The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10

C0mer1 campaign m Dallas County. He had yielded then because he had by Mir Conner. and he wished to assist
 in the carrying out of those policies. Reese sounds Warning.
 "But until some other Senator's" said Senator Reese, tI have lost no fight. l am not personally interested In any mans ambition. or in his hope for political preferment. wish to say, too, that the statement made by some men and published by some news- papers that the men in the Senate who have advocated the Senate naming It's own committees have been actuated by enmity of the policies of Mr. Conner. Is absolutely untrue."
 T have lost no fight. but have advocated, and I still advocate. the principle that under the Constitution. the Senate has the Inherent right to
 name its own committees. The ixnor- ing of constitutional provisions. I tell you Is danger ous and perilous. Let us not be led into 1t. A partisan Repuh. lican said recently that the county would have to look to the South to l maintain the government. as it had been maintained in the past, and ts preserve the legal and constitutional right of the people. Here first the candle of liberty was set burning and. 1 fellow senators. let us guard and pre- serve its sacred light"
 Senator Reese said he was fortunate enough to have been one of the men | who helped make the new Constitution, l and that his name was signed to that | document. He believed he was quail | fled to speak upon It's meaning He | then argued strongly the contention | that the Lieutenant-Governor was an executive officer and not an officer of | the legislative department, and, there fore. the Senate should net shift upon \ him the responsibility of naming It's | committees.
 | "will any reputable lawyer say that \ this contention is not clear? ask any lawyer of the opposing side If he will be willing to have~the Lieutenant Governor name the committees and pass legislation without having the | committees first ratified by the Senate? | If you feel it necessary to have the Senate elect committees as they are se- | lected by the incoming Lieutenant
 Governor. why do you place the naming \ of the committee with the incoming Governor
 l Blackmon Takes a Turn.
 Senator F. l.. Blackmop next spoke in support of the contention of the | Thomas adherents. He said that in his legislative experience he had never | known a vote to be changed by ora | tory, but that he felt his protest should | go on record. He drew a laugh when | he said.
 Unlike my friend from Dallas. was
 not the unanimous choice of the people | of my district" The Senate remem- bered something of the hot fight that
 had been on In Calhoun County. Senator Blackmon said the fact that | -f..a- naAr ffxy xKrac Ina tA | have the Senators ratify the commit | tees after they had been appointed by | the Lieutenant-Governor was itself an
 admission of error.
 | You meet here each day at 12 and I adjourn until the next day at 12," said ! Senator Blackmon. You begin in the l middle of the day. and you do nothing. In my county, the people think man | Is getting a mighty late start on his lday's work if he begins later than 8 I o'clock in the morning. But you pro-
 pose to adjourn for three full days and | do nothing, at the expense of the people What will you tell the people | back in the country about this?" Senator John A. Lusk apeared as the champion of the Gray forces. He spoke a bit sarcastically of the Call houn Senator's solicitude on the score of economy. He remembered. he said. | when the voice of some who were now speaking for economy, together with | their influence, had been used to secure Il an adjournment to let the Legislature l go down to Mobile at Mardi Gras festival, at an expense of more than \ S1,000 day. He intimated that talk of legislatives economy did not come
 with good grace firm men who helped to the Mardi Gras adjournment.
 Il He took up for answer the strictures that Senator Thomas had passed upon Captain White.
 LusIk Defends White
 I T was sorry to see," said Senator Il Lusk, that the remarks made by the I distinguished gentleman from Jefferson
 in the State Convention, have been mis-
 conceived and misunderstood. hap pened to be member of that body. and 1 I heard the speech of Captain White. l That threat of war to the knife, and klnfe to the hilt,' was not made to | fellow Democrats. It was made to 1 men outside the Democratic Party. It l was made to those men against whom the people have been struggling for | twenty years to recover their rights. It was made against such men as those who, few nights age, at a banquet board. denounced the Governor r-elect of Alabama, the Governor elect of Geor- gia, and the people of the two States. l.. | It was not intended for. or to be ap- piled to, members of the Democratic Party"
 | MT. Lusk took up the constitutional arguments that had been used against the plain will of the State. He had a copy of Cushing's Manual in his hand,
 which, he said, was recognized author ity on parliamentary law. That stated distinctly. that it was the function of
 a presiding officer to name the com
 mIttees. He pointed out that the gen. eral duties of a presiding officer were to preside, to name the committees and to vote The constitution clearly with | drew from the Lieutenant Governor the right to vote. If the constitution had wished to withdraw the right to name committees. it would have done it ex- pressly as 1t did the right to vote. The majority was preceding under tho
 clearly defined principle of law that a statute provision or constitutional provision. was always held to mean ! what it meant before 1t was put into the law or constitution.
 s'They ask us, why don't you accept our propositionT I'll tell you. If a man has the broadcloth and is able to