The age-herald., 1901-05-24
4 Resolution Inviting General Wheeler to Seat in the
 Convention Opposed
MAJORITY VOTED FOR II
Committee on Rules Made It's Report and the President Announced the
 Pages and Messenger Boys.
 Routine Work of the Day.

Montgomery, May 23. - Special. )-The Constitutional Convention got down to business today and partially mapped out the work to be accomplished for it. Tho committees to be raised later were named by the committee on rules and adopted by the convention.
 The session today was marked by all exciting incident in which MT. Lowe of Jefferson was the principal. The gen. tleman from Jefferson used some very strong language in the course of his re- marks and was called to order by the chair.
 The incident arose over a resolution in- viting General Wheeler to seat on the GOT of the convention. MT. Lowe object ed to the adoption of the resolution.
 The president announced the names of the pages and messengers who are to serve the convention.
 The Days Proceedings.
 Montgomery, May 23.-(Special. )-The convention was called to order at Il o'clock by President Knox, Rev. A. L. Andrews of Montgomery offering prayer.
 The presence of 149 members was an- nounced. The journal of yesterday was read at length and approved.
 The president announced the next bus mess the drawing for seats under a reso- lution formerly adopted. A motion by MT. Thompson of Bibb permitting the col league of an absent member to draw for such member was adopted.
 MT. Weatherly of Jefferson addressed the chair, saying that he desired to ask the delegates to pay delicate but appro- priate honor to certain distinguished members by permitting them to select their seats without drawing. In this list MT. Weatherly included two prominent Governors-Messrs. Oates and Jones-and two former Justices of the Supreme Court --Messrs. Callman and Walker. On mo- tion of MT. Reese of Dallas the members of the convention of 1S75-Messrs. Joel b Murphree of Pike, George P. Harrison of Lee and John F. Burns of Dallas-were included in the motion, and upon sugges- tion of MT. Wilson of Clarke, Hon. Dab- ney Palmer of Choctaw, who is cripple, was also added The motion was then adopted without opposition.
 At this juncture, Mir. Case, the member from DeKalb arose to a question of per sonal privilege he said, and read from a newspaper which had stated that the member was opposed to the Democratic party. MT. Case was elected as an anti Democrats, and he started out to explain HIS pOllLlCb, WHtH ue WdS llltTIuplcd HilI the point of order that the gentleman from DeKalb was not stating question of personal privilege. The president per mitted MT. Case to proceed with his re- marks for moment when MT. Lowe again insisted that the member was not stating question of personal privilege. President Knox sustained the point, when MT. Case exctedly exclaimed, T call for a division, MT. President; I wish to be bao r1 Ia h. ter among the members, and the presi- dent asked if the gentleman desired to appeal from the ruling of the chair.
 "I do call for a division,' replied MT. Case, and when the appeal was put, the chair was sustained by a unanimous vote
 Seating the Delegates.
 The work of seating the delegates was then begun all of the chairs being va cated and as the names of the delegates were drawn from the hat by the blind folded page, the members came back into the hall and selected their seats. The seating of the delegates created con- siderable amusement. The eight delegates permitted to first select their seats se- cured good positions, as did possibly the first one hundred name drawn, but the others fared badly because of the crowd ed hall, which is much too small for SC large body of delegates.
 The Jefferson delegation secured fair ly good seats, Messrs Ferguson, Selheim- CT, Cornwell, O'Neill, White, Howze and Beddow securing benched seats in the Southeast corner of the hall Messrs Lowe, Cunningham and Weatherly were among the last drawing, and they are on the Southwest side, but not together.
 MT Blackwell of Morgan, who was the author of the resolution to draw seats, was one of the last names called, and the delegates cheered and "jollied' him as he entered The Montgomery Adver- tiser supplied special representative to see that Hon. R. B. Kyle of Etowah se- cured a comfortable seat. MT. Kyle sug- gested the idea some days ago to move the convention to Birmingham. The last name drawn was that of John F. Burns of Dcllas, who had surrendered to Col. John W. A. Sanford of Montgomery his right to a privileged seat. There were no seats for several of the last names drawn, among these being Messrs. Lomax of Montgomery, DeGraffenried of Hale, Earns of Dallas, Williams of Marengo, O'Neal of Lauderdale and Wilson of Washington. The doorkeeper was direct ed to supply additional desks.
 When the delegates were all seated President Knox announced the following committees authorized by resolutions adopted yesterday:
 Committee to arrange for opening ses- sions with prayer-Messrs. Howell of Gle borne, Watts of Montgomery and Black well of Morgan.
 Committee on Rules-President Knox. Messrs Smith of Mobile; Cunningham of Jefferson; Lomax of Montgomery Harri- son of Lee; O'Neal of Lauderdale deGraf- fenreid of Hale; Browne of Talladega and Hehin of Chambers.
 Committee on Proposition to Have Pro- ceedings Geographically Reported-Mes- SITS. Oates, Rillans. Merrill. Browne, Fos- ter, Hood, Ashcraft and Weatherly.
 Lowe Caused Stir.
 A motion by MT. O'Neal of Lauderdale to invite General Wheeler to a seat upon the floor of the hall and extend to him the privileges of the convention, caused a very sharp debate, the same being viz orously opposed by MT. Lowe of Jeffer- son.
 MT. Lowe stated that if exceptions were to be made as to the rights of different citizens to the floor of the hall, he desired to knoxv where if would stop. The con-