The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-06

ish. when we can do the same work at a saving of about fifty-five dollars per day.
 Again, you can let the Brown Print ing Company, or others, publish this in pamphlet form, when we have the jour nals published, and we can have the Journals of this convention published at least thirty days earlier than can oth- erwise be done, and there Is not a prin-
 ter in the sound of my voice but what
 knows this Is the fact.
 I yield gracefully to a majority, pfo- vided the majority is right. and provid-
 ed that the resolution that they adopt is legal I contend that the whole thing is null and void. As great as we are as great as this convention is, we have no right to appropriate money and put this useless debt upon the peo- ple of Alabama without an aye and
 no vote. If we can do it for seventy dollars per day, We can do it for seven
 million dollars per day. I am not a lawyer, not even a con-
 most common of all lawyers. Why, sir.
 whenever they begin to speak of an old
 man that lives in any of the villages
 or towns of Alabama, they ask how the
 old fellow is getting along and if he is
 doing a good law practice, and some fellow says no, he has not good prac- tice. but he is a very fine constitutional lawyer.
 Now, Mir. President, do not desire to take up longer time upon this argu-
 ment, and, in the language of John Allen, who once said in Congress, having answered all of the opposition
 and all of the claims of the opposition
 to this measure, I am ready to receive the congratulations of my numerous friends for this privilege. and I thank you, Mir. President, and I give notice that I may have something to say in
 regard to some of the statements that will be made upon this floor, as the
 mover of this resolution. MT. Harrison-The delegate from | Walker having had his say. the con- vention having heard this matter dis | cussed, and having seen the practical operation of the resolution he seeks to repeal, I now move to lay his motion ] motion on the table.
 Mir. Long CWalker)-And on that | call for the ayes and noes. The President stated the question was upon the motion of the gentleman | from Lee to lay the amendment or the gentleman from Walker on the table. A reading of resolution No S6 was call ed for by Mir. Sanford, and the resolu- ton was again read.
 The President-Is the call for the ayes and noes sustained? MT. Long (Walker)-I ask for the reading of Rule No. 36, that the mem | bers on this floor may know that 1t takes thirty delegates to sustain call | for the ayes and noes.
 Rule 36 was read as follows: | "The ayes and noes shall only be | ordered when the call therefor IS sus-
 tained by thirty delegates" | The President-The question IS on the motion of the gentleman from Lee | to lay on the table the amendment of- fered by the gentleman from Walker.
 MT. Long CWalker)| called for the ayes and noes.
 The President-The Chair called upon
 the convention to know if the call for | the eyes and noes was sustained and
 saw no gentleman rise. | Thereupon the call for ayes and noes
 was sustained by thirty-two delegates
 rising.
 The question being upon the motion
 to table the amendment of the gentle
 man from Walker (Mr. Long) the vote | upon roll call resulted as follows: