The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-30
CONVENTIONS
 SEVENTH DAY Many New Ordinances
 Were Submitted. WILL nEE| AT 10 A. M. Listened to 2.ading of Ad-
 dress ts Negroes.
WILL NEEZ AT 10 A. M.
Two Propositions to Take Univer- sity Trustees Out of Politics. Col. W. W. Brandon Ap-
 pointed Reading Clerk.

It is apparent that until some of the ordinances relating to the new Con- stitution are reported favorably from committees. to which they have been referred, there is to be little debate in the Constitutional Convention. The delegates sat in their seats for two hours yesterday and listened to the reading of something over fifty ordi- nances and resolutions. There was no interruptions and very few remarks by the members of the body.
 Under a resolution, reported by the Committee on Rules and adopted by the convention, the body will meet daily at 10 o'clock in the morning and will stand adjourned at 1 o'clock in the afternoon. An effort was made by Governor Jones to amend the resolu- tion so as to permit the convention to adjourn at will but his amendment was defeated. An amendment by MT. Kirk of Colbert extending the hour fixed for adjournment to 2 o'clock was also lost.
 By this action the convention will, until it reaches its busy period, remain in session but three hours of each day. While so many ordinances are being introduced, it is essential for the com mittees to meet daily and some of them have lengthy sessions. In fact for several days the great bulk of the woisk of the convention will be perform ed in committee rooms.
 Col. Brandon Reading Clerk.
 The convention yesterday added an other subordinate official to its clerical force by the adoption of a resolution by MT. Eyster of Morgan, creating the po- sition of Reading Clerk. who shall re- ceive the same compensation as the Assistant Secretary. Immediately af- ter the adoption of the resolution, un- der a suspension of the rules. Col, w. w. Brandon of Tuscaloosa was named by President Knox for the place. Col onel Brandon is Adtutant-General of the National Guard.
 The seventh days session of the con- yention began at Il o'clock yesterday morning and was opened with prayer by Rev. N. L. Anderson of Montgom- cry.
 | Leaves of absence were granted to Messrs. Fitts of Tuscaloosa, Davis of Etowah, Craig of Dallas. Cofer of Gull man, Cornwell of Jefferson, Long of Walker and Thompson of Bibb. Messrs. Fitts and Davis will go to Tuscaloosa ! to attend a meeting of the Board UI Trustees of the State University. MT. Davis Is a member of the Board and MT. Fitts is Land Commissioner. MT. Loag has been called to his home in Jasper on account of illness in his fam fly. He was accompanied by his little son, who Is a page of the convention. When the journal had been reported to be correct by MT. Proctor of Jack 70 kkaa on fha Journal the Secretary began the call of the roll for the introduction of ordi- nances memorials and resolutions. About fifty ordinances were present | ed, and each of them was of more or | less interest.
 Concerning State Colleges. TWO ordinances, presented respective y by MT. Eyster of Morgan, and Mir. Foster of Tuscaloosa. seek to regulate the selection of members of the Board | of Trustees of the two State Univer- | sities Mr. Eyster proposes that there i shall be ten members of the Board of | Trustees of the University at Tusca-
 loosa Three of these trustees are to | be named by the Governor, three by
 the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
 and four by the Alumni Association | His ordinance also provides that the NN- Tuscaloosa unless changed by three | fourths vote of the General Assembly. | The Governor is to be exofficioi Presi- 1 dent and the Superintendent of Educa- tion exofficio a member of the Board. The plan of MT. Foster Is to have a | joint Board of Trustees, consisting o1 seven members. for both institutions one of whom shall be the State Super | intendent of Education, and be ex' | ew.- ~R axA Ia Governor is to appoint two members of the Board the faculty of each in.
 stitution is to name one member and | the Alumni Associations of the insei. 1 tutions are each to name member o1 | the Board. All members of the Boarc l of Trustees are to be confirmed by the l State Senate.
 Female Members of School Board. MT. Bulger of Tallapoosa, seeks by an ordinance to place in the new Con- | stitution a section providing that there | shall be three female members of th( | Board of Trustees of the Girls Indus | trial School at Montevallo. He woult
 also have the school fund apportioneC
 between the races according to thu
 taxes paid by each race. His ordi
 nance also provides that not more thar
 6 per cent. of the school fund shal I | employment of teachers.
 Mir. Ferguson of Jefferson. wants thu
 new Constitution to declare that abil ity to read and write is not a supreme | test of citizenship. He submitted {
 resolution providing that a true test O
 citizenship is the patriotic use of thu
 ballot by those who look to the goOt
 of their country and that it is the pur pose of the Convention to provide {
 suffrage clause to the new Constitution | that VIII be in Accordance with thu
 Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu
 tion of the United Staes.
 Dog Ordinance Causes Fun. | MT. Greer of Calhoun, caused a rip
 pie of laugher by sending forward al
 ordinance providing for tax of $1 .5
 per year on dogs, to be levied in thu | same manner as poll tax and to b'
 devoted to the use of the schools.
 General Oates. who was presiding l with a smile said that as there Wal