The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-30

Beavers. Long, of Walker. Boene. Macdonald, Burns. Miller. or Marengos Byars. Moooy,
 Cardon. Nssmith.
 bert. o'NsiiI ijeffsrson,. Case. ONeel. of Lauder Duke. O'kear, | Hey, Palmer,
 Eyster. Parker. of Fillmore. Ferguson Pearce. Gllmorow Pettua, | Glover. Pillans.
 Graham. of Mont- Reese,
 gomery. Rogers. of Sumter. Graham. of Talla- Sanford. oega. Sanders, ! Greer. of Calhoun. Searcy,
 SSrssr, S.1sy, Of Perry. s,sI sslhsimsr. Hefin, of Chambers, Sorrell,
 Henin. Of Randolph. Studdard. | Henderson. Tayloe. | Howell. Vaughan. lnse, Waadell. Jones. of Hale. Weatherly,
 Jones. of Montgom. Williams. of Ma Jones. of Wilcox. wilsons Of Clarke. Total-62.
 ABSENT OR NOT voTING. Almon. Locklin. .BulEer. LOnS.of Butler.
 Burnett. Lowe. or Jefferson. Carmicnael, or Cof- Malone. fee. Maxwell. Coleman. of Walker, Morrissette. Cornwall. Mulkey. Craig, Pitta. | Espy. Proctor. FItts, Renfro
 Hinson. Reynolds. of Chiffon, Hodges, Robinson
 !enkins' Smith. of Mobile. King, Sollie, Kirk, Willet
 Kirkland. Wilson. of Wash. Ledbetter, inEton. Leighs
 So the motion to table was lost.
 Mir. Het1in (Chambers)-I do not de- sire to detain the Convention with a speech. l do not propose to speak over three minutes. I am sorry my dis tinguished friend declined to allow de- bate few moments ago. He has con- sumed possibly as much time as any other member on the floor of this Con- ventton, and 1 for one have always been glad to hear him, but do think, at that time. l. at least, ought to have had a moment or two to reply to the distinguished gentleman from Mont gomery. We are repI esentiEg the en- tire body of the people of Alabama. The Sheriffs of the State have been honored by the people of their respect W counties. They nave got right to come here and talk and I do not look upon them as irespassers when they come. They have got right to come to us and SAJ that you should allow us fl run for office. You allow the Tax Collector, the Tax Assessor. and ev- cry one else to succeed themselves, but vou do not allow us to succeed our selves. asked an old and distinguish ed member of this Convention why 1t was that the Convention of 1875 did not allow the sheriff to succeed him self, and he said under the old law the Sheriff was practically the admin istrator of estates and he at times had more money in his hands than the Treasurer had and for that reason they did not desire that he should succeed himself.
 Nearly all matters of legislation are reached by compromise. and yet gen. tlemen hoot at the idea that somebody has agreed to a compromise. for one opposed the idea of the Governor others who favored that idea and op- posed the Sheriffs succeeding them selves, and I favored that part of it.
 Mir. Walker (Madison)-I desire to ask the gentleman a question. How can the Sheriffs be justified in appeal ing u this Convention on one occa- sion, as a matter of principle, to strike down the provision allowing the Gov ernor to suspend them. and to come here now and ask this Convention to incorporate that in the Constitution?
 MT. Heflin-As I just said. and l thought possibly the distinguished gen. tleman. among others. would catch the trend of my argument. that all mat ters of this sort are reached hy com promise. The Sheriff says l do not want to be suspended by the Governor, yet I know that if l conduct myself as I should the Governor will not sus-