The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-30

IT pensation be first made therefor: no shall private property be taken fo private use. or for the use of corpora tions other than municipal. withou the consent of the owner: provided however, the legislature may by iav secure to persons or corporations tn, right of way over the lands of othe persons or corporations. and by genera laws provide for and regulate the exer else by persons and corporations of thu right herein reserved: but just com pensation shall in all cases be firs made to the owner: and. provided that the right of eminent domain shal not be so construed as to allow taxa ton or forced subscription for thu benefit of railroads or any other kint of corporations, other than municipal or for the benefit of any individual ol association.
 q. That all navigable waters shal remain forever public highways. free t the citizens of the State and the Unitsf States, without tax. impost or toll and that no tax. toll. import or wharf age shall be demanded or received from the owner of any merchandise or com. modity for the use of the shores or any wharf erected on the shores. or in ol over the waters, of any navigablt stream. unless she same be expressl, authorized by law.
 25. That the citizens have a rigrt in a peaceable manner, to assemble together for the common good, and tc apply to those invested with the powei of government for redress of griev. ances or other purposes, by petition address or remonstrance.
 1G That ritfzay 'nrl,t to bear arms in defense of himself ai q the State.
 27. That no standing army shall be kept up without the consent of the legislature, and. in that case, no ap- propriation fo. its support shall be made for a longer term than one year; and the military shall, in all cases and at all times. be in strict subordination to the civil power.
 2S. That no soldier shall. in time of peace. be quartered in any house. with. out the consent. of the owner, nor. iu time of war. but in manner to be prf s- cribed by law.
 29. That no title of nobility or hered- itary distinction. privilege. honor or emolument, shall ever be granted or conferred in this State; and that n3 office shall be created, the appointment to which. shall be for longer time than during good behavior.
 30. That immigration shall be en. couraged; emigration shall not be pro- hibited. and no citizen shall be exiled.
 31. That temporary absence from the State shall not cause forfeiture of residence once obtained.
 32. That no form of slavery shall exist in this State; and there shall not be any involuntary scryitude otherwise than for the punishment of crime, ot which the party shall have been duly convicted.
 9s. The privilege of suffrage shall he protected by laws regulating elections and prohibiting, under adequate penal ties, all undue influence from power bribery, tumult or other improper con- duct.
 A. Foreigners who are. or who nay hereafter become, bona fide residents of this State, shall enjoy the same rights ir respect to the possession. en- joyment and inheritance of proparty as native born citizens.
 S5 That tine sole object and only legitimate end of government is to pro- tect the citizen in the enjoyment of life. liberty and property. and when the government assumes other func- tions 1t is usurpation and oppression.
 s. That this enumeration of certain rights shall not impair or deny others retained by the people; and. to guard against and encroachments on the rights herein retained, we declare that everything in this declaration of riEhts Is excepted out of tke general powers of government, and shall forever re- main inviolate.
 Mr. WhIte-As stated, in the report the only change made In this article WAS dropping the words "preambie and" and in transferring Section 3e to another article, namely, that on The distribution of powers. which Is 43 in this Constitution. I move the edcp- tion of the article as read.
 Mir. Eyster-In order that Section 4 may conform to the other section. ] move that the word that" be put be- fore the word foreigners"
 Mir. White-I will state that this is precisely like the old Copstituti01' though the Committee have no Jhjec- ton it 1t is the sense of the Con- vention that the word that" ought to be inserted. We think however. ,nt1e Is no necessity or occasion for 1t. It is an exact copy of the old Constitution
 ne dI1SuuHlcHI was IGdu oS -CttJ"S
 Amend Sections 33 and 3i by com menciDg the said sections with the word that"
 MT. Boone-I move to lay the amend ment on the table.
 Upon a vote being taken. the motion to table the amendment prevailed.
 The J'resident-When the gentleman from Jefferson. the chairman of the Committee. called attention to Rule B. -
 MT. White-Will the President please state the rule. have not the rule be-
 The Presidential has reference to the adoption of the Constitution arti- cle by article and section by section The Chair was then under the impress sion that rule reported by the Com mittee on Rules had been adopted amending this rule. Upon investiga- ton. the journal seems to show that i, was laid upon the table. upon the mo- ton of the gentleman from Jefferson.
 MT. White-I move that the rules be suspended and that the article be adop- ted, or that we dispense with the read ing and adoption of the articles section by section.
 The President-Possibly the same point could be reached by taking the rule from the table.
 MT. White-If that will accomplish the same purpose. I move to take that resolution establishing that rule from the table.
 MT. O'Neal Gauderdale)-The obtec- ton to that rule which was laid upon the table was that it provided that this Committee on Order. Consistency and Harmony should report this Con- Stitution by articles as fast as it was completed. and that was objectionable to a great many members, and we would ha,,a to sp,apd that rula if WA fake fl