The age-herald., 1901-08-27
ID PROVIDE FUR
 REGISTRATION Cities of Over 5000 Cannot Now Vote on Constitution HARMONY COMMITTEE ACTS Will Have Ordinance introduced En- ablins Special ResistratIon-cap-
 tain White Favors Liquor
 Tax for Schools.
HARMONY COMMITTEE ACTS

It seems that under the present law, people in cities of 5000 inhabitants and upwards cannot vote for the adoption of the new constitution. This fact was brought out in an interview yesterday with Captain Frank s. White, chairman of the committee on order, consistency and harmony of the constitution. He was asked if any changes had been made in the constitution by his committee.
 ''We have made no material changes In the articles of the constitution as they came to our committee" he replied. We have inserted several provisions to meet the changes made by having four year, terms of office instead of two, and having quadrennial sessions of the Legislature instead of biennial. This Is simply what we expected to do and might be called .harmonizing'.
 To Provide for Registration.
 While our committee made no material changes we have recommended several or dinances to the convention which we think are necessary. One of these Is to provide for the registration of voters in cities of five thousand inhabitants and over. Under the law as 1t now stands this class of our citizens could not vote on the adoption of the constitution, ai- though the people in the country could. Our present law requires a special regis tration In cities of this size for each elec- tion. This registration begins in May and unless a special registration law is passed these citizens will not be able to vote at the special election in October.
 Another ordinance, the adoption of which we have recommended, is to give the Legislature power to alter or repeal such ordinances as have been adopted by the convention, but which are not intend- ed to go in the constitution. I mean by this ordinances such as providing for new courthouses in certain counties and fixing their location. The Legislature Site. and we did not want these ordin- ances to be like the laws of the Medes and Persians. incapable of change.
 Another section that we will recom- mend Is to provide that foreign corpora tions doing business in this State may be subject to suit here even when the cause of action arose outside of the State. For instance a man might buy a ticket from to Nashville and made a contract here for safe carriage between these points. Should he be injured be- yond the Alabama line he would have to go to Tennessee, as the law now Is, to sue the company, although he Is a citizen of Alabama, the company Is doing busi- ness here and the contract was made here. Our report is now in the hands of the printers and will be ready by next Wednesday,"
 Mobile School Plan.
 What about putting Birmingham on the same footing as Mobile as to schools?' he was asked. "I believe you favored that proposition?"
 q did," replied Captain White, "al- though I seemed at the time about the only one in the convention that did so. I believe that all counties in the State should be on the same footing, and that there should not be any class legislation or favoritism.I first tried to repeal this special exception in favor of Mobile. saw no reason why 1t should continue, and asked if there was a reason, that 1t be pointed out. The best reason given was by Tom Long, who said he favored cause the water which fell off of his roof in Walker County flowed down to Mobile.
 Mobile is the richest county in the State. It retained last year about s40000 as the proceeds from its liquor licenses. This it applied to its schools and drew out from the general state school fund about s19.O00 which was It's pro rata. Other cities paid their liquor licenses into the state treasury. Mobile, however. got just as much money from the State as if she had done this. This year she will draw put. understand, about $25,oOo."
 May Not Be Practicable.
 H. c. Selheimer, one of Jeffersons dele gates to the convention, and also 0 mem Der of the committee on harmony, was seen and asked as to his position on the school question.
 "I would favor putting Jefferson County on the same footing as Mobile County" he replied. If thought 1t was practi- cable. I do not think it can be done, however. and would not favor tearing down or injuring Mobiles school system when the other counties in the State could not be benefited thereby.''
 EX-GOVERNOR WILL
 NOT COMMIT HIMSEI F