The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-08

udr. Smltn tMopiieJ-l WiSnuEa" my motion then.
 The President-The gentleman from Montgomery will please again state his motion. The chair failed to catch it.
 Mr. Sanford-I move that that reso- lution just read and reported back to the Convention for its action be now taken up and put upon its passage.
 The President-Does the gentleman move the adoption of the resolution?
 MT. Sanford-I do.
 A vote being taken the resolution was not adopted.
 MT. Hefiin (Randolph)-I desire leave of absence for myself for tomorrow
 Leave was granted
 MT. Kirk-I request leave of ab- sence for tomorrow and Monday.
 The President-The next oIcer or b,siness will be the calling of the roll of delegates for the introduction CT Ordinances, Memorials and Petitions.
 MT. Proctor-I would call the atten- tion of the Chair to the fact that tne report of the Committee on Journai was not called for. n,
 The President-The gentleman VIII send up the report.
 The report that the Journal for the thirteenth day was found to be correct was read and on motion adopted.
 The President-The Secretary will now call the roll of delegates for or
 Ordinance No. 3s2, by MT. Blackwell:
 An ordinance to amend Article VIII of the Constitution regulating the right to vote, by striking out the whole of said Article and substituting.
 Be it ordained by the people of Ala bama in Convention assembled:
 First-Every male person born in the United States and every person who has been naturalized,' who is 21 years of age and more, and possessing the oualifications set out in this Article, shall be entitled to vote at any election by the people in this State. except as herein otherwise provided.
 Second-He shall have resided m the State of Alabama two years, Tn the county one year, and Tn the pre- cinct, ward or other election district in which he offers to vote for six months next preceding the election; provided, that removal from one precinct, ward. or other election district to another in the same county shall not operate to deprive any person of the right to vote in the precinct, ward, or electlon district from which he removed until six months after such removal. Fro vided that no soldier, sailor nor marine in the military service or the Unlteo States shall acquire residence Dy Delns stationed in this State. No person who has been convicted or who has con- fessed his guilt in open court upon in- dictment, of any crime, the punish ment Of which now is or may herea1ter he imprisonment in the penitentiary, shall be allowed to vote. unless said !person has been restored to citizenship in the manner prescribed by law. NO idiot or insane person or vagrant snail be allowed to vote.
 Third-Every person offering to vote. shall be at the time legally registered voter as herein prescribed, ana in sne manner hereafter provided by iaW' and the General Assembly of Alabama shall enact general registration laws to carry into effect the provisions or this article.
 Fourth-Every person presenting himself for registration shall be able to read ard write any section of the Constitution in the English language; and before he shall be entitled to vote he shall have paid on or before the 1st day of January of the year In which ne offers to vote, all taxes, in- cludiag a poll tax (where he Is ilaoie for such taxl for two years preVious' But no male person who was. on Jan nary 1st, 1867, or at any time prior
  of any State wherein he resided, and no lineal descendant of any suchbper- son shall be denied the right to regis ter and vote at any election in the State by reason of his failure to pos sess the educational qualifications here ip prescribed; provided. he shall have registered in accordance with tue terms of this section prior to January 1st, 1911. The General Assembly shall provide for the registration of all per sons entitled to vote without the edu- cational qualification herein prescrlb- ed. and shall on or before December the first, 1910, provide for the making of a permanent record of such regis tration, and all persons so registered shall forever thereafter have the right to vote. in all elections by the people in this State unless disqualified under Section 2 of this Article.
 Fifth-An elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all elections by the General Assembly shall be viva Voce. Every ballot shall be numbered in the number in which it shall be re- ceived and the number recorded by the election officers on the list of voters opposite the name of the elector who presents the ballot. Any elector may write his name upon the ticket he votes, or cause the same to be written thereon and atteSted by a citizen of the district. The election officers shall be sworn, Cor affirmed), not to disclose how any elector shall have voted, un- less required to do so as witnesses in judicial proceedings.
 Sixth-If any person give or offer to give directly or indirectly, any bribe, present, or reward, or any promise or any security for the payment or de- livery of money or any other thing of value, to induce any voter to refrain from casting his vote or to prevent him in any way from voting, or to procure a vote for any candidate, or person proposed, or voted for as elector of President or Vice-President of the United States, or Representative in Congress, or for. any office of trust or profit, created by the Constitution and laws of this State, or by authority Of any Mayor and Council Of any town or city in this State, the person giv- ing or offering to bribe, and the person receiving the same, and any person who gives or causes to be given an illegal vote, knowing it to be such, at any election to be hereafter held, in this State, shall, on conviction in a Court of Law, be forever disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit, or to vote at any election thereafter in this State.
 Seyenth-In trials of contested cleo tions, and in proceedings for the inves- tigation of elections, no person shall be permitted to withhold his testimony upon the ground that it may crimi- nate himself or subject him to public infamy; but suah testimony shall not afterwards be used against him, in any