The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-18
for ,nree years ana w.tharaw ths

for three years and withdraw the proposition.
 Mir. Grayson-I rise to a question of personal privilege. The gentleman from Walker declines to answer question and I want to correct a state- ment that he made. He made the state-
 ment that had voted for the majority
 report of the Committee on Represent ation. Where the gentleman got that information don't know. l never
 cast such a vote.
 MT. LongL understood the gentle man voted flor the increase. If l have been niisinformed, regret 1t. MT. Jones (Montgomery)-(To MT. Oates, who had been recognized.) Will the gentleman from Montgomery allow me to send up an amendment MT. Oates-Yes.
 The amendment was read as follows: Amend Section by adding at the end thereof the following words: No mem- Der of the Legislature shall ask. re- ceive, accept or use for himself or for the benefit of another any free pass or any ticket sold at a discount other than as sold to the public generally Any member of the Legislature vfolat- | ing the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on con- viction shall be fined s250 and forfeit | his office.
 The President-The amendment is not | in order.
 MT. Jones-why.
 The President-There Is an amend ment pending.
 MT. Jones-There can be two amend | ments.
 The President-No. MT. Jones-Then offer lt as an amendment to the amendment. MT. Oates@I will ask my colleague | to withhold it. It is not germane- MT. JoneslI will withdraw 1t as ]
 got the floor by the courtesy of the | gentleman
 MT. Oates-As soon as this section | was read the delegate from Dallas
 jumped up, got his amendment in with | reference to the number of Senators and Representatives. Now 1t Is strictly | within the jurisdiction of the Commit tee on Legislative Department to re- l port the number of Senators and Rep-
 resentatlves and it is the province and l duty of the Committee on Represent
 ation when that question Is settled to | apportion the number which the Con- vention fixes upon for counties and | districts, but the Committee on Rep 1 resentation jumps in here with a con- | trovensy between themselves about the | number.
 Speaking for the Committee on Leg
 islative Department, this matter was
 fixed by the committee and they were | of the opinion that we should retain
 the number we have now, B Senators
 and 100 Representatives. There Is no
 minority report on that. 1 Whatever may have been the figur- | ing of the Committee on Representa- l tion in reference to the apportionment,
 they have not been In harmony with
 each other and knowing that I have
 gone through the apportionment to see | what codld be done and to see whether
 the present nupber would do any l wrong to the State.
 ] The apportionment accepts the uni | versal rule that every county shall have l a representative and the apportion-
 ment in respect to any additional rep
 resentatives and Senators is purely ar-
 bitrary. As a rule we take the popu-
 lation as a basis and approximate as | near as We can so as to do the least l injustice to any part of the State. | In going over these nsatters I have
 found that it is perfectly practicable to
 redistrict the State into 33 Senatorial
 districts without doing any gross injus-
 tice to any part of the State. I will
 say personally have no interest in it
 at all except to do my duty. I notice
 in theirapportionment they begin with
 Ehe northern part of the State.
 begin in the south. making Mobile with
 62. TAO as the First Senatorial District. a