The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-13


 is 8 just cause; that if that portion of ot. Clair needs a court house and jail the upper portion of Shelby also needs one. As l stated in my former talk on this matter. the people up in that country. really wanted an opportunity to have q county formed, when they 1 would be enabled to comply with the requirements of this Constitution, and l offered an ordinance here to that et- feet. which was referred to that Com mittee. and that committee passed on it. and unanimously reported it favor- ably. That is not before the Conven- tion yet.
 offered this amendment because the gentleman from St. Clair offered an ordinance and had it reported here fav- formed into a new county, second ! court house and jail. Or course that would destroy the necessity for a new county. 1 say that the people of Shel- by are as badly in need of court house and jail as the people in that portion of St. Clair county. l want to say that on my offering this amend ment to this ordinance to establish a court house as the record will show, on last Saturday. l made a motion to lay the amendment and the ordinance on the table. to be taken therefrom whenever this new county matter was brought before the Convention, so as to leave both of these matters before the Convention. in order to enable them 10 do in justice what they thought ought to be done. Gentlemen were here representing Columbina. and will say that there is no serious op- position coming to this except from the town of Columbina, and the influence that goes out from Columbina. They were here Saturday.
 I made that motion and upon the re- quest of the gentleman from St. Clair. l withdrew 1t to allow him to discuss his ordinance. While he was discussing it gentlemen here, and there were four Of them, represent ing Columbiana. called me back in the lobby and together with MT. Cecil Browne. requested me not to renew that motion. but to let the amendment and the original ordinance and the whole thing go through. They were in favor of it. If I would consent to allow them to make one amendment to my amendment. which I consented to. Mir. Browne of Talledega offered that amendment. By the unanimous consent of this body and my consent, it was adopted. The whole matter went through. the amendment and the ori- ginal ordinance by consent, and will say that 1t amounts to a consent judg- ment in open court. 1 will say that these gentlemen agreed to it. They asked me not to make that motion to lay on the table, but to let the whole matter go through, and that would set tie the new county proposition up in St. Clair and Shelby. l consented to that. They went around and asked their friends to vote for 1t, and told my friends to vote for it, and 1t got 50 votes here. Now these gentlemen are back here from Columbiana Mon day morning, wanting to reconsider this whole matter and tear this whole thing up. They give as grounds for this proposition that two beats over which this court is to be given turis- diction. run a little closer to Colum- biana than they like. That isn't a good valid reason. Those gentlemen live there in Columbiana. They know exactly these beat lins. know all about il. They had the ordinance read I second time and amended it, and then consented to its passage. To show ,ou there are no valid grounds of oh- jeCtion in that matter. would readily consent for that part of it to be cut off, so as nc, to run closer than seven miles to Columbiana, which the new Constitution allows in the provision !n which it says a county line shall run no closer than seven miles to a new county site. so there is nothing in that. I want to say these gentlemen who came down here and consented to this matter. so to speak, in open court. went back to Columbiana, and l have been reliably informed. that they start ed runners out Sunday; that they told people up there that I rushed this thing through without their consent, and without the consent of the peo- pie. and they got great long petition. I haven't seen it. they haven't shown it to me. but delegates upon this floor know that with personal influence of that kind they could get these farmers to sign d petition. It is an easy mat ter to get up a petition, but want to state that on the new county proposi- tion. the people of the upper part Of Shelby county and lower part of St. Clair had three or four mass meetings: that each section appointed three as a committed composed of the best Democrats in that section of the coun- try and among the largest property owners and they came down here to represent that section, and to these gentlemen down here last week from the upper part of Shelby, l submitted that amendment to the ordinance of the gentleman from St. Clair County | They approved 1t and said they WAHt"'l it if they could not get the other; that if they could not get a loaf, they would take a part of the loaf. I say they con sented to it. I will state. further that MT w. B. Browne. who is one of the representatives and leading man In this fight called me in the cloak room. after this matter was passed. and said to me: MT. Beavers, now this matter has gone through and we have con- sented and agreed and I hope we have settled this county site matter. We object to it d little because 1t runs little too close to Columbiana, but we have agreed to it. it is all settled now, and I make the request to you to go into the upper part of Shelby county and tell the people up there that We from Columbiana helped you to get this thing through, and ask them 10 stand by us in future fights on shelby county. showing he fully understood the amendment. knew that it was just and right. and I say that this matter ought, not to be disturbed, because say it amounts to a consent judgment in open court. They agreed to it unanimously They had four men here representing Columbiana; they agreed to it. provided l would consent 10 let them amend 1t in one par ticular which l consented to do. They asked the unanimous consent of his body to allow that amendment and it was given. Then they went .l,e-,.a T ranr1, sTo5 their friends