The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-12


 its moral influence, might have saved serious strikes and serious harm to the community. I will only add that In numbers of States there are statutory provisions providing for such Boards, not only in the State, but in every county in the State: and in some in- stances the courts themselves are armed with powers in this regard. It las been asked by a good many, why l not make the award compulsory? MT. | President, 1t is utterly impracticable. | Suppose there is dispute between an | employer and 500 of his employees who work for wages. How are you going | to enforce it If you decide against the
 wage-earner. except by putting him in jail? That would not GO And then, on the other hand. if the Board were | to determine thervalue of the property
 of the employer, and the value of the
 use of his skill in the business and say | that he should conduct his business
 on such terms as that, and have power | to force him to do 1t. the man would become really a State tenant of his | own property. These were the reasSns | why the Committee made the Boards | finding advisory merely. I may state | in that connection that confining the | Board to that sphere seems to be- in | acordance with the best thought of | the highest officers of the American | Federation of Labor on the one hand,
 and many persons who are denomi- | mated capitalists on the other. Now, l there is only one other change-no two
 changes-to which I desire to allude- MT. Weatherly-Before the gentle | man passes from that would the gen. | tleman permit a question?
 l The PrpsidpOt-DoaS gentleman n
 from Montgomery. permit a question. MT. Jones-Certainly.
 MT. Weatherly-Did your Committee have the statute of any State on l which ttis provision were founded or after which it was copied.
 MT Jones-It is not copied from any particular law or any particular pro- vision. but the most elaborate system
 of Legislation on that subject in Ameri,
 ca the gentleman will find in the laws
 of the State of Pennsylvania, and there
 are also like provisionain the Statutes
 of New York.
 Now, there are only two other provis-
 ions to which I shall refer. One is an
 addition to the Article on Sheriffs
 That provides if a prisoner is taken from jail. or the custody of the Sherin or his Deputy. owing to his cowardice,
 neglect CT other grave fault, and put to death that the Sheriff may be inn peached before the Supreme Court Of Alabama. and that the Governor may in his discretion. suspend him pending trial. The Committee believed that 1t was the duty of this Convention to
 put sentiments in the organic law that
 would teach us for all time, not only
 those of us who are now living, but those who are to come after us, that when a man is in the hands of the law the law alone should deal with him. anu if officers placed in charge of the lives of prisoners, who are rendered helpless at the behests of the law, fail to live up to the standards of duty which ought to actuate every man
 who is another's keeper. that the peo-
 pie using this great power of im-
 peachment which was meant to reach
 offenders who were so high that they
 could not be properly dealt with in the smaller courts or other tribunals, to bring them before the bar of justice and arraign them. The Committee be- lieves and hopes that the manifest req
 sons which actuated them in reporting
 that part of the article will find a
 hearty approval on the floor of this
 Convention. and I will therefore pass
 on to the other and last material
 change.
 There is a section which provides
 that in event there is surplus at any time in the Treasury, not needed for the immediate wants of government,
 that the Governor and Treasurer. or the Governor and Auditor, may lend | 1t out on call, or for such time as they deem advisable, on collateral of State
 or United States bonds. after giving
 one weeks published notice, and shall
 then loan it to the highest bidder. That is the original report of the Con- | mittee with the amendment offered
 yesterday as to the best bidder. will say in behalf of the Committee only
 one word as to that. If you once ad-
 init the proposition that the money in
 the Treasury ought ever. under any
 circumstances, leave it, except in pay
 ment of the debts of the State. tken
 this provision is wise. safe and Tn all respects commendable. It seemed to
 us therefore. MT. President that the
 only legitimate and fair objection
 which could be urged to he section
 would be that 1t was improper, under any circumstances. for the public moneys to leave the vaults of the
 State. We all know that the State,
 very much like farmer, makes crops
 by the year. It raises its taxes by the
 year. and it must have on hand at one time in the year sufficient money to
  in a large surplus at times. Now, what is to be done with that money? Any prudent trustee. if he had a mil-
 lion dollars in his hands for which he
 had not immediate use that he could
 safely loan out. would say it is my
 duty, if can do it safely. to get some thing for this trust estate. and not let
 this money lie idle in the Treasury.
 That is the principle upon which that
 ordinance was offered. There has been,
 and perhaps is now. a sentiment that d
 large amount of money. sometimes a
 million dollars. under exceptional cir cumstances. should not be hoarded in vault. when the people need 1t in circulation, and some propose to de-
 posit it in bank by taking security for it's return; but the answer to that. it seemed to us. was that if this money must go out of the vaults at all, and anybody was to get the interest on it.
 that it should be the State. and not the Repositories where it might be left upon proper security, and who would loan it out and get the interest.
 Those. Mir President. are in the main the views which actuated the majority of the Committee on the matters re-
 ferred to.
 As the House knows. there is mil
 nority report. Some difference among
 the members of the Committee on some
 Of these amendments, which they Of course will defend and announce at
 the proper time. I now withdraw the
 motion to put this ordinance on it's
 third reading and move that it be con- sidered section by section.