The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-21
COMING LEGISLATURE
INTERESTING STATEMENT OF
ITS PERSONNEL.
Fifteen Members Of Last Constitu-
tional Convention Will Have
Seats and There Will Be
Other Familiar Faces.

1t has been the custom in the past in
Alabama to return very small per cent
OF the members OF one Legislature to the
succeeding body, and the result this year
has been no exception to the rule.
In the past the percentage of old men,
bers returned has been about ten. This
time that is about the proportion of old
members to be reelected
In the Senate not one of the Senators
from the even districts. whose terms had
expired. have been renominated, and but
one OF them was a candidate for the
nomination. 1t is true that no election
has yet been held but a nomination is
equivalent TO an election in most cases
The new Constitution heightened the
terms of the Senators from the odd dis
tricts for two years. and the Senators
from all the districts are to be elected
in 1906 and every four years thereafter
So the Senate is to be no longer a con-
| tinuous body, as II has been in the past
Senators, after 1906, are to be elected al
| at the same time and Just like the mem
bers of the House are chosen.
majority Of the Senators to be elect.
ed this year will be new men for only
seventeen of them hold over and eighteen
are to be elected-two new districts hav-
| ing been created by the new Constitu-
of them. The Senate is to have a Lieu
tenant Governor to preside over it's de-
alterations in the future, there having
been no such officer since 1876. The POSI-
ton was abolished by the Constitution
of 1876.
1t will be remembered that according
to the new Constitution the Lieutenant
Governor will have no voice in the de-
liberations of the Senate and can only
vote In case of tie, which will some
times occur in every legislative and de-
Lucrative body. The position is one of
honor. In case of the death of the Gov
ernor, the incumbent becomes Governor,
for the remainder of the term. Just the
same in fact as the principal who was
elected in the general election.
In the House of Representatives about
the usual number Of old members have
been retuFned-this time il being thir-
teen. The thirteen members VINO have
been returned to the next House are:
Messrs. N. b. Powell of Bullock, ]. j.
Arnold of Calhoun, F. E. Poole of Clarke,
]. Z. De1oney OF Colbert, ]. w. Williams
OF Covington, Calvin Young of Dallas,
A. NJ. Tunstall of Hale, A. H. Benners of
Jefferson, ]. D. Williams of Marengo,
D. Walden Of Morgan, r. A. Hardie of
Perry. NJ. B. Curry of Pickens, s. c..
Ward of Glmter.
OF the members of the Constitutional
Convention, quite q number have been
chosen to the Legislature and will take
an important part in carrying the new
instrument into effect by the passage of
appropriate and wholesome laws. OF
these there are Messrs Thompson of
Bibb, Parker of Cylman, Davis of Etc.
wah, Leigh, of Escambia Espy' of Henry,
NeSmith of Lamar, Lowe of Lawrence,
Norwood of Loundes, Spraggins. Walker
and Fletcher of Madison, Handley of
Randolph, Wallace of Russell, Rogers of
Sumter and Foster OF Tuscaloosa. fifteen
in number.
Messrs. NeSmith, Norwood Spraggins
and Rogers arc to be in the Senate.
In Madison County the three delegates
to the Convention were sent to the Legis-
lature and they will make themselves felt
in the action OF that body as they did
In the Convention as they are all men of
ability and capacity.
Everyone conversant with the great
work before the next Legislature and the
responsibility that devolves upon it in
passing suitable laws to properly execute
the new organic law, realizes that 1t has
a stupendous duty to perform, and in its
accomplishment there will he required
craftsmanship. wisdom and sound judg-
ment, and upon the result depends to a
large degree the future welfare of the
State.