Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1889-08-16

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his motion he declared himself unrc
scrvcdly in favor OF woman suffrage
. but aside from being such, he thought
that it but just and fair to allow the
legislature to act in this matter. i'll &C
cordance with the wish OF the people.
: He was followed by Mcssrs CosgroyC
: and GritIitts. maintaining the SAINT
views. and declared it to be their opin
ion that women had Il lawful right tC
: vote now. and that they had no NOR,
| respect for the opinion Of the Suprem,
Court Judges of this Territory on tn.
legality of the woman suffrage act than
: they were compelled to have, rs mem
bers oil the bar.
; Mr.. Turner followed on the other
side briefly, and contented himself
with announcing his fiat to vote down
the amendments, but not forgetting
what the future might have in store
for him personally. that he wanted her
to have the suffrage whenever a major
Ty of the people are in favor of it, and
by the people he said he meant men
and women. He did not, however, say
the women could express their judg-
ment on the matter without the use of
the ballot
After further remarks by Mr.. Eshel-
man in favor, and Messrs. J. Il. Moore
and Mr.. Stiles against, the Convention,
without coming to a vote, took IL recess
to . p. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention resolved itself into
Committee OF the Whole, the President
in the chair, and the fifth section was
immediately taken up for considera-
ton, and the amendment of Mr.. Grit
fits was, upon vote, defeated, and and
the question then REQUIRED upon Mr..
Dunbar's amendment, which provides
for leaving the matter of equal suffrage
to the legislature, and after some dis
cussion was also defeated, by vote OF
Is to 80, the motion of Mr.. Eshel-
man to add municipal" to "school
election" was also lost. This was fol-
lowed by a motion to strike out the
section, which was lost 10y vote OF -
to 80.
The next section, excluding, in addi-
! tlOn 10 WoiilcIl, dll iuiotS, AhS"iic PVi-
sons, and persons convicted OF infa-
nous crimes, unless restored to civil
rights, from the elective franchise, was
adopted.
Section 6 provides that voters shall
be privileged from arrest during their
attendance at elections, and in going
to and returning thereirom, and 10
elector shall be required to do military
duty on the day of the election, was
adopted.
Section provides that all elections
shall be by ballot, and the legislature
shall provide for such method of vot-
ing as will secure to every elector abso-
lutte secrecy in preparing and deposit
ing his ballot" was adopted.
Section 8 provides that the legisla-
ture shall enact registration law ap-
plicable to cities and towns having a
population OF over 500 inhabitants, and
it was adopted.
Section 10 provides that the first
election of county and district offices
shall be on the Tuesday next after the
first Monday in November, 1890, and
thereafter all elections for such offices
shall be held biennially. The first
election of all State officers, after the
election held for the adoption of this
Constitution, shall he on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in Novem-
Der, 1862, and every fourth year there
after, which section was adopted.
Section IL provides for submitting
| tho .,,,aSk.a,, e u,0r,,or, c,,tfra IN the
electors of the State at the general
election in November, 1890, which was
adopted.
| Mr.. Goldman presented substitute
for the above section, submitting the
question of woman suffrage to the quail
flied electors at the same time the Con-
stitutiOn is submitted, which was adOp-
ted in Committee of the Whole, but
when the article W as considered in
Convention it was rejected, and section
IL was restored.
| Mr.. Dyer then moved to suspend the
rules, pass the article to its third read
ing and place it upon it's final passage,
which was lost, 80 to %, not two
thirds, whereupon it was ordered
printed and passed to its third reading.
APPORTIONMENT.
The Committee on Appointment
presented the following article:
SECTION Until otherwise pro-
vided by law, the State shall be- di-
vided into twenty-four Senatorial
districts, and said districts shall be
constituted and numbered as follows:
The counties of Okanogan, Stevens
and Spokane shall constitute the First
District, and be entitled to one Sena-
tor.
The county of Spokane shall con-
stitute the Second District, and be
entitled to three Senators.
The county of Lincoln shall con-
stitute the Third District, and be en-
titled to one Senator.
The counties of Spokane, Lincoln,
Adams and Franklin shall constitute
the Fourth District, and be entitled to
one Senator.
The county Of Whitman shall con-
stitute the Fifth District, and be en-
titled to three Senators.
The counties of Garfield and Asotin |
shall constitute the Sixth District, and
be entitled to one Senator.
The county of Columbia shall con-
stitute the Seventh District, and be
entitled to one Senator.
The county of Walla Walla shall
constitute the Eighth District, and be
entitled to three Senators.
The counties of Yakima and Doug
las shall constitute the Ninth District.
and be entitled to one Senator.
The county of kittitas shall con-
stitute the Tenth District, and be en-
titled to one Senator.
The counties of Klickitat and Ska
mania shall constitute the Eleventh
District, and be entitled to one Sena-
tor.
The county of Clarke shall be the
Twelfth District and be entitled to one
Senator.
The county of Cowlitz shall be the
Thirteenth District, and be entitled to
one Senator.
The county of Lewis shall be the
Fourteenth District, and be entitled to
one Senator.
The counties of Pacific and Wah-
kiakum shall be the Fifteenth District,
and be entitled to one Senator.
The county of Thurston shall Ike the
Sixteenth District, and be entitled to
one Senator.
The county of Chehalis shall be the
Seventeenth District, and be entitled
to one Senator.