The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-30

Roberts said he still holds to the
proposition that women cannot vote
either for the constitution or the first
state officers. Women are unenfran-
chised until the constitution is adopted.
1t is an absurdity TO contend that un-
enfranchised factors should be allowed
to vote. 1t might be said that he, look
ing upon woman suffrage as an evil.
would want to put off that evil as long
as possible. The people will become
heartily sick of the thing soon enough.
Bowdle said the suffragists were be-
coming scared. They were afraid the
men would not carry the constitution
and therefore they wanted to take the
chance of calling the women to their
aid.
Murdoch. of Beaver. opposed the
amendment.
Raleigh spoke against the amend
ment. He said there is nothing in the
enabling act which would make it pos
sible for the women to vote on the
constitution
On State officers.
Ma1oney said he admitted the women
cannot vote on the constitution But
he had understood there was no differ
women had the right to vote for stata
officers. He agreed that for the women
| TO vote for the constitution would be
like dead man voting to make him
self alive. But the enabling act left
/ the other open tor the convention to
settle
Barnes. of Davis. said the women
cannot vote until the constitution has
| been ratified.
The Convention Revolutionary.
Evans. of Weber. said section 9 OF
the enabling act simply enfranchised
certain persons who had been pre-
viously DISTINGUISHED and provided
that these could vote for the constitu-
ton. The convention, unless specially
limited. has the right to say who shall
vote. In it's very nature "a constitu-
tional convention is revolutionary In
the absence of any limitation it has the
right to make any kind of government
1t may choose. This body was revolu-
tionary though peaceable 1t Is
supreme IN the exercise of a power to
say who shall vote in the state In
the absence Of restriction it has the
power to enfranchise or disfranchise.
The convention is creating state Of
ficers as it is creating the state. These
officers will never take their seats lin
less the constitution IS adopted. Over
them the convention has plenary
power. 1t is as clear as a proposition
In Euclid that women have the right
to vote for state officers. Members
would be recreant to tfe;l duty if they
denied that right.
No Authority For 1t.
Varian said there was no authority
for legislation by the convention. IT is
not supreme. Congress still retains IT'S
power 40
Both Maloney's and Richards amend
ments were voted down and the con-
vention took recess from 1926 until .
O'clock IN =
Upon reassembling in the afternoon
Of +f,.o
disposed of the balance of the articleI
on schedule, without important amend
ments, and then the committee arose.
Curious Invitation.
The following communication was
ITO the Honorable President. Officers
and Members of the Constitutional
Convention:
Conference.-The women of Salt
Lake City, who appreciate the labors
OF the convention in the interest Of
the coming state, desire the pleasure
of entertaining the delegates and their
ladies. including all officers of the as
sembly, at a reception given in their
honor, at the Templeten hotel, in this
city, on Thursday, May 2, from 9
o'clock until II in the evening The
reception is rendered the convention in
behalf of the women of Utah.
Clerk Christensen snickered and
turned the invitation over.
There is this postscript" he said,
still snickering %
The Ever Present Postscript.
Mr.. President. P S. The invitation
is without signatures as it was thought /
that possibly some members might
ask how many yards of them there |
were attached
The convention hardly seemed to |
know what to do with this. There |
has been so much of a peculiar mature
during the woman suffrage fight that |
there was a strong inclination to /
smile.
Squires-I do not know how to take I
this thing. We don't know whether /
the invitation is genuine or whether it /
is just a hoax, and 1 move to lay it /
on the table.
Preston-We cannot take action on |
the invitation without we know from |
whom it comes.
The invitation was laid on the table /
by a divided vote.
The invitation from Chief Devine to |
witness an exhibition of the fire de-
partment at 1890 tomorrow was ac- /
copied with thanks.
James at 1t Again.
The convention then took up on third
reading the article on private corpora
tions.
James moved to strike out section z,
prohibiting corporations from leasing
or alternating franchises so as to re-
lieve the franchise or property held
hereunder from the liabilities of the
lessor or grantor, leesee or grantee,
contracted or incurred in operation,
use or enjoyment of such franchise or
any of its privileges. Lost.
Kimball, of Salt Lake, moved to
amend section 9. so that franchises for
steam railways could not be given
along a street without the consent of
two-thirds of the abutting property
owners. This was designed tosprevent
a repetition of what Kimball called the
wrong that had been done by the
building of the Hot Springs railway,
but it was voted down.
On motion of Kiesel it was made OBJ
ligatory on foreign corporations to
file certified copies of their articles of
Incorporation with the secretary of
state.
Discrimination in Charges.
Ryan offered an amendment read
ing: mo discrimination in charges or
facilities for transportation shall be
made by any railroad or transporta-
ton company between places and per-
sons, and all railroad companies shall
receive and transport each others pas
sengers and freight without discrim-
inasion or unnecessary delay" Lost
Maloney, of Weber. offered the fol-
lowing section: Every corporation
doing business in this state shall be
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