The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-10

 oath, any person or persons residing In the State of Alabama, as witnesses, with full power to examine all letters and letter-heads that accompany said petitions when they are mailed from Montgomery to persons in the different counties in the State of Alabama asking for signatures.
 Tne resolution was referred to the Committee on Corporations. MT. Graham (Talladega)-I move that privileges of the floor be extended to Captain Thomas S. Plowman. former Congressman from the Fourth District. The motion was carried. Mr. Coleman (Greene)-I rise to re- new the motion of the gentleman from Coffee. It seems to me that 1t is due | him as matter of courtesy and right. The fact that 1t may have been written by some one not altogether connected | with him. We have nothing to do with the questions involved. If the letter had been written to his wife, referring to private matters, no one would have objected at sll, and I think he ough. to be allowed to withdraw it and I do l not think this Convention should pre- vent it.
 Mir. Browne-I rise to point of in- quiry. If this letter q do not know its contents. except as l have just been | informed) is withdrawn. will there he no record whatever of its contents? I understand that there is motion | made by the gentleman from Greene, Judge Coleman, to allow the letter to l be withdrawn.
 The Presidential seems to the Chair | that where petitions come from dif- | ferent parts of the State. and appar- | entity a spontaneous uprising of the people, and it incidentally comes in with the same petition, which indi- cates from what source the petition comes, it is not altogether foreign mat | ter. It comes in accompanying the | petition. It is a question of course for the Convention to decide whether | they will allow it to be withdrawn | and obscured and plotted from the records or not. but 1t seems to the Chair that 1t is not foreign matter. MT. Browne-I want to say I rise for | that purpose. If it is to be plotted out SO that we will never know what | it is, thef I desire to call for a read | ing of it so that I for one may know what the contents of the letter are. The President-The Secretary will read the letter.
 The Secretary read the letter as fol- l lows:
 | Daily and Weekly The leading paper | in news, influence and circulation. Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 5. 1901. Dear Sir:-I find that it will be most effective to have this petition present. cd to the Constitutional Convention | through a member who represents your county or district. Please be so kind, therefore, as to forward it di- rectly to the member your judgment | determines most suitable. Please inform me to whom you have sent it. Respectfully yours. CSigned F. P. Glass. Secy. MT. Coleman-I rise to make one more remark The delegate stated here, and
 we have his word for it. that it was
 not part of the report and it was sent | up inadvertently. Surely the Conven- | ton did not get possession of it in | proper and legal way, and if he de- | sires to withdraw it.. he should be al- | lowed to do so.
 | MT. Hefin (Chambers)-I would like | to inform the gentleman that the gen. l tleman who owns the letter has with | drawn his objection to it's being print
 ed in the stenographic report. MT. Coieman-I make the motion. It | is apparent why he withdrew it. l make
 the motion and would like to have | vote on 1t.
 Mir. Heiin (Chambers)-I move to lay
 the motion on the table. l Upon a vote being taken a division
 was called for.
 By vote of B ayes and 45 noes the
 motion to table was lost. | The President-The question recurs upon the motion of the gentleman from Greene.
 MT. Long (Walkerl-1 call for an | aye and no vote on that.
 The call was not sustained.
 Mir. Long (Walker)--I rise to a point
 of order. 1t is the property of this Convention and it would require a sus--
 pension of the rules. and require a
 lwo-:hirds vote.
 Mir. Kyle-Suppose the gentleman had
 sent up five dollar note in that en-
 velope. It was not addressed to him
 at all. but to another individual. and
 this Convention has no more right to
 1t than 1t would have to a five dollar
 note sent up in that way. l MT. Brcwne-I rise to a point of in-
 quiry. There seems to be some mis-
 understanding how that letter got here, am informed that 1t was at
 tached to the petition. It was not ad-
 dressed to Mir. Carmichael of Coffee or
 addressed to anybody. It was pinned 1 to the petition. WnOeVer sent the petl-
 ton to MT. Carmichael sent that to
 show why he sent the petition here.
 Mir. O'Neal-Did not MT Carmichael
 state that the letter was sent in inad-
 vertently to the Clerk and that he did
 not intend to send it?
 MT. Browne-Did not the gentleman
 know it was pinned to the petition
 when it was set up?
 MT. Carmichael CCoffee)-I will state
 that I opened the petition and as I had
 received several like it. and it was
 folded up, I don't know whether 1t
 was pinned to 1t or folded with it. I
 was striving to secure recognition--
 Mir. Browne-I will ask the gentleman
 if he knew 1t was there?
 MT. Carmichael-No. I did not know
 1t was there. I knew such a letter was
 with it-
 MT. O'Nesl-Did you intend to send 1t there?
 Mir. Carmichael-No. I did not.
 MT. Long (Walker)-I respectfully
 ask ruling of the Chair on the point
 of order which I made. ..-..
 The President-The question Is on the
 motion of the gentleman from Greene
 The motion just voted upon was a
 motion to table and the point of order
 made that the motion involves with
 drawing papers from the record. and
 1T would require suspension of the
 rules In the opinion of the Chair the point Of order is not well taken. The Convention may. by a majority vote
 1T 1t so desires, authorize the with