The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-09

table and should De conSloereu WHeh this section was considered? Didn't they do it then?
 The President-well it would be in the power of the Convention to con- slider two reports at once. If they de- termined su to do, 1t might be con- fusing to do so. It can only properly be brought in as an amendment. The Convention must either displace the re- port of the Committee on Municipal Corporations and take up the report of the Committee on Taxation, when this section may be offered as an amendment to 1t, or the section as re- porter by the Committee on Taxation may be offered as substitute or amendment for this section. It Is a mere matter of procedure.
 MT. Weakley-I ask unanimous con- sent to accept for the committee the two amendments which have just been proposed.
 Mir. ONeal--Let us hear them read.
 The President-They have been read in the hearing of the Convention.
 Mir. O'Neal-Will the Chair state them?
 The President-The Chair could not undertake to state themAfrom memory. Does the gentleman desire they be read again?
 MT. O'Neal-Yes, sir. I do not care to give my consent to something I do not understand. l have forgotten them like the Chair.
 The amendments were read as re- quested.
 Consent was given for the committee to accept the amendments. MT. O'Neal UIauderdale)-Is the csc ton open to amendment.
 The President-Yes, sir.
 The Chairman recognizes the gentle man from Winston.
 MT. Haley-I have an amendment to offer.
 NJ. Weakley sought recognition.
 The President-For what purpose does the gentleman desire to speak?
 MT. Weakley-I thought the question was upon the adoption of the section.
 The President-It is the custom of the Convention to recognize gentlemen to offer amendments and the Chair has recognized the gentleman from Win ston.
 The amendment offered by the gentle man from Winston was read as fol- lows:
 Amend Section II of the report of the Committee on Municipal Corpora tions by striking out the word 'Attalla'
 where it appears in line 17 of the re- port"
 MT. Haley-T move the adoption of the amendment. and upon that I call | for the previous question. MT. Davis (Etowah)-I do hope the | gentleman will withdraw that amend | ment. He Is not from Etowah county, | and we have three delegates on the | floor representing Etowah county and | for him to spring a question like that | and demand the previous question I submit is unfair
 MT. Haley-I withdraw the motion. MT. Davis-I trust the Convention | will not adopt this amendment. As I stated, Etowah county has three dele | gates on the floor of this Convention, | and we three have agreed amongst our l selves, and we believe We can repre- | sent Etowah county. We believe that we are doing what the people of At- | talla want when We include Attalla in | this list. Ten years aEo the city of | Attalla issued $50. 900 worth of bonds for
 which they received $45000 in cash With the $45,000 she built an electric light plant. water works plant and
 a public school. She paid the in
 terest on those bonds sfor one or | two years and then she defaulted.
 Never since then has she paid
 any more interest. Today she be- | longs to the list of strangulated towns and she has affected compromise with the owners of those bonds. whereby they propose to take $25.000 at the rate of per cent. Now mind you, these bonds have been reduced to judgment. and
 the judgment amounts to something
 Ike $50, 900 against the city of Attalla
 They propose to cut this judgment J.:
 and to cut the rate of interest 1-2 or
 that 1-3 and to settle for. $25 900 at per cent. instead of $S0000 at 8 peI cent. interest. The city of Attalla to. day has that electric light plant, that waterworks plant and that public schoo | the proceeds of the money she received | for these bonds. She comes here bJ
 her Mayor and Aldermen. and many oi her leading citizens and asks that heI | hands be united and that she be per mitted to effect this compromise with her creditors. There is of course some objection. There never was yet a | movement in the interest of progress
 where some croker or some man who
 is drawback to civilization did moi
 rise up and protest. The people of At. | talla only ask that their hands be un. | tied. They do not ask us here to put that 1-2 of 1 per cent. extra tax or
 her. They merely say "Take off this | constitutional provision which limits us
 to 1-2 of 1 per cent. and allow us by
 the votes of our qualified electors to say | if we want it," and I believe, Mir.
 President. if the people of Attalla want
 to pay their honest debts, we, as a mat. | ter of right, should grant it to- them l and submit it to a vote Of the people | and for that reason. 1 believe, and hope, that the amendment will be ta- | bled.
 | Br. Browne-It seems to me Mir. President, that any pro- vision for taxation, by either
 State, county or municipality should | be placed in the article upon taxation | It seems to me that nobody can gain. | say that proposition. I could never see any good reason why this Convention | postponed the consideration of the Sec tion in the Article upon Taxation unli I the report of the Committee on Muni- | cipal Corporations was up. MT. Beddow-I rise to a point of Or der. The gentleman is not addressin | himself to the amendment of the gen tleman from Winston. :'..- MT. Browne-I am coming to that The President-The immediate ques- tion before the Convention is tha amendment offered by the gentleman from Winston. Incidentally, it seems 70 the Chair that a delegate might d.s. | cuss the merits of the section as re- ported by the Committee as 4llustrat- | inS his objection to the amendment | but the main discussion, of course | should be directed to the amendment Mir. BroWpe-Now that is why l op- nos ed this amendment This Sactior