The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1907-10-01

er, the personificatlon. the very essence
in the accomplishment OF all the good
things enacted in that Convention, and
with no intention of detractng from the
unstinted praise and plaudits accorded
at these gatherings, is presented Candi-
date Sanders record in this Convention
as follows:
Total number days proceedings 90.
Recorded present at roll call As.
Recorded absent 2I
Days absent with leave II.
Days absent without leave 10.
Total number division roll calls I2O.
Recorded absent So.
Voting 62
Affirmative effect 80.
Negative effect p.
Resolutions offered none.
Ordinances offered none
Amendments offered, three-all lost.
Substitutes offered. one-loSt.
Motions offered Q. TO suspend read
| ing of Journal 2: secondlng nomination
| of sergeant at arms, doorkeeper, post
master. ;: motion to adjourn point
OF order I (sustained) call for division
to reconsider (not oifered) ]; call fof
division /.
Substitutes: To strike out all Of artl
Gle 81" Ordinance >'77, forming what is
now Article IoI Constitution, providing
for certihcation Of questions of law from
court OF Appeals TO Supreme Court.
Lost
! Amendments: Article 80, Ord 365.
sStrike out all after eases, and add shall
be tried by jury, the number of same
and manner Of arriving at verdict to
be fixed by law, Lost.
Ordinance s5S. Constitution Art. o65
After Article 4 add: No corporation of
any kind shall ever acquire or own any
real estate for the purpose OF planting
or cllltivating same. Lost.
One of the continuing claims made on
1.-The voters of Louisiana for his further
lpoitical preferment by Hon. Jared \.
Sanders is the eninency of his services
in the Constitutional Convention Of 1893.
And claim for services rendered it III
the time of one of its most important
political events is not one to be ignored
|bv the voters of the State of Louisiana,
Iprovided the claim be correct. true and
unpaid, and the reward asked be not too
great. There is no doubt that the cleo
ton of this brilliant protege of the man
from St Mary (United States Senator
Murphy J. Foster) as one If the thirty
SIX delegates-at-large, as he stood or
the fresh howered slope of manhood,
his appointment on several lmportan
lcommittees. the need of the times toi
strong men to force measures Of reform
possible for the first time since the day:
of war and reconstruction gave him tht
opportunity for spreading on the ar
chives of Louisiana record for abll
4 Iitv, zeal and attentiveness that coult
E have brought him a realization OF thu
e ambition of his life sooner than ful
: decade afterward, and without tn
d strong protest which his candidacy ha
|. aroused, if indeed it be ever reall1zed.
e But was that record one which, wit
: that of services before and since. shoul
il preclude the voters of his party from
lfull consideration of any and every othe
Question before marking on their pr
/ mary ballots his name as their candl
date for Governor
The part Mr. Sanders played in tha
Convention may have seemed fully glc
: rious to himself then, and may seer
greater SO at this distance of nearly
;" decade. but as spread on the archives
lies somewhat as the old Arkanss
mountaneer said the good farm land
his community lay: in vastly sma
quantities.
Or In that great Convention Mr.. Sande
y offered no ordinances.
ID He offered no resolutions.
on The three motions of amendment al
one of substitution he offered were &
lost
S. OF the sixty-six days OF proceeding
of the Convention he was recorded pre-
ed ent only forty-hve. absent twef1ty-ol
en- FEN of which were without leave.
,r-l OF the one hundred and twenty div
er ion roll calls on all questions he W
No absent tifty-eight and present siNty-tW
n OF the forty-seven ordinances on hi
passage which carried and which ma
H. Iour present Constitution, he voted I
te. only sixteen.
Less than dozen minor inconsequt