The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-02

tended, the act would have made tn
point more emphatic. If that wa
what they wanted they certainly mad
a bungling job of it.
II think it was intended for pur
poses. he said. and even if knew
that the adoption of the amendmen
would bring victory to my party,
would cast my vote against 1t
applause among the Republicans.
An attempt to shut off debate will
the previous question was voted down
Thurman Roasts WINS.
Thurman said he spoke only because
of the remarkable speech of WINS
He said that he gave the latter credit
Tor Spartan integrity. but when he at
tackled his party and accused them OF
political dishonesty in order to pro-
woke applause from the Republican
ment was remarkable. 1t was serious
He resented the imputation. the more
because 1t came from the source it did
He asked when and by what means
WINS had entered into the consciences
of his political associates. He had no
secrets from this colleague. The Re-
publicans had caucussed as much as
the Democrats; but he was surprised
to hear the political charge brought
by WINS. following in the footsteps of
the Republicans.
WINS went over and sat down by
Thurman and in a moment the two had
their heads together.
Fear Being Shown.
Roberts said he was unchanged. If
those who were pressing the scheme
had come out openly he would have
respected them. But the proposition
of separate vote convinced him of
futility of attempting it. This showed
fear where there should be none.
Chichester said the women are sat
isfied with what they have. They do
not demand anything more and do
not want to vote at the first election.
Hill deprecated the i'll feeling shown
on both sides of the house. He was
conciliatory.
Evans. of Weber. cited Jamison and
other authorities as well as various
state presidents in support of allowing
the women to vote.
Hammond Creates a Laugh.
Hammond-Tve had my old Demo-
cratic gun loaded to the muzzle sew
eral times, but they've shut me Off
When a San Juan layman gets into
snarl like this and has to depend cE
the lawyers he's in a pretty bad fix.
don't know Judge Henderson. or
Delegate Rawlins. but I do know
Dave Evans. and if he don't know
more than all these Republican lawyers
I'll sit down.
As Hammond finished his speech
with these words and did sit down the
house broke loose in a general gale of
laughter. in which Evans and Ham
mond joined.
The Deciding Vote.
The amendments were lost by the fol-
Ayes-Anderson. Boyer. Call. Corr
man, Greer. Cunningham. Engberg,
Evans, of Weber: Evans. of Utah;
Francis. Hammond. Hart. Holiday.
Hughes. Johnson, Kimball, of
Salt Lake; Lennon. William Lowe.
Low. of Cache; Maloney. Vaughan,
Murdoch. of Wasatch: Nebeker. Part
ridge. Preston, Raleigh. Richards.
Thoreson. Thorne. Thurman.
Warren, Whitney-34.
Noes-Allen. Bowdle. Brandley, But
ton. Cannon. Chichester. Christensen,
Clark. Coray. Crane. Driver, Eichnor.
Eldredge. Emery. Farr. Gibbs. Green,
Heybourne. Hill. Hyde. WINS. James.
Jolley. Kiesel Kearns. Lambert, L. Lar
son, c. P. Larson. Peter Lowe. Lund, |
Macintosh, Mcfarland. Morris. Muir
lock. of Beaver: Murdoch. of Summit; !
Page. Peterson. of Grand; Peterson, of
Sanpete; Roberts. Robinson. of Kane; /
Ryan, Sharp. Shurtliff. Squires. Slower |
Strevell. Thompson. Van Horn. Nar1an. |
Wells. Williams-53.
Absent-Adams. Barnes. Cushing, |
Haynes. Keath. Kimball. of Weber: /
lewis. Maeser. Miller. Kicks. Peters, /
Robinson. of Wayne: Snow. Spencer,
Symons. Thatcher-1S.
Paired-kerr (aye). Pierce (no)
Leave it to the Courts.
Thurman offered an amendment
which was almost in the exact Ian
'uage of the enabling act and would /
AVE left the matter for the courts to
etermine. He said this would settle all
doubts. However. after some little dis
ussion this was killed by practically
he same vote.
Evans, of Weber. offered an amend
nent allowing women to vote for state
Ulcers only on separate votes. He was
uled out and promptly appealed from
he decision of the president. After
pheld by a vote of A to So.
On motion of Richards the words
and are qualified voters was stricken
ut from the qualifications for voters
t the first state elections However,
his gives women no right to vote.
After striking out the land COM
1iSsionerS from the list of officers TO
e elected at the coming election. the
rticle on schedule was passed.
An adjournment was taken at 6
clock.