The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-06-05

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 Court Circuit Judges, fChancellors and
 probate judges shall hold office for the lterm of eight years and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified: and the rights of such judges
 and Chancellors to hold their offices
 for the full term hereby prescribed
 shall not be affected by any change hereafter made by law in any circuit,
 division or County in the mode or time of election; but no such Judge or | Chancellor shall be eligible to election lapse of one entire term of eight years
 Referred to Judiciary Committee.
 Ordinance No. 237, by MT. Craig:
 An ordinance to prescribe the mode
 and manner in and by which the Gov ernor of this State may exercise the | appointing power to office in this State | Re it ordained by the people of Ala
 bama in Convention assembled: Section i. That the General Assem-
 bly of this State shall have no power
 to create any office in this State and | confer upon the Governor the appoint | ing power to fill such office or offices;
 but such office or offices so created
 shall be filled in the first instance by | an election to be ordered and held for | that purpose; provided. however, that | should the necessity arise for the inn | mediate filling of any such of1ice or | offices, the Governor may appoint such | office, but such appointment shall De | for a period not exceeding sixty days. | Sec. g. Be it further ordained. That | it shall be the duty of the Genera l Assembly to provide for elections te | be held not less than twenty nor more l than sixty days from the date of the | act creating such office or offices. such | elections if State offices. to be held | over the entire State, and if local sGch election to be held in the locality. cir | cult. district or municipality for Whlch | said office or offices are createa. | Referred to Committee on Exec itive l Department.
 | Ordinance 23s. by MT. Craig: An ordinance to regulate suffrage In this State.
 | Be it ordained by the people of Ala | bsna in Convention assembled,
 Section i. That all white females re- siding in this State, over the age CT Zl | years are hereby declared to be qual- | flied voters under the Constitution ard laws of this State; possessing the same rights. qualifications and pow era and privileges as male voters, ana governed by the same election laws. Referred to Committee on Suffrage and Elections.
 MT. Davis (DeKalb)-I introduce memorial by request, in connect-h
 with Ordinance No. 170. Memorial in connection with ordj- nance No. ITO:
 To inc Honorable, the Constitutional Convention of the State of Ala bama:
 With the view of protesting against any interference by your honoranie body with the act approved March otn' 1901, removing the county seat or Snei- by County from Columbiana to Calera, and in answer to the memorial ac- companying the introduction of Ordi- nance No. TO into the convention, which ordinance is now in the hands of the Committee on State and County Boundaries, we beg leave to respectful ly submit the following:
 The location of the county seat of Shelby County has been bone of con- tention between the advocates of Columbiana and Calera for the past
 twenty years. In 1894 (not 1895 as set
 forth in said memoriaD an election
 was held in the county upon the ques-
 ton. but the law under which 1t was
 held. failed to provide for a contest or
 to provide any safe guards against fraud, and the Columbiana advocates
 being in absolute control of the election
 machinery they took advantage Of the
 weakness of the law and most unmer-
 cifully counted Calera out by all sorts
 of frauds, such as importing voters,
 stuffed ballot boxes, and throwing out
 boxes which were favorable to Calera.
 In 1899 an act was passed by the General Assembly-over the opposition of the Celumbiana advocates-permit-
 ting another election on the question
 within four years from the passage of
 said act. This act was well guarded
 against frauds, particularly the frauds
 perpetrated in the former election, but
 1t failed to expressly provide that no
 step should be taken in the meantime
 to build a new court house at Colum-
 biana. No one supposed that any
 such effort would be made as 1t was clearly against the spirit of the law,
 But during the latter part of the last session of the General Assembly the fact came to the knowledge of the Senator and Representative from Shei-
 by County that there was well de- fined plan on foot to forestall the e'"c-
 tion law in force by quietly arranging for the erection of new county buildings at Columbiana as soon as the leglsla- ture should adjourn. Upon receiving this information, the correctness of which they did not then and do not now doubt, the Senator and Represen- tatives consulted over the matter and being satisfied that majority of the people of the county favored Calera as the county seat, they decided to in- troduce and pass a bill removing the county seat from Columbiana to Gale "a and proceeded to do so. The bill was regularly introduced, read once by it's caption and referred to the Com mittee on Counties and County Boun- daries at the afternoon session of February 18th. the forty-fifth day of the session.: on the next day it was reported, read second time and placed on the House calendar, and on the next day it was, after due notice, called up and put upon it's passage, being read third time. and was duly passed by the house. It was sent forthwith to the Senate. as other bills passed at that stage, without engrcssment. In the Senate it was read first time and re- ferred to the Committee on Corpora tons. February 18th the two houses adjourned over to March End, when the bill was reported favorably by the commitete, read second time, and placed on the Senate calendar. The two houses again recessed from March 2nd to March 5th, when the bill was called up, read third time and passed at the afternoon session. Later on the same day it was signed by the pre- siding officers of the two houses in the presence of their respective houses. after it's title had been publicly read and the fact entered on the journal. It received executive approval the same daV