The age-herald., 1900-11-20
Identical to Measure Passed .. Two Years Ago
SIXTH DAY OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Bill Providing for an Associate Judge of the Criminal Court of Jefferson
 County lntroduced-Session Was ~ Without Special Interest.

Age-Herald Bureau Hotel Clancy, Mont gomery, November -(Special)-Repre- sentative Harwood of Greene introduced into the house today bill providing for the holding of a constitutional convention in Alabama. With few exceptions the bill is identical with that passed by the Gen. eral Assembly two years ago. The liar wood bill provides for 150 delegates to the convention 50 of whom shall come from the State at large with at least one from each of the thirty Senatorial districts. The bill further provides for the submission of the constitution as framed to a vote of the qualified electors of the State for the rati- ficaton or rejection. The date for holding the election and convention is not set out in the bill, but was left to the committee to which the bill was referred I seems to be the opinion of the committee that the election to determine the holding of con- vention sit for fifty working days during May and June. The ratification election will probably be ordered for August.
 Mir Dill of Jefferson introduced into the House today bill creating an associate judge for the Birmingham Criminal Court.
 The bill provides for the election of the new judge immediately after the passage of the act by the General Assembly, and that the judge thus elected shall hold office un- til the next regular election of judicial of- fcers in the State, when his successor shall be chosen by vote of the qualified electors of Jefferson for term of six years. The as- sociate judge is given full Jurisdiction with tho senior judge, and his salary Is made equal-$9000 per year.
 It Is provided that the solicitor of the court may employ any necessary assistance, the assistant to be paid out of the solicit or's fund.
 There were several other bills for Jeffer- son County of minor importance intro duced.
 of especial importance, seeking to regulate the employment of children in mines and factories. and regulating the hours for la bor. MT. Leath will strongly advocate his measures, but they will likely encounter strong opposition.
 The bill authorizing the issuance of honds for the building of a city hall was given favorite report In the House today It will be put upon its final passage tomorrow.
 MT. Harwood's Bill.
 The full text of MT. Harwood's bill pro viding for constitutional convention fol- lows:
 To Be Entitled an Act TO Provide Tor
 Holding Convention to Revise and
 Amend the Constitution of This State.
 Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Alabama, that on - an election shall be held in the several counties of this State for the purpose of determining whether or not a convention shall be held to revise and amend the con- stitution of this State, and at that election the question of convention or no conven- tion shall be submitted to vote of the qualified electors of this State, and If majority of the voters voting at said elec- tion shall approve Of the holding of con- vention for the purpose stated, said con- vention shall be held as hereinafter pro- Vided
 Section g. Be 1t further enacted, that at the election provided by the first section of this act, every qualified elector who ap- proves of the holding of such convention shall declare the same by depositing his ballot at the voting place where he may be entitled to vote by marking cross mark before the words For Convention" written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, thereon, and every qualified voter of this State voting at said election, who Gsapproves of the holding of such con- vention, shall deposit his ballot, marked with a cross mark before the words "No Convention" written or printed partly written and partly printed thereon.
 Section 8. Be it further enacted, that at the time of said election. delegaes to such
  the several counties of this State, the same number that they are entitled respectively to representatives in the lower house of the General Assembly, and by the State at large, fifty. The names of the nominees for delegates from the counties, respective iy and for the State at large shall be put upon an official ballot to be prepared for the purpose of the election, which shall be separate and distinct from the ballot In which Is printed the words For Conven- tion" and "No Convention" The names of all candidates from the State-at large shall be printed upon said ballots, who may be nominated by some party convention or caucus, or by petition in the same manner as State officers are nominated under the general laws of this State. The names of all candidates to represent the county in which the voter lives shalll be placed upon the official ballot for the county in which the elector casts his vote, who may have been put in nomination by some party convention or caucus, or mass meeting, or by petition, as now provided by law for the nomination of candidates for county officers in the general election. The voter shall express his choice for such candi- dates from the State at large by making cross mark before the names of fifty dele gates for whom he desires to vote, and shall Express his choice for candidates from the county in which he lives by making a cross mark before the names of the number of delegates to which such county may be en- titled in the lower house of the General Assembly. The official ballots containing the