The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-23

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 Governor oates--will my friend sl- | low me to suggest that this Is the plan
 that prevails in Congress and has E,e- vailed for one hundred years? l MT. White.--I understand that but could not say 1t like the gentleman from Montgomery.
 l We are told today that some scheme
 must be arranged by which delegates | elected to seats upon this floor must | be discriminated against because they belong to party other than our own. Fnr one. confess that 1 am a par tisan; but I am not such a partisan | as that One delegate elected to this | Convention has the same rights upon ihis .loor that every other delegate | has. He ought to be given the same | opportunities and the same advantages | to represent his constituency that cv- cry other delegate has. For one. I am l not ready now to insult or to discrimi- nate against any delegate upon the | floor of this Convention and am not ready to insult or to discriminate | against the constituency behind him. They are Alabamians and they have interests and rights, and these dele gates are here to reflect their will and protect their rights, and they have a right to be heard with equal advant- ages and with equal opportunities with | the rest of us.
 finished the Constitution, that Popu- lists and Republicans and all may wei come and vote for 1t.
 | MT. President, if had my way, and 1t were controlled by my voice or by my vote, I would not adopt Constitu- tion for Alabama that would perpetu- ate indefinitely the partisan rule of any
 party. We are not looking forward to the interests or to the welfare of any political organization; but we are lock- | ing forward to the development and the
 growth and the glory of Alabama as
 State. (Applause). While I love the Democratic party, while I have faced the front in It's ranks from the days of
 my boyhood until now. while I ex- pect to fight its battles while l live, love my country better than I do my party. A party with me is but the im- plement by which great ends can be accomplished. I do not believe it should
 ever become my master and l its
 slave And I say, MT. President, if this resolution is adopted, backed by the speech of my friend-rny good l friend from Walker, in whose fields labor and labor not in vain-if that resolution Is adopted, can say to you.
 "Farewell to every Republican vote in Alabama looking to its ratification" | You can say farewell to every Popu- 1 list vote in Alabama looking to its
 ratification.
 | know something of the task we had | to perform in securing the holding of Il this convention, and can see some
 thing of the duties. the responsibilities. | the labors and the uncertainties that will confront us in its adoption If we
 undertake by any such partisan meth ods as this to deny upon the floor of I this convention equal rights and equal opportunities to every delegate upon | this floor, and l hope, MT. President, that the resolution of the gentleman from Walker to reconsider the vote | will be laid upon the table. which mo. ! ton I now make.
 MT. Long-As the mover of the reso-
 lution, I have a right to conclude. The President-A motion to lay on the table is not debatable. MT. Long-I ask the gentleman from
 Jefferson to withdraw 1t. He is cer- tainly not afraid of discussion of this
 question before the house. MT. White-My brother, would like
 to do it. ,-
 MT. Long-oh, don't do 1t if you
 don't want to.
 l MT. White-On your account, would
 do almost anything. but do not think 1t is conducive to the best interests of the people of Alabama or to the high
 standing of this convention, that this
 discussion along these lines should
 proceed. Applause). The President-The question is on the
 motion of the gentleman from Jefferson l to lay on the table the motion of the gentleman from Walker.
 MT. Long-I want to see how many
 of the members of this House are in
 favor of gag law on a question of this
 kind. If this in an insult to
 the Republicans. they have beep | insulted ever since the Democratic
 party came into power in this hall in 1874.
 The President-The gentleman is out i Of order.
 A Delegate-One delegate can't de.
 mand a roll call
 The President-The Chair knows of no general parliamentary rule that requires any particular number of votes. In the absence of some special rule to sustain a call for an aye and no vote l think the rule is that any member may call for 1t and the Sec
 retary will call the roll.
 MT. Burnett-I would like for the
 Chair to state the question.
 The President-The gentleman from
 Walker moved to reconsider the vote
 by which the resolution offered by the
 gentleman from Morgan was adopted, and now the gentleman from Jefferson
 moves to lay that motion on the ta-
 ble and a yea and nay vote Is de-
 manded.
 The roll being called resulted as fol- lows:
 Yeas-Messrs. President, D. c. AL
 mon, Wm. A. Altman, John T. Ash
 craft. William H. Banks, J. H. Bare-
 field. J. Robert Beavers, Chas. P. Bed
 dow. Samuel Blackwell, B. Boykin
 Boone. Cecil Browne, Thomas L. Bull
 ger, John D. Burnett. John F. Burns, John A. Byars, A. H. Carmichael, M. s. Carmichael. G. H. Carnathan, D. C.
 Case. R. M. Cunningham, Edward w. deGraffinried. S. H. Dent, B. T. Eley, T. M. Espy. John c. Eyster, Chas. w. Ferguson, William c. Pitts, J. H. Fo- shoe. J. Manly Foster, Newman H. Freeman. John A. Gilmore, J. E. Gra- ham. L. w. Grant. L. F. Greer, Wm. A. Handley, George P. Harrison, J. c. Henderson. Evans Hineon, w. F. Hodges. W. P. Howell, Emmett c. Jackson. J. M. Jones, Richard c. Jones, Jas. T. Kirk. Wm. w. Kirkland, E. w. Ledbetter, Norvelle R. Leigh, Jr., Lawrence w. Locklin, Tennent Lomax, J. Lee Long. W. T. Lowe, Gordon Mac donald. B. F. McMillan, Lee McMiIlan. Geo. H. Malone. J. T. Martin, J. c. Maxwell. A. H. Merrill. Chas. H. Mill Ter J. N. Miller, Milo Moody W. Q. TN