The age-herald., 1901-06-30
Property and Poll Tax PtoVis- ions and Educational QuaI-
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EY-SOLDIERS PROVIDED FOR
Capt. Frank White, Gen. Oates, Gen. Harrison and Capt Dent Present Strong Minority Report
 Vs. Granddaddy Clause.
BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.

BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.
 Montgomery, June 29-(SpeciaD The committee or suffrage made it's long ex- pected report today, which, as the clerk finished reading it. was greeted with ap- plause.
 The main features of the report ern- body a temporary plan which allows ex- soldiers and their descendants to vote, and permanent plan which goes into effect January, 1903 This embodes an educational test with an alternate prop erty qualification of $500. A poll-tax of s1.50 must be paid and persons who have committed certain crimes are pro- hibited from voting.
 A minority report was filed by Frank s. White, g. H. Dent, George P. liar rison and Vim. c. Oates, objecting to that part of the report which authorized soldiers and their descendants to vote on the ground that 1t was contrary to the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitu- tion of the United States. undemocratic in that 1t prescribed an hereditary vot- ing class. and being impracticable.
 Following are the two reports and the article in full:
 Report of the Committee.
 Mir. President: The committee on Suf- frage and Elections have requested that the following report be submitted.
 The committee has read and considered with care the many resolutions and ordi- nances referred to 1t and have had the benefit of an extensive correspondence with leading men of other States upon Many of them contain valuable sugges- ilsns and have been os great assi;tance 1n the important work assigned us.
 Our main purpose has been to elimin- ate the venal and incompetent from the exercise of the elective franchise and not violate any of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. Wa are of the opinion that the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States does not interfere with the sovereign right of the State to prescribe the qualifications of voters, further than to prohibit discrimination on account of race color or previous condition Of servitude'' and this limitation in no way interferes with the sovereign power or the State to fix a standard of fitness. ap- plicable to all alike. Existing conditions and tho object to be attained necessltat- ed the making of new provisions and different from those which are in our present constitution.
 A Temporary Board.
 To give full effect to the plan submit ted by your committee. it became neces- eary to provide temporary board of registration, limited to January the 1st, 1908. and to devolve upon the legislature the duty to provide permanent plan or reeistration to take effect on and after that date.
 We have spared neither time. labor nor study to frame a suitable article upon the subject of elections and franchises and it is with pleasure we state that no member of the committee dissented from any Of the provisions except upon sub division two of section four of the aTti- cle upon which there will be a minority ranort submitted We herewith return all ordinances and resolutions submitted to us. THOS w. COLEMAN.
 Chairman.
 Suffraqe and Elections.
 Section L Every male citizen Of this State who is a citizen Of the Onlteo States twenty-one years old or upwaros' not laboring under any of the disabilities named in this article, and possessing the manifestations required by it, shall be an eIector. and shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people,
 Section g. To entitle a citizen to vote at any election by the people, he shall have resided in the State at least two vea~s. in the county one year, and in the nrecinct or ward three months immediate Iy preceding the election at which he or fers to vote, and he shall have been duly registered as an elector. and shall nave paid on or before the first day or tepru- ary next preceding the date of the cleo, tfou at which he offers to vote, all poll taxes due from him for the year 1901, and for each subsequent year; provided, that any elector, who. within three months next preceding the date of the election at which he offers to vote, has removed from one precinct or ward to another precinct or ward in the same county incorporated town or city, shall have the right to vote in the precinct or ward from which he has so removed, if he would have been entitled to vote in such precinct or ward but for such removal
 Section 3. All elections by the people Shall be by ballot, and all elections by persons in a representative capacity shal be viva voce.
 Who Can Vote.
 Section 4. The following male citizens of this State, who are citizens of the United States, twenty-one years old or upwards who, if their place of residence shall remain unchanged, will have, al the date of the next general election, the qualifications as to resllence pIescripeo in section 3 of this article and who are not disqualified under section six of thii article. upon application be entitled tc register as electors prior to the first day of January, 1903, namely:
 | All who have honorably served in the land or naval forces of the United States in the war of 1872, or in the war with Mexico, or in any war with the Indians or in the Civil war between the States. or :n the war with Spain, or who honorably served in the land or naval forces of the Confederate States, or of the State of Alabama in the war between the states; or
 ?. The lawful descendants of persons who honorabIy served in tho land or naval forces of the United States in the war of the American Revolution, or in the war of 1872, or in the war with Mex .co or in any war with the Indians, or in the Civil war between the States. or In the land or naval forces of the Con- federats States, or of the State of Ala <na~x Vxok~w f1aa fot fvv