The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-20

Jones. of Hale. Walker. | cry, Weatheriy, | King. willet. Knight. Williams (Marengo), l Ledbetter
 And by a vote of 10s ayes and noes 1 the article was adopted.
 MT. Kirkland-I was not in the room | at the time the vote was taken on the Article on State and County Bounda- l ries. desire to vote for the adoption | of the report of that Committee. and vote aye"
 | The Presidential seems to the Chair | that 1t is too late for the gentleman to be recorded. The result has been announced and the Article referred to 1 the Committee on Order, Consistency and Harmony.
 | Mir. ONeal-I am directed by the Committee on Rules to report reso- lution.
 The resolution was read as follows: l Resolution No. 255. by Rules Commit tee:
 l Resolved that the rules of the Con- | vention limiting debate be suspended when the report of the Suffrage Con- mittee is taken up for consideration, and that each delegate be allowed to | speak once, and not longer than thirty 1 minutes upon any proposition present. | ed by the report of the Committee or any amendment thereto. except that the Chairman of the Committee or | mover of the amendment, or such del- | egate as such Chairman or mover may yield his time to, may, after the pre- vious question has been ordered, close l the debate, and in so doing may speak l for a like period of thirty minutes; | provided. that the time here limited may be extended by a majority of the | delegates voting without a suspension of the rules.
 Mir. Kirkland-I make the point of l order that the report is not in order at this time.
 The President-The report of the Committee is a privileged report. | Mir. O'Neal-I desire to state that the resolution is in accordance with the suggestions of the Committee on Suf- l frage.
 Upon a vote being taken the resolu- tion was adopted.
 The President-Special order will be the consideration of the report of the Committee on Legislative Department. Inasmuch as Section 27 was reconsid- cred. it would seem to he in order to recur to that section. The question is | upon Section 27 which was reconsider ed upon the amendment offered by the gentleman from Greene, to the substI- ute offered by the gentleman from | Macon to the Section as reported and the amendment offered by the gentle man from Greene which was to strike out the amendment and Section.
 MT. Sanford-I ask for information, are any of these amendments in order? until the question of reconsideration has been determined?
 l ha ha nF consideration has been determined and
 the Convention has voted to reconsider.
 MT. Sanford-I was absent at the
 time.
 MT. Cobb-It seems to me that this Convention Is at times in danger of be- coming dangerously impatient. We had an exhibition of this spirit on yester- day. At one time. we kad under con- sideration a proposition as harmless as an infant and yet the gentlemen have | spent hours of time here discussing 1t and we sat and listened to protests that made the hair of timid delegates like myself rise up. We can see the walls of this Capitol crumbling: we can see the great pillars that sustain our republican institutions falling and everything going to Sheol and I don't know where else. and all because 1t was proposed to impose upon the Gov ernor of Alabama some labor that he ought to have been here to protest against; a proposition I confess that ought not to have been in the Consti- tuition, but as utterly harmless as any thing could be conceived to be. That | was one spectacle, and then we had | another and that was to see the dele gates of this Convention turn imme- diately around and adopt and fasten into the Constitution a provision that would so hamper the legislative depart ment of the State of Alabama that we could not foresee the evils which l would come from 1t. At one moment, we had a usurping Governor that was to be shackled; at another moment, we struck off the shackles and put them upon the legislative department of the government. Men fresh from the peo- pie. Fortunately for us, the right of reconsideration remains and now if these members will just simply possess their souls in patience a little bit, and recover a small amount of their com mon sense. they will be enabled to see the mischief that they did on yester- day. think we have fallen into the l error. MT. President of thinking of | ourselves as partisans, as Democrats, as the people-''we are the people," and all power and authority and all wis dom resides with us, and yet we are proposing here, and as has been re- | peatedly asserted. this is the main work before us-to make a Constitu- tion which will dangerously affect our supremacy. Pass the Constitution which you propose to frame and adopt it. strike off the shackles which have been upon the people. and you will get