The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-03

amendment.
 MT. Fitts-I offer the original section as a substitute.
 | Mr. Smith--I understand you do That operates under the ruling here | as an amendment. I was not appealing to the gentleman from Tuscaloosa for a ruling. l MT. Fitts--No. and I am not appeal | ing to you, but 1 am insisting upon my rights. None of Us are judges of that. He is up there (pointinE to the Chair). We are on an even about that. MT. Smith-I rose to a point of or- ! der.
 The President pro tem.-What is the
 point of order submitted by the gen | tleman from Mobile? MT. Smith-That the section pending was the motion offered by the commit | tee. For that there has been offered a substitute by the gentleman from Tus-
 caloosa. which under the rulings of this body is treated as an amendment.
 I now offer a substitute for that sub stitute which is a second amendment and I submit 1t Is in order. Mir. Reese--I make the point of order that Section IS is the matter before the house, and for that the committee of- fers an amendment Now the gentle man from Tuscaloosa offers as a sub stitute the original section reported by the committee. It is running in a circle. and he has got back, he offers the same thing for which the commit tee substitutes an amendment I make the further point of order that the gen. tlensan from Tuscaloosa did not give notice that he would offer 1t. and the gentleman from Mobile did actually of- To kL> ,Av~.A Av1f hA q did not offer his.
 MT. Fitts--I did offer It. Mir. Rogers tSumter)-Iikorder to &C., complish the purpose of the gentleman from Tuscaloosa. it will be necessary for Him to move for leave to introduce the original section. he could. not of- fer it as substitute, when there was ar amendment to it. The original sec- tion was there already. and that would be tautology. How can you substitute thing for the same thing? It could not be substitute for the matter was there itself, therefore he had nothing before the house at all. The gentleman from Mobile is in order to offer an amendment to this substitute and the original section.
 MT. Long (Walker)-I move 10 lay the substitute on the table.
 HE II6SluCilL pTO LGsu,-1 uuuGESLOOU the gentleman rose to a point of order.
 MT. White-I rise to point of order, and that Is that the substitute offered by the gentleman from Tuscaloosa is out of order. The committee offered
 substitute for the original section. Read it there, Mir. Secretary, and see it it Is not substitute.
 The President pro tem.-The Chair
 will ask whether substitute or amendment?
 The Secretary-Substitute for Section IS by Committee on Suffrage and Elec tions.
 MT. White-That will do. The com mittee offers that as substitute for Section 1S the original. The gentle man iron, Tuscaloosa offers Section IS as a substitute for the substitute. That cannot be done. 1t is already before the house as a substitute. and he can not offer in turn the original as a sub stitute for the substitute
 MT. Reese-If the substitute offered by the committee is laid upon the ta- ble, would not the question recur on the original section?2
 Mir White-Of course.
 MT. Reese-It is the same thing, the proposition of the gentleman from Tus- caloosa.
 MT. White-It Is only as to the par liamentary status that I speak.
 MT. Fitts-I want to state this point of order which think to be sound, that is that Section IS as originally reported by the committee was sent back to the committee on yesterday afternoon. They reported this morning from the commit tee another Section IS, to take the place of Section IS. another section new and independent to take the place of Sec tion IS. That is before the house now. l move to substitute for that some- thing else; it matters not that 1t is the same thing which happens to be here recommitted. The old section is back to the Committee recommitted. and they this morning brought in a new and independent section, and I asked to substitute something for that. It simply happens by chance that that is the same thing they had yesterday, but that ought not to prevent the rule that I have a right to offer a substitute.
 MT. White-If you are allowed to of- fer the original as a substitute for the substitute, why cannot we offer sub stitute?
 MT. Fitts-The substitute has nothing to do with it. This morning the Com mittee offered something else.
 The Presidential appears that the Committee reports the substitute for the original section, numbered IS. It, therefore, has the parliamentary sta tus as an amendment to the original section. The gentleman from Tusca- loosa moves to substitute for the sub stitute the original section. It. there- fore, takes the place of an amendment to the amendment, and the Chair will have to hold that the gentlemans sub stitute is in order. and there being two amendments pending. the gentleman from Mobile is out of order. The pend- ing question is a substitute offered by the gentleman from Tuscaloosa. which Is the original section he offered as an amendment to the substitute Submit- ted by the Committed.
 Mir Rogers (Sumter)-I propose to address myself to the pending question as to increasing taxes. It is not an increase of taxation because 1t is the old rate at one dollar and fifty cents. That is a sufficient answer to that proposition. The second proposition is therefore d reduction of taxation and third proposition is that the property now about $S25, 900 to the for whom my friend from Tuscaloosa ly one half of all the revenues of the beneflting the children of these men to contribute one dollar and fifty cents AA knIi fk AF