The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-05

The fight for the postponenlent of the
article on suffrage and elections came
up as per schedule yesterday. The con-
test was on all afternoon and an ad-
/. journment was taken before final &C
ton could be had. The suffragists,
while losing many delegates who have
been won over to the separate article,
carried everything before them and
have now apparently a fair feiG, 18th
every prospect of victory. The plan of
the opposition for today is not yet de-
termined on. 1t may be that fiHbuster-
ing tactics will be tried, in which case a
cooler man than President Smith will
be needed in the chair 1t may be they
will take defeat gracefully.
The Proceedings.
President Smith was rather slow IN
calling to order being five minutes be-
hind the tedious clock.
a Archdeacon Crook, Of the Episcopal
church. was invited to offer prayer.
christensen, of Sanpete offered q
ition for prohibition, signed by
Joseph Christensen and about 500
others of Sanpete county. Referred.
AS soon as the chair called special
order" Squires moved to go into COM
mittee of the whole to consider bust
ness on the calendar.
The Suffrage Question.
The fight between the suffragists and
their opponents for precedence was i'm
mediately in evidence. Thurman in
terposed the point Of order that such
a motion could not be made until
motions and resolutions" was called.
President Smith ruled with him, AID
went right on and called for third
reading Before a word could be said
the chair passed on and called mo
tons and resolutions"
Squires Immediately renewed his mo-
tion to go into committee of the whole.
Hart and Thurman called for the
regular order.
''What is the regular order?' asked
the president
Third reading answered Thurman
and Hart almost together.
THE chair called for third reading"
was the reply, and nothing was said.
1 therefore passed on"
Richards had been waiting for an
opportunity to speak.
'sMr. President" he said Indignantly,
81 would like 70 know whose duty it is
70 !ooh dlleI the calendar: does that
revolve on members or is it in the
province Of the secretary? I call for
che regular order"
Squires said he would like to nave
unanimous consent to say a few words
lie was proceeding when Thurman OBJ
eted 10 his speaking and again called
fer the regular order.
Two Articles Passed.
The president was compelled to do
some lively cra~fshing and the article
on cities, counties and towns was
taken up on third reading and disposed
Of n short order with only a few slight
corrections.
The article on future amendments
and constitutional conventions wax
then taken up and perfected in some
minor ways, among the amendment
icing one that constitutional questions
shall be submitted a. general. NOT
Special, elections. The article was then
passed.
More Suffrage SparrinE.
The vote was finished at 1850 and
Squires jumped UP and moved for a
recess.
Thurman asked what reason thers
could be for taking a recess at that |
hour There must be some hidden mo-
i've IN such an unprecedented thing. |
He said with peculiar suggestiveness |
II there was any good reason why ac- /
ton should be taken that reason sho,,id /
be stated. If not then the motion |
Should be voted down.
Inc recess, however, was taken bv n
vote Of SO to &c.
Preparing For the Battle,
Hardly had the chair announced the
result before the leaders of the two
sides had sought each other out and
were In consultation. At one niaoa
Were Roberts. Varian and Sou;res: at
another Richards. Thurman. Chidester
ana Cannon. The first knot finished
us conference in a very few minutes.
s1he other delayed much longer Ali
F.uring the recess members on both
sldeS were being worked with and re-
minded Of their stand.
The Fight Begins.
The result of the consultations Was
seen in the afternoon. for as soon as
the president raped to order Squires
moved that consideration of the ol1es-
ton be postponed until the 18th inst.
Cannon said this required a susper
sion of the rules. but he was ruled or
by the chair.
SGuires said that it would not ht
wise TO rush to vote as there were
several members absent who wouI6
like to be recorded. Besides this there
gfas strong evidence that a great pub
lie sentiment in favor of the SlIbmia-
sion of a Separate article was being
worked UP. Petitions were being sent
put to every postoffice and they would
soon be in. He had favored woman sUf-
rage. but under such circumstaac
ne was inclined to pause and hear
what was to be said. He granted that
here had been a session for a month
without any movement against SUI
frage. He did not know why this was.
He did know now the movement was
quite general He wanted fairness and ,,
n opportunity to allow the constitu- !
.ats of all the members to express
heir views. :
Evans raised point of order that !
he setting of a special order required ,
!. tvSo-tbirds vote, and there was some +
discussion between Evans. Varian and
Squires. :
tz'he president ruled Evans out and