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The News & Observer
Raleigh, Wake County, North Carolina
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Alabama constitutional convention in Montgomery adopts executive branch provisions, including creating lieutenant governor office and raising salary, and introduces Burns' discriminatory suffrage scheme to eliminate 90% of Negro vote.
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A Measure That Would Eliminate 30 Per Cent of the Negro Vote.
(By the Associated Press.)
Montgomery, Ala., June 11.—The first part of the new constitution was today adopted by the constitutional convention. The office of Lieutenant Governor was created and the Governor'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 Governor cannot become a candidate for United States Senator within one year of the expiration of his term.
The most sweeping suffrage scheme yet brought forward was that introduced today by Burns, of Burnsville. It provides that the following classes shall not vote:
Those who are bastards or loafers, or who may be infected with any loathsome 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 descendants of two or more different races; those who shall have married any woman 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 destroys 90 per cent of the negro vote, and the ex-slaves who are not debarred will be less than five per cent.
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Montgomery, Ala.
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June 11
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this law destroys 90 per cent of the negro vote, and the ex-slaves who are not debarred will be less than five per cent.
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The first part of the new constitution was today adopted by the constitutional convention. The office of Lieutenant Governor was created and the Governor'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 Governor cannot become a candidate for United States Senator within one year of the expiration of his term. The most sweeping suffrage scheme yet brought forward was that introduced today by Burns, of Burnsville. It provides that the following classes shall not vote: Those who are bastards or loafers, or who may be infected with any loathsome 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 descendants of two or more different races; those who shall have married any woman 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.