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Show 1 GAINING GROUND, The Woman Suffrage Clause May be Reconsidered. PETITIONS POURING IN To the Convention Asking: That Woman Suffrage be Submitted Separately For tbe Votes of the People Work of the Constitutional Convention Yesterday. The constitutional convention heard from the people, to the number of over 1,600 on the woman suffrage question yesterday, by petitiors. One hundred hun-dred of tne petitioners were women of Willard, liox Elder county, who asked that womalfcBuffrage be placed in the constitution, but over fifteen hundred of the signatures were tnose of men and women who are opposed to putting put-ting it in the constitution, and the petitions pe-titions are still flowing in. When the flow of petitions had ceased for the day the convention resumed re-sumed consideration of the article on election and rignts of suffrage. Two propositions to "change time of residence emir Jing an elector to vote were voted aown, and the proyision of the article requiring a precinct residence resi-dence of sixty days allowed to stand. An amendment offered bv Mr. Evans of Wsber, to add "crimes against the elective franchise" to the list of offenses offen-ses for which electors might be arrested ar-rested in going to and from the polls, excited discussion. Mr. Thurman thought the amendment amend-ment dancerous. as nharsrpH mi;rh 1ih trumped up against voters to prevent them from voting. Mr. Anderson was of the opinion that it would destroy tne object of the provision exempting voters from arrest. ar-rest. Mr. Creer opposed the amendment, and Mr. Varian favored it. Mr. Roberts suggested ironically that theru was no need for the amendmeut, as with woman suffrage, purity and order would prevail at the polls. Laughter. The amendment was lost. Mr. Varian offered a substitute, leading lead-ing the subject of exemption from arrest ar-rest to the legislature. Voted down. Mr. Ryan moved to strike out the provision authorizing the legislature to require a property qualification for voting at elections for the creating of an indebtedness or tne levying of a special tax. Voted down. The convention then took a recess until 2 o'clock, Atter reassembling, it spent two hours in dealing Willi substitutes sub-stitutes and amendments relative to divorcing judicial, municipal and school elections from politics. All were voted down, and the section on tne subject, as amended by the committee of the whole, approved. As it stands, it provides pro-vides that judical, municipal and school officers shall not be elected on any day when other officers are elected. The whole article l aving now been gone over, a roll-call on its passage was next in order. It was moyed and carried that a reconsideration of the suffrage clause may be had on any future day of the convention by a majority ma-jority vote. The roll was then called on the passage of the article, resulting 75 for to 16 against. The convention then went into committee com-mittee of the whole, with Mr. Evans of Weber in the chair. The executive article, which was first on the committe j'a calendar, was deferred, and tho ordinance required by the enabling act taken up, read and adopted without amendment. The pportoinment article, which was next considered, received like expeditious ex-peditious treatment, and without being changed in a single particular, this article, ar-ticle, which at one time threatened to give the convention convulsions, was unanimously recommended for paa-. sage. After brief consideration of the article arti-cle on public lands, the committee rose and the convention adiourned. |