Show the is kept TWO SESSIONS A BAY comans womans suffrage gomes in for discussion the executive article the convention is now down to real wort and ii holding two sessions cessions ces a day toe report of the legislative com wag receded tied to the committee of the whole the powers of aba government of ane slate of ar divided into three depart legislative and judicial and no person barcaj with the cf properly belonging to one of these departments shall exorcise appertaining to either of the oeners except in cadei expressly directed or permitted the legia lativa power ol 01 the bbate ahall be vested in a cenate and liouta of which shall be de signaled aba of tb state of utah regular Baione ae of the legislature shall be held biennially at ane seat of government and except tho drat session thereof ahall comm sace on abo in the election of of the house of representatives the of the house of depre after tb first election ahall be chosen by the qualified electors ot the respect iTa representative districts on the birtt tuesday after the first monday in november 1896 and biennially thereafter and their term of office abail be two years the senators abail ba chosen at the same timea and places as of tho house af representatives and their office ceball be for four years provided how ever that the elect at the drat session ot the legislature shall be divided by lot into two clae flea as nearly equal as may be and seats of senators of the farat class shall bac vacated at the end of two deais those of ana second claga at the end of four years BO that one half as near as possible shall be cholea biennially thereafter in case of increase in the gumbei of senators i they beall be annexed by jot to one or the ether of the two cla acea so as to keep them as nearly equal as practicable no person ahall be eligible to the office of senator who is not a of the united states twenty five yeara ot ae a qualified voter in the district rom which he is chosen a resident for three years in the state and for one year of the district from be ie elected no person fidall be to the offida of who is not a citizen of the united states twenty one years of age a qualified voter in the district from which he is chosen a resident for two years of the state and for one year of the district from which he is el acted then follows the usual as to the powers of the members of the legislature Legia lature the legislature may sit I 1 ninety days at a ca aaion the lower bouse has tha power of two thirds of the members elected yot ing the governor and other state and judicial of ficera except jas cices tices ot the peace shall be liable to impeachment for hiah crimes or mis demeanors or malfeasance in office best judgment in such cases shall extend only to removal from office and disqualification to hold any office of honor trust or profit in the state the democratic members of the ommittee consisting of richarda Eich arda partridge hart snow roberts farr and irr presented a minority report designed to prevent any grant or or money by tha state or any political subdivision thereof to any individual association or corporation and to prevent the state and it and municipalities from giving or landing credit to private corporations or persons their report was also referred th of apportionment re ported as heretofore published the convention then went into corn matteo of tuo whole on the education article and anally concluded that it WAS altogether toe long wherefore it wag decided to abend it back to the standing committee in the afternoon the minority portion of the committee on suffrage submitted a report against comans womans suf hase atie report admitted comans womans intellectual attributes entitled her to the of ballot but it held that she had not partain parta of the changed conditions dit ions bad found it naces sary to taka nal nfl from him in order to begin to place this territory in har conf with the rest of the nation and a widespread tear prevails that with the privilege restored the overwhelming force would destroy the present equality of parties and awaken a terrible temp tation on the part of those who ruled before to resume their by work the generous impulses and re instincts of woman the report a warm as sater moved that the suffrage question be made the gordert or today thurman moved to go into a committee of the whole to consider another matter the motion was defeated 44 to 52 Chi desters motion carried by a big majority 87 to 12 council th n adjourned until today |