The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-16

The President-win the gentleman allow the gentleman to ask him . question.
 MT. Browne-I will If the House per mits 1t by unanimous consent, but I will not withdraw the motion to table.
 MT. Gilmore-.Did not MT. Jopes say that he would swear that that was his signature on the bill and that noth- ing could be passed fraudulently with out the concurrence of Clerk?
 Mir. Browne-I do not know about that latter part. He said that was his endorsement on the back of the bill but on cross examination he said he had no recollection of 1t other than having made the entry.
 Mir. Gilmore-He said 1t was his sig nature?
 Mir. Browne-Yes. sir.
 MT. Gilmore-And didn't he say that no bill could be passed fraudulently without the concurrence of a Clerk?
 MT. Browne-I don't think he did.
 Mr. Gilmore-I heard his testimony.
 M:. Browne-And we have his testi- mony, and every member of the Com mittee knows that Ed Jones stated he only recollected the bill by the sigma ture
 Mr. Gilmore-I want to ask the gen. tleman If he is not the attorney for the Columbiana people?
 MT. Browne-I am the kind of att torney for the Columbiana people that before God in Heaven l will always be against the perpetration of a damn able fraud of any kind. I am the at torney for the Columbiana people. but I am an attorney without a fee.
 Mr. Gilmore-We have heard that before.
 MT. Browne-You asked the question and I answered it.
 MT. Gilmore-I don't know whe th CT you are an attorney without a fee or not.
 MT. Heflin (Chambers)-I would like to ask the gentleman if this matter is not now in the Supreme Court for set tlement?
 MT. Browne-I will say that this matter is not in the Supreme Court because l do not know a lawyer in the State of Alabama who is fool enough to get the Supreme Court of Alabama to go behind the Journal of the General Assembly. It is there up- on the face of the bill itself, and the Journal imports absolute variety and you cannot 90 behind it.
 MT. Wilson (washington)-r rise to
 
 MT. Heflin (Chambers)-I am in- formed It is in the courts of Alabama TOT settlement in three different ways. MT. deGraffenreid-I call for the reg uiar order. There is a motion to Iav the minority report upon the table
 MT. Wilson (Washington)-I rise to question of personal privilege. On account of our relation. ship with the gentleman so freouentIv referred to. MT. Albert Wilson of Mont gomery, my brother. MT. Wilson of Clarke and myself have had nothing To do with this matter. We have dis cussed 1t with no one. I do not know how the delegates feel. But the gentle man has seen fit to drag into his dis cussion my brother, Albert Wilson of Montgomery. And l would like to be accorded the privilege of answering for him the question why he did not go on the stand and refute the charges that he was a party to removing that bill from the calendar.
 MT. Browne-I make the point of or der that the gentleman Is not rising to question of privilege.
 MT. Wilson-What reflects on my brother reflects on me. I have tried to demean myself decently in this matter and have kept out of 1t until Ihave been dragged into 1t.
 MT. Browne-I only state a matter that came before the committee l have only given the testimony of the Brown Printing Company people.
 MT Wilson (Washington)-I admit that and that Is the reason I have had nothing to do with it.
 The Presidential the opinion of the Chair the question to which the dele gate from Washington is addressing himself Is not a question of personal privilege. The question is on the mo- tion to table.
 Mir. Browne-On that I call for the ayes and noes.
 The call for the ayes was sustained and the roll call resulted as follows: