The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-07-24

the board" in line A. on page I2 the | following:
 Any citizen of the State may at any time have list of registered voters purged of any names or names illegal ly entered thereon, rthe name of anh person who, at the time of registration, is disqualified under the provisions of this Constitution, or who afterwards become so disqualified"
 fhird--The third amendment is in tended to secure absolute fairness and accuracy in the registration. No citi- zen who honestly favors the purity of the ballot. can object to this amend ment. And no registrar who intends honestly and faithfuIl to perf1rm his duties will object. 1t does moi in any way hamper the Registrar in the hon. est discharge of his duty, nor seek to hold him liable in any way for any mistake of Judgment on his part. It does not in any way affect m in the honest discharge of his duty. This amendment is as follows:
 Insert between lines H and 1, on page 13, new section to read as fol- lows: Any elector who registers for another. or who registers. more than once; and any registrar Nho enters the name of any elector on the list of reg istered voters. without such elector
 
 oath on a form provided for that pur- pose to be registered as hereinbefore provided. or who knowingly registers any person more than once. or who knowingly enters name upon the reg tration list as a registered voter when no one of that name applied to regis ter, shall be guilty of a felony"
 Fourth-The fourth amendment re- quires all applications and testi- mony offered before the Board or against the application to be returned by the Board for or against applica- tio;, to be returned by the Board of Registrars along with the list. 1t will take two amendments to properly pro- vide for this. have prepared said amendments as follows:
 First-"InSert after the word per- son in line 4, on page 13, the following:
 Together with all applications to register. which were filed before them. and all evidence introduced before them fo! or against each application"
 Eecone-."Insert between lines 40 and Il after the word original. and before the word list on page 13, the fol- fowingI
 Applications for registration, and all papers relating thereto, and the.''
 It win be noticed that none of the amendments which I suggest will in any way embarrass the Registrars in the honest discharge Of their duty These amendments all seem to me to be necessary in order to perfect the plan of registration proposed by the Committee. If the suffrage is to be reguia ted so as to secure honest elec- tions, and remove any excuse for pre- text for fraud, on account of the pres encc of the large number of ignorant and vicious voters. We cannot be too careful in providing a system of reg istration. If we would eliminate the class Of voters in whose hands the right to vote is a menace to good gov ernment and good morals, proper safe guards must be placed around the plan of registration. and stringent penalties provided for the corrupt registration of, any voter. If the Convention does that, it's work will command the re- spect of patriotic and thoughtful men everywhere. If 1t fails to do that, it will discredit itself before the people or the State. I cannot believe that the intelligent and patriotic members of the Convention will object to any amenament of the plan proposed by the Suffrage Committee that will se- cure to the people of the State a full and honest registration of the qualified voters of the State,
 None of the amendments herein sug- gested are offered in the interest of any man O. set of men, nor in the in teregS of any section. The only object sought to be accomplished is to pro- Vide safeguards around the plan of registration, affecting all the people of the State. which will result in the reg istration being had according to the purpose intended by tho Committee. Not being member of the Convention and there being but a very short time until the Convention will begin the con- slderatton of the suffrage plan as pro- posed by the Committee, I am under the necessity of availing myself of this method of presenting these suggestions. II there is any merit in any Of them, l feel very sure that they will receive the consldera ton they deserve. With great respect.
 l am very truly.
 Richard B. Kelly.
 Referred to Committee on Suffrage.
 The President-The next order is un- finished business.
 MT. Smith (Moblle)-I desire to offer an amendment to Secticn 59 of the re- port of the Committee on Legislative Department.
 The President-The present order is unfinished business. The next order will be the special order. the consider ation of the report on Legislative De- partment. This report was concluded cn yesterday, but this morning there was one Section reconsidered. It seems to tho Chair that it woulG be in order to proceed Wi.h the consideration of that Section at this time.
 Mr. Oatee-There was notice given on yesterday that there would be Q motion this morning to reconsider an- other section. do not know whether that will be insisted on or not.
 The President-Was that Section 4
 M:. Oatee-I believe so.
 The President-The gentleman from Mobile (Mr. BroCks) indicated that he did not care to press the question to reconsider Section 47. The special or- der will now be consideration of the report of the Committee on Legislative Department having under considera- tion Section 55, which was reconsid- cred by the Convention this morning. Tho gentleman from Mobile offers an amendment, the Secretary will read the amendment.
 The Secretary read the amendment as follows
 Amend Section 5s of the Article of the report by the Committee on Leg islative Department by striking there from all of the Section after the words by the Legislature, in line of the Section. and preceding the word pro- vided' in the sixth line, and by strik- sI .k,kc c,,1t i,, ft,n