The record-union., 1895-03-09

vote 10y which the amendment was
adopted.
Senator McAllister (Dem.) raised the
point that the Judiciary Committee had
unanimously declared the bill to be un-
constitutional. He thought the merits of
the suffrage question should hinge upon
constitutional amendment, and not
upon bill.
GESFoRD's GREAT SPEECH.
Senator Gesford (Dem.) said that, as
Democrat, he was not here to defend the
Republicans in their action upon their
platform. He declared that, according to
the platform of the Republican party, the
bill was clearly unconstitutional. and not
only that, but the Senator from Hum
boldt (McGowan) who was Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee had declared
in the committee that he believed the
BILL if passed, would be clearly unconsti-
tutional. While he was opposed to wom-
ans suffrage in every form, absolutely
and uneQuivocally, he thought the proper
manner of giving a hearing to the
suffrage question was to bring up the
constitutional amendment, and discuss it
thoroughly. He had acted in good faith
in offering the amendment, and wished
to vote for the bill carrying the educa-
tlonal qualification Of electors, as voted
upon by the people last fall, but he
wished 1t to be constitutional, and hoped
to see its provisions carried out. With
out the amendment it would be clearly
unconstitutional and the Act would be
null and void.
GLEAvES AND EARL.
Senator Gleaves said the bill should
pass regardless of it's constitu tiouality.
and let the matter be settled in the Su-
preme Court, where it properly belonged,
Senator Earl said that while he person.
ally believed it unwise to extend the
franchise to the women, he had been
bound by his party. and was heartily
| willing to cast his vote in favor of con-
! stitutional amendment embodyiDg the
! plan to be submitted to the people; but he
was not willing to help pass an unconsti-
| tutlonal bill. He did not consider that he
was in opposition to the Republican
| party or the platform adopted by it when
| he did so, for to pass this unconstitutional
! bill would be to defeat the educational
qualification demanded by the people at
| the recent election.
! SIMPSON IS EMPHATIC.
Senator Simpson (Rep.) said that when
he took his seat in the Senate he had held
| up his hand and sWore before God to sup
! port the Constitution, and he believed il
he voted for the bill he should st ultify
himself, as he believed conscientiously
! that the bill without the amendment was
unconstitutional.
WITHIN GToN, TOO.
Senator Wilmington (Rep.) could not
| vote for the bill without the amendment,
as the lawyers in the Senate were a unit
| IN declaring it unconstitutional. The
| Senator from Humboldt (McGowan)
should not be held responsible for his
| flow of eloquence, surrounded as he was
| by perfume (McGowan having been pre-
sented with basket of camellias) and
backed up by the fair sex as he was (the
space back of McGowan's seat being
lined with women); he should not be
held accountable for his speech, being in
! toXicated by the influences surrounding
| him.
ARAM TALKS GEOMETRY.
Senator Aram offered geometrical
proposition, hinging upon parabolic
curve and straight line, and declared
| 1t would be wrong TO place upon the
statute books an unconstitutional law OF
this kind, and even if it were constitu-
| tional the Senate should think long and
carefully before passing it.
MARTIN Is HUMOROUS.
Senator Martin said that the bill had
been born prematurely, and died early, ,and
that the Rev. Father McGowan of Hum
boldt had delivered the funeral grafton,
and that DR.. Pedlar OF Fresno would no
doubt hold the autopsy and bury the
corpse deep out of sight. He did not be-
lieve that one man upon the floor OF the
Senate believed in universal suffrage, uu-
less he was some sleek haired dude who
wanted to get married, and when he had
been married as long as he (Martin) had
he also would be opposed to it. # q con-
| vention was called, he would want to &c
and his wife would want to GO and she
being determined and combatiye would
go, and be would stay at home and take
! care of the children. God, in his wig
dom, had prepared man to fight the battle
of life, and his wife, the queen of the
! household to attend to those duties. II
would not be wise for this Legislature tG
attempt to Controvert the laws laid dow Il
by God Almighty. He hoped that the
question of universal suffrage was sc
dead that it would never hear GabriePs
horn, and he believed it was.
MATH EWs AND PURITY.
Senator Mathews thought the question
of suffrage probably meant the entire
! uproOting of the social system. He
could not forget his allegiance to his
mother, sister and wife, all of whom had
taught him that they did not desire the
right OF suffrage. AS long as he had g
tongue to speak, hand to raise or vote
| TO cast, he should protest against the
purity OF women heing thrown against
the rougher side Of the lives of men.
MGOwAN PLEADS.
Senator McGowan offered an able argu.
mont in defense OF his position. Womer
in the middle ages, he declared, had been
! slaves. The question of suffrage had
been tried in Wyoming and Colorado
and found not wanting. He hoped the
motion to reconsider would prevail.
NO RECONSIDERATION.
The motion to reconsider was lost by
the following vote:
Ayes-Bert, Biggy, Earl, Ford, Franck
Gleaves, Hart. Holloway, Hoyt, Ma.
honey, McGowan, Orr, Pedlar, Seymour,
Shine and Smith-l6.
Noes-Aram, Arms, Androus, Beard
Burke, Denison. Dunn, Fay, Flint, Ges-
ford, Henderson, Langford, Linder
Martin. Mathews, McAIlister, Mitchell
Seawen, Shipp9e, Simpson, Toner
The bill was ordered printed.
TRAMP ACT PASSED.
S. b. l47, by Langtord, to amend and
add new section TO an Act approved
! February II, 1872, to prevent able-bodied
persons tr ON banding together and OBJ
tanning subsistence by aims, was called
up on the notice OF Orr to reconsider
the vote by which the bill was refused
| passage. The Senate not only voted tC
reconsider, but also passed the bill by
a vote OF 30 to 2.
Senator Seawell called up S. B. 537, tC
provide for the compensation of the
Chiefs and Captains of Police and police
officers in all municipal corporations OF
the third and fourth classes in the State
which he stated had been in committee
and'amended by a lawyer, doctor aud q
merchant, so as to please all of them. lie
did not want the amendments and the
bill did not need them. He did not pro
pose to have the bill passed as amended,
with his name attached to it. He desired
to offer an amendment to strike out the
amendments, and offered a resolution to
that effect, which was lost.