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Show WANT SUFFRAGE. Some Utah County Ladies ( Petition theaConvention. ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS And State Institutions, Lowe of Cache Presents a Proposition That Will Be Adopted Other Proportions Preaented Some Members Wanted Another Holiday. Just three-quarters of an hour was occupied yesterday by the constitutional constitu-tional conyention in correcting the minutes. Thurman introduced the following on woman's suffrage from the ladies of Utah countv: "The undersigned delegates to the Woman's Suffrage association of Utah county, appointed to represent said association as-sociation in representing this memorial to your honored body, respectf ullv represent that the women of said association as-sociation in comnuon with their sisters throughout the territory of Utah, are at present deprived of the privileges of American citizenship, notwithstanding the great majority of them are native born citizens of tha United States. We further represent that notwithstanding we are taxed and are amenable to the laws equal with men, still we have no voice or vote upon the justice or propriety pro-priety of such taxation or the expediency expe-diency of the laws to which we are equally amenable with men. "We recognize with feelings of gratitude grati-tude that both the great political parties par-ties in Utah have declared in favor of equal suffrage. We haye no doubt that you will keep the pledge and confer upon tne women or utan tfcat political freedom end equality which justly and logically belongs to them as citizens of the most enlightened, just and progressive pro-gressive nation on earth. lifcCuute it la jus! and Uc&cjofou have solemnly pledged yourselves to accomplish the result, we rpsnprf-.fniiw request that you insert a clause in the constitution of the state of Utah conferring con-ferring upon women the right of suffrage, suf-frage, and your memorialists will eyer pray, etc." Low of Cache presented a proposition proposi-tion on public buildings and state institutions in-stitutions which has been approved by the committee and will piobably form part of the article on the subject. It reads as follows: "Keiormatory and Denal institutions and those for the benefit of the insane, blind, deaf and mute, and such other institutions as the public good may require, re-quire, shall .be established and supported sup-ported by tha state in such manner as may be prescribed by law. "All property and institutions of the territory, shall, upon adoption of the constitution, become the property and institutions of the state ot Utah. "The governor, secretary of state and attorney-general shall con?tiiute a board to be known as the state prison commissioners and shall haye the control, con-trol, direction and management of the state prison. The governor shall be chairman, and the board shall appoint a warden, who may be removed for cause. The warden shall have the power to appoint his subordinates, subject sub-ject to the approval of said board. "The legislature may authorize the employment, under state supervision and the state prison commissioners, of convicts on public roadB or other public woiks; but said convicts shall not be let or hired to any contractor, nor shall the working of convicts on public roads or public works eyer interfere in-terfere with the preparation for or the cultivation of any crop which it may be intended Bhall be cultivated by the said convicts, nor interfere with the good management of the state faim, nor put the Btate to any expense. "It shall Le steadily "kept hi view by the legislature and tne board of public charities, that all Denal and charitable institutions should be made as nearly Eelf-supporting as is consistent wltn the purposes of their creation." Permanent Per-manent locations of institutions are also made. Other propositions wc e effered: To prohibit political corporations; providing provid-ing against incorporation of cities by special acts; on county or ganization, recognizing present divisions and prohibiting removal of county seats more than once in four years; on municipal water rights pro nibiting their sale or lease; on representation repre-sentation in the legislative halls; on protection of live stock; favoring apprentices: ap-prentices: to secure private property, providing that it shall not be taken for public purpeses without just compensation; com-pensation; providing against discrimination discrim-ination in amount of pay against work done by women; on tne duties of the judiciary ; to protect settlers on school landB; on duties of school superintendents; superintend-ents; providing against donation of and by the state to railroads, private corporations or individuals; providing against cities, counties or other subdivisions subscribing for stock in any railroad or private corporation; cor-poration; commanding the first legislature legis-lature to make laws to prohibit the use of tobacco in the form of cigarettes. Evans, of Weber, presented a resolution reso-lution asking the territorial auditor, recorder of each city, clerk of each county and each school district to furnish furn-ish statements of the amount of their bonded indebtedness, when contracted, and the amount of interest. Adopted. A jangle ensued o-rer a proposition to adjourn till Monday. It was determined deter-mined to bold a session today. Much talk then followed upon the representation to be allowed in the Btate legislature, and things got pretty 1 warm, |