The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-14

rules. that cannot be done withous unanimous consent.
 The President-Ob Objection is made ts the gentleman from Montgomery being excused from voting.
 MT. Watts-The gentleman from Montgomery is in no disposition to doge any vote if he can understand the question before the Convention. The President-The qucston is on the majority report as to Section of the ordinance reported by the Committes on State and County Boundaries. Tha minority has offered a substitute to that and the gentleman from Hale (Afr. deGraffenreid) has offered a substitute for the substitute
 Mir. Watts-If can be informed of what the substitute is as offered by the gentleman from Hale. will vote. The President-The gentleman from Hale says that his substitute is to simply embody the provisions of the present Constitution of 1875. Mir. Watts-I vote In favor of that substitute which ever way that may be Mr. HoweIl-I desire to change my vote from no to aye. Having voted in the affirmative. now givo notice that I will move a reconsideration on Mon. day.
 The result was then announced, 67 ayes and 42 noes, and the substitute offered by MT. deGraffenreid was adopted.
 Mr. o'Neal-I move that the rules be suspended and that we reconsider the vote by which this substitute was adopted for the purpose of laying that motion on the table,
 Mir. Rogers (Sumter)--I make tho point of order that motion to recon- sider the morning hour of the day pre- ceding takes precedence over d motion to reconsider at once.
 The President-The Chair recognized the gentleman from Henry to offer an amendment.
 Mir. Malone-I want to amend this Section as adopted.
 The Clerk then read the amendment as follows:
 To amend Section by adding there- to the words provided that out of the counties of Henry. Dale and Geneva a new county may be formed under the provisions of this article for forming new counties so as to leave said coun- ties of Henry, Dale and Geneva with not less than 800 square miles each" Mir. Mafone--I want to, say a few words in behalf of the amendment and I will try no: to take up too much of the time. If you will notice, the amendment is drawn so that while it is local and applies to no other section in Alabama, 1t is also drawn a fair straight proposition without any job or anything of that kind put upon the people at home. It is simply to permit those people down there in those three counties without affecting anybody else, if they desire under whatever provi- sions of law that may be made for forming new counties, without mapping out the county here. which have every reason to believe our circumstances are SO strong we could have carried it through without attempting to draw the lines and leave this man out and that man in, and create no friction in the ratification of this Constitution. for I assure you that the only trouble that we have down there Is that they all want to get in. Nobody wants to be left out The way this is drawn, it leaves 1t to those people alone to draw their lines without assuming any au- thority upon my part or this Conven- tion or putting anybody in or out. Ev- cry place will feel that they have a chance to go in where they want to and will therefore savor the proposition.
 Mir. Robinson-Are the delegates from all those counties in favor of that proposition.
 sMr. Malone-Praetically so. I want to be thoroughly under stood on that question. I don't want to mislcaS anybody. MT. Kirkland of Dale and myself drew. that resolution. Mir. Espy is here and MT. Mulkey of Geneva. who hSs not been here for week or two, has not seen that proposition. ~
 Mir. Foster--What are his politics?
 Mir. Malone-While l do not like tc refer to his politics, like to go above that. but he has not seen it and his ia- dividual views I cannot answer for: but I can swear for the views nf Ge- neva county as a whole, that the pso- pie of Geneva county are almost solid for this-I wont say absolutely solid. We had that issue at home, and that Is this: everybody recognized that my part of the community almost had to have new county. but we all agreed not 10 block but one. All We did was t3 let it be so situated that we might get one ourselves. MT Sollle was not here and I have not submitted that individual proposition to him. It has been my understanding, but of course he can speak for himself. that he would not at least antagonize the general proposition of five hundred square
 
 understanding. Now. as the Conven- tion has seen fit not to adopt that, this comes in and lets it apply to our coun- ty so far as our county is concerned. MT. Reynolds is not here, he is at least with us. It is fair to state that ] great many in the upper end of his county which is nine miles from the extreme upper end. and sixty from the lower end. are not all in favor of it. 1 made a canvass up there against the strongest man in Henry county and In that beat I got something like maybe 10 per cent. of the vote in his own beat. but not a majority. There were four candidates from the district. carried every one of those counties against the four, and in my county where there was primary, l got as many as all of them, notwithstanding the fact that I was from profession that is not popular amongst the voters and was opposed to a very strong man. MT. Espy announced the same position that he would not favor the Conven- tion making an arbitrary Rpunty up there, put he would favor a reduction of the area in order that those people might settle that for themselves, and he got 90 per cent. of the votes or the entire county and carried every beat in the county. It was practiedi1y unahl- nous. s5.ao r,.,,u.
 hope you all will excuse me for re- ferring to our local conditions just little bit. We are from section or country which has developed very rap idly of fate from the fact that it was l>ofora Wa haVp settled the