The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-08-10


 Unless he shall become disqualheu under the provisions of this article' any one who shall register prior to the first day of January. 1905. snalI re- main an elector during life and snail be required to re-register only III case of a change of residence on proouc- ton of his certificate, The certlncate of the Registrars or Of the ProDate Judge or of the Secretary or state shall be sufficient evidence to estapilsh the fact of such life registration Sucn certificate shall be issued free or charge to the elector. and the Generai Assembly shall provide by law Tor the renewal of such certificate when lost' mutilated or destroyed.
 Sec. F. From and after the nrst day of January. 1903, any applicant TOT registra tion may be required to state under oath, to be administered by the Registrar or by any person authorized by law to administer oaths, where he lived during the five years next pre- ceding the time at which he applies to register, and the name or names that he was known by during that period and the name of his employer or em- ployers. if any, during such period. Any applicant for registration who re- fuuseG to state such facts. or any of them. shall not be entitled to register. and any person so offering to register who wilfully makes false statement in regard to such matters or any Of them shall be guilty of perjury.
 Sec. 13. In the trial of any contested election. and in proceedings to inves- tigate anXelection no person other than 8 deefndant shall be allowed to with hold his testimony on the ground that he may incrinTinate himself or subject himself to pubic infamy, but such per- san shall not be prosecuted for any of fense arising out of the transaction concerning which he testifies. but may be prosecuted for perjury committed on such examination.
 Sec. IA. The General Assembly shall pass laws not inconsistent with this Constitution to regulate and govern elections. and all such laws shall be uniform throughout the State. and shall provide by law for the manner of hold ing elections and of ascertaining the result of the same; and shall provide general registration laws not in- consistent with the provisions of this article for the registration of all qualified electors from and after the first day of Janu- ary. 1903. The General Assembly shall also make provisions by law not in consistent with this article for the reg ulation of primary elections and for punishing frauds at the same, but shall not make primary elections compulsory
 The Legislature shall by law pro- vide for .purging the registration list of the names of those who dle' oecone insane. convicted of crime or otherNise disqualified as electors under the provisions of this Constitu. ton and of any whose names may have been traudulently entered on such lists Dy the registrars; provided, that a tria oy Jury may be had on the demand oi any person whose name is proposed tc be stricken from the list.
 Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to pass adeauate 1 laws giving protection against the evils arising from the use of intoxicatine liquors at all elections.
 Sec. 16., Electors shall, in all cases except treason, felony, or breach ol the peace. be privileged from arres, during their attendance at elections oI While going to or returning therefrom
 Sec. I. Returns of elections for all civil officers who are to be commission. ed by the Governor, except Secretar, of State. Auditor. Treasurer, Commis. sioner of Agriculture and Industries Attorney General, Superintendent oi Education and for the members of the General Assembly shall be made to the Secretary of State.
 Sec. l9 The poll tax mentioned ir this Article shall be one dollar anG fifty cents upon each male inhabitant of the State. over the age of twenty. one years. and under the age of forty. five years. who would not now be ex. empt by law. Such poll tax shall be- come due and payable on the first day of October in each year, and become delinquent on the first day of the next succeeding February;' but no lega process nor any fee or commission shall be allowed for the collection thereof. The tax collector shall make returns of poll tax collections separate from other collections.
 Sec. 19. The legislature is authorized to raise the limit of age tQ>twhch pay ment of poll tax is required under thi. Article from forty-five years to mol more than sixty years.
 Sec 20. Any person who shall nay the poll tax of another or advance hin money for that purpose, in order tc influence his vote. shall be guilty o bribery and punished accordingly.
 Sec. 21. If any section or subdivis- ion of this Article shall for any reason be or he held by any court of compe- tent jurisdiction and of final resort to be invalid. imperative or void, the residue of the Article shall not bt thereby invalidated or affected.
 MT Rogers of Sumter took the chair
 The President pro tem-The question Is upon the adS.'tion rf the article re ported by the committee.
 Mir Dent-I desire to call attention of the Convention. and especially the chairman of the committee. to what seems to he an omission in this article beg attention for just few minutes In Section ,. the qualifications as to registration and payment of poll tax are provided before party can regis ter and become qualified voter, Now in Section {. in fixing the qualifications of voters. I want to beg attention fol few moments. "'The following male citizens of this State. who are citizens Of the Unitdd States," etc. who ii their places of residence shall remain unchanged will have at the date of the next general election, the qualifications as to residenre prescribed in Section of this article. and who are not dis qualified hy Section G. Now. the quail factions in Section are not only as tc residence, but as tn the payment o poll tax. and it seems to me that Sec ton 4 is defective in not only including the qualification as to residence but the qualifications as to the payment of poll tax.
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