The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-05-25
Decides to Have Verbati0n
 Report of Proceedings.
After Considerable Debate Propost- tion Was Accepted-Mr. Pat McGauly of Montgomery
 Awarded Contract-Will Cost $7o a Day.

The Constitutional Convention was in session about three hours yesterday, and adjourned until Monday at 12 o'clock.
 During this session it accomplished two things of unusual note. The first was the unanimous passage of res- olution pledging the submission of the instrument to be formulated to the peo- pie for them to vote upon. The second act of importance was the decision to employ an official stenographer. and to have daily printed record of the. verbatim proceedings of the Conven- tion.
 The question of submission came up on a preamble and resolution intro- duced by MT. Reese of Dallas. The preamble gave as a reason for the sub mission of the new Constitution to the people that the bulk of the Democratic members had so pledged themselves to ,s their constituents. that 1t was Dem ocratic pledge. This preamble was op- posed by Messrs. Pillans of Mobile, Watts of Montgomery, Dent of Bar bour. Walker of Madison and ex-Gov- ernor Jones of Montgomery. It was arRued that the Convention should now voluntarily pledge itself to submit the instrument irrespective of any previous persona, CT party pledges. Mir. Reese finally agreed to withdraw his pream- ble. Then MT. Lomax of Montgomery, offered a substitute pledgtng the ra- .eaemption of all the Democratic Par tvs platform pledges by the Convsn- tion. This substitute was laid on the table, and MT. Reese's original resQlu- ton, as altered by him, was unani- mously passed on a roll call. Every Populist and Republican present voted for 1t.
 The second matter of decided import ance determined upon by the Conven- tiou was the employment of an official stenographer and a provision for print i1E daily s verbatim. official record of the proceedings of the body. There was quite an animated debate on the subject, initiated by two reports from the special committee on tn esubject.
  mittee, presented the report of the ma jority of eight of the Committee, in favor of the proposition, and MT. J. T. Ashcraft of Lauderdale. presented a minority report, for himself only, against having any stenographic re- port. A considerable number of speak CTS appeared on both sides. and their arguments. printed verbatim elsewhere, will prove very entertaining.
 IL was an odd development that some of the most frequent speakers so far in the Convention were among those opposing the stenographic record. Gov ernor Oates provoked general laugh when he advised several of his young friends, who he said were hoping to get to Congress some of these days, to prepare for enduring stenographic reports there by experience here now. Among those who favored the majority report were Messrs. Merrill, Dent, Sol- lie, Graham of Talladega, Cunningham, Sanford of Montgomery. O'Neal of Lau- derdale, Weatherly. Espy, Sanders. Pillans and Harrison. Among those supporting the minority were MeSSrS. Sanford, Long. Heflin of Chambers, Spraggins, Grier of Calhoun, and Fitts. On final action the minority report was tabled by a vote of 80 to 50.
 The majority report prov Ided for a contract with MT. Pat McGauley of this city at $7o per day for each work ing day of the Convention. He agrees to furnish the Convention 1000 printed copies per day of the verbatim pro- ceedings at that price. It was also brought out in the majority report and the proceedings that The Advertiser was to print the verbatim reports in its columns daily.
 owing to the fact that many members desired to visit their homes, the meet ing of the Democratic caucus which was to have been held yesterday after noon to further consider the Williams case was postponed until Monday after noon.