The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-11


 Case. Morrisette.
 SS; Coleman, of Walker. oNsiii oiisH0c 0c5.n.r.On,. Cornwall. Pearce,
 Cunningham. kenfro.
 Espy, heynoids (Chilton). Ferguson. Robinson.
 Fitts. Searcy,
 Eoshee. selheimer.
 Foster. Sentell,
 Graham, or Mont Smith, Mac. A.,
 someryA Smith. Morgan M.. urayson. sorreil.
 Harrison Stewart.
 Hodgee. Tayloe.
 Howeh. Thompson,
 Jones' oL Aale. Vaughan, Joness ot Montgom- Weakley,
 erys Weatheriy,
 klngs Nillet,
 Kirk. Wilson (Clarke). MS wilson tWash'gton). Leigh.
 Mir. Brooks here took the Chair.
 Mir. Long (Walker)-1 ask unanimous consent to introduce an ordinance and have 1t referred to the Committee on Rules.
 MT. O'Neal (Lauderdale)-1 rise to a question of privilege: On yesterday in my remarks in reference to the amend nnent offered by the delegate from Greene, as to representa- ton
 MT. Long (Walker)-1 have the floor.
 Ordinance No. AT. by Mir. Long (Walker) was read as follows:
 Be 1t ordained by the people of Ala bama in Convention assembled, That the Secretary of this Convention is in structed to obtain a sufficient number of the stenograpnic reports with the indexes thereto and to have the same nrOnnrlv hound On mt ha far ward each member of this Convention one of the said copies, and he is hereby instructed to forward to each member of this Convention one of said copies as he has obtained the same, and for ll.s services he shall be paid the sum of twenty-five dollars (S25) for which amount the Auditor Is authorized to draw his warrant on the State Treas urer, and said sum Is hereby appropri- ated out of the moneys of the State not heretofore otherwise appropriated for paying for such services"
 Referred to Committee on Rules.
 MT. Merrill--I move that the ordi- nance just adopted be engrossed and ordered to third reading. But on re- flection l desire to have it referred to the Committee on Order and Harmony.
 Upon vote being taken the motion to refer the ordinance to the Commit tee on Order and Harmony was car- ried.
 Mr. O'Neal-On yesterday in my re- marks in reference to the amendment offered by the delegate from Greene as to representation, 1 made the fol- lowing statement: "I must say that take exceptions to the remark made by the gentleman from Barbour when he intimated that unless this amend ment was adopted the Constitution would be defeated. While I heartily favor this amendment, yet do not like to have threats made that unless I do a certain thing, the Constitution will be defeated. I do not think that style of argument should be used in the Con- st!tutional Convention"
 Since reading the stenograph!c report of the remarks Of the gentleman from Barbour, for whom entertain the highest regard, recognize that I did him an injustice in stating that he made tbreats that the people of the Black Helt would oppose the rat flea ton of the Constitution unless the pro- posed amendment was adopted. I so understood him at the time, but it Is evident. from the stenographic report, that l was mistaken, and it gives me p!Casure to withdraw any remarks I made imputing any intention on the part of the delegate from Barbour to those who ol'rosed the amend ment.
 also desire to make a correction in the stcnographic report. 1 am reported as saying in reply to the question from MT. Dent: II am of opinion that a provision confining the right to vote to White women, would be no violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amend mel ts." l said just the opposite. sald was of "Cpinlon that provision the privilege to vote to white women would be a violation of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments"
 Also in another sentence, am report ef as saying, Whenever you depart from that principle. however, you say to the fadr women of the State, you must go out and mingle in politics, you must lobby with men on the streets for votes. You lower the high stand ard which now prevails" The word however" should be "whenever," which changes the sense.
 Also in my remarks on yesterday I am reported as saying this: "They nave always been true and loyal, and we Of the whit te counties propose to you that you cut down your voting popu- lation by eliminating the great mass nf negro votes. We do not say to you that we intend to reduce your repre- 5Nntatlon to your voting strength. ' What l did say was thisi "You have always been true and loyal, and we of the white counties recognizing that under the suffrage article adopted your voting population will be reduced Inv the elimination of the vicious and In- competent, We concede 1t would be nanifestly unfair and unIuss to re- luce your representation to your vol 'hS strength. The rcpor; as made IS entirely mislcaulng as to my mean ing.
 MT. Browne (Talladega)-I rise for the purpose of making a statement &n regard 10 the stenographiC report: Tn my eXplanatlon on yesterday of Sec ton of Article Xl. On County Tax aIloh' the stenographlc report is so full ot errors that it IS impossible to cor rect 1t, and l simply want to say that no one reading It can have any con- ception of what I was undertaking to say, or the explanation that 1 made of the contents of the Section. | can not undertake to correct it. because there is an erOr in every line
 The President pro tem.-Does the gentleman desire to have the report changed?
 MT. Browne-No sir. but I desize my statement to go in the stenographic report that the report is so full of er- TOTS that it is impossible to correct it without rewriting the whole matter.
 The President pro tem.-The next or der of business will be the report of the Committee on Amending the Con-