The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-11
SUFFRAGE IS DEFERRED Article Will Not Be Made
 Special Order. LEGISLATION RESTRICTED Forty-first Day of the Consti- tutional Convention.
 -< Subject of Local Legislation Will Be Completed Today and Banks
 and Banking Will Be ... Taken Up.
LEGISLATION RESTRICTED

On it's forty-frst working day. the Constitutional Convention nearly com pleted the Article on Local Legislation and indicated positively its disposition to refuse to consider the Suffrage Ar ticle until disposition is made of all other matters.
 All of the sub- divisions of Section l of the Article on Local Legislation, which specify subjects upon which the Legislature shall not pass local laws. were completed yesterday afternoon and Sections and of the Article were adopted. There are but three more sections of this Article. and they will undoubtedly be acted upon today. Then the Convention will take up the Article on Banks and Banking.
 There was an interesting discussion yesterday afternoon of the privilege of liquor license for schools allowed Mo bile and Eufaula, and the friends @of. these two cities won by having the subdivision which prohibited the Gem eral Assembly from passing laws on this subject struck out from the re- port. It is probable the Convention will abolish a majority of the committee clerkships, as the principal work or the committees has been completed. A resolution was presented yesterday by Mir. deGraffenreid of Hale that after this week the services of all clerks ex- cept those serving the Committees on Rllles and Consistency of the Const1- tuition be dispensed with. The resolu- tion was referred to the Committee on Rules, of which Mir. deGranenreid Is a member.
 The Convention Proceedings.
 The Convention assembled at s:Se o'clock yesterday morning and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. DIX: The roll call showed the presence or 122 delegates. Mir. Williams of Emore moved to re- consider the vote by which Sub division i4 of Section of the Article on Local Legislation was stricken out Tuesday. This subdivision provided that the General Assembly should not pass any act granting exclusive or special prlVl- leges or franchises whatever.
 Mir O'Neal of Lauderdale. Chairman of the Committee, favored reconsidera- ton. He said it had been stricken out under the misapprehension that IL sought to interfere with special school privileges to the city of Mobile. MT. O'Neal said that his committee was willing to amend the subdivision so as to meet these objections. MT. Boone of Mobile led the hght against reconsideration. He thought this power should be left to the Legis- Iature, and he had favored striking mt the subdivision. He moved the previous question, and the Convention declined to reconsider the vote by which the sub- division was strlcken out, by vote of 59 to H. resolution by Captain Graham of TalIadega, providing for night sessions from 8:3O to 10 o'clock, beginning Mon day was referred to the Rules Com The Rules Committee reported fa- .vorabIy resolutions providing for a Committee on Engrossment ana TOT printing 300 copies of Articles reported by Committees. .A matter of making the Article on Sui fraoe A special order. It was preclpl- +ated hy the Rules Committee report Inc adversely a resolution making the Suffrage Article a special order imme- diately after the consideration or the Article on Local Legislation
 Tudge Coleman said that his commit .ns hsd intended to ask the Conven- t;or to besin the consideration of the ArticIe on Suffrage next Tuesday. He !SoIosore HlIlot1 moved that the Article be made a special order for that day
 C,, n,otion of MT. Pettus of Lime sxona inc motion of Judge Coleman wss tabled by a vote of 65 to 45.
 1ndge Coleman then moved that the outrage article be made the special or der after the reports on the calendar are completed.
 Mfr Watts of Montgomery moved to amend by making 1t speclai orael aSter all other articles are completed.
 Mr Sanders moved to table the mo .Ion of Judge Coleman and 1t was ta- hIed by a vote of 59 to 49
 This indicates that the Convention viIi defer consideration of the suffrage srticIe until the last few days Of 1t: deliberations.
 Proposition for Retrenchhment'
 Mir Burns of Dallas presented a res olution requesting the Committee on Schedule and Printing to estimate tllt daily cost of the Convention and tc , make recommendations for retrench- nent.
 Mir Kirk of Colbert sent up peti- ton from the City Council of Sheffield protesting against the Limitation Lpor the power of municipalities to contract indebtedness.
 MT. Kirk introduced a resolution eX- cluding Sheffield and Tuscrmbia from the operation of the section heretofore adopted
 The Article on Local Legislation was the order of business and the Co1"su ton took up Subdivision 19 of Sectior 1. which was under consideration vyhcT the body adjourned Tuesday evening.
 The subdivision prohibits the LesIs lature from passing any act authoriz ing townships, cities or villages 10 IS sue bonds
 amendment by Mir. O'Neal provid ing that the Legislature may pass suci acts after the people affected hay voted upon 1t. was adopted and Il amended subdivision was then adopted
 Subdivision 20. which prohibits thu Legislature from passing an ac