The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-08
NUMEROUS CHANGES MADE
Propositions Submitted to Constitutional Convention.
Fourteenth Session of Convention Consumed Two Hours and Was Characterised by Reading of
 First Complete Report.

The feature of the fourteenth day or the Constitutional Convention was the submission of a complete report by the Committee on Executive Department. of which Hon. Thomas G. Jones of Montgomery is chairman. The com mittee reported a complete article for the new Constitution relating to the Executive Department, and its read ing consumed considerable time.
 The convention was in session but two hours and only eleven new ordi- nances were presented. At F o'clock the order of business was completed and the convention adjourned until 10 o'clock this morning. although MT. Reese of Dallas undertook to secure an adjournment until Monday. This mo- ton was withdrawn when MT. Reese , discovered it's unpopularity.
 !. The roll call yesterday morning de- veloned the presence of 131 delegates and a number of leaves of absence were granted.
 Soon after the preliminaries inciden- tai to opening the convention, the Rules Committee, through MT. Smith of Mo bile, reported without recommendation
  Montgomery raising a committee of nine to design @ seal for Alabama. Gen. sral Sanford moved that the resolution be adopted, and the motion was put to the convention, which declined to adopt the resolution.
 Blackwell's Suffrage Plan.
 The first ordinance introduced yester- day morning was by MT. Blackwell or Morgan. It is a plan of suffrage re form. An eleetor is required to have lived in his voting precinct six months instead of three, as at present. Fro ,syision is made for an educational and poll tax qualification, The soldier and -"grandfatfer" clauses are used and the time limitation upon the education al clause is fixed at the year 1910. Fer sons are disqualified from voting Tor fraud and conviction of certain crimes.
 MT. Burns of Dallas. himself Jus tice of the Peace in his precinct, pre- scented a resolution requesting the Com mittee on Judiciary to frame an or dinance prohibiting Justices of the Peace from trying Or finally disposins of criminal cases wherein they are en- titled to fees or costs. The Burns res- olution also provides that 1t is the sense of the Convention that no judi cial officer shall ever be interested in the termination or result of any case,  have Jurisdiction.
 Sympathy for the Governor.
 At this juncture former Governor Jones of Montgomery, sent forward and had read a resolution authorizing the President of the Convention to express to Governor Sanford the deep interest of the delegates in his welfare and their earnest wishes for his speedy re- stcration to health. The rules were suspended and the resolution was unan- imously adopted by rising vote.
 MT Knight of Hale is an advocate of the repeal of the Back Tax Commis- sion Act. He introduced a resolution which is terse but pointed. It pro- vides that the Constitution to be fram- ed shall contain a provision abolish ing the offices of State and County Back Tax Commissioners" The res- olution was referred to the Commit tee on Executive Department which made its complete report yesterday.
 A suffrage ordinance was presented by MT. Nesmith of Lamar, by request It covers the ground already threshed, but provides that certain classes shall pay taxes on $10,OOO worth of prop erty.
 Reynolds Had Some Ordinances.
 MT. Reynolds. the Populist member from Chiffon. who has presented few measures thus far, opened his ordi- nance-bag yesterday and unloaded several propositions for reform. Among these is a proposal that forbids child labor except on farms. Another or dinance gives the two political parties casting the highest number of votes equal representation upon registration and election boards.
 Mr. Reynolds also has a scheme to reform the suffrage. He would dis franchise all persons guilty of fraud or election bribery but his ordinance proposes to qualify them after a pe- riod of ten years. He also proposes that all ballots in Alabama shall he numbered.
 Mir. M. Nj. Smith of Autauga, pre- sented an ordinance which seeks to se- cure an equitable distribution of the surplus moneys arising from the sale of fertilizer tags" It declares that the tax is levied on farmers and its inten- tion is that the farmers shall have the benefit derived from this fund. It pro- vides that the surplus funds shall be devoted to improvement of the sgri- cultural schools One sixth of the net income is to go to the various agricul- tural and experiment schools and She remainder shall be used in paying the board of poor farmer boys at the said agricultural schools" It provides fur ther that no student shall be admitted free to any of these schools whose parents pay taxes on more than $1 600 worth of property. Provision is also made for free board and tuition for 6 poor girls at the Girls Industrial School.
 Additional important was ordinances introduced as follows:
 By MT. Lomax oe Montgomery-Lim- iting local legislation by the General Assembly.
 Rv General Sanford of Montgomery Peuuiring all bills to be read at length l., the General Assembly.
 nr Mir. Williams-The poll tax col ,ad in each County is to be devoted
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