The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-27

the report or the CommltIee ou 0auhs and Banking does not aieo come before this report from Communities on state and County Boundaries7
 The Preeident--It does. and the Chair failed to enumerate 1t.
 A vote being take the motion te print was carried.
 Mr, o'Neal (Lauderdale)--I ask unanimous consent that the Clerk cor rect q typographical error in the re- port of the Committee on Local Legis- lation. The error is in Section s, line 4. and consists of the omission of the words "is one" after the word article"
 The President--Is there objection? Ire Chairs hears none. and 1t is SO ordered.
 MT. oates-I wish to inquire of the delegate from Lauderdaie if it was not understood that the supplemental re- port nnadu from the Committee on Leg islative Department was to be printed and considered along with his report3
 MT. O'Neal-Certainiy.
 Mir, Oates--It has not been printed.
 The Clerk-It was brought in at later day and Is now in the hands of the printer.
 MT. oates-The two ought to go to- gether.
 Mir. o'Neai-That was the under standing, and there is no objection on thA mart of the Committee on Local LeEislatien to that arrangement.
 The President-The next order or business will be the consideration Of the special order pending when the con- vention adjourned on yesterday.
 MT. Graham here endeayored to oo- tain recognition.
 The President-To what purpose does the gentleman rise?
 MT. Graham-fo address the Gen. vention on the pending matter.
 MT. Burns--I rise to question or privilege.
 MT. CaruatAan--I rise to Q point of order. The gentleman is out of order. He Is not in his seat.
 Mir. Burns-I am rislng to . Ques- ton of special privilege. My seat k there. The gentleman don't seem to know anything else that point of order, The other day rose to . question of special privilege and asked the correc- ton of remarks attributed to me that there had been no lynchings In Ala. bama. What I said was there had been no lynchings with the eonniyance of the sheriff. The record has net shown the ings in the latter haM of the fourth column. first page. am made to make a motion to table which is entirely foreign to my nature. something that I never have done. I would like to have that corrected.
 The President-The official stenog- rapher will be instructed to make the correction.
 MT. Graham (Taliadega)-Th pend- ing question is the question which the House had under consideration day be- fore yesterday at its adjournment.
 The President-The question before the Convention Is the amendment of- fered by the delegate from Pike to Sec ton of the report of the Committee on Taxation.
 MT. Graham-Gentlemen of the Con- vention. desire to address myself to the amendment which has been offered 
 Mir. Spears-I would like to offer a substitute so that the gentleman can address himself to 1t as we'll
 Mir. Graham--Not knowing the nature of the suhstitute,I desire to ad- dress myself to the pending amend ment.
 The President--The gentleman from St. Clair will have an opportunity to offer the substitute later.
 MT, Graham (Talladega)-In the dis cussion of this amendment day before yesterday, the debate took wide range, and in order that I may meet many objections and criticisms of in- stitutions now in existence in Alaba- ma, 1t will be necessary for me to be heard in a range equally wide. do not desire to impune the motives of any delegate upon this floor. nor will l in the least in my mind and heart reflect upon the position taken by any gentle man, But 1. am impressed that the question now before us Is the old leg islative fight against District Agricul- tural Schools, made vuder the guise of befriending the farmers of Alabama. shall not at this time attempt to inject a biographical sketch of myself in the proceedings of this Convention to snow that my early influences, environments and training, and all those things that go to make up the life of early man. hood of a man, that all of my sympa- thies are with the farmer, and are of such sacred character that l would not dare upon any occasion to do any thing that would be detrimental to the interest of this class in Alabama. We have had 1t urged here that we should not do certain things because 1t smacks of local legislation. Gentleman of the Convention the, climax has been reached. Under the guise of putting principle in the Constitution, we have come here indirectly to demolish ten departments in the educational system of Alabama. The District Agricultural Schools are creatures of the Legisla- lure. and this is an attempt to abol- ish the act of the Legislature. If the Legislature coming from the heart of the people created these institutions.
 MT. Greer CCalhoun)-I rise to point of order.
 The President-The gentleman will state the point of order.
 dressing himself to the question. The ARriculturaI Schools are not in gues- tion in the amendment
 The Presidential seems to the Chair that the gentleman is within the sange of the discussion.
 MT. Graham-I was going to remark, Mir, President, that k l was not in order, it would be in order to move to strike the gentleman's speech from the record, made on day before yesterday. (Applause.) I was proceeding to say that if the Legislature created these institutions, then it is the duty of this Convention to leave 1t to the Leg1sla- ture to abolish them. They are not creatures of the Constitution. Every gentleman who has spoken upon this tiosn. admitted that 1t was necessary to have fertilizers examined. It is nec- essary for the protection of the far ner and when we take him as a class the law which requires that fertilizer shall be examined, and the law which requires that these District Agricul- tural Schools shall exist and be sup