The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-17

already been taken from the table and
 is to be considered at Il o,clock? :, Mir. Harrison--Yes, and 1t will be in
 condition for our action. If we are
 to undertake, by a minority vote, to throttle the voice of a majority of the
 people as represented in this Conven- tioli--
 Mir. Pettus-May ask a question? Mir. Harrison.I decline to yield. My time is limited and the gentleman has
 had the floor.
 I desire to say this to justify the Committee who were endeavoring to devise some plan whereby the majority of this Convention can control its de- Alterations. It Is said that this Com mittee is partisan.
 I did not know, until it was stated by the distinguished delegate from Mobile. that this Committee consisted of sev- enty-two. I have constantly voted for l what I thought to be right, and have no
 interest in this matter. direct or in- direct and am perfectly willing to ac- cept any solution which majority or this Convention may desire. It the Committee were partisan, if my friend who met so often with us. had pointed out the objection. 1t would certainly have been less partisan than to decline to meet with your Committee, ana
 come here and fight the report which
 he ought to have made.
 Mr. Smith (Mobile)-Are you aware
 that the question under consideration was the school fund of Mobile, and that expected 1t to come up at the hour when the Committee met? Mir Harrison--I WAS not aware Of that, but the Committee would doubt
 less have waited on you. If you had asked for another time, we would doubtless have appointed 1t. because we have always been courteous among each other. This Committee adopted this report without a dissenting voice. The question of partisanship wasn't sprung or anything else, but the ques- tion before the Committee was desire to assist this Convention. and to aid in the discharge of It's business. by pro-
 viding a mode and manner for the con-
 duct of its business. limiting the time of debate and in every other way, as it were. acting as kind of steering com mittee for the Convention. To say that this Committee would do like the
 Judiciary Committee and refuse to act
 on what has been properly referred to It.
 Mir. Pettus-I would like to ask the gentleman a question. He yields to
 other gentlemen on the floor.
 Mir. Harrson-I will yield one mo-
 ment.
 Mir. Pettus-I would like to ask, If
 the report of the committee Is not par
 tisan in it's action. why it Is they pass
 ed over the gentleman from Jefferson.
 Mir. Cunningham. and the gentleman from Montgomery. Mir. Lomax, and
 made the gentleman from Lee the act
 ing Chaii man of this Committee. when
 1t is customary to take the Committee in the order in which 1t comes? MT. Harrison--I do not know that 1t shows partisanship SO far as Mir. Lomax is concerned. think MT Cunningham
 was absent from the Committee. I do
 not know. I certainly did not seek it.
 and I am sorry the other gentlemen did not. but, by a vote, I was instruct
 ed by the Committee to make the re- port.
 MT. Hefiin-I wish to say that I in- formed the acting Chairman, the gen. tleman from Mobile, that the Commit tee would meet at once, and reque 5ted | him to be present.
 Mir. Harrison-That makes no diff l ference. It Is the action of the Com
 mittee, and while the present speaker did not seek 1t, and while 1t may have
 been more desirable for some one else
 to make the report
 Mir Cunningham-I rise to ques- | ton of privilege. I do not desire to | contradict the gentleman from Lee, but | there was a member of the committee
 present who opposed this resolution, i though not in a speech. I have refer | ence to the gentleman from Jefferson. | l do not care to discuss committee
 proceedings, but if the gentleman will give me the privilege to do so, without | violating the courtesy of the commit | tee. I will explain.
 Mr. Harrson-I heve not heard my
 distinguished friend. If he called for
 a question he spoke so low l could not
 hear. and he has beautiful voice and | if he wanted to be heard l coL.d have heard him.
 MT. Oates-I would like to ask my friend this one question.
 Mr. Harrison--l le.i.ne 10 yield, even to my friend, Generll Dates. l. looks | like you are trying to cut tiff my time.
 though 1t is unlike yJu.
 MT. Harrison--Brie.y in concAusion 1 desire to say 1 do not care what be- comes of the pendIIg dI 4sIioa1. think and 1 think the majority or your 2onI- mittee thought that this Conventl; ;n
 should have some way provided for it to settle this vexed question, and. al- low us to conclude the laoors of the Convention. Your committee has pre-
 sented d solution of IL. 1t has present.
 Cd IL, rot in any partisan spirit. but has provided a rule for an emergency, which this Convention has gotten Itself
 into. It is true that the SHntie.nsn
 may say that those oppose to them did it, but didn't a majority of the Convention do it.
 The intimatio If the gentleman from Tuscaloosa that a certain partisan
 crowd in this Conv l'io cr.ate1 this
 emergency, I think MT. Presidcn:. 's
 answered by the fact that majority
 did it, and ought yoar Rules Commit
 tee. regardless of how they may vote,
 treat th.s resolution l.s the matter has
 been treated by aao..tcr committee,
 postpone it, and refuj je to consider 1t,
 and prevent 1t from coming hrforo the
 Convention? We have simply brought
 1t before you. We have provided "; y
 for you to settle this ,littl:ul.y, If You
 desire 1T you don't like 1t and if a
 majority is opposed to 1T. and wish to
 leave the article blank or remain Tn
 If you cannot come up like men and
 compromise on diffe:.n :es anI accept
 the will of majority, however small, then the Rules Comn!,rce has t!<-
 charged its duty. by offering you sn
 opportunity, by pointing out way by
 which you can do 1t, and ;he responsi-
 bity will be upon the Convention, "nd
 your committee will Je satisfied.
 MT. White-I move to lay tine sutcti
 tute offered by the committee upon thc
 table. and upon that .all for the ayes