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kuOW SOulcluluS VI LILO SOulcOcrduo
soldier. If as my friend from Horny
remarked, the dead soldier could arise
from the battlefelds of Virginia, I
would meet them and with that greet
ing that can only be understood by
comrades who have shed their blood
together in defense of their country. I
would say by the measure proposed
by the suffrage committee every Con-
federate soldier is provided for. AS
one, a part of whose body is buried in
Virginia. I would say that would
lose my others arm before I would con-
sent to disfranchise any one of them.
my first objection to Mr.. Patton's
plan is that all white voters who were
too young to 60 into the war and
whose farthers did not, and cannot
read and write would be edisfranchised.
my second is that the sons of men
who died before the war and who were
too young themselves to 90 into it,
will be denied the ballot.
my third objection is that those
whose fathers were invalids and could
not 60 into the war will be disfran.
chised.
MY fourth is that those whose
fathers were too old to 60 into the war
and all good people who have moved
into the State since the war and can
not read and write will be shut out.
1.-The better element of negroes do
not want the ignorant and vicious ne
gro to vote.
II remember when a boy in going
! to Charleston with q load of cotton we
passed place where a young man
while running horse race, had been
kill. His tombstone was by the side
of the road and, on it these lines:
"'Ye living men as ye pass by,
As you are'now so once was ];
As I am now, so you will be,
Prepare for death and follow me-
"a man who was something of a
wag, came along and after looking at
it awhile, wrote: o..
"To follow you 1 am not content,
| Unless I know the road you went,
For they do fork and no one can tell,
Whether you have gone to heaven or
hell
"And that the way with Mr.. Pat
toms plan; we do not know where it
will lead U.S." cloud laughter.)
Mr.. Bryan made a very strong
speech, pointing out the the constitu-
tional objections to the Patton plan.
On the suggestion of Mr.. Patton the
vote on bis substitute was postponed
till the night session.
HOW TT DIED.
The vote by ayes and noes stood
ayes 90, noes III. Those who voted
for the measure:
Messrs. Bates, Brice, T. w.; Burn,
Dent, Graham, Jervey, Jones, Willie;
Klugh, McDermotte, Montgomery, w.
J.; Parrott, Patton, Perritte, Read, J.
H.; Russell, Sheppard, Smith, Jere-
miah; Stackhouse, Sullivan, Wigg.
THE MISSISSIPPI PLAN"
Several amendments were offered,
on behalf of the committee on suffrage
and ordered to be printed. They were
mostly changes in the wording only.
Mr.. Stanyarne Wilson offered the
following amendment: ''
Strike out (c) and insert subdivision
(c) The person applying for regis
tration must be able to read and write
any section of this Constitution, or
must be possessed of sufficient intelli-
gence to understand and explain it
when read to him by the registration
officer.
The effect of this substitute. would be
to do away with all property qualifca-
tons, and to extend the mississippi
plan" neutrality-suspicious. the article
reported by the suffrage committee
contemplates that that plan shall cease
to operate after the LIST of January
1898.
MIR. Wilson made long and earn
est speech in favor of this proposition.
He was answered by Senator Tillman.
The vote stood-yeas 18, nays 129.
Those who supported the Wilson
amendment were re-Messrs. Alexander,
Barry, Bobo, Bowen. Brice, T. W.;
Carver, Gray, Hamel Harrison,
Henry, Johnstone, T. E. OTIS, Peake,
Rowland, Wilson, Stanyarne; Will
son, w. BIG:
Mr.. Jervey offered an amendment
which would preserve the suffrage to
all voters now holding registration
certificates, and exclude all others un-
less these others should be able to read
and write.
Mr.. Jervey made an earnest and
able speech in favor of his proposition
at the same time pointing out the dan3
gers and wrongs that he thought Incl
dentto theplan reported by the suffrage
committee.
MIR. BELLNGER's PLAN.
Mr.. Bellinger offered the following
amendment to Mr.. Jervey's PROPOSE
ton:
Inserting between the words "same"
and "be" the words cor upon proof
that he voted at the general elections
of 1892 and 1894, or at the election
held on the 2Oth day of August,
1885,"
Mr.. Bellinger spoke at some length
in support of this measure. He was
not pledged to anything. He wanted
this matter of suffrage placed above
reproach, above the charge of
fraud.
The amendment was lost.
The vote was then taken on Mr..
Jervey's amendment: Yeas IL, nays
126. Those who favored the amend
ment were Messrs. Anderson, Bates,
Dudley, Fitch, Jervey, Miller, Read,
j. H.; Reed, I. R.; Smalls, Smith,
R. F.; Whipper, Wigg.
STILL ANOTHER,
Mr.. Dudley offered the following