The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-01-25
He is Chairman of House
 Committee. FOLLOWS CONSTITUTION Creates a Permanent Board
 of Registration.
Understanding" Clause for Those Who Propose to Register After January 1-"Watchers'' to be
 Named by Parties.

terday was the plan for a general regis
 Hon oSn na iaw of Waer DS The bill contains not only the regula- tions to govern elections in Alabama,
 but 1t discharges one of the obligations placed upon the Legislature by the new Constitution in providing plan of regis tration.
 The enactment of general election law Is generally conceded to be one of the most important duties of the present Leg | islature. The members are agreed that the passage of law which will har- monize the election statutes with the provisions of the Constitution is one of the important duties of the Legislature. Three Bills Pending. Three general election bills have already been introduced. two in the
 House. one by Mir. Bankhead and one by Hon. w. A. Handley, and one in the l'Ses- -' Senator w. F. Hogue Of Perry. The l:--- understood to be separate
 and distinct, each to stand upon its own merits.
 Special Interest attaches to MT. Bank heads bill by reason of the fact that
 he is chairman of the House Committee on Privileges and Elections, the commit- tee charged with the duty of passing upon a general election law. Mir. Bank
 to the preparation of a general election law. He thought the subject Of suiii-
 cient importance to devote considerable time to the bill before and after his com
 
 ceived many assurances of support frcm members of the House who are more or less familiar with his bill. Plan of Registration.
 Mir. Bankhead's bill provides a per
 manent plan of registration for purging the registration list and a new election
 law. The plan of registration follows as closely the temporary plan of the con
 stitutlon as could be-done under the form
 of the constitution.
 m taAIp aF
 three members, is to be appointed by the Governor State Auditor and Commits sioner of Agriculture and Industries to serve for a term of four years. The
 Board shall meet at the court house on | the first Monday in August and the last
 Monday in September of each year and | may remain in session one week at each | meeting for the registration of all per | sons entitled to register. They shall give at least twenty days notice of the time | when they will attend the registration
 of applicants for registration by adver- | tisement for once week for three con-
 hecutive weeks in 6 newspaper. If there | be one in the county. No person shall be registered except at the county site | The Board of Registrars shall have the | power to take testimony touching the l qualification of such applicants. Those | persons and no others. who. if their | places of residence shall remain un- l changed, will nave at the date of the | next general election the qualifications as | to residence prescribed by Articles 17l and l IFS of the Constitution shal! be qualified
 to register as electors provided they shall
 not be disqualified under Article lS2 of the Constitution.
 Any person making application 10 the
 Board of Registrars for registration who
 fails to establish, by evidence, to the
 reasonable satisfaction of the Board of | Registrars that he is qualihed to register
 may be refused registration Any person to whom registration Is de- ato c1n hnHf iuh tn al hH | giving security for costs to be approved | by the Clerk of the Circuit Court. or
 court of like jurisdiction. and by filing a | petition in the Circuit Court. or court of | like jurisdiction. held for the county In l which he seeks to register, to have his | qualifications as an elector determined. | Upon the filing of the petition, the clerk | of the court shall give notice to any, sJll- l citOr authorized to represent the State
 in said county whose duty 1t snail be to defend against the petition on behalf or | the State.
 Any person registered as an elector shall | not again be required to register un.ess 1 his place of resiuehce is changed. Regulation of RegIsLration. The Board of Reglstra4s are required, within two weeks after the explrauon or the time prescribed for regIs tratlOn, to | make true copy of the list uf names reg lstered and return 1t to the office of the Judge of Probate of the county. The Juuge of Probate shall certify an alpha betical list to the Secretary of State. Inc Probate Judge Is required to pIepare an aipnaDeucal list of all registered voters after each election and cause a copy to
 be delivered to the inspectors in each pre- cinct.
 Any elector who registered prior to January l, 1903 who has changed his | place of residence, snail be registered on
 application on production of his certifi- cate.
 When the certificate of any elector who registered .IannarY
 has been lost, mutilated or destroyed, on
 proper application he may obtain copy from the Judge of Probate or the Secre- l tary of State without cost. l The Board of Registrars shall meet in
 each county on the second Monday in | August 1904, and on such day each two , years thereafter, for purging the regis
 tration list, and may continue in session | for one week.
 The names of those who have died. be- l come insane, or who have been convicted | of any offense mentioned in Article 1S2 of
 the Constitution since being registered or i otherwise disqualified as electors under | the provisions of the Constitution, and any names which may have been fraud ulently entered on such list by the Reg istrars shall be stricken from the regis | tration list
 The names of those registered since January l. 19J3 and who since the date
 of their registration have not been of good moral character and do not under
 stand the duties and obligations of citi-
 zenship under Republican form of gov ernment, shall be stricken from the reg
 istratiOn list.
 When the name of any e!ector Is pro-
 posed to be stricken from the registra-
 ton list, unless he be dead or Insane notice shall be issued to him by the Board of Registrars citing hm to appear before the board on the fourth Monday in Au- gust following and show cause why his name should not be stricken from tie list.
 The board shall meet on the fourth Monday !n August. 1894 and each two years thereafter and may coEta1e in sts- sion one week. At said meeting the board shall consider the case of each eleCtor whose name 1t is proposed to strike from the list, trial by jury may be had and the clerk shall forthwith certify the pro- IIcitor who shall cause the case to be docketed in the Circuit Court of said county or a court Of like jurisdiction. and
 ne Solicitor shall defend said cause on
 ahalf of the State.
 The citing by the Board of Registrars ta any electof to show cause why his name should not be striken from the list upon the elector to show that his name should not be stricken from the list and this rule shall also apply on the jury trial.
 Proposed Election Law.
 Changes are made in the statutes with referenceNto the time of electing the diff ferent officers, State and County to con- form to the changes made in the Con- stitution.
 Each political party having made nom nations may by it's County Executive Committee on nominees for office, fur