The age-herald., 1901-08-17

floor. He had tried to get the eye of the. chair and the ear of the house, and hay ing now gratifled his ambition he was indifferent to whatever fate might befall him.
 MT. Jenkins said he had an appoint ment with the doctor, as did several oth- CTS at the same time and that the others made him wait.
 MT. Lomax moved to dispense with fur ther of these proceedings. This was adopted with an amendment of MT. Sam ford of Pike that all reference to them be left out of the stenographic report
 Dr. Cunningham of Jefferson. on behalf of the Ladies Memorial Association of Montgomery. by consent of the house. made brief statement relative to pamphlet the ladies had for sale, which contained the speeches made on the un- yelling of the monument on Capitol Hill The proceeds were to be used for erect ing a Confederate monument.
 MT. Watts of Montgomery then moved to take from the table his ordinance that no negro should hold office and fix 1t for a special order for Tuesday at Il o'clock This was adopted.
 The Solicitor Question.
 MT. Sanders of Limestone moved that the rules committee be not allowed to sit during the morning session. motion to table this motion was lost.
 The committee on rules came in at this time and reported a substitute to Judge Coleman's resolution. This provided that when the article on judiciary is taken from the table it be subject to amend ment, as though it had not been passed to third reading.
 On the question of adopting this report some debate ensued as to whether this nnn hn aftan daxr was introduced did not violate the rules of the convention, which provided that one day must elapse between the report of a committee and its adoption
 This whole question was in reference to the solicitor matter, the friends of the solicitors desiring to amend only sec tion 2S, which related to their election and the advocates of the new system not desiring any change. The committees s report favored the solicitors. They re- ported a substitute allowing any section to be amended. as this looked better.
 Considerable parliamentary discussion ensued participated in by Governor Oates, Judge Howze. MT. Pettus, Mir. O'Neal and others
 President Knox ruled that days mo- tice was not necessary and that the rule reported was a new rule and could be acted on now.
 Mr Smith of Mobile, chairman of the rules committee, then SpOke against the adoption of the rule reported. He said 1t was confined to one article and If an- other article was tabled another rule would have to be prepared to allow it to be amended He thought such action was partisan and that the convention ought to stick to it's present rules He protested against the haste In which the rule was adopted. He was applauded as he concluded.
 MT. Lowe Speaks.
 Mir. Lowe of Jefferson spoke in favor of the rule reported. He was surprised that MT. Smith had impugued the action of the committee. They had only reported rule which would allow much debated ques- ton to be settled.
 How can certain delegates defend them selves before the people when they learn that the majority has been denied the right to express it's will by technical ob- jections? Rules are made to enable the expression of the majority of the conven-
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