The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-21

bered but suppose deie8Ate mas to go through and number bis stenographc c report with pen or pencil, that is very small matter, very small indeed. and you can get one or these number- ing concerns, you can borrow it from your neighbor in any town they have them, and in that way number the rages. There is a provision that five copies shall be sent to each member of the Convention, that will cover all that any one may desire for his stenographic report, and I want to say further that on investigation I find you can have your stenographic report bound with the index in 1t for about 2. 50 or $3. and you will have a book that twenty-five years from now will be worth $25 to $100 to you. It is necessary to have the index to refer to speeches and articles the reasons why certain thing was stitution, you will want to refer to these speeches and the different views of members, and the quicker you can | get the index, the better. MT. Graham (Talladega)-The gentle | man who. makes the index would have sixty days in which to complete it. Mir. williams--Yes sir but the Secre- | tary thinks 1t can be done in the sixty days.
 MT. Reese-I rise to point of order. This is not debatable.
 The President-The point of order is well taken.
 ,Mr. WiIliams-As the gentleman was arguing the proposition, I thought l might make a statement. | The Preeident-There is special or | der for Il o'clock this morning. The Chair thinks that the motion to suspend | tho rules does not relate to the order | O. business.
 Mir. 7W.lliams-I understand that 1t relates to everything. To suspend the rules and to consider this immediately. < The Presidential is moved that the rules be suspended.
 | MT. Watts-There is special order | for this hour, and I ask that it be passed on one way or the other. | The Presidential would be-in order | for the Convention to d.splace the spe- eial order.
 | MT. Watts--I understand that, but simply cafl attention to the fact that | there is special order for this hour. | Upon a vote to suspend the rulss, a division was called for, and by a vote of 36 ayes and 31 noes, the motion to suspend the rules was lost. | Alr. Heflin (Randolph)-I am di- rected to report to the Convention the contract made with the Brown Printing Company for the printing of the Jour nai and ask that it be read. | The President-The gentleman asks upnan.mous consent to make a report of the Committee on Printing and Inci- dental Expenses The special order for this hour $ the consideration of another matte.
 M. watts--I object.
 Mir. Heflin (Randolph)--I have not | finished my report, and l think l am entitled to finish that. | The Presidential seems to the Chair that the special order would displace the further consideration of the report. | Mr. Heflin (Randolph(-ThenI I move that the rules be suspended and that be permitted to take up the report. | The Presldent-The Chair will hear the report and then hear the special or der of the gentleman from MontgoLl- cry.
 The Set retary read the following re- port from the Committee on Schedule | and Printing:
 To the Honorable Committee on Sched-
 ule. Printing and Incidental FIX | psnses:
 Gentlemen-We will print one thous- | and Q.0OG) copies of the Journal of tilt Constitutional Convention as follows: | D 50-pound book paper, sLine cu thty aS that in the Supreme Court of Ana bama Reports, and in the same style of | type tsmall pical for 65 cents per page VIII bind in full cloth one thousand r Q,OOO) copies for r cents each, lettared las may hereafter be d acidcd. To he sewed on five bends, cloth to be as sam Die shown Qualification of Morris Pa perE. N. Y.) | Is gned.) The Brown Printing Co. J. Il. Crenshaw, Sec. and Treas,
 We th4 Committee of the Constitu- tlonal Convention apHointtd as direct ed to contract for and let the printing and binding or the Journal of said Con- l Ventlon. hereby award the contract for the said printing and binding to The Brown Printing Company, in acc ord ance with the bid 'hereinabove sub nitted and accepted by us.
 John T. Heflin Cn2irman Committee on Schedule. | Printing and Incidental Expenses
 August l,th, 1901.
 MT. Heflin-I will say to the Conven- tioh that We had authority 10 makc this contract. We have closed the con. tract with the Brown Printing Com. Eany' anu l now ask that it be pr. mt j in the journal. and that the contract b filed with the Secretary of State.
 Ife Presidential is so ordered. The contract will be spread upen the journal and filed with the Secretary of State.
 CMr. Browne took the chair).
 Mir. BuIns-I rise to a question ot privilege. I want to ask this Convep- tion to extend the privileges of the fioOi to lion. Benjamin H. Screws. President of the Democ' attic Caucus, and also a gallant Confederate soldier and who was Secretary of the Convention of 1875.
 The motion was carried.
 The special order was taken up.
 The Secretary read the amendment of Mir. Watts as follows;
 Amend Section 17 of the report of the Legislative Committee by add ng thereto the following words, viz: No negro shall be permitted to hold office in this State"
 And the substitute offered by MT Burns was read as follows: And no person who is not a white qualified voter shall hold office in this State" MT. Watts-I hope that the Conven- tion will take up this proposition and settle 1t one way or the other today. 1 think that the shapA of it should be changed little. and that it should be made a separate section in the Miscel- laneOus Provisions in the Constitution It was put in as an amendment to Sec tion 17 of the Legislative Department but as 1t was laid on the table at that time, to be taken up at the pleasure of this Convention. I had the honor at that time to address this Convention and to demonstrate to them that the provision is thoroughly within the fs