The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-01
MIssIssIPPPs CONVENTION.
Night Sessions to Be Held 20 Expedite
Business.

JACKSON, MISS. Sept. 30.-In order 10
expedite business and curtail the threatened
long session OF the constitutional convention
it was decided to-day to have night sessions
on and after tomorrow night. The judiciary
report, which had been fixed for the special
order to-day. was again postponed, and the
convention resumed consideration of the
legislative article Of the new constitution.
The section which caused so much discus
sion yesterday was disposed of by the adop-
tiou of the following:
No bill passed after the adoption OF this con
stitution to make appropriations of money out
OF the state treasury shall continue in force no
more than six months after the session of the
next regular Legislature
Twenty sections were adopted during TO-
day.
The following section of the report was,
after spirited debate, stricken out by a
vote Of Go 10 42:
The legislature shall have no power to appro-
pirate any of the public money for the estab,
Iishment and maintenance Of bureau OF i'm
grants to this state.
The vote derives significance from the
fact that the rejected section was copied
from the platform Of the farmers alliance
The committee TO which was referred the
subject Of memorialiEing congress as TO the
expedience and propriety of repeating the
fifteenth amendment, reported In part as
follows:
WHEREAS, There are In the state Of Missis.
sippi and some other states Of the United States
in approximately equal numbers two distinct
races or types of mankind, white and negro;
and
WHEREAS, These two races though friendly
and homogeneous for all business and industrial
purposes, are widely separate by race Instincts
| and pre1udices In all political and social mat.
ters; and
WHEREAS, We are without any welfounded
hope of change in the political rotations Of the
two races; and
WHEREAS. With such a condition one race or
the other must have chaIge of and control the
government OF such states and to do so there
will ever be recurring conflicts of greater or less
| magnitude between them, and
WHEREAS, A government thus maintained,
existing aud resting upon such conditio ns
must of necessity be without permanent efici.
ency or stability, and
WHEREAS, Such condition of insecurity Is
| not only great political and social evil, but
| also greatly impedes oil Industrial develop
ments, and inasmuch as the white people only
are capable Of conducting and maintaining the
| government of such states, giving sscur.
| lty and protection to the whole people
even II its people were educated, being wholly
unequal to such great responsibility II they
should come into control Of such government;
therefore, be 10
Resolved. BY the people OF the state Of Mis-.
sissippi in its constitutional convention assem-.
be |. that 1t is our deliberate judgment and
| opinion that the true and only efficient remedy
for the great and important difficult o ,
arising out of the conditions set
| forth in the foregoing preamble
| lies in the repeal Of the af nth
amendment of the constitution of the United
| States, whereby such restrictions and hmita
tations may be put upon negro suffrage by this
| several states as may be necessary and propeI
for the maintenance of good, stable govern
| ments therein.
| Resolved, That we request that the congress
| or the United States cause TO be submitted &C
The several states proposition 60 repeal said
| fifteenth amendment of the constitution ane
| that we will cheerfully accept as condition tc
| such repeal. such reductions in representatives
| in congress of the state of Mississippi as may be
| reasonable and just Ia view of the dimunition
| OF the number of voters In the state CONSEQUENT
| upon such repeal of the fifteenth amendment