The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-17

lebtedness of the State and calling 4- ,uch bonds as they may deem advisa- ble.
 Referred to Committee on Taxation.
 MT. Lomax offered the following
 resolution:
 Resolution s06 by MT. Lomax: Resolved, That Ordinance 429 in refer ence to quadrennial sessions of the
 Legislature be and the same is hereb' :
 withdra VII frun the Committt' on
 L. sis'ctive Department and that the said ordinance with the views of the
 minority Of the committee theron be
 printed and placed or the calendar.
 Referred to Committee on Rules. Mir. Sorrell offered the following peti-
 ton, which was referred without read ing:
 To the Constitutional Convention, Montgomery, Ala:
 We the undersigned citizens of the State of Alabama do hereby offer our protest against the railroad pass evil, and do hereby, declare our desire that 1t be made an unlawful act for either State. county or municipal officials to accept railroad passes from any rail-
 road company. or for any such com pany to give such passes. We further petition the Constitutional Convention now in session in Montgomery to in corporate in the proposed Constitution some effective self-operative provision
 to that end.
 Rockforu, Ju'y ?3, 1901.
 J. W. Batson. attorney; E. c. Bat son. merchant; J. s. Coleman, jeweler; J. W. Brooks, editor; J. K. McEwcr,
 merchant; s. M. Suttie, clerk: J. Dab-
 son, fs mer; T. W. Johns )n; A. D.
 Bentley. merchant: w. Ii. Bentley, farmer; J. Jones. M. D.; T. B Reidy, J. P: D. L McAil:ster & Sons,
 machinists; A. L. Bridges. farmer; C.. C. Denson, farmer; J. A. Crawford,
 Judge of Probate; J. T. Cason. mer- cha 1t: (. c. McManus, merchant; J.
 S. Kelly. farmer: G. W. Batson, mer- chant; W. F. Johnson, Circuit Clerk; J. c. Atkinson, farmer; J. F. Johnson, farmer: M. L. Lauson; A. D. Craw- ford; O. c. Mccain. County Treasurer; T. Pennington, e<-County Supt. Educafion; T. S. Mcdonald, merchant; Geo. McDonald A. L. Gordon: farmer;
 J. A. Smith. farmer: W. T. While,
 M. D.
 Rockford. Coosa County. Ala. This list couli be extended to any
 length. had been able to see more
 people. All whom I presented to. signed 1t.
 can safely say that there IS not fifty men in the county who does not
 oppose this free pass evil" Yours respectfully. John W. Batson Referred to Committee on Corpora tons.
 Mir. Smith (Mobile)-I move 10 make
 the motion of the gentleman from Dal-
 las. to take the Judiciary report from
 the table, the special order for Il
 o'clock today.
 Mir. Pettus-I second the motion, and on that l ask the ayes and noes. MT. Coleman--I suppose that Is open for discussion.
 The 'President-The Chair will hear from the gentleman from Greene.
 MT. Coleman-Mr. President, there
 was a resolution introduced this morn
 ing which would require but a few
 moments for the Committee on Rules
 to act I will read it again that you
 may understand it-
 Mfr Smith (Mobile)-I- rise to a point
 of order. The resolution offered by
 the gentleman th:s nnarning is net ger | mane to this discussion. MT. Coleman-I insist that it is ger mane. It is part of my argument V Ky | it. should not be set for II o'clock-- The President-The Chair woul1 Le l inclined to hold that the gen
 tleman in opposing an early setting of the consideration of this motion might give his reason in the course of his
 argument that another time would be
 better and would be more just to- the other side, incidentally as a part of
 his argument.
 MT Coleman-The resolution intro- dCced reads this way: That the article
 on Judiciary may be taken from ;he table and when taken from the table, that Section $, that is the section
 regulating the selection of Solicitors
 may be amended or revised CT stricken out, just as the Convention sees proper.
 Now if you take that article up from the table without this rule, we will
 undergo the sam" delay and contro- versy that iran red here the other day upon the foor, but if the Commit tee should see proper to report this rule. then when it Is taken from the table
 MT. Pettus-I rise to point of order A motion to postpone the consideration to a time certain is not debatable under parliamentary authority. The President-The question that the
 gentleman is speaking to is a motion
 to make the con5idera tiun of the mo-
 tion a special order.
 MT. PettuS-The gentleman 6 mak- ing motion to postpone to ,ime
 certain and 1t Is not debataple. The President-The motion seems to
 be to advance its hearing instead or
 postponing it. Under the regular
 order it would probably he reached | during the next session of some other Convention. They have not reached
 miscellaneous business during this Convention and this is a motion to ad-
 vace the hearing. It seems to the
 Chair the gentlemen might be heard briefly on both sides of the propos!-
 ton. .--:-. :--. Mir. Coleman-I do not feel that l can be heard at all. I wish to call attention to the fact that If the Com
 mittee reports this rule and 1t is adopt | ed, then that question will come before
 this Convention subject to Its control
 and action without the delay incident
 to parliamentary rules, and the rules
 we have adopted. and that Is all that
 Is desired. that the question may be fairly considered, not hampered by any
 rule of this Convention, and it does
 seem to me if anybody wants to meet
 the question upon its merits, there can be no objection to that rule. I there
 fore mist, Mir. President. that that mo- ton be not adopted unless you defer it
 longer. say until 4 o'clock this evening,
 or sometime when the Committee on Rules may meet and determine what l Is best to be done with the resolution f Fol