The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-31

l tied down on the Capitol Senator | Spragins offered an amendment which
 struck out the provision which de.
 ciared the Railroad Commission aio | But the Senate voted down his amend | mcnt eighteen to fourteen.
 During the roll call. Senator Hinson
 permission to explain his vote Tn the campaign six months before | the primary" said Senator Htnson'
 issued a letter. to the people of my | to a law made rate. I was opposed to l. 1t because did not believe the Leg islature could inteIligently make a rate The way this bill has been con-
 sidcred strengthens that conviction. l But my partyYin convention has since 1 spoken. I cast this vote with that platform, hela over me ,s,. vdts dtseia,m ann l wash my hands of all responsibility. ! vote aye"
 I Senator Teasiey. explaining his vote, {, said in his canvass he had announced 1 he stood for reasonable rate reguia- tion. He submitted that an important bill hurriedly passed through the Leg.
 so srs rtss which sy 1sS samd ps | ing able to change them. was not req
 sonable regulation. Senator King of MarengoS declared
 chm sense of his responsibility to the | people of Alabama. He believed the passage of the bill would injure and harm the interests of the people. Raftray Hesolution Up. At 10:3o o'clock the Senate began its days work with prayer by Rev A. F. Dix. There were thirty-six sen ators present.
 The resolution raising a committee of five to visit the Alabama, Boys School at East Lake was taken up and passed.
 r. D..i.. r<-.-...~ .,.z~1 c.r. tor Gardner, called for the passage of the Rattray Resolution endorsing the action of President Roosevelt in the discharge of negro troops connected with the Brownsville affair. The res o1ution proved to be something of an apple of discord. The senators had a lively discussion before it was moved from the calendar.
 Senator Gardner spoke briefly for
 the resolution. It had already passed the House. It was an expression of the Legislature tha. the President act ed rightly in discharging from the
 army the negro soldiers who shot up the town of Brownsville. Senator Merritt wanted the resoiu- ton to go back to the committee. There was no need to raise this issue. Senator Merritt was personally of the opinion that the President had dCL6Q WtbnOQl a0tAOtAbys
 Senator Reese declared openly for the resolution. He would not have
 introduced the resolution, he said. and probably no other senator would intro- duce 1t. but since the resolution was before the Senate, he insisted the sem ators should meet the issue fairly and
 squarly. Every senator privately en-
 dorsed the Presidents action, and he saw no reason why the senators should
 refuse to do publicly what they did privately.
 ."The author of this resolution" said
 Senator Reese. lis man who fought the South four years--fought it fairly at the head of . regiment, with sword in his hand. and who, when the war was over, no longer fought the South but cast his lot among the people Of the South. Can we be less patriotic than hep
 Let us meet the question fairly and squarely. I shall demand a roll call. would like to see the senator who will stand up in opposition to the jus tice of this resolution"
 If the senator from Dallas desires l to see 6 member of the Senate who will stand up and oppose this resolu- tion he need only look at me-" said | Senator spragins, of Madison. More | over, shall give the senator the rea- | son for my opposition to the resolu- 1 ton. It would solidify the sentiment | of the North against the Presidents l action. The solidification of the sem 1 timent of the South means the solidi- l fication of the sentiment of the North" Senator Hammer saw no reason why 1 the senators should dodge the ques-
 tion. They either thought the Presi- dent was right or that he was wrong. Perhaps no man in the Senate thought 1 the President was wrong. Every sem | ator. then. should be willing to go on record.
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