The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-20

| A3lAklNG 0Ett4TlnAEAkk Mir Reese-I do not.
 Mir. O'Neal-Does the gentleman deny | that the effect of this will be to in. crease the independence of the Legis-
 lative Department?
 Mir. Reese-I don't think 1t will have | that effect think everything tha | has been done in the past If there have | been such things done by men to gel an office for themselves will be con | tinued for the benefit of the men they | represent and Mir. President. the mer | who seek these positions of Railroad Commissioners and Convict Inspectors | and other places select their represen. | tatives and send them here upon thai errand to accomplish that purpose and l they will do 1t and when you debai l honorable and capable men from be- | ing appointed to these offices it will be easy for the prospective candidates foI | those offices to select their men to run | to represent them.
 Mir. O'Neal-Did understand the gentleman to say that the best men dc not come to the legislature? Mir. Reese--I unquestionably did say so.
 MT. ONeal-If that is true, do you | think it wise to allow the Governor te | appoint men to high and important of | fees from the legislature? Mir. Reese-The gentleman's question is an argument in favor of the propo- sition make. I do not concede the | last proposition made by the gentle man to be true. He evidently insinu- ates that the legislature sas at present | organized is composed Of unfit men to these appointments and still he pro poses to further lower the standard of | the legislature by eliminating great nf1NaS nf this kind. We do have some men in that body who have sufficient patriot ism to make the sacrifice necessary to 20 to the legislature and those men should not be debarred. MT, Cunningham-Will the gentleman permit me question? MT. Reese-Certainly. 2 Mir. Cunningham-Does the gentle man from Dallas advance the argu- ment that the hope of appointment to office should operate as an inducement for distinguished and able men to or fer themselves as sacrifice for ser vice in the legislature? MT. Reese--No. sir; I do not. MT. Cunningham-Then I misunder- stcod the gentleman's argument. Mir. Reese-The proposition l desire to impress is this: That we do have a difficulty now in getting able men to go to the legislature. Sometimes some of them do come and I ask you not to put a further obstacle and handicap on them by saying to them If you do come you shan't have any office during the four or two years for which you were elected. MT. President. have not seen any greaf abuse of this as far as my observation has extended. The abuse has mostly been made by mem bers of the legislature who are sent here by these men who want these ot- fees and generally the influence Of the lepislature has ben used in behalf of mn who are not members of the Gen eral Assembly. Sometimes there has been an exception, probably numerous exceptions
 Mr. Samford-I now move to lay the
 amendment of the delegate from Bloo on the table.
 MT. Cunningham-Andu upon that the ayes and noes are called for. The President-The gentleman moves to lay the amendment of the gentle man from Bibb as distinguished from the gentleman from Limestone on the table.
 Mr. Samford-I understood that was accepted, by the delegate from Lime stone. l moved to lay both of them
 on the table.
 Tie President-The ruling of the Chair is that after a motion has been
 placed in possession of the Convention
 without unanimous consent it cannot
 be taken from it and the gentleman from Pike moves to lay upon the table the amendment offered by the delegate
 from Limestone and the substitute of-
 fered by the delegate from Bibb and
 upon that the ayes and noes are de-
 manded.
 MT. Long (Walker)-I make the
 point of order that that motion should
 be separated.
 The President-In the opinion of the
 Chair the point of order is not well
 taken.
 MT. Reese-Can understand what
 the motion is?
 The President-The motion is to table
 the amendment of the delegate from
 Limestone an6 the substitute of the gentleman from Bibb.
 Mir. Browne-I make the point of
 order that that motion is not in order.
 You cannot move to lay an amendment
 and an amendment to that on the table.
 MT. White-The gentleman from
 Limestone accepted the amendment of
 the gentleman from Bibb and therefore
 only one matter is before the House.
 The Presidential the opinion of the
 Chair the point of order is not well
 taken. The Convention can lay an
 amendment or the whole Section and
 amendments on the table. The object
 of laying on the table, as originally
 understood, is that it lies upon the
 table and may be taken from the table any time in the future that it Is de-
 sired.
 MT. Pettus-To meet the views of
 the gentleman who want to vote diff ferently on the two propositions, l de-
 mand a division.
 MT. Cunningham--I make the point of order thal the delegate from Lime stone accepted the substitute of the del- egate from Bibb to which acceptance there was no objection and therefore there is only one matter before the Convention.
 The President-The Chair has uni fornIiy ruled where amendments have been offered after the proposition has been placed before the Convention even amendments offered by a Committee to is own report cannot be accepted e&- cept by unanimous consent and unan- lnous consent was not asked in this case and the pending amendment is the amendment of the delegate from Bibb and the amendment of the dele gate from Lipestone and the delegate from Pike moves to table both amend ments.
 Mr. Pettus-And I ask a division to meet the views of some of the mem bers who want to vote differently on those two propositions.
 Mr. Jones (Montgomery)-I rise to ncint of order There IS nothing to