The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-03

ere unable to s1ppoFt him and who e not In attendance upon scene edacAtfofiai Institute; or any person who ts prcsti- tute or a keeper of house of prostitu- tion. and who has no honest employment whereby to maintain herself. is hereby declared to be vagrant and must. on conviction. be fined not more than (5co) five hundred dollars anu may also be imprisoned in the county jail or sen fenced to hard labor for the county for not more than six months. Section g. ft Is made the duty of the sheriff and constables Of every county. the police and town marshais pr other like officers of every town and city oi this State to give information under oath to any officers now empowered by Law | to issue criminal warrants for all va grants within their knowledge or who they may have good reasons to suspect as being vasrants in their respective counties, towns and cities. and there. | upon 1t shall be the duty of said ofiicer | to issue warrant for the apprehension | of the person alleged to be a vagrant making the same returnable to some court of the county. having Jurisdiction in misdemeanor cases. .- ..f While this bill seems to be very strin-
 gent and far reaching, in it's language. | 1t is not thought that it goes too far, ! as there has been great demands for some ! means to stop the growing tendency to
 idleness and the large increase in num-
 Der and trouble caused by the persisten-
 cy of professional beggars. | An Election Bill. The Senate Committee on Privileges and
 Elections yesterday considered the gen.
 eral election bill based on the Bankhead
 bill. introduced by the Senate Recess 1 Committee.
 | No utao faE h,, tha tA.~ yesterday. Another meeting will be
 held Friday, when the bill will again be I taken up.
 | Chairman Goldsby of the Recess Com
 mittee, in discussing the differences be-
 tween the Bankhead bill and the bill
 submitted by his committee, said that
 in the first place the Bahkhead bill pro- l vides that the registrars be residents of l the county. The bill of the Recess Com
 mittee puts on them the additional quali- 1 ication that they be qualified electors of 1 the county
 "The compensation of registrars" con- | tinued Senator Goldsby" is changed in our bill from g day to 8 day. In | our bill the registrars are made judicial l officers. passing on all matters judicially | relative to application for registration. we have added to the Bankhead bill, l in such manner that municipal elections l are covered as wei as general and county | elections by adding the word ward
 wherever precinct, appears and adding | the word municipal to general and | special elections
 | Tn reference to municipal elections, our committee has inserted a section in | the bill which provides in substance that | the Board of Registrars shall sit in the court house of the county Friday and
 Saturday preceding an election, and in ! event of such municipal election being held in town. not the county site, and on a day other than the day of a gen. eral or special election. on the Friday and Saturday preceding the election. at
 some place within the corporate limits of
 the municipality, wherein the proposed
 election Is to be held. Due notice shall
 be given of the time and place of the
 sitting of the Board of Registrars as in general election.
 Tn the permanent plan of registration. our kiil provides for the registration of persons who have been unavoidably
 absent from the county during the previ-
 ous registration ,as we'll as those, who
 have become of age since the last regis-
 tration.
 'In the case of parties, whose certi-
 ficates of registration have been lost or
 mutilated. they will be allowed to re-
 register If 1t appears on the books of
 the registrars that they have been pre-
 viously registered.
 "we have provided for the purging of
 the registration lists. in that non-resi-
 dents and persons adjudged lunatics are
 stricken off as we'll as deceased persons.
 "In the election of Railroad Commis-
 sioners we have provided that no two
 commissioners can be elected from the
 same Congressional district.
 Our bill cmits two of the sections of
 the Bankhead bill, which provided for
 the numbering of all ballots as they are
 cast. We believe this to be a cause of
 breaking the secrecy of the ballot and
 our other reasons will be brought out
 when the report of the committee is sub mitted.
 "Of course" added Senator Goldsby." there are other changes in the bill of . minor nature, but the ones l have mem tioned are the most important"