The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-14
Ordinance 42s. by Mir. Lomax;
 AM nRnT NEE

0A4AA3ahCC f~1s hy x&kA A<SAA&oNt&s M AN ORDINANCE
 To repeal Section of the Article or
 Legislative Department as report
 ed to and adopted by this Conven.
 tion.
 Be it ordained by the people of ths State of Alabama in Convention as- sembled, that Section , of the ordinonee reported by the Committee on Legisla- tive Department fixing the sessions oi the Legislature quadrennially be. and the same is hereby repealed.
 Referred to Committee on Legislative Department.
 b. Mir. Oates sought recognition.
 Mir. O'Neal Gauderdale)-I rise to a point of order. After report Is made by a Committee. 1t Is not open for dis cussion. It has to lie upon the table for one day and be printed for the con- sideration of the House.
 The President-How does the gentle man from Lauderdale know that the gentleman from Montgomery wishes to discuss the matter?
 MT, O'Neal-He said so.
 MT. Oates-No. I did not say that said | wished to make a statement in regard to it.
 The President-The Chair understood that he rose for the purpose of making some sssGtion in reference to It.
 Mir. OaIes-This report is out of the regular order and there is no rule war ranting it, but I want to state how u cannes here. The Committee or which have the honor to be Chairman. con- sidered that ordinance. and by vote of a large majority of the Committee postponed 1t. Now in suen case as that the rules aoopteo oo not provide for any report to pc maoe' and 1 made no report, Tn ohclai iosrl' of that action. but my colieague' MT Lomax. who is the autSor of the orai- nance spoke to me about 1t and de7 sired some means of getting at 1t; then mv colleague on the Committee. MT. nrooks. came to me with his mAnority report and insisted that some report he made in order that he might get ,he question before the Convention. and consented in order that these gsntie- mon might noa suppose that We III. tended to do them any in1uatlee' think 1t due to the Convention that state how it Is Their only remedy 10 to withdraw that ordinance from the committee by a vote of majority or all sthe members under the rules Of this Convention. | have simply dis- charged my duty in making the report hack here, where they can have an op. portunity to get it up, but they will hate to comply with that rule in order to get 1t up. Now the gentlemen know what have done in reporting 1t back here. 1t is in the possession Of the Convention and I do not choose to take any further action in the matter at all, The committee never instructed me to report 1t back, but did 1t In order that there might be no just com plaint of the action of the committee. and the matter Is now with the con vention.
 Mr. Brooks-I think 1 ought to be heard upon this matter, for I arp the author of the report.
 The President-The question is not up for discussion at this time.
 MT, Hrooks-I simply want to make a motion that the ordinance and the accompanying minority report. this Hong winded document" as it has ben characterised. might lie over and be printed.
 Mr. oNeal (Lautierdale)-Tkat ts re- ouired by Rule q.
 The Presidential seems to the Chair. with reference to the statement made by the chairman of the Committee on Legislative Department, that the com mittee may bring in the report or not as it pleases. If the committee does not instruct the chairman of the oona- mittee to make a report. the Chair does not know any method whereby the matter could be brought before the Convention, except by a vote. under the rule. recalling the matter from the committee. but lf the committee makes a report, and brings an ordinance back into the Convention. whether it be re- ported favorably or unfavorably. 1t seems to the Chair that the matter would be before the Convention for consideration.
 MT. Harrison-It appears from the sta tement of the chairman of this com mittee that the committee has not in- structed him to make a report. and that there is no report propertly here from this committee. move that the report be recomnitted to the commit tee.
 MT. OrNeal-I desire to call attention to Rule Al: When any ordinance is introduced. 1t shall be read at length and be referred by the President with out q vote being taken, unless other wise ordered. by tWo-thirds vote of the Convention, to the appropriate No ordinance shall be re- ported back from any committee until after the lapse of one entive legislative day. When any committee shall have reported to this Convention any article or section of the proposed Constitu- ton, the said article or section shall again be read at length, and thTee hun dred copies thereof printed for the use of delegates: and such article or section shall lie on the table at least one day and until in regular order it shall be taken up for consideration by the Convention"
 Now 1t is argued here that this re- port is by the minority. but as the Chair has suggested, 1t makes mo diff ference whether by a majority or a of the committee. it Is a re- port. and when 1t Is reportd, 1t ought to lie over and be printed, for the con- of the Convention in its reg ular order.
 The President-The point the gentle man from Lee makes is that the chair man of the committee has no author ity. according to his own statement. to make the report. and in the opinion of the Chair, the chairman of the com mittee could not by way of indulgence. or courtesy to a member of the com bring in a report. unless he was authorized by the committee to do so.
 MT. O'Neal-I call for a reading of the majority report.
 The President-The Chair declines to have the report read any more.
 MT. O'Ncal-The majority made a short report.
 The President-The gentleman from states that Is not report of the committee