The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-01

| just read it. He will read it again.
 The Secretary read as follows: "In- sert in line twelve after the later word another" the words or makes or offers to make a false return of. | Mr.. Coleman--It is ungrammatical.
 MT, O'Neal-A point of order. If the sentence be read with the amendment. it will show that 1t has no sense. | MT. Reese-My request was that the Secretary read it.. IT did not care about the other gentlemen reading It. I ask that the l Journal Clerk will be requested to read the amendment himself. U.aughter.) 1 I mean the Reading Clerk and not the members of the Convention. I want to know what was in that paper there.
 The President-Does the gentleman desire the Reading Clerk to read it? l Mir. Reese-I rise to question of per sonal privilege. What do object to is gentlemen on the floor stating what Is in the paper. Idesire Colonel Brandon to read what is in the paper that he | has in his hand.
 The President +rhe Reading Clerk will please read the paper. | The Reading Clerk read as follows: 1 "Amendment, offered by Mir. Proctor. | Insert in line twelve after the word 'an- other the words or makes or offers to I the Section would read: Also any person who shall be convicted as a va grant or tramp or selling or offering to | sell his vote or the vote of another or by buying or offering to buy the vote of another in any election by, the peo- ple." etc. s,t-..,
 MT. Proctor-I ask the Clerk to strike out the word Of" It is inadvertently put. in there. c,~
 The President-The question is now upon the adoption. of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Jackson. l MT. Burns-I want to ask if it is too late to offer an amendment.
 The Presidential Is too late. The previous question has been ordered.
 MT, Burns-I thought the gentleman from Jackson had withdrawn his.
 The President-The gentleman could not withdraw It after the Convention had ordered the previous question.
 MT. Reese-I move to table the amendment. .-..
 Mr. Boone-I rise to a point of order The previous question has. already been ordered and it is too late at this juncture to move to table.
 The President-The Chair has been ruling in conformity to the point of order. In an authority which is fur nished me. it says: "Even after or dering the previous question and up | to the moment of taking the last vote under it. it is in order to lay upon the table the question still before the as- sembly." The Chair was influepced in it's ruling to the contrary by the fact 1 that the rules of this Convention pro- hibited the making of a motion to ad- journ after the previous question had been ordered, and a motion to adjourn is a motion of higher rank than a mo- tion to table, Inasmuch as the rules do not expressly relate to motion to table, 1t seems to the Chair under the authority furnished, that the ruling of the Chair was erroneous. The Chair, therefore, reverses the former ruling and rules the motion to table to be in order. The question Is on the motion to table the amendment of the gentle man from Jackson.
 l Upon a vote being taken the motion | to table was lost.
 l The President-The question is upon the adoption of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Jackson. MT. Neal-Would the gentleman from Jackson allow me to, call his at- tention to the fact that it would de- stroy the sense.
 The President-The question is not debatable.
 | MT. O'Neal-I ask unanimous consent
 There was objection made. | Mir Coleman-I have the right to close and L yield it to Judge Walker for a moment.
 | Mir Sanford (Pike)-I rise to point of order.
 The President-The gentleman will state his point of order.
 | MT. Samford-The gentleman yielded a portion of his time to the gentleman from Jackson who took part of 1t and l the gentleman replied to him for mo- ment. and that ended 1t. | MT. Coleman-I have not replied.
 The President-It seems to the Chair that the gentleman from Greene dis cussed the question briefly.
 MT. ColemaE-I have never. under stood it as occupying my time. It Is a grammatical error and mistake that | has been made in my mind all the time.
 MT. Greer (Calhoun)-I move to sus- pend the rules to allow the gentleman to discuss the question briefly. The Presidential is moved that the rules be suspended and the gentleman from Madison be allowed to call the attention of the Convention to the ques tion.
 A vote being taken the rules were suspended.
 MT. Walker-I just want to call the attention of the Convention to the fact that as worded the amendment of- fered by the gentleman from Jackson if embodied in this provision would not make sense. I will read'at the begin ming of the paragraph Also any per- | son who shall be convictedH that would i be joined to the amendment that the gentleman offers What is the amend ment there?
 The Secretary read as follows: "Or makes or offers to make "a false re- | turn"
 MT Woiker--It would read in that con- nection: Any person who shall be convicted or makes or offers to make | false return s.. MT. Sanford (Pikel-He has not got 1t that way. MT. Walker-That is the way 1t is. The clause as proposed to be, intro duced by the gentleman from Jackson would not make sense, unless he used | the words after the second word 'an other on that line of making or of- fering to make false return" The way it is now makes no sense at all. | Mir. Proctor-I desire to. meet. the ob- jections pointed ouuby the gentleman | from Madison To substitute for the word "make' the word making" | The President-The question is on the adoption of the amendment of the gen. tleman from Jackson.
 The amendment was adopted. The President-The question is upon Ao oF hn