The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-14

MT. Goiiie--We don't want to have our case prejudged and wrangle pre- cipitated upon us. We want the right to pass in the first instance on the question of whether we shall have 2 local contest precipitated.
 Mir. Espy-Is 1t not fact that the people of these various counties will vote on the question and will also vote for representatives in the General As- sembly and that their wishes can be made manifest then.
 MT. Solicit is but we should not put a spur in the sides of the people goasing on to them . local controversy.
 MT. Carmichael tConse)-I make no pretensiens Co orAtorical or forensic ability and have thus far not inflicted upon the Convention any punishment in the way of . maiden effort. l am not a deisgate from Dale, Geneva or Henry, but l do come from county which touches upon Dale and Geneva. and I have taken considerable interest in the question of a new county with Dothan for county seat. for the req son that was born and reared in Dale county, that the closest ties bind me to Dale and for the further reason that. having frequently had business in the southern part of Dale, which would be in a new county if established, I~know 'the feelings of the people of that sec- ton.
 Last winter 1t happened that I was in Montgomery whom there was hard fight being maas before the Committee on County Boundaries, as te the for nation of . new county.
 MT. sollis-The question was not the formation of new county but provid- in~ far q nAw cnurt N0MaA
 Mir. Carmichael-I stand corrected. It was not as to the establishment of Q new county. but 1t was practically talk ing the county seat from Ozark and putting 1t at Newton. remember the gentleman himself argued that that would be practically the result. I do not think the gentleman will dispute that proposition. As say. last winter I was at Montgomery during that con- test and I examined at that time . large number of petitions sent from Dale against putting that new court house at Newton.
 l am intimately associated with the people of Dale, and come in close contact with them as I make frequent visits in a business and social way, and can state that this is live mat ter there within my knowledge. am not so busy a man as the delegate from Dale and I say it. not in sarcasm but deliberately. I am said by friends to be of talkative nature and I think ! have seen more of the people in Dale csnunty in the last six months than has the delegate frem Dale himself. for in pursuance of business, have traveled over nearly every beat solicit ing subscriptions for my newspaper. I mat IA Gel fr iatien to the establishment of . CO., erward. and the people were alive to the question. Why, men were travel ing all over that section securing pe- titions and 1t was frequently said by the men who were caring for Ozark interest that as soon as the Consti- tutional Convention met that Dothan would have new county and that they were going to have new court house, and that would end the trouble. That was the principal argument used. The people of South Dale, with the excep- tlon of Newton, signed petition against establishing a court house at Newton with the idea that there would soon be a new county and they wanted to be in it. The people of Ozark do not oppose this provision. Mir Kirk land aided in drawing up this amend ment. The delegate from Geneva (Mr. Mulkey) has not fought 1t. I state to this Convention that l travelled all over Geneva county last winter and l state the fact that this question was being discussed, and the people of Ge- neva are posted on 1t and they favor this amendment. The people of the west end favor 1t because it simplifies he Uyka rittta IAaQAninO a great extent, if not removing entirely. any possibility of a rev about the court house matter The people of East Geneva favor it because 1t en- ables them more cheaply and easily to get to their court house to transact their business. That part of the ooun- ty has a railroad running to Dothan which does not go on to Geneva, but stops eleven miles short and the peo- pie are thus not able to reach Geneva with anything like the ease they can Dothan.
 As to the statement that this matter has not been agitated, the Dothan pa- pers. than which there are no two pa- pers in Alabama more widely circu- lated in that section or more ably ed- ited, have, for a number of years, ad- vocated the holding of Constitutional Convention for the purpose, not of en- abling them to secure new county through ordinary channels. but of act ually establishing a county by, the Convention itself and the people of that section are expecting some such action from this body My good friend from Dale Is unduly exercised and I think if we reconsider this vote and postpone this matter, when he is properly ad vis.d he himself will favor this prop osition to enable a new cOuntw to be formed.
 MT. Sollie-I think the gentleman'e fast statement is most probable, but deNe that initiate against the propo- sitSon that this Amendmen should be known to the delegates who represent that section?
 MT. Csrmichaei-Mr. Kirkland of Dale and MT. Mulkey of Geneva knew, as well as 1 did that this matter was coming up. They knew what the com mittee had reported and all about this matter l do not arrogate tO myself any superior intelligence, and I knew 1t. and they should be here and would be here fighting 1t If they objected to 1t. They have not been opposing II, they have not been going around men tionlng 1t as they would if they were ants gonistic to 1t. have been in crowds where there was talk about it and they said nothing in opposition to 1t. MT. President. move the previous question on the motion to reconsider.
 Mir. Samford-And a motion to table.
 Mir. Carmichael (Coffee)-I move to lay the motion to reconsider on the ta- ble.
 A vote being taken the motion to re- consider was tabled