The age-herald., 1899-05-13


 Nays-Messrs. Brooks Case, Hurst, Lee, Matthews, Mccain, Moody, Nunnellee, Sowell of Walker, Windham-1O
 MT. Brown changed his vote to aye to move to reconsider, but it will not pass. The president decided that 1t took two thirds of all the senate or 22 aye votes to pass the bill, but there was bare majority and nothing like two-thirds of those vot-. ing even.
 Primary Election Law Passes The house passed the primary election law by S6 to 34. The vote was tie, S4 to S4, before the vote was announced, and Messrs. Smith and Mcclure voted aye and Messrs. Speaker and Tunstau changed their votes to aye to reconsider, and that made the final record 3S Nto S2 The bill will hardly be passed, and, as has been predict ed all along, nothing further will be done. The fight Will come up in the house to- morrow over the eligibility of MT. Brandon of Tuscaloosa and MT. Mcclure of Russell to seats in the house. st MT. Brandon has been appointed to an office of profit, that of adjutant-generaI the constitutionality of his holding two offices at the same time will be raised. It is alleged that MT. Mcclure has moved to Montgomery, and is no longer a citizen of Russell county. In substantiation of this 1t is pointed out that he voted in the last city election here.
 JenI las amendment
 The following is the suffrage amendment introduced by Senator Jenkins:
 Section l. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Alabama, That the follow ing amendment to section 1, article VIII. of the constitution is hereby pro- posed to be submitted to the people of Alabama for their consideration, as hereinafter set forth, viz: Amend said section of Article VIII. by adding the following thereto: Sd. And provided further, that every elector as a qualifi- cation for voting shall be able to read any section of the constitution of this state, or to give a reasonable interpre- tation thereof when read to him. or he shall be able to exhibit proof by two creditabe witnesses of having served his state or country in the capacity of soldier or sailor during any war since 1861, or is the legitimate and lineal de- scendant of such.
 Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That at the general election to be held on the first Monday in August, 19O0 the quali- fled electors shall vote on said amend ment, and it shall be the duty of the probate judge in each county of the state to have printed upon the official ballot to be used in their respective counties at said election, the words "For Suffrage Amendment" said words to be printed after the names of candidates for state and county of- fees and directly beneath and under said words said judges shall cause to be printed on said ballots the words Against Suffrage Amendment" Any elector desiring to vote for said amend- .I,o 1n hU making mark thus CX) on @ line with the words "For Suffrage Amendment. Any elector desiring to vote against said amendment shall do so by making cross mark thus (x) on line with the words Against Suffrage Amendment"
 Sec 2. Be 1t further enacted, That the votes given on the proposed amend nent--to- the constitution are to De counted and estimated in the same manner in all respects as the vote or representatives to the general assembly, and A statement~of the number of votes givan for or against said amendment must be made to the returning officers of the county, in the same manner as the returns of general lections are made to such returning officers, by the same person and within the same time, ana the said board of supervisors must make returns of the same to the secre-s tary of state within five days after the same has been ascertaned and de- clared by them
 Sec. 4. Be 1t further enacted, That within fifteen days after the time for making the returns the governor in the presence of the secretary of state au- ditor and treasurer, or either of them in the absence of the other, must esti- mate and open the returns, and ascer- tain and declare the result, and If it shall appear that a majority of all the qualified electors of the state, who voted at such election voted in favor of said proposed amendment, 1t shall be the duty of the governor to make known -z by proclamation the result of said elec- } tion and said amendment from the date of said proclamation shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of the constitution of Alabama
 Sec 5. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the governor to make publication by proclamation at least three months before the next general election for representatives of the amendment proposed by this act, to be subhitted to the people for their consideration, and shall cause said proclamation to be published for three months by weekly insertion In at least four papers published in this state. --