OCR Text |
Show tToman Snn"ra:e In -IN.lt.lppl. Jackson Miss., August 21. A tinge, of sentiment agaiu-t tbe colored color-ed i-Of le w as cast over tlie j roceJ-ingi roceJ-ingi of tlie constitutional convca-lion convca-lion to-day, during the progress of Ihrfrgate leu ell's speech insupjott of the irotioMtlou oOered b nlin-sejf nlin-sejf to confer sulfrage ujun w omen. TeweHf resohitiou Is as foil jug: 'That it is the sense of this convention con-vention that it is a condition t,t cevsary to the solution of thufran-ehire. thufran-ehire. problim tliat tlie right to vote be secured bypro-er constitutional enactment to ever woman who sliall have resided in the btitu nix month", and who shall bo 21 eaTs of age or upwards, and whooaui-, or whose husband, If she has ahux-liaud, ahux-liaud, owns real eshite situateiliu this state of tbe va'ue of$3o)or over, above all iucumbrauit. buch constitutional enactment not to be framed so as to granttoawo uau the right to hold oflice." After two hours of dlscu-siou on the resolution TeRel struck cut the ot jectiunable claue of hie resolution re-solution and had it rrfeneil to the committee on election fram hise. The woman suffrage idea Is (,roa -I tig In favor among the best minds of the conveutlonrUid unless sitety from negro supremacy can bo reached reach-ed by other methods, ftwell's plan, or one similar to it, will be adopted. |