Show The Jackson Miss Convention JACKSON Miss Aug 19The most important im-portant business presented to the convention conven-tion today was the report of the committee commit-tee on elections in the contested election case of More and Hearman against Melcher and Montgomery A majority of the committee reported in favor of the con testants and the minority reported in favor of the contestees Action was referred until tomorrow when Montgomery unti one of the contestees a former slave of Jefferson Jeffer-son Davis and the only colored man in the convention will be heard in his own be half Judge Simrell reported apian of suffrage today which provided for the prepayment of a poll tax and balloting by the Austra lan plan A resolution also adopted was also passed requesting the judiciary committee com-mittee to report to what extent the convention con-vention is bound by the provisions of the act of Congress admitting Mississippi into the union |