The age-herald., 1901-05-23


 stood from an unauthoritive source that ten additional open hearth furnaces will be erected by the Tennessee Company at it's steel works located here within short time, probably soon after the completion of the rail and structural mill This ad- ditional work, if undertaken, would prac- tically insure an output from the plant of not less than fifteen hundred or two thousand tons of basic steel per day. which would enter the market in the shape of blooms, slabs, billets, rail and structural material. Estimates, it is un- derstood, are being made of the proposed i outlay covering ten furnaces with the %-~<~-%~-1~-~-%>-<<<~ point of order that the convention could not proceed with business. The point Of order was sustained.
 MT Asheraft of Lauderdale then pre- sented resolution which was adopted providing that the officers to be elected by the convention consist of a secretary assistant secretary, doorkeeper and as- sistant doorkeeper.
 Minor Offices. MT. Carmichael of Colbert placed the name of Frank N. Julian in nomination for secretary and MT. Julian was unani- mously elected W. F. Herbert of Mont gomery was elected assistant secretary; Robert Hasson of Etowah, doorkeeper, and Thomas J. Fain of Dale assistant doorkeeper.
 A flood of resolutions followed the cleo tion of officers. MT. Smith of Mobile moved the appointment by the President | c tA let @f .f,,o members, the President to be chairman. This committee shall submit an order of business, to determine what officers the convention may need, and the manner of their selection; to submit rules to govern the convention. The resolution was adopted.
 | MT Browne of Talladega submitted a resolution which was adopted. that all resolutions presented be referred to appro- priate committees when named. MT. Hehin of Chambers moved the ap- pointment of a committee of nine to as- sign seats to delegates. MT. Blackwell moved as a substitute that the members motion carried.
 MT Smith of Mobile moved adjourn ment, but the motion was lost. General Oates of Montgomery submit | ted resolution calling for the appoint ment of committee of nine to determine
 
 l ton should be taken in full by an expert l stenographer. The motion was adopted under a suspension of the rules. MT. Sanford of Montgomery submitted resolution that the convention enter I tain no motion calling for an amendment of the constitution until the president | shall have named the committees.
 The newly elected officers of the con- I vention were sworn In by the president. | The Journal of yesterday was read and | approved.
 MT. Howell of Cleburne offered reso- lutlon, which was adopted, for the ap- | pointnent of committee of three to wait upon the clergy of the city and ar 1 range with them to Head the religious l services at the opening of each session | Indefinite leave of absence was granted l MT. Williams of Barbour on account of 1 sickness.
 The First Excitement. MT. Long of Walker created. the first I excitement of the session by moving the | reconsideration of the vote by which the | Blackwell resolution for seating the dele | gates had been passed. delegate made l the point of order that MT. Long was out l of order, inasmuch as business had been | transacted since the passage of the | Blackwell resolution. The chair held the point not well taken, MT. Long having | given due notice of his intention to move l a reconsideration. 'I make the. point of order. MT. Presi- | dent that the gentleman from walker l did not vote for the resolution, and there. l fore cannot move its reconsideration" 1 said MT. Blackwell.
 And I make the point that the gentle | man from Morgan does not know what | he's talkin' about, and I therefore rule l him out of order" retorted MT. BlacK- | we'll amid some laughter. | txa e-.trsr 0f reconsideration, MT. Long said that the l plan to draw seats was nothing more than a lottery and 1t was a slap in the face or ], the churches of the State. We might as 1 well shoot craps or draw high spades TOT the seats," declared the Walker County wit He further declared that there were more gray headed Democrat present who should be given preference in the | matter of seats. Under the plan adopted, | a Populist or Republican stood an equal show with a good Democrat. The ap- plause received by MT. Long showed him | to have a considerable following. but when Captain Frank White of Jefferson | had made an appeal for justice for all members the Long following had evi- | dentIy dwindled down.
 Not as Partisans. | Captain White said the members had been elected to the convention not as | partisans, but as Representatives of the l people. The question of adopting what l the convention would do must be referred back to the people for ratification. and if it Is partisan the endorsement by the | people could not be expected. He said 1 the plan proposed was not a lottery. It was the same plan of assigning seats as adopted by the National Congress. He | did not believe the convention was ready to insult or discriminate against any delegate or the people behind him. The delegates should seek to frame Consti- tuition which both Democrats, Populists and Republicans would vote. He moved l to table the motion to reconsider the vote and the motion prevailed-ayes, S9; I nays, fl.
 The drawing of seats was made spe- cial order for tomorrow immediately after the reading of the journal, and upon motion of Mir deGraffenreid, the | convention adjourned until Il o'clock to-