Show I 1 11 11 or OF PETITION ERS I 1 evenly divided on the suffrage I 1 1 question i i I 1 1 BREEZY DAY IN convention I 1 1 I 1 ser lewiss joke taken as B a an insult suspicious petition favoring Suffrage Apportionment ana milt mill I 1 tin CIE articles passed state legislature discussed compensation ol of age qualification 9 the light over the apportionment article if ole wits was brought to a close in tile con convention yeat yesterday erday bt at noon and the article was passed V in n the form onn in which it was reported by the 1 I apportionment committee the article on millea was al also so passed the convention spent nearly the whole of the afternoon in committee of 0 the whole considering thi the legislative article efforts to reduce the per diem of 0 members of 0 the legislature below 14 and to make tile legislative session shorter than sixty lays days was lugs defeated the sections reported by the full legislative isla tive committee were acted on oil but those prohibiting bount bounties les presented d in the minority report signed by the democratic members member 4 were not reached the anti bounty provisions A III doubtless be debated today to day petitions representing both sides fides of 0 the 6 woman rane light fight were presented one of 0 those favoring separate submission was from the home of delegate roberts the sea cession ion of yesterday yeste day iday was opened with prayer by rev nev A P F martin of tile the swedish lutheran church SEPARATE petitions favo fa vorine ling the separate submission of the woman suffrage question mission of the woman suffrage question bearing signatures were presented ted as follows B by y mr fr hill from forty nine CIE alti I 1 bens of suit salt lake by mr I 1 whitney by rs request quest from thirty nine mine citizens of 9 salt ailt lake by mr van horns horne irom brorn men and sixty eight women of suit salt lale lake by mr elcanor Elch nor from sixty eight citizens of salt lake by mr kearns from twenty nty five employees at the alliance mine rind and from other citizens of summit county by mr haynes front from 31 citizens of tay I 1 lors villel by mr dowdle from 73 72 elti catl tens of 0 farmers n ward nard ard by bv mr holladay I 1 by request from as eltI venti of by bv mr howard by re auest ouest from 22 citizens of blake by mr roberts from 75 citizens of nt center ville by C P larsen from 99 92 citizens of mantl by mr air squires from citizens of 0 salt luke lake by mr crane from 65 citizens of deseret by mr cleyo borne by request from 71 citizens of iron county by mr peterson of grand from 42 elti rens of moab by mr james from 24 citizens of salt lake by mr sharp from ad voters of castle gate MR LOWS JOKE mr low of cache who belongs I 1 10 0 the smart set in the convention at tills this point played a trick which he regarded as superlatively clever lie ite presented a daver which he said contained contain ed on an expression or of the sentiments of his bis smithfield constituents as a result of it a thorough c canvass of 0 the prod I 1 the document proved to be a veti petition tion without signatures asking tor for separate submission of the woman our auf I 1 trace arbee ou question estion and whon when its nature was revealed mr low laughed hoar heartily ar varian indignantly moved that the blank be returned to low it la is certainly in contempt of the convention declared varlan varian As it Is in now it Is a blank piece of cit paper which the gentleman says saya represents the minds of his constituency laughter mr low with a smirk said the 1 paper was went sent to b bilm in and he had bad no 1 other way of disposing of it than the one he had chosen to Is it an expression of the people or was it simply returned by the p party lr ty to whom it wast WAS sent inquired mr roberts the communication received with it tars rs it was returned by the people because it did not represent the th violas views of their aielo delegate replied low roberts asked for the comm communication unica but it was ann not produced 1 I take I 1 it that this matter Is IB an insult to the convention said ald roberts severely the motion that the paper be returned I 1 to low axis then carried w with iab I 1 only a few dissenting votes constitution constitution suffragists mr chidester Chlde ster presented petitions with 2534 signatures asking that woman weman suffrage sul be put in the as follows from washington county containing names from box elder county containing i nimes names from morgan names from sevier county containing names from ephraim Ephr alm containing I 1 2 3 names and from other portions of san pan pete county contat containing n finx 90 0 names and the end Is not 