The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-23

luton De t1iO upon thC taUtCs Mir. Beddow--on that call for the ayes and noes, and I hope there are enough delegates here who win sustain
 the call.
 MT. deGraffenreid--I want to say. Mir. President, that if the gentlemen from
 Birmingham desires to make any fur
 ther remarks upon the subject. will
 withdraw the motion for that purpose,
 but for that purpose alone.
 Mir. Ferguson-I also desire to say a
 word on that proposition.
 The President-The question is, is the call for the ayes and noes sustained?
 The call was not sustained.
 The President--The question Is on the motion of the gentleman from Hale to lay upon the table the substitute off, fered by the gentleman from Jefferson.
 The motion to table was carried upon viva voce vote.
 The President-The question recurs upon the original Section as reported by the Committee.
 MT. oNeal-I have an amendment to offer.
 Mir. Jones (Montgomery)-I had the floor, Mr. President. I will state that in drawing this provision, the Commit tee was conforming to what they be- lieved to be the wishes of a large num-
 Der of the employees and of good many employers. We simply wished to have Board, a part of which was consti- tuted in advance, which could offer its good offices. We learned afterwards that there was considerable objection on the part of the employers of labor, who thought that the publicity might not be agreeable, and some of the la
 boring men themselves did not like the constitution of the Board. and those
 rnfr1 details of all the provisions of the Sec tion. why the Committee Is now will
 ling, and I move in their behalf, to
 lay the Section as reported by the Committee on the table
 Upon a vote being taken the motion
 to table was carried.
 lMr. Browne-I desire to offer an amendment to the report of the Com mittee on the Executive Department. The President-To what section! MT. Browne-It will be Section 26 as
 proposed. to be inserted for section 70: Mir. Robinson-I rise to a point or
 order. The President-The gentleman will state the point of order.
 MT. Robinson-There is nothing be- fore the Convention. MT, deGraffenreid-There is no Sec
 ton 26.
 MT. samford-There is nothing be-
 fore the Convention to amend. The
 Section has been laid upon the table, and cannot be amended while 1t Is lay ing on the table.
 The President-It seems to the Chair
 that unless the Section is taken from
 the table
 MT. Browne-I do not propose to amend that Section, but to amend the report. The whole report is before1he
 body, and subject to amendment.
 The President-The whole report IS
 not before the Convention at this time. The question would be confined to the particular Section. It seems to the Chair that unless the gentleman moves
 to take the Section from the taole--- Mir. Browne-I do not desire to amend the Section at all, but it is to inset
 Section.
 The President-The gentleman might add it as a Section to the entire re- port, as an additional Section.
 MT. Browne-Yes, but there would be the same condition after the whole re-
 port is adopted; there would be no Sec
 tion before the House. and there being
 nothing before the body. 1t would be
 out of order. report would come up for consloera- tion. Read the next Section. The Clerk read Section 27, as fcTows: Sec. 2T. The Governor, Auditor ana | Treasurer or the Governor ana eHner | the Auditor or Treasurer, when there are funds in the Treasury not imme- | diateIv needed, may loan out the same
 on call, for such time and at such rate
 of interest as they may oeem aoVis- | able taking as collateral. bonds CT the | United states, or of this state, to | hn l0QnRd. and the interest agreed to De palo | therefor; such loans shall not be made until after one weeks public notice through some paper published at the Capital. and a record of such loans ahall he kept In the office of the Au" ditor. and reported by the Governor to the General Assembly at it's next meet ing. A.. q. The Committed amendment to th Section was then read: Amend py adding after the words as they may deen sdvisable in the third line, the folIowinr words. to the best bidder. The minority report of the committee
 was read, as follows:
 And he further recommends that sec ton 27. (which relates to the loahlhs of money in the State Treasury as
 renorted by said Committee. be stricken out and do not pass. A, Respectfully SuDmltteu, watkins M. Vaughan.
 The President-The question ods on the adoption of the minority rep9E' MT Handley-As l understand it. | there is a majority report, minority repcrt and an amendment. desire to offer a substitute for all of them. The substitute was read as follows: "That if at any time there Is sur | nlus in the State Treasury above the needs of the State Government. eco nomically administered, 1t shall be the duty ot the Governor to report that 1 fact to the General Assembly, and m that event it shall be the duty nt the General Assembly to reduce the rate of taxation allowed by this Constitution in the proportion that such surplus hears to the ordinary expensee of9the State Government. honestly adminis- tered. '. %
 MT, Handley-It pains me very much to disagree with this eoinmittee. and esnecially the distinguished Chairman, but as I understand 1t, this is q propo- sition to go into the loan business ana | to loan out the money belonging to the l the neople of the State. l am unal- terably opposed to the State of Alaba-
 ma going into any business whatever. l She has been in business frequently. eleven years before l was born. sir. | thev went into the banking business. In | 1923 and in 1882 and '36 they established three branch banks, one at Montgnm- cry. one at Mobile and the other at De catlr. and in 1S41 and lS42 they went into liquidation, and today we are l having taxes on three Or four millions