The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01


 passage of this resolution, the special | resolution heretofore introduced, ex- | tending the limit of debate as appli-
 cable to the consideration of the report of the Committee on Suffrage, be re- | pealed; and that the previous rule, Him. iting each speech in the debate upon | amendments to ten minutes be again put in force.
 Mir. Smith, move the adoption of | the resolution.
 | A vote being taken. the resolution
 was adopted.
 l MT. Solie-By consent of the gentle
 man from Mobile. I wish to ask unani-
 nous consent to correct the amend
 ments now pending before the house. The President-The chair hears no | objection.
 | Mir. Sollie-The correction is to make
 a proviso at the end that no one shall
 register under that after January 1st. 1905. I fear my amendments do not
 accomplish their purpose without the 1 correction.
 MT. Smith (Mobile)-I had said that
 the objection to the soldiers and de- | scendant clause so far as the Commit 1 tee is concerned, was to a large ex- | tent, it was the child of necessity, but | in addition to that the clauses as linn ited in the report, each have their jus tification, which has been very fully discussed and stated before this Con | vention. The justification Of the sol
 diers' clause resting on the patriotism | and hardships which were imposed up-
 on that class of men by the fortunes
 of the recent war: the justification of
 the descendants clause laying in the fact that there were many who lost their property and they were left by
 the war without means of support and | the children were obliged to labor for the support and maintenance of wid-
 owed mother, and the family with all these hardships and these necessities,
 the opportunity that was anorded to citizens under other circumstances Of obtaining an education and the quali-
 fication under the other clause was de- | nied to them. But, MT. President, the
 extension of this clause has in it no l such justification. It Is true that there are men under the other clause who
 probably would not fall within the jus | tification that has been offered. but they were members of class, and It
 is impossible to make any clause that
 will operate absolutely within the pur-
 pose for which the class is admitted.
 Those, however, who become of age af- | ter 1903 are men who were born long after the close of the civil strife, who were not deprived of their fathers or | the service of their fathers in the sup
 port and maintenance of their fami-
 lies. They are the children of the men
 who have returned home, and have al
 least been able to look after their fam1-
 lies for something like thirty-f1ve years, l and the men that now become 2l years l of age have had the same opportunl-
 ties to acquire an education that those l who hereafter become of age will have,
 and there is, therefore, nothing in the circumstances or condition of the young l men who come of age after January | 1903 whiA will put them upon dlt- l ferent basis. or make any Justlncatlon
 for their admission, that is not open to all other young meh
 that may become of age hereaIter | In addition to that .Mr. President.
 we will have an election in 1902. Every
 man that will be of age at that time
 will have had an opportunity of regis | tering under the article as 1t Is no" | written, The next election that we
 will have will be in 1904. and every | young man not now of age will have
 had three years within which to pre- | pare himself to qualify under the
 reading and writing clause and It they | have that ambition. that desire to De-
 come educated men. to qualify them selves as citizens. each and every one l
 nifty to do so. ] think. therefore. that l this is an extension of the rule which | is without justification in the necessity. l it is without justification upon the | same ground that we have made the
 other exceptions, and it would look like | an effort 10 in some measure evade | the constitutional provision and while
 perfectly lawful. and perfectly consti- tutional it would not give a good as-
 pect to the efforts that we have made | to lawfully and in a proper way ele-
 vate the suffrage in our State. These considerations were addressed to the
 committee and after very full dis
 cussion of the subject they concluded
 it would be wised to limit the clause to
 January. 1903. and I submit in doing so l they have followed the WiSeSt course
 and that the amendment ought not to
 be adopted.
 MT. Coleman (Greene)-It seems to
 me that the question has been fully dis
 cussed. The same question arose on | yesterday. The simple proposition Is l whether or not the arrangement which has been adopted by the committee. persons who are not now of age will
 not have sufficient time to qualify
 themselves by the time they will he able to vote, or attain sufficient age to
 vote. I do not care to add anything | to what has been said. I move the previous question in this case upon 1 the section and the amendments of-
 fered bv the gentleman from Dale. l The President-The question is shall | the main question be now put. Upon a vote being taken the main l question was ordered
 | MT. deGraffenreid-I move to lay the l amendment of the gentleman from
 Dale on the table.
 l The President-The previous question | is ordered, it is too late to move to ta- | hle. The question is on the amend
 ment offered by the gentleman from | Dale
 Mir Sollie-Upon that I ask for an | aye and no vote. | The call for the ayes and noes was 1 not sust aimed. MT. Sollie-The vote is upon the | amendment to the amendment. pre-
 sume. MT. President? .s
 The President-On the amendment to
 to the amendment. -.:s Mir. Sol!ie-l would like before the vote is put upon the second amend ment that 1t be read.
 The second amendment was read by the Secretary.
 Upon a vote being taken a division
 was called for and there were 30 ayes
 and 56 noes and the amendment to the
 amendment was lost.
 The President-The question now re-