The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-21

| - action of yesterday and call 1t up again | today I do not think is right. Now | Mir. President, the members of the Press have already been extended the | privileges of the offices of the Gov | ernor, the Secretary of State, State | Treasurer. and other officers. There ! fore, inasmuch as this convention acted yesterday on this resolution, do not believe, that it would be to the interest of this convention to call up this thing | again. Therefore I am not in favor of | airing this any more than 1t has already been aired. While it was re- ceived as a matter of levity. the Press l Association has taken it seriously, and | if we take up this matter now and | air 1t again, by a representative body l of 155 men in. the State of. Alabama, it is a reflection on them. Therefore move to table both of these resolutions. The President-The gentleman moves that the original resolution and the substitute be laid on the table.
 Mir. Pettus-I cali for division of | the question.
 | The President-In the opinion of the | Chair the motion relates io both resO- lutions and there Is nothing that Is | divisible. | Mir. Jenkins-I would ask the gentle man from Perry to withdraw the mo- | tion a moment. | The Pfesident-The motion of the | delegate. from Limestone was with | drawn.
 Mir. Pettus-I rise to question Of parliamentary inquiry. Is 1t not pos sibie to have division, So as to vote on the motion to table the substitute? The President--Nct if the gentleman l makes his motion relate to both. 1t l. AH.1 he win give his motion.
 Mr. Hefiin (Cham5ers)-I hope that the gentleman from Perry will with draw his motion. This convention un- derstands the resolution. It is rot the purpose or desire of this convention know to insult the Press of Alabama, and I see no harm in passing the reso- lution offered here this morning.
 The question was put on the motion to table. and the vote taken. Mir. Greer-I demand yea and nay vote.
 Mir. White-That is too late MT. President. l make the point of order that it Is too late, as the vote has been announced.
 The President-The result of the vote had not been annuonced on the viva voce vote. As many as favor the call | for an aye and no vote will rise.
 The call for an aye and no vote was not sustained by the requisite number | rising
 MT. Sanders-I move to table the sub stitute.
 | The President-The Chair has not announced the result of the vote on the motion made by the gentleman from Perry. It seems to the Chair that the | noes have 1t; the noes have 1t, and | lution upon the table. The gentleman from Limestone moves to lay the sub stitute upon the table.
 Mir. Duke-I ask that the substitute l be read.
 The substitute was read again.
 MT. Greer-I have ujst learned that the Committee to which that was re- | ferred oniyesterday is ready to make | it's report, and we may now take up that report.
 The President-The question is on the motion of the gentleman from Lime stone to table the substitute of the gentleman from Dallas.
 The motion was carried. rr... .
 The President-The question recurs on the original resolution. .>..
 Mir. Burnett-I offer an amendment to the resolution.
 The amendment was read as follows:
 Amend by striking out all after the words i've hereby express the hope. !"
 MT. Burnett-I do not think that this convention ought to blow it's own horn, and therefore I move to strike out all expressing the hope as to what we may do, and let the press and the people consider what we may do, without our expressing any hope. and for that reason l offer the amendment. | A tolx icfO ao called for.
 MT. Greer During the votlng)-I ask that we hear from the committee, to which this was referred on yesterday. The President-The report of the Committee is not in order at this time the Chair will state to the gentleman from Perry.
 The amendment of the delegate from | Conecuh was lost.
 MT. Sanders-I call for the previous question.
 The main question was ordered and upon further vote the resolution of fered by the delegate from Limestone (Mr. Sanders) was adopted.
 MT. Pettus-I have not any lengthy speech to make on this proposition, MT. President, but in regard to the mo- | tion to reconsider the vote by which | Section 20 was adopted, 1 will state I have just been informed that the Com mittee on Legislative Department will probably report a section making the sessions and elections of the Legisla- ture quadrennial. thus doubling the time for which Representatives are elected at present, and l submit that with that innovation in the Constitu- tion it is a stronger reason why. we should not make any member of the Legislature ineligible to appointment to any office in this State, other than the one to which he is elected by the peo- pie. I voted, Mir. President, with the 1 Committee on the proposition to make the Governor of the State of Alabama Ineligible to the office of United States Senator or to succeed himself, because I realize that perhaps it was wise tc go to a certain extent in hedging against the frailty of human nature and I knew that the office of Governor of the State of Alabama, being the highest in the gift of the State. was sufficient to attract the best talent ir the State, for its own sake and fOi the fame that holding the office wouC bring to any man. That amendment as reported by the Committee in substance was adopted and the Convention by that Section has removed from the Governor of Alabama the temptation tC abuse his power, and the patronage that might be at his disposal in ap- pointing the members in the Genera Assembly to any office, and since the temptation has been removed from the Governor, if We get good man, as we shall, in the office of Governor, the only ambition which he can have and