The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-21

sist that the Chair shall not extend the rule beyond the strict letter of the
 rule. Under the letter of the. rule de-
 bate Is cut off except the Chairman of
 the Committee shall close debate. It was not claimed by the Chairman un-
 LII suggestion was made and then the Chairman turns over to another
 member the right to close the debate
 and object to that. The President-The Chair cannot re-
 call the language of the rule just at this time. but the rule provides in the
 recollection of the Chair thai the S9n-
 tleman may yield his time and that
 Is the. universal practice, 20 that it
 Is not in the power of the Chair to deny
 to gentleman the right to yield his time.
 Mir. Long-Before you make your ruling I would like to inquire if the
 gentleman from Montgomery (Mr.
 Jones' did not yield his time to the gentleman from Montgomery tMr. San forD on this matter?
 Mir. Jones (Montgomery)-I yielded on an entirely different proposition, on the substitute which has been laid on
 the table. and Is not before the House. The President-Will the gentleman from Montgomery allow the Chair to
 rule on the question presented by the delegate from Walker. The gentleman ndu U EiBHl tO ulS- cuss this in the opening and he yield ed to the delegate from Montgomery, Mir. Sanford. The Chairman also has | a right to close the discussion and he yields that time to MT. Sanford. The previous question having been ordered, the gentleman has the right to con- clude. Under Rule 17, the Chairman of the Committee has a right to close the debate after the previous question I tC hair a n nf mittee or the mover of a proposition
 notwithstanding the main question has
 been ordered. has, under Rule l7 thir- | ty minutes to conclude the debate and the Chair recognizes the gentleman
 from Montgomery. MT. Sanford.
 Mir. Sanford-Mr. President, the pres-
 ent Constitution of the State of Ala
 bama, adopted no seal in 1875, except provisionally we will use the present
 seal until the General Assembly shall change it. Evidently that Convention contemplated a change. and an early
 change. from a figure that represented nothing in Alabama. It is simply a | bunch of feathers. that Is abhorent to
 a great many of the people of this l State. It does not show anything of | the characteristics of Alabama. either
 with regard to it's topography, its his- | tory, or the character of It's people, | The bird that it represents, as was said yesterday Is bird of prey. It's hab- l fiat is all over the American conti- nent; 1t represents nothing peculiar to
 the State. and 1t has this distinction, | that 1t is one of ten other States which 1 has an eagle, or an eagle and some combination with other figures, as the seal of a great commonwealth. That of itself is objectionable. Mississippi
 has the eagle. Illinois has the eagle,
 foreign states have the eagle. Equa- dor. Bolivia and Austria has an eagle with two heads, Russia has an eagle with two heads, to show that 1t preys | doubly as much as any other nation upon the liberties of her people. can see no reason why Alabama should | adopt this particular insignia or em- blem for it's great seal, by which the people of Alabama make known It's will and it's power. I hope that this will not be adopted as the seal of the ! State of Alabama, not even provisional ly, as the report of the Executive Committee suggested, until 1t shall be changed. If 1t be until 1t shall be changed, that con- templates that 1t shall not be permanent. If it be not permanent. why not change it by this Convention? It has ample power; more power than any Assembly that will meet again possibly in twenty-five years. We come | this particular question was not de- bated, it was as much within the pos- abilities that the seal would be changed, as that many other provisions in the present Constitution would be altered. and I can see no reason why | we should adopt this. Therefore. MT. | President, if I shall be in order, and | I ask for information, l would move | that shis section of the report bc de- | feated, and that a committee be desig- mated for the purpose of suggesting | design for Great Seal.
 Why do you want this? have heard | no reason given for 1t. The commit tee reported it first or contemplated its report to it as & matter of course. The Convention of 1875 did it mere ly as a matter of course passing 1t on, and putting it there provisionaliy. Therefore 1 hope that the convention will not adopt the suggestion made hy the Committee on Executive Depart ment.
 The President-The question is on the motion to adopt the section reported by the committed
 A division was called for.
 MT. Brooks-Mr. President, I request that 1 be recorded as voting for 1t. I was out of the hall when the vote was taken.
 MT. BrOwne-I make the point nt or- der that it is too late for a delegate to vote on a division. after tho vote has been taken, if he was not in the Convention at the time the vote was taken.
 The President-On an aye and no vote the gentleman could have his vote recorded, but on q division the Chair thinks the point of order Is well taken.
 By a vote of fifty-four ayes Co forty eight noes the section as reported by the committee was adopted.
 MT. Jones (Montgomery)-I ask unanimous consent to allow this com nnittee to report as to a matter con corning a section of this article, which was referred to it, and also as to one of the resolutions referred to the com mittee. AThe consent was given, and the reso- luton reported favorahly by the com mittee was read as follows:
 Resolution 151, by Mir. 0'Nral Lau- derdale):
 Resolved by the people of Alabama. in Convention assembled. that it is the ; sense of this Convention that the Gen eral Assembly of Alabama should. at its first meeting after the ratification of this Constitution. fix the salary of the Governor at five thousand dollars per annum provided the same can be done without an increase of taxation in this State
 The report of the committee was