The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-02

I
 sary. and hope 1t will accept this
 amendment. | am thoroughly satisfied
 that there art beats in my county where 1t would be impossible to regis
 ter all the voters in one day. Tney
 need to go there more than once, put
 this requires them to do so If necessary.
 MT. OiNeal-You will notice that the
 hrst subdivision does provide that the
 Board of Registrars shall visit each | precinct once and oftener if necessary.
 So that if necessary to go more than
 once they have full power to do so.
 MT. Long-They are not required to do 1t. are they?
 Mir ONeaI-Yes. if it is necessary to go twice. If it is necessary for them
 to go more than once the law requires that they go oftener.
 MT. Long-I think the Registrars
 would be the judge of that. They
 might say it was not necessary to go more than once.
 | MT. O'Neal-You can compel them to go, if they have not registered the vot- CTS you can mandamus them. l move to lay the amendment upon the table. | Upon a vote being taken the motion to table the amendment prevailed. | The question then recurred on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Etowah.
 | Mir. Rogers Sumter)-Seventy days | Is too much. It is a very expensive
 proceeding, and it is to be supposed that in the appointment of those Reg istrars. men will be appointed who will | make it their business to get out the vote that should be registered, and register them. We are going to appoint men in all these counties who have the interest of the State of Alabama at heart. and who will make every effort to get out that vote that should be reg istered, and they can do it in going to the beats any one day, as well as oft ener, and there is no use in extending this time.
 MT. Fitts-And they are to be the judges of the vote that should be reg istered, are they not? | MT. Rogers-Certainly. | MT. Fitts-There is danger in the whole thing
 Mr. Rogers-Yes, in the whole ques- 1 tion, I believe, as stated once in his | tory somewhere. But these men if you will give them seventy days will in all likelihood take up the seventy days. Now you take my county with 960 square miles. With twenty beats in it | by this provision they can have sixty days. They could give three days to each beat in the county. That is plenty. I do not see the necessity for putting in seventy days. MT. O'Neal-I simply want to call the attention of the Convention to the fact | that If you amend it by making it sev- enty days. that we have already ac- cepted an amendment which gives counties of 900 square miles seventy five days, so the effect of it would be to give the large counties only five days more than you give the very small counties. I believe it is wise to leave 1t just as the Committee reported it. | The President-The question is on the adoption of the amendment offered by the gentleman from Etowah. Upon a vote being taken a division | was called for. and the amendment was lost by vote of 40 ayes to 55 noes. | The President-The question is on the adoption of the subdivision. 1 MT. White-On that 1 call for the | previous question.
 | Upon vote being taken, the main | question was ordered. | Upon a furthe: vote, Subdivision No. ? was adopted.
 | Leaves of absence were granted as | follows: To MT. Norman for today; | Mir. Gilmore for today, Friday and Sat urday; to Mr. Ferguson for yesterday and today; to Mir. Coleman of Greene until Tuesday; to Mir. Grayson for Fri day and Saturday; to Mir. deGraffenreid for Friday. Saturday and Monday.
 Mir. Williams (Elmore)-I ask unan- imous leave to offer a short resolution that is of importance to every member of this Convention.
 The resolution was read as follows:
 Resolution No. 2S2. by MT. Williams l (ElmSre):
 Tn order that the full and complete text, report and proceedings of this Convention may be had by each and every member of this Convention. and | by the State authorities as hereto pro- | vided. be it
 Resolved. By this Convention. that the Secretary hereof be required to furnish to the printers of the Official l Reports of the Proceedings of the Con stitutional Convention of Alabama" the proceedings of the first. second and third days of this Convention and order l.O0O copies thereof to be printed in like form and size as the stenographic re- | ports and to be likewise distributed. Mf. Williams-I move a suspension | of the rules and the adoption of that l resolution
 Upon vote being taken the motion to suspend the rules was lost and the fl0HoIutlou Was TeIerreo to the Commit | tee on Rules
 MT. Malone-I move that the privi- leges of the floor be extended to the | Hon. J. B. Ward member of the | House of Repyesentati tives. MT. Malone-I move to amend that by adding the name of Hon. w. I. | Hilliard.
 MT. Cunntngham-I move to amend that by adding the name Of Mir. Huey | of Jefferson.
 MT. Thompson-I move to amend by adding the name Of Mir. Benners of | Jefferson.
 MT, Hinson-I move to amend bv adding the name of Hon. J. R. Wood of Macon.
 Unanimous consent was given 10 ac- | cept the amendments. and upon a vote pelHg taAer the motion as amended %aG adopted
 MT. Graham (Talladega)-I move that the convention be now adjourned. A vote being taken the Convention | adjourned :..
 AFTERNOON SESSION convention met pursuant to ad- Journment. there being one hundred and thlrty-three delegates present up- on the call of the roll.
 Leaves of absence were granted to MT Martin of Calhoun, for Saturday. Monday and Tuesday; to MT Grant of calhoun. for Saturday, Monday and | Tuesday next.