. tions prescribed in this constitution.
 Section ? was read as follows:
 Section 3. No bank shall be established otherwise than under a general banking law, nor otherwise than upon a/specie a basis q,
 Governor Oates offeredan amendment to provide that banks may issue bills for circulation equal to the face value of bonds, Federal, State. county or munich pal which are convertahle into specie at their face value. These bonds must first be deposited with the State treasurer.
 .4 Oates Amendment.
 MT. Fletcher, chairman of the commit tee, said he thought there would be one article which would escape the pruning knife, but 1t seemed there wac not He