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tween grand and petty larceny Is mar row, technical and shadowy. and that the punishment between the two said offenses is shockingly unequal"
 Referred to the Committee on Judi ciary.
 MT. Smith (Mobile)-I rise to a point of parliamentary inquiry. I would be glad to dispose of this report on the Judiciary, but I do not want to ask an order that will have to be recon sidered before the gentleman's motion for reconsideration can be heard. If a motion to order 1t to be engrossed and ordered to a third reading would not cut off that reconsideration shall be glad to make it.
 The President-It would not cut off the motion to reconsider. but 1t would have to be reconsidered before the oth- CT question can be reconsidered.
 MT. Smith (Mobile)-I make the mo- tion that the Article be engrossed and ordered to a third reading, and chat the motion lie on the tobie until to- morrow, to be taken up after the mo- tion to reconsider is disposed of.
 Upon a vote being taken the motion was carried.
 MT. Jones (Bibb)-I ask that this pe- tition be read.
 Petition was read as follows; The Constitutional Convention, Mont
 gomery, Ala:
 We, the undersigned citizens of the State of Alabama, do hereby offer our protest against the railroad pass evil, and do hereby declare our desire that it be made an unlawful act for either State. county or municipal officials to accept railroad passes from any rail- road company or for any such company to give such passes.
 We further petition the Constitution al Convention now in session in Mont gomery to incorporate in the proposed Constitution some effective. self-opera- tive provision to that end.
 s. E. Shepard, H. R. McCollum. Jo- seph W. Espy. Henry Jackson. W. L.. Mulhard, A. J. Lampkin. W. M. Far quhar, D. J. Moreland and many others. Brierfield, Ala, 1901.
 Mir. Dl, Ike here took the chair.
 Mir. deGraffenreid-Someth like ten days or two weeks ago I introduced two ordinances to repeal two sections that were adopted by this Convention when the article from the Committee on Banks and Banking was under con sideration. In some way, I do not know how. these ordinances went to the Committee on the Legislative De- partment of which Governor Oates is chairman, and that committe has re- ported upon them adversely to this Convention. I wanted to ask that the chairman should order that these reso- lutions be sent to the Committee on Banks and Banking 50 that they can be reported on by that committee.
 The President pro tem.-The Chair so orders.
 MT. Oates-I ask leave to introduce a petition from the citizens of my old home in Henry county and have it read.
 Leave was granted and the petition was read as follows:
 To the Constitutional Convention. Montgomery, Ala:
 We the undersigned citizens of the State of Alabama, do hereby offer our protest against the railroad pass evil, and do hereby declare our desire that 1t be made an unlawful act for either state. county or municipal officials to accept railroad passes from any rail- road company. or for any such com pany to give such passes.
 We further petition the Constitution al Convention now in session in Mont gomery to incorporate in the proposed Constitution some effective self-opera- tive provision to that end.
 E. c. Glover, B. W. Segara. Carl Es- py, W. R. Wood, A. Trawick, John B. Ward, E. c. Porter. W. W. Espy.
 
 Abbeville. Ala. July 23. 1901.
 The President-The special order will be the consideration of resolution No. 194. favorably reported by the Commit. tee on Legislative Department.
 The Clerk read the resolution (bv Mir. Morrissette.)
 Resolved. by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled. that the next General Assembly of Alabama shall fAA cents per ton.
 Resolved further, that the General Assembly at the same time shall pro- vide for the support of the various ag- ricultural schools in this State out of the general fund of the State.
 MT. Pettus-The question having been elaborately discussed when 1t was up in the Convention before. I move the previous question on the passage of the resolution.
 MT. Greer (Calhoun)-I would ask you not to do that. I have a subsu- tute would like to offer.
 MT. Oates-I desire to appeal to my friend from Limestone, and a member of the same committee not to make that motion now. but allow it to be discussed.
 MT. Greer-I hope he will withdraw that motion. l have substitute to of- fer.
 The President-Shall the main ques. tion be now put?
 The main question was voted down.
 Mir. Greer (Calhoun)-I have a substi- tute here I would like to offer
 The Secretary read the substitute as follows:
 Resolved, by the people of Alabama in Convention assembled, that the next Legislature of Alabama shall fix the tax on fertilizer at $1 peA ton. Resolved further that the Legislature at the same time shall provide for the es- tablishment and support of an agri- cultural school in each county in the State where such agricultural school has not been established heretofore and that such school be maintained and supported out of the fNnd raised by said fertilizer tax. -F MT. Greer (Calhoun)-Now.M MT, Pres ident as is well known to you I was very much in favor of a reduction of the tax on fertilizer and if it should be done I want to say I have nor changed my opinion in the least hut as 6 farmer I want to say that if the principal of fifty cents per ton Is right if it Is good, a dollar per ton Is better If the nine agricultural schools now already established in Alabama are good, sixty-six certainly will be more than six times as good, and while wa