3 yet t chidester Chlde ster A suspicious PETITION mr lund announced that he be had a I 1 trillion from ephraim ephraem asking for separate submission which contained signatures and that ho he also had received ce 1 ved a letter from the I 1 mayor of eph writ enclosing resolutions in favor of such submission passed almost unanimously at a meeting held in that town lund was therefore inclined to view with suspicion the petition from eph mint presented by chidester Chlde ater are we allowed to examine the petitions he asked president smith assured him that he had bad a right to inspect them T and then thurman called out insina stingly we want to examine the petitions also albo apportionment ARTICLE the consideration ot of the ap apportionment portion article was then resumed the pending motion was wa that of mr vau van home borne to limit the right ot of each county to hive have at least one representative to the counties now liow existing mr bowdle offered amendment 1 iding in effect for to tho the iua legislature 1 tho the question whether or not sell each county should about have at least leant one representative the tha was defeated I 1 AN ORGAN REBUKED lift in discussing the ann horne home motion mr snow said that he wished to deny i 0 the statement that had appeared nev aral ral times in the herald that the ilcin dem members had been taken in by the republicans lit in the matter ot f ep ap ile he said that war to tha th was not BS as favorable to the party as he would have liked to haie hae it it was in the main I 1 i fair the insinuations cast u upon pon the 14 minority he declared ired unmerited I 1 the van horne home amendment was wa voted down 21 24 to 65 I 1 SAN PETE dissatisfied mr jolley sala that tho the san pete de lecates had reached the conclusion that their county had not been fairly I 1 d aeilt b lit with ho tn moved oved that that c county lis lc given another representative t 1 I second tho the motion and move that it be taken from salt lake raid paid I 1 so Saul u ires sarcastically 1 I second that motion added thur nan inan let it go ga unanimously suggested r devur vans of weber 1 I have tried to deal fairly with the th i OU outside counties but this la Is resolving alar lt down to childs play it Is ridiculous a declared elcainor Elc Elch linor nor indignantly 1 mr I lund pointed out that cache county count with but sixteen more voters than sin san pete was given three representatives senta tives while bile the latter had been ae corded but ba t two we have more mor e children on oil I 1 it 0 way A ity to th than a A cache has ahe di e added as s a 0 or 11 ll mr mar hart maintained eba that t h 1 cache had d more people deop e than tha n san S in pete mr lund said the other day remarked judge Goodw Oti odAin ln that lie he was not a married man led man and yet here rhe he la is talking about his children faugl 1 tera ARTICLE ADOPTED S san 0 n petes request tor for another representative sen senta dative tive was denied and the article having now run the gauntlet of 0 amendments it was passed by a vote 0 f 80 90 t to 7 choso those voting in the nera tive were jolley william lowe pierce stover van horne varlan varian and wells the contention con entson then took areces arec eg until unlit 2 MILITIA ARTICLE ADOPTED on reassembling assembling re the convention gave the tin arti c I 1 a its third read me inc and it eighty voting in the affirmative and none in tho the negative the coment contention lon then went into committee of 0 the whole with mr lying in the chair for or the consideration of 0 the Leirl slathe article an amendment to the th article was adopted on oil motion of 0 mr thurman that the senators elected in 1836 1896 instead of those elected in 1896 be divided into two classes by lot it no me go as to provide for the election of one halt half the senators senator every two years THE AGE LIMIT the clause providing that no person should be eligible to the office of 0 representative senta menta tive who was not 21 years of age was on motion of 0 mr squared squired changed no an as to make persons under is 25 ineligible bl lauritz larsen offered an amendment raising the age ace at which persons should be eligible to the office of 0 senator from 25 to 35 years year oh dont keep it a y oin g man back all al his lit life exclaimed mr Hol holladay taday one of the elderly members the amendment was not seconded compensation OF MEMBERS president smith moved to make the compensation of members of the mie legislature per day instead 0 of 34 1 as provided in the article mr allen alien moved nn amendment making the pay sa 3 50 per day judge goodwin remarked that the amendments it if carried