The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-06
EIGHT NOT SIGNED
SOME WERE UNAvoIDABLY AZ.
 SENT ON LAST DAY.
While One Gave Public Notice of Refusal to Sign and Another Purposely Refrained from
 Signing.

There are but eight members of the late Constitutional Convention who have not signed the instrument as U was hh- ally adopted by the Convention. .,a that he purposely refrained from agn- ing, on account of the failure ot the Con- vention to provide a way for securing heart, and for which he so earnestly la- bored.
 ]. M, Foshee of Conecuh. He was the only delegate to announce publicly his re
 I' W. Grant Of Calhoun. He was ab- sent at the time of signing, but nas no- tified the Secretary that he will Stgn Vention for absent members to sign eA-
 l.. w. Lockiin of Monroe. He was ab- sent and nothing has been J .aensd as
 J. Lee Long of Butler. It is stated that be purposely refrained from s,Ei ing.
 E. R. Morrisette of Monroe. He was eossn' eo sis intentioD aan nD'anS about I signing.
 William II. Samf,'d If riks. He vas absent on account of the sickness cI . ehiid and reached sv,o the ei.y 1usaa saio%rned ST @ He has notified the Secretary that ne T E. D. willett of Pickens. He was ab. sent and nothing has been heard as 10 his intentions about signing.
 Visitors looking in sn the Hall cf the House of Representatives from the gai- lsTy yssterSays .s t oe Afternoon Papers and books are piled around on inc desks and all in confusion as Is ai- ways the case at the wind-up ol au cleaned out as soon as practicable ana the desks taken from the Senate Cham Der replaced. ~ ,,rro rt.nsher of able and influential delegates to the Constitutic nal Convention. ana their influence in that body was not eS $, celsd by those from any an SSn,s Ssner e0S9iy Mii liam c. Oates from the State at large; no delegate was more prompt m attenu n ance and more faithful to duty than ne, Incorporated % into the organic law. he got about as much as any other one member.
 There was also eX-Goy. Thomas H; eS consressionai District and his work on the committed, and in open convention. deeply Impressed every delegate and the public and he is scknowisedgeo & os, 10 ussfui nay
 ion Tennent Lomax was sent from the Senatorial District composed of Mont gonery county. and he. too, made last ing impression on delegates and left nis imprint upon the splendid document that the people ate called on to ratify; lie IS appT opristion fixed in the Constitution. and largely in that way taking the insu, s,tl, tutio out of politics. as he says they VIII not be after the Legislature every time it meets to get the money for that in- stitution. He was hard worker in conn nnittee and on the floor. ,...
 The Montgomery county delegauOn, Mesers D. A: Graham. T. H. Watts, J: w. A: Sanford and Gordon Macdonald ali had prominent pieces on committees ano took an active and prominent part in the proceedings It may be again truthfu'!y repeated that no county was more ably represented than was MontgomsTy. :.
 Mir. Thomas M. owen, the Director or the Department of Archives and History of the State, is getting together all the literature relating to the Convention that file away for future reference. He is havtng the inside history of some of the committees prepared that will make in- teresting reading.