The age-herald., 1901-09-01

 | der the permanent plan and the tempora- ry plan, and this change would simply | allow more negroes to vote. He was not 1 ashamed to admit that his purpose in | coming here was to disfranchise every ne- gro that it was possible to disfranchise | without conflicting with the fifteenth amendment (great applause) He hoped | the original suffrage plan would be re- | adopted.
 Mir. Pillans of Mobile said the amend ment adopted yesterday did not reduce | the standard of qualification. It was what the convention thought they had | adopted at first until 1t was pointed out yesterday they had not. He hoped the 1 amendment adopted yesterday would be retained.
 MT. Morgan M Smith of Autauga spoke in favor of Judge Colemans motion. He said 1t was the custom in the black belt to sell negroes property conditional sale and that this would enable them to
 vote if the contract price of this property
 amounted to $500, although they had not paid but few dollars on 1t. Those who picked flaws in the suffrage plan should be able to offer something better The
 black belt was In earnest in gaining re- lief. Under the temporary plan every
 white man could vote. He did not entire ly approve of the permanent plan ana
 thought 1t should require 5000 of personal property to qualify a voter under tnls provision.
 Favors the Amendment.
 General Harrison of Lee spoke in favor of the amendment adopted yesterday. He
 said the suffrage plan required the voter
 to be the owner in good faith of $500 of property, and no subterfuge would be passed by the registrars.
 Governor Oates introduced an ordinance l to allow every male person who had de- | clared his intention to become citizen and had lived here five years and had paid his taxes should vote. Also to allow an elector with $500 of property to cast two | votes.
 General Harrison moved to lay Judge | Coleman's motion on the table. An aye | and nay vote was demanded on this, with | the result that the convention refused to 1 table the motion by a vote of 50 ayes and | 69 nays.
 | Mir. Williams of Marengo said the peo- 1 pie were getting tired of the convention | reconsidering its action, and that the 1 question before the convention was mat ter of tweededum and tweedledee. If a
 man had $300 of property why not let him vote?
 Judge Coleman then moved the previous | question on his motion to reconsider. This
 was ordered and Judge Coleman conclud-
 ed the debate by saying that while he did not claim to represent the entire black | belt he did represent a majority of them. He said that many negroes would own $500 | of both personal and real estate, but few would own sS00 of either. He yielded half | of his ten minutes to Judge Cobb. Judge Cobb said 1t was too nasty in the last days of the convention to set aside a plan the result of two months deibe- ration. The only argument advanced against the plan was that 1t was not jfal and lie nut of f,a 1 fact that certain delegates did not under l stand what suffrage meant. It was not a right, but a privilege. We believed that | the white man should rule and the negro should not, and his friend from Lee Gen eral Harrison) in his great liberality on
 this question was not in accord with the
 majority of the people in the State or the
 majority of this convention. (Applause.) The vote should be reconsidered and the former plan adopted.
 Voting On the Question.
 An aye and nay vote was demanded on
 the motion to reconsider the vote adopting
 the entire article on suffrage. The call for this was sustained and the motion
 to reconsider was adopted by vote of 69 to 51.
 The vote adopting the amendment not
 having yet been reconsidered, MT. Hefiin of Chambers spoke in favor of retaining the amendment. He said 1t was right and fair that to strike it down would be as unfair as to say to a man that he could vote if he had $500 in gold but could not if it was in gold and silver
 mixed.
 Judge Coleman spoke again in favor of
 reconsidering the vote whereby the
 amendment was adopted. He moved the
 previous question on the motion to recon slider the section. This was ordered and ba mo nfl n hp yy1a 1xy
 the amendment was adopted. was carried by an aye and nay vote of 66 to 55. The amendment offered yesterday by
 General Harrison was then tabled on mo- tion of Judge Coleman and the article
 on suffrage was adopted as it was orig
 inally reported by the committee on har-
 mony.
 Article On Corporations.
 The convention then took up the article
 on corporations and the ordinance report
 ed yesterday by the committee on har-
 mony as an amendment. to allow foreign
 corporations to be sued in this state in
 certain cases This ordinance was ta- bled.
 MT, Boone of the committee then offered
 an amendment to prevent municipal cor porations of over 5000 inhabitants from
 granting franchises to corporations for
 longer time than thirty years. He spoke
 briefly in favor of his amendment. MT. Smith of Mobile spoke against too short a franchise He said the franchise
 was the principal thing of value in street railroads and similar corporations, ana that if it's duration was made too short they could not sell their bonds. He moved to table the amendment. This was lost by | vote of 24 to 39.
 MT. Graham of Montgomery spoke | against the amendment, saying its adop- | lions was unwise and would affect the | prosperity of the municipalities. It was entirely a legislative matter, and should | be left to the Legislature MT. Pillans of Mobile said the city of | Montgomery was now suffering from the | effects of a street railroad monopoly, ana | this with what was going on in the city | of Mobile was a sufficient argument in
 favor of the adoption of the amendment. 1 He demanded the previous question: 1 which was ordered.
 | The amendment was then adopted on | viva voce vote.
 | MT Williams of Marengo offered an | amendment so as to prohibit the state or any sub division thereof from engaging In | the business of dispensaries, this section l not to apply to those now in existence. Tom Long Speaks. MT. Long of Walker, speaking In favor | of the amendment, said the word disper- | sary was merely respectable name for l a rum shop. He said if 1t was wrong l for church to sell whisky. 1t was wrons | for the state to do so. If 1t was to De | sold at all it should be sold at saloon. | His amendment was tabled on motion | of MT. Beddow.
 The previous question was then ordered f<x.. an