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This article appeared in vol. L . . . no. 16,046 Wed., June 12, 1901
ALABAMA NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
Plan introduced in Constitutional Convention to Disfranchise
90 Per Cent of the Black Vote.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. June 11.--The first part of the new State
Constitution was adopted to-day by the Constitutional Convention. The
office of Lieutenant Governer was created and the Governer's salary raised
from $3,000 to $5,000. The terms of the executive officers were lengthened
from two to four years, but they are ineligible for re-election. The Governer
cannot become a candidate for United States Senator within one year after
the expiration of his term.
The most sweeping suffrage scheme yet brought forward was that introduced
to-day by Mr. Burns of Burnsville. It provides that the following classes
shall not vote:
"Those who are illegitimate or loafers or who may be infected with any
loathsome or contagious disease.
"Those who have been convicted of treason, bribery, forgery, larceny,
robbery, bigamy, seduction, incest, murder, rape or attempt to rape, arson,
or burglary.
"Those who are descendants of parents who are of or descendants of two
or more races; those who shall have married any women having a living
husband from whom she has not been legally divorced; those who have committed
any assault and battery on his wife or step-daughter."
This law would destroy 90 per cent of the negro vote, and the ex-slaves
who are not debarred will be less than 5 per cent.
This article appeared in vol. LII . . . no. 16,633 April
28, 1903.
This article appeared in vol. XXXIII . . . no. 10, 057
Thurs., Nov. 29, 1883.
This article appearded in vol. XXXI . . . no. 9,535 March
30, 1882. In the next to last sentance the term "Jim Crow cars" is used
in description of the railway cars set aside for blacks.
This article appearded in vol. XXXI . . . no. 9,549 April
16, 1882. It is the southern version of the story above, which conflicts
with the previous story even down to the spelling of the bishop's name.
