The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11

 am willing to go as far as any man towards satisfyng that section 4of oufs State wherein live some of the noole4< characters that the State has ever produced, men who have always stooo by good government and honest gov% ernnlent. and stood by the white peo~ pie of the State, but when they make such unequal discriminations, It VIII not be appreciated by the people of the counties that l represent, and dare say that any fair-minded man can seq it in a moment. I ask you why it is that you cannot take the county e6 Henry and put it on the county o< Gereva--
 The President-The time of the gen~ tleman has expired. The Chair recog- nizes the gentleman from Dallas.
 M.. Pitts-The Committee on Rep- resentation labored earnestly and dili- gently to so arrange these Senatorial districts as to have them as near in population as possible and as satisfac- tory to all of the different counties as possible. In order to be fair and h0n- est, we submitted to the Chairman of the Committee on Legislative Depart- ment our report, and asked him to criticise 1t and see if he could do any better. He found that there had to be at least one or two congested senato- rial districts, as We found. but how did he fix 1t? In this very manner. He puts Washington, Baldwin, Escambia and Covington, four counties together. Coffee and Pike together. In other words, he takes Covington from Coffee and Pike, and puts it with washing- ton, Baldwin and Escambia. Well, Covington objected to that. She want ed to remain in the same Senatorial District. Coffee objected to 1t. They said. of course. We would Nike to have Senatorial District to ourselves, ie possible, but rather than put us into another Senatorial District. let us re- main together, and we will be satisfied, even if We are a congested district. Of course. did not consult every par ticular member, but we talked with them. This is a congested district, but we had to congest one somewhere.. and 1t was agreeable and satisfactory to all of them except to the delegate from Pike, that they should, be. Now, I move the previous question on the amendment and the Section.
 The President-The question is, shall .he main question be now put?
 The main question was ordered.
 Mir. Jenkins (Wiicox)-I offer an. amendment.
 The amendment was cad as follows:
 Amend Section in line 12 by striking out the word Henry and inserting in lieu thereof the words Dale and Ge- neva;' also amend by striking out the words Dale and Geneva dn line IS and inserting in place thereof the word 'Hcnry.'"
 MT. Oates-Does that make any change except in the number?
 A Delegate-Just changes the number. Upon a vote beins. taken the amend- ment was adopted.
 Upon a further vote being taken the Section as amended was adopted.
 Mir. Sanford (Pfke)-I desired to change my vote before the vote was announced. so that I could move reconsideration.
 MT. Greer (Calhoun)-I rise to . point of order
 MT. Sanford (Pike)-I understand [ am cut off,
 The President-The Chair did not un- derstand that the gentleman from Pike wished to take any such action. The Chair regrets very much
 Mir. Samford-I understand that, the Chair did not intend to do that, but suppose l have some friend on this floor that will make the motion for me.
 MT. PEts-I move that the Article be engrossed and ordered to a third reading.
 Upon vote being taken. the motion was carried.
 Mir. Sanford (Pike)-I move that the vote by which this ordinance was or- dered engrossed and to a third read ing be reconsidered.
 Mir. Long (Walker)-I move to lay that motion on the table.
 The President-The motion is not be- fore the Convention for Consideration
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-I move that the rules be now suspended in order that We may take up the motion to re- consider.
 Upon a vote being taken, the motion to suspend the rules was carried.
 MT. Williams-Now move that the motion to reconsider be laid uton the table.
 Mir. deGEaffenreid-I desire to ofper as substitute that it be indefinitely postponed.
 The President-A motion to table can not be substituted. Should 1t fail. if would be dn order for the gentleman to make his motion. Upon & vote being taken, the motion to table the motion to reconsider was carried.
 The President-The next order before the Convention will be the report of the Committee on Exemptions. MT. Howze-There is no change what ever in any particular in the Article as we find 1t in the Constitution ss it now exists. It is identically the same in every respect, and unless some mem. Der has an amendment which he wants to offer to some particular Section. think We will save time bv submitting 1t as whole ana have 1t read and adonted as whole and so move unless I see an indication on the part of some memoer to offer an amendment MT. Watts-I desire to offer an amendment to Section 3. The President-The gentleman will send up his amendment. MT. Watts-I have not written it he. cause we have not reached the Sec- | tion. The President-There is no rule of the Convention that articles shall be considered by sections. | MT Watts-I want to make a pro- viso in that second section that in the event of the insanity of the wife, the | legislature may provide for the dis | position of the homestead. | Mir. Mulkey-I nave an amendment I desire to offer.
 MT. Howze-I move that 1t be taken up section by section. because if any one desires to amend 1t. have no ob- jection.
 Upon a vote being taken the motion was carried.
 Section 1 was read as follows: