The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-24
CONSTITUTION BUILDERS
 COMPLETE ORGANIZATION

thority over us. Bless Thy servant. the Governor. Bless all who aid him in the responsible work that he has in hand, and may the Lord give to our people gracious and abundant prosper ity and grant that they may not only be blessed with the goods Of this world, but that they may be everlastingly re- warded in that world that is to come
 We pray Thee our Heavenly Father that every department of our State Government may receive Thy blessing and that our. people in the common, ordinary walks of life may be, people whe love God, who serve Him with con- sistency and fidelity and who honor Him with pure lives and holy thoughts and with noble and upright walks, and we pray Thee. our Heavenly Father. that Thou wouldst bless. not only our State, the State so dear unto our hearts, but bless this Government in which we live. Give unto the Presi- dent of this Republic and all his coun- selors wisdom that in the delicate and responsible work which lies before our Government they may have Divine di- rection and that they may receive the blessings and the guiding wisdom that God alone can give.
 We pray Thee O Lord to bless this body assembled from all parts of the
 
 that their lives and their influence in our Capital City may be pure and wholesome and good. Grant that they may represent their constituencies not only in these halls, not only in the faithful discharge of duty. but O Lord help them that they may represent them in pureness of thought and life 50 that when they are gone the influ- ence that they have left behind them will tell for good upon future genera tions. And O Lord help them espe- cially, we pray Thee, in the difficult work that calls them together. We know, Our Father, in all things we need Divine aio, and that in the work which lies before this Convention they espe- cially need the direction that cometh alone from on high. They stand with uncovered head before Almighty God and in the presence of an expectant people, and we pray Thee that they may prove worthy of the trust com mitted to their care. Help them that they may be careful. help them that they may be prudent. but help them that they may be eminently wise in ell that they do and in all that they say, and when the work is done. may it be such as God will approve and such as their people will applaud and such as that their condolences will tell them that they have done the best they could. and grant our gracious Lord that their de- Alterations from day to day may be honored by Thy presence and that truth may characterize all that they do, and when their work is done, may they so back to the people and may the gracious Father on high say unto each one. Well done, thou good and faith full servant" Grant, our Father, as we are preparing here for the best method of living amid the conditions of our own Southern life, that we may all of us act and live in such way that when the time shall come that we must pass to the judgment bar of the Eternal One we may there receive the plaudit of Our Father and an abundant entrance into the home on high.
 Bless Thy servant who is called to preside over this Convention. Give him wisdom and. O Lord God Almigh- ty, grant that he may have the health which God can give in his difficult work Bless each one of the officers, bless all of our people and finally, O Lord, when our work below is done, when by the will of God, we have served our day and generation and sleep with our fathers, may we enter upon the herit- age which remains for those who lived right and honored God md throughout eternity we will praise Thy matchless name forever, through Christ our Re- deemer. Amen.
 The President directed the Clerk to call the roll. which was done. The President-There are one hun dred and forty-nine members present, which is a quorum. The next thing in order is the reading of the Journal
 The Clerk began reading the Jour- nal and when he reached the point t.N A~ -zA the President, which. was ordered to be spread on the journal
 General Harrison-I listened on yes terday to that magnificent address with a great deal of pleasure, but, be- lieving that the Chair himself would prefer 1t, I move that we dispense with the reading of the address as spread upon the journal.
 The motion was seconded and was put and carried.
 The journal was, on motion, cor rected to show that the resolution in viting the ministers to conduct divine services every morning was adopted, and as thus corracted, the journal was approved.
 The Pre3ident-The next business Is the special order set for immediately after the reading of the journal this morning, the selection of seats
 MT. Thompson-I offer a resolution
 The resolution was read as follows: Resolved that in the drawing about to take place. if any delegate be ab- sent his colleague, if there be one pres ent, from such County shall have the right to select the seat for such absent member. If there is no delegate present from his county, then the Secretary of this Con- vention shall select a seat for such absent delegate or delegates.
 Mir. Thompson-I move that the rules be suspended and that the resolution just read be adopted.
 A vote being taken the rules were suspended and further vote being taken the resolution was adopted.
 MT. Weatherly-Before the business of selecting the seats are entered up- on, I desire to have a matter brought before you for the purpose of taking some action that will exempt from the operation of the resolution for the selection of seats, certain members of this convention. I suppose that any exemption from the operation of that resolution would have to be done by unanimous consent.
 There are two distinguished ex-Gov- ernors of this State in this convention and two distinguished ex-Justices of our Supreme Court. I think it would be a very generous, a very graceful and a very proper thing for this convention, by unanimous consent, to suspend the resolution as to the selection of seats and to give to these distinguished gen