The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-31
{ Consent was given.
 The Secretary read the report as

Committed on Harmony ana reIeTreu ( to the Committee on Schedule and Printing from that committee with ia vorable report.
 AN ORDINANCE
 TO appropriate S143.75 for the payment of c. B. Brown and the Alabama ,s Printing Company for serxices per ,.. formed for the State of Alabama Tor
 she use of the Constitutional Con-
 vention.
 ss Section i. Betit ordained by the peo- x,. of Alabama. in Convention assem- 7, hlesi. that there be, and is hereby. ap- :. s,,-orriated out of any money in the State treasury not otherwise appro- < rriafed. the sum of $143.I5, to De paio inc Alabama Printing Company ana k4c. B. Brown for services pertormeo ,o' the State of Alabama TOT use ol 1hiS ! Convention, as foliowS:
 Sec. 2. The State euditor IS nereoy directed to draw his warrant on the state Treasurer in favor of c. k. Brown for the sum of $30 for typeWrit- ing done by him for the Committee on Order. Consistency and Harmony or the whole Constitution, and the said Auditor is also directed to draw his Z warrant on the State Treasurer in Ia vor of the Alabama Printing Company sor inc sum of S11S.75 for printing three hundred copies of the report or salo committee for the use of this ConVen- tion. ,r ,.o o, The President-The report will lie on the table and be printed.
 MT. Coleman (Greene)-I ask unani- nous consent to make report from tba Committee on Suffrage and Elec- tions.
 ..s. Leave was granted.
 MT, President.
 The Committee on Suffrage and Elec- fions directs me to report the foiloWlne provision as substitute for the first sub-diyision of Section 1Sl. They TUT ther direct me to report the remainder of said Section 1S1 without further modification or change.
 Thoe. W. Coleman, Chairman.
 s,hd;vi.;on for the first subdivision of Section tS1.
 First-Those who can read and write any mart of the Constitution of the United States in the English language and who are physically unable to work' and those who can read and write any !. article of the Constitution of the Unit cd States in the English language and have worked or been regularly engaged in some lawful employment, business or occupation, trade or calling for the greater part of the twelve months next preceding the time they offer to regis ter. and those who are unable to read and write, if such inability Is due solely to physical disability; or
 Mir. Coleman-Mr. Chairman, the Committee on Suffrage and Elections met as directed by the motion of the gentleman from Hale and adopted that report. They have considered all the other questions. and came to the unanimous conclusion that all the : questions which have been agitated now have been discussed freely before the Convention, and so far as the com mittee is concerned they are satisfied with the report just as it has been sub- . mitted and adopted by the Conven- ton. and as submitted by the Com mittee on Harmony, with the exception of changing some phraseology of mere words, correcting orthography. So far as the question propounded by ths delegate from Chiffon, l have simply to say that it is impossible to frame Constitution to suit every class Of office holders in Alabama or for every beat and county in this State. The reasons for all these things were given full discussion when this question was before the Convention as whole. While the gentleman cannot see any reason for this provision as applying
 
 of the State where it does apply and beneficially. Any other modification or change would let in a large class of voters in other parts of the State of Alabama whom we think ought not to exercise the suffrage.
 Mir Foster-If a man who owns $500 of personal property be allowed to vote or $500 worth of real property be allowed to vote, isn't 1t right for the man who owns say $250 worth of personal property and $250 worth of real property to be allowed to vote also?
 MT. Coleman-That looks very we'll upon its face. but personal property is changeable. Down with us a great many men own $500, $100. or $250. ; You have to fix a standard somewhere, and we have selected three hundred dollars as most applicable. We have to make uniform laws. If you put it at two hundred and fifty dollars, they would say two hundred and forty and ten-the limit must be fixed somewhere. Three hundred dollars seems to be pop uIar with some States, and after due consideration, we thought 1t was the most suitable standard, and therefore it was adopted. It has been suggested to me where there are only forty acres of land and they live on 1t. they are competent to vote with out reference to value. if 1t were only forty dollars, they are competent. The Committee first thought to put it at eighty acres. but some delegates thought, from the white counties, that it would exclude too many. We have given them time to learn how tc read and write to get in under the other provision under the permanent plan.
 MT. PillanS-DoeS the gentleman think we can go before the people of this State with the proposition that where this state of facts exists, a thrifty son is not fit to be a voter and the thriftless are. to wit: that when a man leaves four children and one of them gets twenty dollars worth of land in the shape of forty acres, and one of them gets three hundred dollars worth of land. another gets Aess than three hundred dollars worth of mer- chandise and another gets two hundred and seventy-five dollars worth of land and two hundred and seventy-five dol lars worth of mules and blows, that the least thrifty of those sons, who has made the least and pays the least in taxes to the State shall be allowed to vote. when the one who most assists the State is not deemed to be fit per son to exercise the suffrage?
 MT. Coleman-I would say that be- fore anyone could give an intelligent answer to that long question, he would have to have it written out and before him. q
 Mir. Pillans-I will write it out for the gentleman. I had thought from l