The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-30

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 % %,rsyson. wii'iams iMareugo). ireer, of Calhoun. Wilson (wash'gton). Harrison.
 Total-56.
 ABSENT OR NOT VOTING. .l~9,n:, hrs,n:, Lons twalker,.
 ,rooks Lowe tJenersonb ..uiger. Ma.oae: ,ofor Maxwell.
 :o.eman, of Greene. Morrisetts. ,,raig. NeSmitn.
 esspy Norman.
 Fitts. Pitts.
 .ies!n. of Chambers. Proctor.
 ,i,nson, kenfro.
 Jackson. Robinson. :eas:. .ens'"s .. H.l. sossr. SsSnsss,. ,irs ;;ns' ssnSsf' ssIif..
 kirkland. sorrell.
 leigh, weakley,
 ..osklin, Wnlet.
 By a vote of 61 ayes and 5e noes the amendment was tabled.
 Mir. Murphree-I have an amendment.
 strike out the word majority m Inc first line and insert the word two thirds.
 MT. Murphree--I offer this amend .ncnt because the people have invested their money, built court houses ana iails. churches and school houses. and the county site ought not to be moved oy a mere majority vote. l think IL should be two-thirds.
 MT. Greer (Calhoun)--I dislike to do so. but q majority of the people own the court houses and have a right to move them. The table is crowded, but there is room for one more and move to table the amendment. MT. Oates took the Chair. The President pro tem-The question is on the motion to table the amend ment. ,-, Upon a vote being taken a division vas called for and by a vote of 7s ayes and 27 noes the amendment was tabled. The President pro tem-The question Is on the adoption of the ArticR ao read.
 Upon a vote being taken the article was adopted.
 Article III was read as follows: ARTICLE III. p,s,rihution of Powers of Government 4: The powers of the government or the State of Alabama shall be divided into three distinct departments, each of which shall be confined to separate body of magistracy, to-wit: Tnose which are legislative, to one; those which are executive to another: anu those which are judicial to another. 4s. In the government or tnis state except in the instances in this Consu- tuition hereinafter expressly directed or permitted, the Legislative Department shall never exercise the executive and | Judicial powers. or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the | leeislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executve powers, or either of them; to the end | that 1t may be a government of Jaws and not of men.
 Mir. Spraggins-I ask unanimous con- sent to make a correction. In the 9th line of section 4S. at the end Of the line to strike out Tor" and substitute and"
 | By unanimous consent the amend ment was ordered.
 | The President pro tem--The question is upon the adoption oe the article as read.
 My. Davis (Etowah)-Ths Conven- | tion referred to the Committee on | Harmony no article on distribution or powers of government. We therefore took from the old Constitution the sec ton therein under that title and In ad- dition thereto we added the present Section 43, which was taken from the ] Preamble and Declaration oi Rights, and I move the adoption of the article as read.
 Ms. Coleman-As there hts been no vote upon this at all, 1t seems to me ii would require In anye and no vote. The President pro tem-The Chair Is of the opinion if the Convention adopts the article as read it would be suffi- cien..
 Upon a vote being taken the article as read was adopted.
 Article " was read as follows:
 ARTICLE ". | Legislative Department.
 A. The legislative power of the State shall be vested In Legislature, which shall consist of a Senate and a House of Representatives.
 45. The style of the laws of this State shall be: Be 1t enacted by the Legls- lature of Alabama" which need not be repeated. hut the act shall be divided lnts sectiont fo: convenience, accord ing to substance; and the sections designated merely by figures. Each law shall contain but one subject which shall be clearly expressed in its title, except general approprfttion bills general revenue bills, and bills adopt ing a code digest or revision of stat utes: and no law shall be revived amended O: tha provisions thereof ex- tended or conferred by reference to it! title only; but so much thereof as l! revived, amended, extended, or con- ferred sh;ll be re-enacted and publish, ed a: length.
 <. Senators and Representatives shall ba elected by the qualified elect ors on tho first Tuesday after the frs Monday In Novembe., unless the Le gislature shall change the time of hold ins elections, and in every fourth yea there afte.'. The terms of office of thu Senators and Representatives shal commnca on the day after the genera election at which they are elected, anC expire on the day after the genera election held in the fourth year afte thaiT election, except as otherwise pro vided in this Constitution. At the gen eral eitcton in the year nineteen hun dred and two all the Representatives together with the Senators for thu even numbered districts and for thu
 thirty-fifth district. shall be elected The terms oi those Senators who rep resen; thu odd numbered districts under the law in force prior to tn ratification Of this Constitution, arr
 hereby extended until the day afte ths general election in the year nine teen hundred and six; and until the ex
 piration oi his term as hereinbefor extended, each Senator shall represen
 the district esta blished by this Constl tuition, bearing the number correspond
 ing with that for which he was elected In the year nineteen hundred and si,
 and iH every fourth year thereafter all tho SenatorI and Representative I ,in,