The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01

A0o6G. Flow that proposition that the gentleman fired at me explains my po- Gitton fully and exactly. We have go, e to, explain to every fellow on the sStnmp In this Staae before we can get ~1he ratification of the Contribution all 3he matters. just as do to him. ] sst6u you now we are getting too many sthings In the Suffrage Article to ex- aptain it to the people. much too much In this whole Constitution, and dare cay that every member of this Conven- stfon is getting. every day. letters from home telling them to quit making changes which must be explained to the people of the State. Now only two or three days ago got letter from one State. a Probate Judge, in reply to s,lsome business letter had written z hlm. and he added postscript calling 4My attention to this subsection and saying Don't you think you are going fo present c very burdensome question s. to the people on ratification. and in the future after that?" have had q half dozen letters from people calling my attention to this particular section. l do not care to make any remarks on these letters just now.
 Mr. Coleman-Dfdnt that Probate Judge say if he had the power to reg
 
 Mr. Wiliiams-He did not.
 Mir. Coieman--At 10 time?
 1Gr. WiIiiams--I do not think he did. ! let my distinguished friend, the Chairman of the Committee, read the letter. have no recollection of its be- ing in there. Now we have & lot of ex- plantations to make. I do not believe the men In this Convention understand < this article on suffrage. l say all of sdhem do not believe It.
 Mr. Coleman--Didn't you say yourself Sthat Judge Prowell told you so?
 Mr. wiIifams--Told me what?
 Mir. Coleman-That he would regis ter them all if he could; that he would reg1ster all the negroes.
 Mir, williams-That letter was not from Judge Proweli.
 a Mr. Coleman--Didn't you tell me that Judge Proweil had said that?
 Mir. williams-He may have said six weehs ago he would register them all. If you say he said SO. guess he said 60; do not recollect 1t.
 I say what is the use of putting this thing here to go out and to be ex- plained to the people. Give some good treason or some bad reason for IL.
 Mir Ashcraft-I rise to Q point of order. regret to interrupt the gen. tleman but he Is speaking to the amendment offered by the gentleman from Jefferson--
 Mir. williams--I will come to that in q minutes. see the gentlemans prop osition. He Is correct in 1t. .r
 Mr. Long (Walker)--I just wanted to ask one question. As amended this sections reads as follows:
 Those who being physically able to work, have been engaged in some law fuI business, occupation or employ mert. trade or calling for twelve months next preceding the time they offer to register"
 Does that not require a man to be engaged the whole twelve months? ss Afr. williams-I say that the legal construction of this subsection is that they do not have to be employed reGu- lariy for the whole tw.lve months; but 1 say you cannot go up here into these hill counties where they have the min fng element. or the lower counties where they have their turpentine in- tlustries and such industries as are not perennial, and explain that to the peo- pie in the whole time you have to ed ficate them on this ratification busi- ness, and If we realize that we have less than sixty days in which to edu- cate the people of Alabama on this whole Constitution and we have taken
 
 sou educate them to every proposition and provision in it? l cannot for the life of me. see how the distinguished Chairman of the Suffrage Committee says we need that paragraph of the subsection. They catch every negro in the Black Belt under the good charac- ter and intelligence clause. and under this disqualification clause in Section and now I move to take from the ta- bic the motion of the gentleman from Jefferson, Mir. Beddow. that was ia. bled just now, and that we present 1t for adoption to this Convention. and it Is on the motion to take from the ta- bic that raise my argument.
 Mir. Barefield-The gentleman has alluded to the tufpentine workers. l would like to ask the gentleman If he is acquainted with the turpentine men.
 Mr. Williams-No sir; we do not have many of them in my county.
 Mr. Barefield-I would like to ask is it not Q fact that those who do the manual labor in turpentine stills, if they are not mostly composed of fuBi- lives from justice from the other DOT fions of the State of Alabama?
 Mir. williams-Yes. sir; and for that reason they would go out under the good character clause, just as much as under the other proposition con- tained in Section 6, and that Is my proposition.
 Mir. O'Neal Gauderdale)-Does that apply after 1SOS?
 Mir. Williams-No, sir; hut Section . does apply after 1903. and they would go out under that. If not under the good character clause.
 MT. ONeal-Don't the gentleman url- . derstand the good character clause goes out after 1903
 Mir. Wiliiams-Of course do. but the qualification clause in Section does not.
 The President-The time of the gen. tleman from Marengo has expired.
 MT. Williams-My motion is to take from the table the motion of MT. Bed dew.
 The Presdent-The question is on the ,, motion of the gentleman from Ma rengo to take from the table.
 Mir. Coleman-1s that in order when we are discussing an amendment.
 Mir. O'Neal-There are two amend ments now. 'Te
 Mr. Morrisette-No new business has been transacted since that was laid on the table move 1t be in order.
 Mir, Wililams-The reason 1 made <he motion was because there has been new business, and there has been---
 Afr. Morisette-No new business was transacted since that was laid on the table and it is therefore in order. There have been two amendments but no action was taken on either of them &t,a Nnnvanfion