The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-04

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 mend the resolution by a&,..ng that tht .erk cali the roll and that the delegate. hall rise and go to the Clerks des'.>ant 1 sign it.
 The President-That seems to be the | resolution. | Mr. Brooks-I rise to a question of par hamentary inquiry. l undsrstooS that the l from Macon, which was adopted yester- | day. provided that immediately after the
 reading of the journal. the roll should be
 called to give opportunity to th9se % | Constitution was adopted to vote upon the
 final adoption of the same, and 1t was
 made the special order immediately after | the reading of the journal this morning. The president-The question will be | upon the passage of the resolution offered | by the gentleman from Montgomery. | Upon a vote being taken the ;esoiuti 'n | was passed.
 | MT Ashcraft-I desire to call attention
 to the fact that the petitions whira in,
 troduced yesterday from the citizens 1f stenographic report. and ask that the | Chair make an order directing that they be included tomorrow morning m the
 The President-T'he Chair will request
 the stenographer to include the petitions | Mir. Gilmore-I wish to move to rec,n-
 sider the vote by which the report cf the | Committee on Schedule and lnci ien,al Expenses was passed on yesterday.
 The President-The question will oe on l the notion to reconfluef.
 | Mir GilnIore-As I tried to say yester- | day evening, there has been thousands | and thousands of dollars spent by this
 Convention in making speeches. end e I Interests of the old Confederate soldiers. | Now. the very first opportunity they get | to show appreciation of the services of
 these old men Is to instruct one of them
 and compel him to pay ihe debt By i doing that. this Convention lays the
 principle of repudiation. that as lar as
 know, has never been tried before in the
 State of Alabama. It is a disgrace tc the
 State .and shame on every man who voted to make that old man pay this 1 debt The State ot Alabama will be
 ashamed of 1t. had rather be Mr. Has | son and limp on down to the gr ave on a 1 crutch and one leg than to go on record | as having voted for the report of that | committee. I therefore renew y m )tion
 to reconsider.
 Mir l.omax-I rise, Mir. Pr eSident. for l the purpose of seconding the motion made
 by the gentleman from Clarfs. to re- | consider the vote by which this ordinance or report of the Committee on o"h"ddles l and incidental Expenses. was adopted
 believe that the the s;r net saving to 10 the ] state l this Committee. and the scaling down of | these bills, amounts to something be- tween sixty and seevnty dollars.
 low.
 MT. Lomax-To about fifty doi!ers, 1 l understand After having gone un tor months here, and as the gentleman from Clarke has said. expended hundreds and thousands of dollars of the State'1 urcy. we propose at the end of this session to stop up the spigot, when " have leit the bunR open for about thtte ni"rthS Such copper-cent economy will not commend itself to the people of Alabami. 1n ad- dition to that. suppose that we 61 Ett opposition upon the stu mp In ftnS State as to the ratification of his ''on3ttutirn
 and man that has some ability On the stump gets up and ak ,s our record Of spending thousands of dolllts for print ing. because as was said o1 yesterday, We had five thousand copies of the report of the Committee on Suffrage and Elections | printed. and they lie now in the Senate | Chamber, absolutely worthless to the | Convention and to the people. We have | printed five thousand copies of speeches | that any man wanted printed upon the here on this last day to scale down ex- | penses to save fifty dollars? 1t will make | us the laughing-stock of the people Of the State upon the stump. if any man would | present the record against us. Not only do we do that but we say that we will | put upon a one-legged Confederate sol
 dier the necessity of paying that fifty dol
 lars, because he went ahead under the | orders of this Convention and contra cted | for these articles at what he believed was
 d reasonable price. with no limit fixed
 upon him by the Convention, wn'ch had l the power to limit him. In addition to that, 1t is q reflection upon the door, keeper of this Convention, on an Id :nan who has lived until his hair Is 2rJy in the State of Alabama, and 1t Is reserved for this Convention after that lohg life of poverty and honor, to say to him by voting for the report of this :Om' m'1ittee. you have been unworthy of a trust, and you have failed to perform cuty that was imposed upon you by resolution of i this Convention. say, 1t is unworthy | of a great Convention representative Of | Alabama to put such d stigma 2s that | upon that gray-haired, one-legS5d man. l Now. some reference has been made to | this desk. Perhaps it did cost lew dol | lars too much, but there Is a vast deal of labor in the making of this desk, the | lumber does not amount to anything. and | it might be sold for junk but the labor l amounted to something, he was order ed
 what he believed was proper nrlce.
 say that he ought to be paid. That an
 appropriation should be made. not only | he purchased. I say those bills ought to | be paid as presented. l say. we ought not to put the burden on that old man l of paying out one-half or one-fourth of
 the salary he has made as door-keeper | in this Convention in order to pay moral l obligations that he has incurred for this l Convention IL will not reflect any credit upon us, 1t will not save the State enough
 money to stop up the key-hole of the | treasury. It is penny economy that Is
 unworthy of this Convention. and l hope | and trust that a motion to reconsider tliS | vote will be carried. and that this Con | vention in its closing hours will record | itself, as 1t has done in the past, as a | brave. a magnanimous and a rNAIle body, | willing to do right and willing to do more than light, rather than to do wrong to | alTy man.
 | MT. deGraffenried-Willt the gentleman | pardon Hn Interruption? As MT. Hasson 8 | conduct Is before the Convention. would
 is not be fair to allow him to address | the Convention?
 MT Lomax-I think so and I will move
 that he be allowed to make a statement | before this Convention with reference to these expenses
 The President-The gentleman from | Randolph has the floor.
 Mir Heflin (Randolph)-Mr. Chairman | and gentlemen of the Convention, this matter was all gone over yesterday, fnd think fairly understood by the members
 who were present. but a good many | members have come in since that report | few words in behalf of the committee ] in regard to this report. The distin- | guished gentleman from Montgomery has
 madc an eloquent speech, appealeS to
 your sympathy not to put this upon an | old Confederate soldier. Gentlemen of | the Convention. there is no man upon
 this floor that has higher regard, and | a greater love for the Confederate sol l dier than your humble servant. but, gen tlemen of the Convention. 1t is not a | question of love and respect for the Con l federate soldier, ur anybody else, but it | is a question of doing right right hv in- | dividuals and right by the people of Ala | bana. right is right as God is God. Gen | to you that your committee laboretl | earnestly and honestly. and We did what | we believed to be right by the people or | Alabama, It Is the unanimous report Of | this committeeman a dissenting voice | that this report be adopted and brought l iD % gentlemen