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Show THE CONVENTION, Woman Suffrage Still the All Absorbing Topic. ROBERTS' RESIGNATION Is Asked by the Officious Chairman of the Democratic Party in Davis County-He County-He Will Not Resign Nor Chanare Hi Course. In the constitutional convention on Saturday Mr. Lewis presented a mammoth mam-moth petition, signed ; by 3,700 residents resi-dents of Weber county, asking for the submission of the prohibition question. Like petitions were presented by President Pres-ident timith from 565 votsrs and 1,246 other residents of Logan, by Mr. Miller, Mil-ler, from 112 women of Sevier county a id ty Mr. Peters, from 24 yotere of Corinue. The committee on judiciary reported the following sus stitu.e for section 10, of the declaration of righte: ln capital cases, the right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate. In courts of general jurisdiction, except in capital casts, a jury uhall consist of eight jurore. In courts of inferior jurisdiction jur-isdiction a jury shall consist of lour jurors. Iu criminal cases, the verdict shall be unanimous. In civil cases three-iourths of the jurors may find a verdict. A jury in oivil cases shall ba waived unless demanded." The convention hen went into committee com-mittee of the whole, with Mr, Buys in the chair, for the further consideration of the article on elections and rights of sull'race. Discussion for and against woman Buffrage was heated and the speakers were many. Bishop Whitney was the orator of tne day, speaking fur suffrage. He paid high compliments to Utah's women and ridiculed what li. II. Roberts Rob-erts had Baid. Mr. Roberts asked the privilege of closing the debate when the proper time arrived, lie said that circumstances circum-stances justified the- request which otherwise modesty might require him to relrain from matting. There was a great probability that the speech he proposed to make would be his last one m the convention, as he had received the following telegram: 'Kaysville, March SO. "13. II. Roberts, constitutional convention: con-vention: We must ask you to cease opposing woman suffrage or resign, rarty pledges rvre sacred and must be kept. John G.M. Bakxes, Chairman." To this dispatch Mr. Roberts said he had sent the iollowing reply: "You must do what you think proper. pro-per. I ehall not change my course." The convention voted to allow Mr. Roberts to close the debate and to give him all ths time he desired in which to do it. The struggle now Is to get the friends of woman suffrage in the convention con-vention to consent to keep the plank out oi the constitution but to leave the subject to future legislatures or to submit sub-mit it to the people to vote upon for or against separately at the same time when they vote upon the constitution. The sentiment against woman suffrage is growing rapidly in the territory, numerous prominent ladies have re ceutly come out as strong anti-suff ! ragists. lb Gentry of Colonial Maryland. The gentry of colonial Maryland, tin-der tin-der the rule of tho earlier Calverts, lived liv-ed on the great plantations in dwellings that were accessible by water. The bay and rivers were almost their only highways, high-ways, and the obliterated little thorp of St. Mary's, founded on the site of an Indian village whereof the memory is dear to every son of the 6oil, was their only city. At home they sat on stools and forms and dined without forks, cutting their meat with their rapiers. But their walls were wainscoted and their chambers comfortably bedded. Tea and coffee they rarely tasted, and 6ugar was a luxury, but sack and cider and punch flowed freely. Witness the facetious instructions of Governor Calvert to Colonel Price to bring certain articles to Fort St. Inigoe'a for the use of the 6oldiers: "And upon motion of sack the said governor bade him bring sack, if he found any." In the early records of the province there Is more sack thau Falstaff 's drawer ever scored. Tho colonial gentry dispensed ardent spirits at funerals and clinked the sack cup at christenings, and they affected signet rings with their leather breeches and boot hose. Cattle stealing was not in fashion. Only a sheriff of Kent was once charged with that offense, while a governor of Virginia was convicted. con-victed. Neither was there ever an execution exe-cution for witchcraft in the province of Maryland. "Old Maryland Homos and Ways" io Century. HAD TO GIVE BONOS. A Del a war Marriage Formality Tbfci Struck Terror to One Bridegroom. To get married seems an easy thing to the young man whose fancy lightly tui-ns t-i thoughts of lcve, but when it comes to the actual ceremony ihere are a thousand and one terrors whicn eur-round eur-round and threaten to overcome him-Marriage him-Marriage in some states ia easy. L: others it is difficult as obtaining a di Torce. A well known Philadelphian was about to be married! o a beautiful young woman who live:! m the state ol Delaware. Ho had no idea that the mar riage laws of that stato were of an appalling ap-palling nature. He had 'secured his license li-cense and thought that was all thatwai necessary. 'Have yon filed yoni bond yet?" 6aid icwne one to him the day before the wedding. wed-ding. "What?" gasped he. " "Your bond," repeated the questioner. question-er. "You know every man who is married mar-ried in this state has to file a bond foi the protection of the state." The bridegroom was rather dubious, but was finally persuaded that this w A fact. "I'll see a lawyer about it in th morning, " said he. So he went to friend,, who was a legal l'.ght, and said "See here. They tell me I have t give a bond to the state when I get married." "Certainly. Haven't you done so?" in a surprised way. "No; I never heard of such a thinp fcfore. What kind of bond is it?" "Oh, any real estate wiil do. " "But I haven't any teal estate." The lawyer looked at him t uomeat Then he solemnly said: "Haven't you any friends who cy property?" "None that I care to ask t& bind it up that way. I can't ask my bride'r relatives, you know. " H13 friend looked at him pityingly. "You can't postpone tho wedding, ea you?" "What?" fairly shrieVp-i tho unfoi tunatft. irT, L "Qf course, of COTEVe ivo ssid th legal light soothingly. But the poo bridegroom looked stricken. "I'll tell you what I'll do, old maa. 511 tend to the matter for you. Don't jive yourself any more concern about it" The young man about to be marries? grasped his hand. He could not speak for a moment, and then he poured forth his thanks. He picked up his hat in a relieved sort of way and walked to th 4oot Then he turned. SAFETY ON THE WATER. 1-he Inspector's Department's Claim Efficient Work. Nearly 700,000,000 people carried on American steamers during the last fiscal year and only 255 lives lost, of hom but 96 were passengers, is the prominent promi-nent feature of tho new annual report of Supervising Inspector General Du-mont Du-mont of steam vessel inspection service. This is a smaller mortality among me eamo number of people, we have no doubt, than if they had all staid at home and went regularly to bed, to say nothing of traveling by rail. It proves again what we have often remarked that travel by American steamers under the system of inspection now enforced is the safest that could possibly be devised. de-vised. Thirty-five of the 96 passengers above referred to lost their lives in one disaster the sinking of the tugboat James D. Nicol off Sandy Hook on a Sunday in June last, and General Da mont states that this disaster was solely due to the fact that the tug was being navigated by a person wholly inexpe rienced. It is further stated in the report that of the nearly 11,000 boilers inspected accidents causing the loss of life have occurred to but 15 of them, defects in upward of 700 being detected and remedied; reme-died; also that of 100,274 new life preservers pre-servers examined only 64 were found deficient. This statement shows that ad great care is taken in the inspection of equipments to prevent disaster as in the machinery employed to run them and the men who man thorn. In regard to the latter no less than 38 applicants for master's and pilot's licenses were rejected re-jected during the year on account of colorblindness, although 1,544 passed the tests. All of which goes to show that the traveling public and the steam vessel fraternity as well havo every reason rea-son to repose confidence in the inspection inspec-tion system as at present managed. Marine Journal. |