Birmingham age-herald., 1894-08-11
Has Things All His Own Way in
 Committee.
ARBITRARY REPRESENTATION
Jefferson Kicks and Will Ap- peal to the State Execu-
 tive Committee.


 for the Ninth district met yesterday morn ing at II o'clock in the city court room, with Chairman G. s. Bailey presiding. Alter roll call and the announcement Of a quorum Mir. Browder of Hale moved that the district convention be held September 1. The motion was carried.
 The gentleman from Hale then moved that Blount Springs be the next place of meeting. The motion was carried, only Hawkins and Owens of Jefferson voting against it.
 Browder of Hale offered the following resolution:
 Resolved, That the basis of representa- ton in theicongressionalc convention of 1894 shall be one delegate for every 150 votes for the democratic candidate for governor in 1894, and that all counties shall have one additional delegate for every 25O demo- cratic majority.
 T. M. Owen, the newly elected member from this county, spoke against the resolu- ton because of it's unfairness and because Hale, from the fact that she had sent up large majority for Oates, would have more in proportion than Jefferson. He did not believe that Jefferson would get her just deserts from this resolution.
 The chair recognized Browder, from Hale who spoke of that basis having been in use and siad he did not see why it should not be put into use again. As to the effect that it would have on Jefferson hei didn't see it, because 1t was the district that had to be represented, and not Jefferson county. He wanted to see all of the members vote for his motion, because he thought 1t was right.
 Following Browder J. E. Hawkins took the floor and also took up the cudgel for Jefferson county. In the first place he did not think it in line with the state executive committee. He opposed the resolution in the second place because of it's utter unfair ness and because of it's giving. other ooun- ties more than their sEare. He stated fur. ther that Jefferson wanted fair play and and that was all. Jefferson simply wants her rights. si,@s.e.
 Blount's representative, Hall, opposed the resolution, and spoke bitterly against it. The point he made was that the com mittee was here to represent the democratic party and not any particular candidate.
 The gentleman from Hale then made an. other speech in favor of carrying his reso- lution.
 The chairman called J. E. Hawkins to the chair and proceeded to make few re- marks, opposing the resolution. He didn't want that kind of basis and he didn't think majority of the committee did.
 Owen of Jefferson renewed his motion to table the resolution, which was carried by a vote of 6 to 1. Owen then offered the fol- lowing resolution:
 Be it resolved by the executive committee of the Ninth Congressional district, That the basis of representation in the district convention of the district be fixed on the population basis ascertained by the census of 1890, and that each county in said dis trict shall be entitled to the same number of delegates as said counties had in the last state convention.
 A few remarks were made on this resou- tion, and when it was put to the commit tee 1t went the way of the one offered by the gentleman from Hale by a vote of to 2.
 representative from Blount by the name of Montgomery offered the following reso- lution:
 Resolved, That the representation in the Ninth Congressional district convention shall be as follows: Jefferson, 20; Bibb, 10; Blouut, 10; Hale, 10; Perry, 10.
 Before the resolu tion was put to the com mittee some one asked the Blount man upon what basis the resolution had been. "I'll leave that to you all to figure out, o replied the maker of the resolution. The motion was put and prevailed by vote of 2 to 2, only Jefferson's representatives vot- ing against it.
 The qualification of voters was arranged according to provisions of the state execu- tive committee's rules.
 J. D. Hawkins gave notice of appeal upon the resolution that was carried.
 The meeting then adjourned subject to call from the chairman.
 The qualification of voters is that only those can participate in the primary who voted for Oates on Monday last, or who would have so voted had they voted at all. or course no man who did not register can vote in the primary.
 Of course there is great deal of kick ing among the friends of Mir. Underwood here in Jefferson. The arbitrary repre- seutation is confessedly in MT. Turpin's interest and his friends answer that the machine simply happened to grind his way. If the other fellows had controlled it would have ground their way. The kick, however, goes to the fact that no basis whatever was adopted, neither pop ulation, state nor national vote. The feeling among MT. Underwood's friends Is very intense.