The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-30

the adoption of the substitute? Mir. Sanford (MontgomeryJ-On that | call for the ayes and noes. II The call was not sustained. II Upon a vote being taken, lne sMb- stitute was adopted. and further vote
 being taken. the rule as amended was
 adopted. z
 The President-The question is sn the adoption of the Al ticle as read.
 Upon vote being taken, the Article
 was adopted.
 Mir. White-I move that as the Ar. ticies are passed by the Convention. they be enrolled by the enrolling clerk. so as to keep up with the work of the Convention.
 Il MT. Carmichael (Colbertl-I ask unanimous consent to introduce a reso- lution along that line.
 MT. Oates-1 did not understand. thought the vote taken just now was on the amendment. I would ike to make a suggestion to the Convention on one on the sections; 1t is a novelty as it is, The President-The Chair submitted the question on the adoption of the Article. There seemed to be no gentle-
 man who had an amendment to the Article.
 Mr.Oates-I do not wish to offer an amendment, but think change ought to be made in Section 34.
 The President-The Chair would state that there were two amendments of- fered, one by the gentleman from Mor- gan. and voted down. and the other res lated simply to the supplying of a word. and that was by unanimous consent.
 MT. Oates-I understand 1t was on another amendment. l want to call the attention of the Convention to Section 34. which is in the same language as in the present Constitution, but, in my | t16On1enf if fn there It reads: Foreigners who are, or who may hereafter become. bona fde residents of this State, shall en- Joy the same rights in respect to the possession. enjoyment and inheritance of property as native born citizens" That is of more consequence than would | occur to most delegates. This is a fa- vor to foreigners, which in many coun- tries. is not granted to our own citi. zens at all. Now, sir, citizen of a. bama. or even of the United States, in other countries cannot inherit real estate unless by virtue of treaty or | some innate provision of a statute there, and many have no such pro- visions. Permit me to give an illus tration to this Convention of its im- portance here. I think 1t wise, prudent and just for our laws to protect even a foreigner in the ownership of his prop- erty: he ought to be protected, but | when you go further than that and ex- tend the right of inheritance to a for e!gner who owes no allegiance to this country at all, but who sees proper to be domiciled here for the time being. 1t is a courtesy of the most ext -aordinarv kind, which you will not find in any | other Constitution in the United States or in any country, and 1t seems to me that this Convention ought not to go that far controversy arose fin this State in 1895, while I was the Chief Executive. An Act was passed by the Legislature in regard to the A. G. s. Road and as to who should become it's officers. and the Act evidently gave | that right to the resident stockholders, while there were many who were on'y 1 temporary residents. under this provis- | lon in the Constitution, and our statute following it. who had the same right oe property in all respects here as our citi- zens-even the native-born citizens. Then 1t was not competent for the Leg islature to change the statutes to af- feet the right of those not citizens here. | though some of tbem were temporary residents here. and it required of. the | Executive veto for that reason. That | Is one of the consequences and other consequences may arise. While I do not offer any amendme ent. think that section ought to be changed, and the language modified so as not to go as far as 1t does.
 i The President-The Chair will state | to the Convention that the Article has l been adopted, and that no motion in reference to this Article would be in | order without motion to reconsider. | MT. Cobb-Mr President
 The President-For what purpose does the gentleman from Macon rise? | MT. Cobb-I want to offer an amend ment.
 The President-The Article has been adopted.
 MT. Cobb-I will move to reconsider. want to strike out line 22 native born citizens" and insert in lieu there of "as may be prescribed by the Leg | islature."
 The President-The question will be upon the motion of the gentleman to reconsider. which will not be in order at this time and will have to go over un- | til tomorrow, unless the gentleman moves to suspend the rules.
 Mir Cobb-Then I move to suspend the rules.
 Upon vote being taken. the motion to suspend the rules was lost.
 MT. Carmichael (Colbert)-I have resolution.
 The Secretary read the resolution as | follows:
 ] Resolved, That the President of this I Convention shall appoint Committee on Enrolment. consisting of five mem- bers, whose duty shall be to appoint an expert penman to enroll the proposed | Constitution. and it shall be the duty of said Committee to superintend said | enrolment"
 | The President-Unless the gentleman | desires to have it considered presently, | 1t will go to the Committee on Rules. l MT. Carmichael-In line with the suggestion made by the Chairman of the Committee and for the purpose of allowing his motion to prevail, I move that the rules be suspended and that the resolution be immediately consid- | cred
 Upon vote being taken. the rules were suspended. and further vote be- ing taken. the resolution was adopted. Mir. White-I move ttat the Articles | as passed by the Convention be enrolled by the Enrolling Clerk hereafter to be selected without waiting for the entire | Constitution to be adopted. 1 MT. Jones (Montgomery)-1 would like to inquire if we are not in danger of doing useless work. You send it to the Enrolling Clerk and it is enrolled, and a little later the Convention makes a change which may require recast- | ing of the whole thing. | MT White-That may be true, but think the waste of that much parch- ment will be inconsiderable compared with keeping the Conventionn in session
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