The age-herald., 1901-06-23
THIRTY THOUSAND SPECTATORS
 SAW ROBERT WADDELL WIN THE
 AMERICAN DERBY AT CHICAGO

seven members present.
 MT Burns of Dallas introduced reso- lution to allow members to wear shirt waists at the afternoon sessions of the convention. The president ruled the reso- lution out of order.
 MT. DeGraffenreid then moved to lay on the table MT. Beddow's substitute for section 26, which was done
 Governor Jones then moved to lay on the table section 26 as reported by ms committee, stating the committee, finding it unsatisfactory were willing to abandon it.
 Section Twenty-seven.
 Section 27, which authorized the states money being loaned was then taken up. MT. Handley offered q substitute which prevented the loaning of the states money. He was opposed to the state go- ing into the Joan business or any other business, citing the past experience of the state in the banking and railroad busi- ness. Major Handley gave the convent ton a good horse sense speech and was roundly applauded when he got through.
 General Sanford also spoke against the section as reported, saying 1t was class legislation inasmuch as only holders of state bonds and United States bonds for collateral could borrow the money.
 A minority report of the committee was made, WHICH tilsil ScSlAoh 2 be stricken out and do not pass.
 Governor Jones of the committee said the proposition was a plain business one, and simply meant whether a trustee who had a large amount of money on hand should not lend 1t out if he could do so safely.
 MT. Pierce of Marion offered a substitute so as to lend the money on crop liens and farm products as security. This caused much amusement.
 Governor Jones then moved to table the section as reported and all amendments, which was done.
 Section Twenty-eight.
 Section 2S was then adopted as follows:
 Sec. 2S The State Treasurer, State Au- ditor, Attorney General, Secretary of State and the Commissioner of Agricul- ture and Industries shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by law. The State Treasurer and State Auditor shall every year, at a time the General Assem- bly may fix, make a full and complete re- port to the Governor, showing the re- ceipts and disbursements of revenues of every character, and all claims audited and paid out by items, and all taxes and revenues collected and paid into the treasury and from what sources, and they shall make reports oftener upon any mat
  by the Governor or General Assembly.
 Section Twenty-nine.
 Section % was then adopted, which reads as follows:
 Sec. % The State Auditor, State Treas urer, Attorney General, Secretary of State and Commissioner of Agriculture and In dustries shall not receive to their use any fees, costs, perquisites of office or other compensation than their salaries as pre- scribed by law, and all fees that may be payable for any services performed through such officers shall be at once paid into the State treasury.
 Section Thirty.
 Section 30 was then taken up, which reads as follows:
 Sec. 90. A sheriff shall be elected in each county by the qualified electors thereof, who shall hold his office for a term of four years unless sooner removed, and shall be ineligible to any office for one year after the expiration Of the term TOT which he was elected. Whenever any prisoner is taken from the jail or from the custody of the sheriff or his deputy, and put to death or suffers grievous bod ily harm owing to the neglect, conniv- ance, cowardice or other grave fault or the sheriff. such sheriff may be fm- peached under section of article or the constitutions: and the Governor, when satisfied, after hearing the sheriff, that he should be impeached, may suspend him from office until the impeachment pro- ceedings are decided
 Debating the Question.
 MT Sanford of Pike moved to amend the section by striking out all of the section which authorized the Governor to suspend sheriff from office when he ob allowing prisoner to be taken from him. MT. Sam ford spoke in favor of his amendment, saving that 1t was made in the interests of local self-government
 MT Espy of Henry favored the sec tion as reported. He said 1t was evident ly made to stop lynchng and he was in favor of anything which prevented lynch ing. The only thing about the section which did not appeal to him was the fact that it did not go far enough. If sheriff was removed from his office everytime a prisoner was lynched, lynching in Ala bama would cease.
 Mir. Fitts of the committee spoke In fa- yor of the section. He said Alabama. which was going to disfranchise the ne- gro, should at the same time protect his life while under arrest and give him A fair trial If their political rights were changed their legal rights should be pro- tected.
 MT. DeGraffenried of Hale said that each sheriff was an arm of the Cover nor, representing the executive in each county, and as this convention had made 1t the duty of the Governor to enforce the laws it should give him the power to remove a sheriff for such offenses.
 MT. Jenkins of Wilcox said there was not A sheriff in Alabama who was cast in such heroic mold as to lose his life in defending a prisoner, where he thought 1t would be useless. That there were some crimes so heinous that no sheriff could protect his prisoner.
 MT Solle of Dale said he approved the spirit which prompted the section, but that he did not approve the section as 1t was self-executing and did not leave it to the Legislature to determine what bearing the sheriff should have before being removed.
 Governor Jones Speaks.
 Governor Jones in speaking in favor of the section, said that in the last ten years l2o citizens of Alabama had been taken bv mobs from sheriffs and put to death two-thirds of whom were not guilty of the crime of assault What policeman would be allowed to wear his uniform five minutes" he asked. ''who refused to make an arrest. Who would have any respect for the Alabama National Guard if they allowed a prisoner to be taken from them by a mob. Two-thirds of the by mobs," he said, was due to the fact that the sheriffs realized they | might have to lose their lives in defense | of some worthless prisoner" Continuing | he said that no officer of the law or mem Der of the grand jury in county ever one else in the county knew. He cited xxynr farsiz