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Show STILL POURING IN Petitions on Both Sides of the Sulirage Question. LUND GETS SUSPICIOUS. The Apportionment Article Passed Also the Militia Article Legislators Will be Paid Pour Dollars a Day The Work Done By the Constitutional Convention Yesterday, Petitions favoring the Beparate 8ut mission of the woman suffrage queBtion continues to flow into the constitutional constitu-tional convention. Yesterday the number of persons who have aslied thus iar for separate submission wa3 increased in-creased by 20(i8 signatures, making a rand total of over 5,000. All told only 4,68!) people have aBked that wo. man suffrage be put in the constitution, constitu-tion, and the suffragists have been . working lahbfully ever since the convention con-vention convenbd and een long before, be-fore, while the separate submiBbion-ists submiBbion-ists have been at work among the people peo-ple only a few days. Among the petitions peti-tions presented yesterday asking that suffrage be placed in the constitution were one from phraim containing 33 names and one Irum other portions of Sanpete county containiLg 502 names. Mr. Lund of Ephraim thought there was Bomething suspicious about this. He announced that he had a petition from Ephraim asking for separate sep-arate submission, which contained 150 signatures and that be also had re. ceived a letter from the mayor of Ephraim Eph-raim enclosing resolutions in favor of such submission passed almost unanimously unani-mously at a meeting held in that town. Lund was, therefore, inclined to view with suspicion the petition from Ephraim presented by Chidester, "Are we allowed to examine the petitions? " he asked, President Smith assured him that he had a right to inspect them. The apportionment article was taken up at 10:30 and Uowdle moved the striking out of the proviso which binds the legislature to always give one representative re-presentative to each county. He said this would leave the whole matter in the hands of the legislature. After some little debate this was voted rlnwn. The question then recurred on the motion of Van Horn to make county representation apply only to the counties coun-ties as at present constituted and no Ttia was yoted down. "I tquires said he was about discouraged. discour-aged. It was becoming evident that the committee and the house would not allow a word or syllable to be changed. Howeyer, in view of Crane's assertion that it was the intention to have an apportionment every five yearB, be moved to make that clearly obligatory on the legislature. There was some discussion as to whether the first apportionment would be made in 1900 or 1905. The weight of debate was very much in favor of the former. Squires's motion was voted down. Creer moved the adoption of the article, ar-ticle, but Jolley arose to make a kick, lie sa:d Sanpete has only sixteen less voters than Cache county, and yet Cache has three representatives and Sanpete only two. Lund mcyed that ttanpete be given an additional representative. repre-sentative. However, he was voted down with a loud majority. The roll was called on tha article and ninety voted for it, while only Jolley, William Lower, Pierce, Stover, Van Horn, Varian and Wells voted no. At 11:55 a recess was taken until 2 o'clock. When the convention was called to order at 2 o'clock the militia article was taken up and passed. The con-ention con-ention then went into committee of the whole to consider the legislative article. Mcthing of any importance was done until qualilications for representatives was reached, when tweuty-fiye yeais was lixtd as the minimum aa limit. After some more paring of Van Horn's article President Smith raised a breeze by moving that $2.50 be paid rr embers of the legislature instead of $4.00. Allen moved that it be $3 50. Farr wanted $3.00 but he was not i&ec-onded. i&ec-onded. Both the Smith and Allen amend ments were voted down. The discussion of the subject was renewed re-newed by Mr. Thurmau who otfered an amendment providing that the per diem should not exceed $4.00 per day, nor the mileage ten cents. Mr. Evans of Utah moved an amendment making mileage payable only one way. Mr. Evans withdrew his motion, and the Thurman amendment was adopted, Mr. Eichnor moved that executive seseions of the senate be prohibited. He regarded the practice of holding such Eest'ions as "a relic o barbarism." The motion was lost. Mr. Ricks moved that the length of the legislative sessions, be fixed at forty days. Mr. Cowdle moved to make tne time fifty days. Both motions were voted down, as .was a motion of Mr. Stover to strike out the provision authorizing au-thorizing the lint legislature to sit ninety days. An amendment offertd by Mr. Eichnor, prohibiting the bringing bring-ing of suits against the state, was also lost. The committee then rose, and- after voting down a motion to take a recess until 7 :30 in the eyening, the convention conven-tion adjourned. |