The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-10

tie. I have no apologies to make for that vote.
 Are men to be prescribed, are Dem- ocrats to be put beyond the party pale. because they exercised the right ol voting their choice in the primary Are their voices to be forever shenceo because on a question within the party they voted against majority
 Inherent Right of senate.
 "I announced to you, Senators, my hearty support of the Spragins resolu- tion Is is equitable, it is just. 1t only reserves to itself the inherent right of the Senate to name It's own committees. They cannot throw at the Senate the charge they threw at me that I am opuosing the administration. Why will you reject 1t? I'll tell you why Because you say, We've got a majority, and we arc going 70 oo U
 MT. Thomas then went into a state ment and argument of the powers which inhere to the three co-orulhate branches of government, the iegisla- tive, the judicial and the executive. The point to the argument which he sought to sustain by quotations from the Constitution. was that the Lieu- tenant Governor was undeniably an of ficer of the executive department.
 What do you propose to do?" asked Senator Thomas with some heat. You meet .here and adjourn from day to day without accomplishing anything. You propose to adjourn for three full legis- lative days. And across the hall the House, the other coordinate branch of the legislative department, is ready for business. But you propose to ad- journ for three full days at an expense of more than $500 in order that the ambition of the incoming Leutenantj | GN~u~ Ex~ Al a you doing? Frittering away your time at the expense of the people. You have no right to do this to gratify the ambition of any one man."
 When Senator Thomas had concluded Senator Lucien Gardner of Pike was recognized. He explained that he wished to make a short statement, as he feared he was about to be i'll, and might not return to the Senate during the day.
 The statement am about to make MT. President, may be out of place but can not afford to let go unchal- lenged the statement that l, as Sen ator, have been induced to change my views and cast my vote to please any. body. T want this Senate to know that I pledged Colonel Gray my vott before even knew that Senator Thom. as was candidate. He is my neigh. bor. and he Is my friend. ; Our dis l tricts join each other, and we repre-. sent the same kind of people
 Gardner states Position. But pledged myself to the incoming Lieutenant-Govern after thoughtful consideration of the question at issue And although Senator Thomas is my friend, and although I pledged myself to they incoming ieutenant-Governof before I knew he would be a candidate HA rnRo fA., AZ hn fA nevertheless I would have voted for the Lieutenant-G Governor naming the committee. for made up my mind only after I had thoughtfully considered the issues of the controversy ana only af- ter had arrived at the conclusion that the presiding officer of the Senate should name the committees.
 They speak of preeedents. They forget that the Lieutenant-G of Alabama has had in the past named the Senate committees, and they forget that other States>f have a Lieuten- lant-~overnor, have the Senate commit | tees named by him"
 Tn those States to which the Sena- l tor alludes, is the clear constitutional provision, the same as 1t is in the Ala hama Constitution asked Senator Evans Hinson, of Lowndes.
 T am mot prepared to say. and l
  ed Senator Gardner" I have simply registered my protest against any man l seeking to put me in the attitude of | being whipped into line.
 It was then after two o'clock. and 1 the Senators decided to quit work for an hour to get something to eat They met again at 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon. and went at the arotorical and parliamentary battle again. Sen ator Reese, of Dallas. expressed some pride in the fact that he had been se- lected to represent the county of Dal- las without opposition and by unani- nous vote. He told his fellow senators that 1t was well known in his coun- ty that he was not in politics, and that he wanted no office whatever in the gift of the people of Alabama. He in- formed the Senate. moreover. that he had only become a candidate at the solicitation of the men who led Mir.