The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-16

shape the Committee on Harmony can take this and all other matters out of the body of the Constitution and in- corporate it in the schedule as separ- ate ordinances. and that Is the way 1t is done in the constitutions of most of the States.
 Now, in answer to the gentleman from Tuscaloosa (Mr. Fitts) as to whether this is an innovation in a Constitutional Convention, l have yet to find Constitutional Convention that has not enacted some local meas ure. Even the Constitutional Conven- ton of 1875. although called by an act of the legislature expressly saying it should not pass separate ordinances, did pass separate ordinances, and, % get around that provision, they incor- porated them in the Constitution.
 MT. President. here Is the celebrated Shelby Court House bill, and I say, with all due respect that no man who differs with the majority. no intelh- gent man, can look at the bill with the ear-marks of fraud on it and read the testimony of MT. Dean himself and not come to the conclusion that this thing was passed in a most damnably fraud ulent manner. He came out in the newspapers and said in answer to a suggestion from MT. Striplin, that the cover must have been changed, that this cover was on it when the mem bers of the Committee signed 1t. His attention was then called to the fact that the tape and the brads were cut through the names of the Committee signing it and he got sick and 1t took week for him to get we'll enough to come back and explain it, and the way he explained it was that this cover was once the cover to the Calera Land bill. and he took it off and pasted 1t on this before it was introduced. Talk about testimony, Mir. Striplin came here and without having seen the Land Limit bill of Calera. when he took that bill up he said this was not the bill that was in that blank cover when l re- ported 1t. I am not certain but my recollection IS it was little bill about Calera land limits.
 I asked the Secretary of State to go down to his office and get me the land limit bill and when he brought that Calera land limit bill, there were the tell-tale evidences of fraud. The pin holes in that Calera Land Limit Bill are identical with the pin holes in the cover that is on this bill removing the county seat. The seven members whose names are signed on the book say they never signed such a bill. One of them says "I recollect, the bill l
  admits that he and Albert Wilson went and got MT. Martin to draw this bill and he says he immediately got the bill back to go and show 1t to MT. Ol- iver and he kept 1t until he himself handed it to the Committee and got a favorable report. Then he says he went and got it again. What for?" "To show 1t to MT. Oliver" He says as a reason why 1t never got in print that ho axaI kA l1t1I was introduced and kept it until 1t was passed. MT. Brown of the Brown Printing Company, swore that Albert Wilson came with MT. Dean down to his establishment at the last of the ses- sion and Mir. Dean put this bill on the Calendar and came afterwards and took it off the Calendar. so that it nev- CT appeared on the Calendar.
 MT. Long (Walker)--May interrupt the gentleman with a question?
 MT. Browne-Yes.
 Mir. Long Cwalker)-Is 1t not a fact that this same man Brown afterwards took that back and said 1t was Sena- tor Oliver. instead of Mr. Dean?
 MT. Browne-Yes. MT. Brown said he was not certain it was MT. Dean but that 1t was a stout man. But he did know Albert Wilson the man who owns the Calera Land Improvement Company. and Albert Wilson, was sitting right there, and never took the st9nd to deny what was said. They did afterwards go to MT. Brown and Mir. Brown wrote this let ter:
 Montgomery, Ala, June 14, 1901.
 "Mr Dean-Havng seen MT. Oliver and after talking with him in regard to Shelby Court House bill, think it must have been himself (Mr. Oliver) instead of you coming to the office in regard to Calendar.
 That makes no difference. He doesn't take a word back of what he says which shows the fraud. I don't care where you saddle that damnable fraud. MT. Dean admitted in his tes- timony that he had told MT. Oliver to pass this bill and that he did not propose to let the people of Shelby County know anything about 1t.
 Mir. Long (Walker)-May I ask the gentleman question?
 MT. Browne-I beg pardon, but I only have two or three minutes and I decline to be interrupted
 Mr. Dean undertook to explain as to the cover. Here is a very carefully drawn cover and he said he did not want the bill to go without good cover. But how is this cover on another bill which was offered by MT. Dean? Why 1t Is so thin you can read 1t from one side as well as from the other. It Is drawn up by MT. Dean in his own handwriting and the title is on the back. It Is all right to introduce this bill without any cover, but this county seat bul he had to put another cover on. Here is the absolute badge of fraud. There is the land limit bill and the pin holes and the folds of the pa- per of that bill are identical with this cover now on the county seat bill and Mr. Dean admits that that bill was once in this cover. When this bill was brought from the Secretary of States office. no one thought it was more than one bill, but seeing some writing through 1t I pulled this part down and there IS the land bill underneath. Two of these bills, identically the same. were introduced and Mir Dean admit ted when this Court House bill was introduced he went and got it, All that the Clerk has in the way of a memorandum is the number, they call 1t jimmy, 1887. Then MT. Dean kept it until he says he got favora ble re- port on it. All he had to d was to say want to keep this bill 1887. you keep the title of it, and the Clerk would do 1t, and then he had the wran- per taken off of this bill and put the Court House bill in it So as to make the Journal show that the bill had passed.
 MT. Martin has filed a brief in which he states that the two clerks said that they had q distiuct |.