The age-herald., 1901-08-06


 Court shall be appointed by the Judges thereof, and shall hold office for the term of six years. and the clerks of such inferior courts as may be established by law shall be selected In such manner as the General Assembly may provide.
 There was a minority report which rec commended that the clerk be elected by the people.
 General Sanford of Montgomery offer ed a substitute which provided that the clerk should be elected by the judges of the Supreme Court for a term of six years. Clerks of inferior courts hereaf- ter established to be appointed by the 1LdFes General Sanford explained that his amendment was the same as the present law. i-
 Judge Walker of Madison spoke in favor Of the minority report and said he sew no reason why the clerk should not re- ceive a salary. MT. Reese of Dallas arose and asked judge Walker if there was any other clerk who received 0 salary. ''I see the gentleman has been coached" replied Judge Walker. Here Mir. Boon of Mobile arose to a point of order and stated that a delegate should not be al- lowed t refer to another delegate as having been coached unless he had the proof of it. Judge Walker then with drew the remark and MT. Reese arose and stated that he had not had such an idea suggested to him by anyone, but that 1t occurred to him from his own mind Judge Walker concluded his re- marks and Judge Cobb of Macon spoke in favor of the committees report, say- ing the clerk of the Supreme Court oc- cupied a confidential relation to the court and that he ought to be appointed by them. He opposed putting him on sal arey because he had to employ assist ance, how much he could not tell. He moved to table the amendments and ni- nority report, which was done.
 Mr. Rogers of Sumter offered an amend ment to provide that the clerk of the Su- preme Court shall be given a salary and shall not receive any fees or emoluments. He said the clerk ought to be selected by the court and be responsible to It but that there was no reason why he should not be put upon 8 salary. '
 MT. Merrill of Barbour spoke in favor of the majority report. He saw no reason for putting the clerk of the Supreme Court upon a salary when all other clerks were on the fee system.
 Mir. Ashcraft of Lauderdale said he could not understand why any one would want the clerk of the Supreme Court to receive a larger compensation than any of the judges. It is significant that while many of us claim the clerks fees are larger than the salary of the judges. none of his friends have given us the exact amount of his receipts.
 On motion of Governor Oates the privi- leges of the floor were extended to Lewis W. Turpin.
 MT Jones of Hale favored having the clerk elected and put on salary.
 MT. Stamford of Pike said the opponents of the fee system failed to take into con- sideration the fact that the clerk served five judges. whose aggregate salaEtes were vastly in excess of the clerks fees. His fees have been fixed by the Legislature at what they considered a fair price. He moved to table the amendment, which was done by vote of 40 to 20.
 The section as reported by the commit tee was then adopted. Section 26 was then read It provides that clerks of Circuit Courts shall be elected every six years vacancies to be filled by the Governor