The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-28
WILL MEET AGAIN TODAY Will Be Called to Order
 at 12 Noon. OUTLINE OF THE WORK Harmony Committees Report to Be Acted On. Outline of the Changes and sug- gestions Which Will Have to Be Considered by the Convention.
OUTLINE OF THE WORK

The Constitutional Convention will meet at noonstoday in the Hall of the House of Representatives.
 Quite a number of members came in last night, but the bulk of them will arrive on the morning trains, and py the time for the assembling of the body nearly all will be here ready to take their seats.
 The Convention completed the regu- lar business before it adjourned last Tuesday, the seventy-sixth day of the proceedings, and referred all the or dinances to the Committee on Order, Harmony and Consistency of the Whole Constitution, and adjourned until to- day, in order to give that Committee an opportunity of doing its work and reporting back to the Convention. In the interim the Committee orf Harmony has been at work and has completed it's labors and will have it's report in printed form ready to submit to the Convention when it reassembles today. The Committee found some ty- pographicai errors in its report, but they were corrected and the report will be ready for the Convention, with some changes suggested that do not inter fere with any action of the body here tofore taken, but are made to harmon lxe and make all parts of the work of the Convention consistent.
 The Committee suggests the adoption of ordinances by the Convention to pro vide for the registration of those who are to vote for the ratification of the Constitution to prevent confusion, fraud and irregularity in the election. Under the present arrangement, those in cfties of over 5000 inhs bitants could not vote at all. It is recommended that all be rsgists cred for this election. Also the adoption of an ordinance to authorize the Legislature to repeal any ordinance adopted by the Convention and not made part of the Constitu- ton. just as other acts are repealed l by that body.
 Also the adoption of an ordinance to | give resident citizens the right to bring s,,it in ths State against foreign corpo- rations on causes of action which may have occurred in other States. There l will probably be a minority report on | this suggestion.
 Also an ordinance to change the time | of inc meeting of the Legislature from the second Tuesday after the first Mon- day in November to the second Tues day after the first Monday in January. SO as not to have the session tnterfered
 with and divided by the Christmas noI- | idays. as has been the custom TOT
 wears. It is suggested that the election does not occur until in November and | that there will be barely time for tne | returns to be sent in by the time Tor
 the meeting of the Legislature. rae | terms of the present State officers are to he extended and the inauguration | of the Governor and other officers to De | changed in accordance herewith. These are the principal suggestions
 to be made by the committee ana IL Is | Al. xx,fll hkA long de-
 hate upon any subject yet to come pe-
 fore the Convention. hence 1t IS pre- | dicted by many of those in a position | to judge that the Convention will get | through with its work by Saturday and | adtourn sine die. It is proposed to | have the instrument copied article Dy | a article as they are adopted and finally
 acted on and in that way save much valuable time.
 If there should be any unexpected dAhate aroused on any subject, the
 session may be prolonged until into
 next week, but it is pretty safe to say
 that 1t will not be extended beyond the last of the week at the furtheet. | The Sheriff's Association of Alabama,
 if is reported, is to meet in this city l today to inaugurate movement to get | the convention to adopt the views or i the sherifTs in regard to these omclais.
 As the article stands at present the
 sheriffs are not to succeed themselves
 and are to be impeached as other of-
 ficers, just at present. resolution
 was reported favorably from the Com
 mittee of Executive Department on the l day before recess, which was intro- duced by Mir Long of Walker, instruct | ing the Committee on Harmony and Consistency to so amend the ordinance l on Executive Department as to strike out the words "and shall be ineligible
 as such officer as his own successor,
 wherever they occur therein and in-
 sert in lieu thereof the AsAaowing: "who | shall be, eligible to succeed himseS but not for more than two successive
 terms" also by adding at the end of the section the following words: And the Governor, when satisfied, after
 hearing the sheriff that he should be impeached. may suspend him from of flee until the impeachment proceedings
 are. terminated" This resolution was laid on table and ordered printed and is yet to be considered.