would shut out of the legislature members of labor unions mr evans of weber we ber SAM said that the effect of the amendment would be to exclude poor men from the legislature lc did you ever know kno 0 i man m to tile the legislature asked raleigh becoming facetious te sir especially in utah replied evans mr thurman has been in the legislature a good m many L n y ami and he 13 an extremely poor poo r man laughters Laugh Laug liter terl mr cannon stated that tile the expense of holding a session of the legislature at the compensation proposed in the article would be land and while he favored economy he thought the state could afford to pay that sum president smith argued that unis strict economy was guaranteed by ohp constitution it would be in danger of defeat ile he said eald that attendance upon a legislative session was a winter holiday for most members it gave them opportunities tor for having a good time away from home borne but replied mr air hart drawing upon his eipl experience fience ri ence you cant have a good time on an per day blaugh tera lie he favored economy but not parsimony mr eichnor Elc hnOT conten contended dod that 4 was small enough and he was not a candidate either you arc in the hands of your friends suggested gusi rested mr IT thurman thor man yes teg sir confessed elcainor Elc Elch linor nor FARR GROWS reminiscent mr farr now arose to say pay that he had tried to push the business of the convention early in the session but had bad been unable to make it budge lie he had therefore arranged arran tred his him affairs so no that ho he could stay all summer ile he then indulged dul ed in reminiscences of the days when he had served in the legislature for 13 33 per day mr farr regarded the honor of legislative service as worth considerable I 1 raleign and allen alien spoke tor for low law pay par lauritz larsen favored making the ver per diem sa 3 are you willing to make that rate apply to the convention asked mr chidester Chlde ster yes sir air replied larsen with manifest reluctance COST OP OF SENATOR SHIPS judge goodwin said that it if the per them diem was wag mado made unreasonably low men would be found in the legislature with their hands b behind hind them and it would cost more to buy them than it would it if fair compensation was provided ile he had in mind two or three who wanted wa n t ed to buy spats in hi the united states stat es senate and lie he wanted to in moke make the terms as favorable as p prible to them laugh tera make the session forty days day it if you VOL want to said the judge but give elve a man enough g to buy a suit quit of clothes slid and appe appear ar respectable mr pace expressed express od the opinion that the reduction would affect the woman go farace members as they would no doubt be sent continuously to HIP legislature IRIa ture until life became a burden to them both the smith and ami allen alien amend monts were then voted down the disc islon of the subject was renewed by mr Ih who offered an amendments providing that the per diem not nol exceed 4 per day nor the maloff milo ml loff gl ten cents mr eva evana li ot of 1 utah moved an amendment making mileage payable only one way war mr roberts opposed the litter latter proposition he said he was entirely impartial oil nil the question as he be was positive that he be could never be a member or of the Laugh laughter terl 1 mr ivins left the chair to state slate that one way mileage from st george would amount tn in but 33 while the actual tare fore was wag W 36 mr johnson made his first speech of the session in opposition to the tha motion to cut the mileage in two theeb the ex of traveling from uintah county to salt lake and return was s as 60 50 per cen cent above ahr amount proposed by the tha amendment mr evans withdrew his motion end and the thurman amendment wits was ad adopted c apted mr elcainor Elc linor moved that exe executive e live so salons of the senite lie be grobl prohibited lutch lie he regarded the practice of bolding such sessions ns as of barbarism the motion was lost mr ricks moved that tile the length lein th of the legislative sessions be fixed at forty days davs mr bowdls moved to mako make this the time fifty days poth motions were wera voted down an am wits waa a motion of mr stover to strike out the provision 1111 u theorizing thor izing the nral first legislature L erl lature to kit flit ninety days an amendment offered by mr air Elch eichnor nor prohibiting the bringing arlin lair of suits against the state was A also ISO lost the committee then rose and after voting down a motion to take a recess U until 7 in the evening eveylne even lnE tho the constitution adjourned |