The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-03

astrous contract or not we will have to Mr. Fltts--ff these amounts are scaled down to what Is equitable and right, won't those parties accept those amounts | and release Mir. Hasson?
 MT. deGrafenreid-He tells me not. lie made an express contract with each one I tc pay the amount he asked.
 Mir. Firts--I do not want him to get Into any trouble about 1t.
 MT. deGraffenreid-I have no t'terest | In tho matter personally. He came to me a month ago and told me these facts,
 sas ns sad $ made n nsss asod S sna would pay the money if the State did not That he felt he ought to do 1t.
 prizes are msy es rxee, sive. don't know anything about that. | know nothing about the facts. MT. Graham tTalladega)-Isn't it fact | of years experience. and ought to nave made?
 | Mir. deGraffenreid-I don't know about that.
 Mr. Graham-He has had number of years experienced?
 CT he has,-whether he ever waited on A Constitutional Convention before or not'
 Mir. Barefeld--I want to ask the gen- | then the President of the Convention ought to have appointed a Committee on Expenses to look into the States affairs they go and made a contract. end th , State Is charged three times what It ought to be, ought the State to pay 1t because the agent bought 1t? Mir. deGraffenreii-I have nothing to do with what the Convention ought 10 have done. know what they did do. l know they authorized Mir. Hasson to make these purchases: and ! am intorhea tness tnat na
 Mir. Rogers~what is the whole amour;
 Mir. deGrafrenreid-About s5o.
 MT. Rogers.It k too small a matter lay the money and let 'is go on.
 and gentlemen of the Convention, I want tu state on behalf of the Committee that this report has been held up for about os. them, have been bef ,rc this Commit tee. they have been heard time cild agsin pnd we had a meeting again this morn . ing and 1t w,s unanimols that the S2m' om If the s1ats of Alabamt Is to pay any price, ard to pay three ar Tour prt:>s for articles furnished, ycu do no. vced 2 the Convention wants to take the respon- sibility and pay these amounts regard less Of right or justice or equity, st is want to say to YOU gentlemen th1t that item ,f S22 for the desk used by MT. de- Graffenreid-it is for you t, say wh. iher IL IS worm Lnat IIhNu'lL 'N HOt ~ Np there is Mir. Wings account, $ cents each for these keys, and MT. Malone went down town and investigated and found that they, can D. bought for s. 26 1t will be a complete job. We want to pay these men all that we owe them, all that Is right and just. and no more: she has something in the Treasury, pay more fo- things than injiyi.iualsf iS 1t right. is 1t common sense? l nsLrvs net, and believe that the majority of this Convention will agree with me and pay what is right and nothing more. Now. MT. President, move to lay the amend ment offered by the gentleman from
 MT. Watts-Will the gentleman with- draw that motion for a momen-?
 The President-The gentleman declines
 Upon a vote being taken. the motion 10
 The President-The question is on the from Randolph representing the Com mittee on Schedules and Incidental Ex- penses. -
 Mir. Lomax-I desire to offer an amend nient to the report of the Committee Tn reference to the item of MT. 1orrie, 10 change the amount recommended by the
 Mir. Heflin-I rise to point of ?rdr:'. 1t Is too date. . The sorS report or the Com The President-The repSrt of the Com mittee as amended has not been adopted, the amendment was adopted.
 Mir. HAfin-I move the adoption or the
 The President-The gentleman from Montgomery moves to amend, and mo tion to amend has precedence over motion to adopt.
 The Secretary read the amendment as follows: Change amount of MT. Gorrie from seventeen fifty to twenty-two dol
 The President-Is that the same item referred to by the gentleman from Hale?
 MT. deGraffenreid-There were twenty different items in mine. My amendment
 Mir. I.onax-i desire to offer an amend ment by changing the amount to De bili rendered by him. Now the item for Gorrie is the item for this desk;
 The President-I would inquire If that is the same offered by the gentleman Mir. Lomax-It does not include all the
 Mr. Hefiin-1t was included in the
 Mir deGraftenreid-The gentleman Is mistaken. 1 will explain to the Char, if am permitted. The Committees re- port included this in a number Of items items, some fifteen or twenty, and my motlo1 was simply that we should adopt the whole bin of Mir. Hasson as he present ed it to the Committee. The Convenrlo1
  of the items in Mr Hassan's repcrt- one Is this desk, and the other the Wing matter. They were included in my mo- tiOn a number of others.
 Mir. LomaX-I desire To say in suppor- of that amendment that this desk has not been used alone by the gentleman from Hale, MT. deGraffenreid, although his use of 1t and services to the State from behind 1t were worth a great deal more than so, but this Convention au- thOrized the doorkeeper of the Conven- tion to have a desk made for three mom- lers of the Convention who were prac- tlcally sitting upon the floor at the time the order was given, having no place to sit down. and nc desk behind which 10 sit or keep their papers,
 MT. Hefiin-rhat same amendment was included in MT. deGraffenreid's amend ment and laid upon the table.
 The PTesident-It seems to the Chair that the item was included. 1t ought to amendment on the same point.
 MT. Lomax-The amendment offered by the gentleman from Hale was an amend. ment to the amendment offered by the Chairman of the Committee. It was i'm. possible for me to move to amend.
 Mir. Hefiin-I insist upon the point of ol der.
 The Presieent-The Chair is hearing the gentleman from Montgomery on the point of order.
 Mir. Lomax-As soon as I could. I of- fered the amendment. because 1 do not keeper to so out here and make con tracts that he deems to be reasonable and right and refuse to pay. This Con ventIon has the power to limit him ia to do 90. MT. Hassan Is bound to those gentlemen whether In law or not, and l do not believe the Convention ought to put that burden upon him. If We wanted