The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-12

upsu me, which | think is abseintsiy ae yinwafranted as 1t 70 un5ust, ana am surprised that . GenriemAn cf his h,gh efarscter wouId do it under any circumstances. stated to nim sx- pressly mat 1t was not the purpose of the Committee to attack any law that new exists by which the city of Mobile used It's liQuor licenses for the pupiic scnools. but that they had made combination to strike out certain section, That IS true and every gentle ,nan knows IL to be true. aid not say that he was party to the oomoina- ton, but the vote of every memoor from that district. indicated that such e combination had been made. l saw some gentlemen going around raiiying the forces from that section and warn ing them to vote against the supoivis- ion and there was solid vote against the provision.
 MT. smith (Mobile)-Pe me 10 ask the gentleman a question.
 The President-poes the gentleman from Lauderdale yield?
 MT. O'Eeal-Yes. sir.
 Mir. Smith (Mobile)-Did the gentia- man not say in substance that the gen tleman from Mobile was masking pc hind-at any rate engaged In pre-.
  getting money that belonged to the State. for the schools of Mobile?
 MT O'Neal-No, sir. l said certain gentlemen had impugned the motives of the Committee. That while we d,d not impugn the motives of any ger tleman that If we were inclined 10 Loi low their tactics. we might be Justi1ieo in saying that behind the great morsn reform some of them were attempting to grant corporations privileges that they ought not to enjoy. 1 said thst we could. with as much force, say they were doing that. as they could say that we were concealing maske battery which would operate against the dispensary.
 have no disposition to dictate to this Convention. or to compel them 10 follow any judgment of mine. l an simply a delegate, representing the peonle of Alabama, doing my duty ss l understand 1t. and under the circum stances do not think should be the subject of such caustic remarks. l do not think this is forum in which sucn remarks should be made; and l think it IS beneath the dignity of a pody CT this kind to indulge in such unpariia- mentary conduct. 1 desire to say, II the gentleman from Mobile does Ques- ton my motives being as high as his II. beyond the bounds of proper debatc and his imputations I do recent. In na- king such imputations l desire to say he must have known they could not De sustained by the facts. but were absc- lutely and wholly without any founda- tion or basis.
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-I rise to a question of personal privilege. The gentleman from Laudersale has stated -11A1n nf O ed solidly to strike out Section IA.
 Mir. O'Neal (Lauderdale)-That was my information.
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-I do Nit want to go on record as voting against section IA. I voted for 1t and not against it; and l am from the first dis trict.
 Mr. Cunningham Uefferson)-1 wish to say but very little upon the pending question. As have perhaps been one of the humble instruments of stirring up this agitation. 1 feel that l owe 1t to myself and gentlemen who think as l do on the floor, to submit a few scat tering remarks. l shall not approach the subject as lawyer, for have no technical knowledge, nor as Jurlst, for l know nothing of the decisions ot the Courts. but as an humble citizen. and one who understands plain United
 
 that I have any purpose to interpret the motives of the Committee. That was not a question for which this Con vention was responsible. The real thing at issue was what did the report contain, and what did 1t do. That was the question, regardless of the motive
 Now I undertake to say. MT. Presi- dent, that the Committee has brought in a very able report. So far as local etaf t<yA iC nnn the entire field. About thirty-five spe- cific subjects they have shot at with a rifle and rung the bell every time After they got through with that, they have shot at the balance with a sho' gun, and then they have turned loose a blunderbuss. and finally, With the fourth section. covered the whole thing down with a blanket.
 It reminds me of friend of mine who had a horse that would not stay hitched. It took three saplings. a dou' ble halter. a plank. some nails. and blanket to hold him. The manner h which he hitched him was this. Ht took one rein and tied 1t to a saplinl pn the right, and the other rein to C sapling on the left; he tied his tall tt the sapling in the rear. and nailed hli hoofs to the plank on the ground, ant after he got through with that he GOV
 
 that down to the ground, and tha horse never got away.
 Now, there is no question with tn adoption of the thirty-five subdivis ions, and with section four of this ar ticle. that they have practically exclud Ed all questions of local Legislation with the possible exception of game Now. Mir. President. I hope that thI! motion to reconsider will prevail. believe that if we knock out the sectio; which is now proposed to be reconsio. cred. aud section four of this article we would have a most excellent ArticI' upon the question of local legislation One in which there Is sufficient elastic ity to cover all the grounds, and al the issues that may possibly arise. II this connection. gentlemen, l desire tt read to you a part of a section Itha has already been adopted in the' bill of rights and 1t is this: That th Judicial shall never exercise the legiU lative and executive powers, or eithe of them. to the end that 1t may be government of laws. and not of men,"
 With the limited experience that have had in the legislature. l knor that the purpose of the Committee ol the judiciary, Is to pass upon the con stitutiopality of questions. Now, in stead of this Committee passing upoI this question. 1t is to be left to tn