The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-21

ETlntlng tO report Ddck tO tHe COHNen- tion without recommendation ordinance <4s.
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-I ask the. President to inform the Convention. that 1 will ask a | suspension of the rules in order that the ordinance may be considered. AS I understand. 1t is | an ordinance providing for the index ing or the stenographic report and it l is necessary that work should be com menced on 1t if it Is adopted. The Secretary read Ordinance 446 as | follows:
 Ordinance 44s. by MT. Williams of | Marengo:
 TO provide for the indexing the | stenographic report and for supplying members of the Convention herewith, and to repeal Resolution No. 169, touch | ing t.e same matter.
 Be it ordained by the people of Ala | bama in Convention assembled, That Resolution No. 169 heretofore passed | by this Conv ention be and the same Is hereby repealed.
 Be it further ordained, That the Sec retary of this Convention shall imme- | diately, on the adjournment sine die | of this Convention. contract with some | reliab and competent person to make full and complete index of the stem | ographic report of the proceedings of this Convention, and that for such ser- vices he shall be authorized to spend | not exceeding the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars ($150), and said index shall be completed within sixty days | after the adjournment of this Conven- | ton, and shall by the Secretary be placed in the hands of a reliable print CT who shall not make less than twelve hundred Q200) copies thereof. and the contract entered into with such | printer shall not exceed the sum of seventy-five dollars. or so much of the | same as may be necessary for the | printing of the same.
 , The making of the index and the printing thereof shall be done under the supervision of the Secretary, who shall mail. or cause to be mailed. to | each member of this Convention at their proper homes. not less than five copies of said index. and the Secretary shall place in the stenographic reports reserved Tor the uses of he State one l each of said indexes.
 Be it further ordained. That there is hereby appropriated out of any money in the State Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the sums of money men l toned above for compensation for the services to be rendered, aSd when the Secretary certifies, under his hand to the Auditor. that the work above men tioned has been fully completed the | Auditor shall draw his warrant upon the State Treasury for said amount in | favor of the Secretary who shall there upon pay it over to the proper par ties.
 Schedules. Printing and Incidental | Expenses.
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-I move a suspension of the rules in order that the ordinance may be put upon its pas sage.
 MT. Grant, would like to hear the Chairman of the Committee on Sched- ule and Printing make some explana- tion of what that index means. What benefit will it be and all that kind of thing? There is confusion in the minds of several members in my im- mediate vicinity as to what that is go- ing to do. Will it be to show the sub ject of speeches on certain dates. | ask the Chairman to make an explana- ton.
 MT. Hefiin (Randolph)-My informa- tion is that thiS ordinance provides for the appropriation of a certain amount of money, about $200 or $225 for the printing and indexing of the steno- graphic report. It is not to furnish members with the stenographic report, but by having these indexes, you can refer to your stenographic report and find any speech you want or any mo- tion made by any gentleman on any question. That is the only purpose. as I understand. It is not to furnish any member with the stenographic report. It does not, provide for that at al.
 MT. Williams (Marengo)-The dele gates will notice that the first section of the ordinance provides for the re- peal of a certain ordinance that this Convention has heretofore passed. To go back. the Convention will recall that soon after the stenOgraphic reports were started. an ordinance was intro duced whereby the Secretary of State was required to provide tor the index ing of the stCnographic report. in- | troduced that ordinance and therefore the Secretary o6 State came to me for advice in the matter and wanted to know what his pay would be. l con- ferred with him and OH looking the matter over he told me that 1t would cost $250 or whereabouts for him to in dex the stenographic report; that he had his hands full. that he would have to learn something about the steno- graphic report and that it would be difficult for him to index 1t. lie aske l me if there was any other ofncer the State who could do 1t cheaper, and if necessary, to confer with him and ask the Convention to make a contract | With some Otner OI1lceF. l ulu SO. l went to the Secretary and he told me he would get the work done for $l5O, rossibly S125. The ordinance. you will see, does not absolutely appropriate the whole $50. It simply authorizes the expenditure of that much under the supervision of the Secretary. The Secretary finds that he can get com potent man to index the report for $l5o, saving the Convention $100 of what they said should be done. To go fur ther now. into the matter, the Sec retary investigated the printing of four pages of indeXing, and finds it will cost $50 and each page thereafter would amount Co $12.50 a page. On further consideration of the matter. have dis covered that there would not be eX- ceeding six pages of indeXing, possi- ply not exceeding four pages. That is four of these large pages. The idea i3 to make it conform to tte stenographic report as nearly as it can in order that it might be bound with it. The ordinance proposes to appropriate not exceeding $225 and 1 will say to the Convention that they cut that down to $200 and say that it shall not exceed S200. The Committee on Schedule and Printing. desires the Convention to pass on this matter themselves. They do not oppose it, nor do they favor it, eX- cept as individual members, and ] un- derstand all of them intend to vote for 1t.
 Mir Hef1in (Randolph)-I would like to say that I cannot agree with the