Evening journal., 1897-01-07
WILL HEAR THE WOMEN.
Constitutional Convention to
Entertain Suffragists.
THE GOVERNORS VETO POWER

THE GOVERNORS VETO POWER
FIRST RADICAL CHANGE AGREED
UPON BY CONVENTION IN COM
MITTEE OF THE WHOLE MAY
NOT BE SUBMITTED TO POPU-
LAR VOTE.
DOVER. Del, Jan. AT yesterdays
session the Constitutional Convention.
in the committee of the whole. agreed,
by vote of 1G to II. to bestow the
veto power upon the governor. reduir-
ing three-fifths vote of the General
Assembly TO override IT, The section
adopted is by way OF amendment to the
old Constitution and reads as follows:
Every bill which shall have passed
both houses of the General Assembly
SHALL before il becomes a law. be pre-
sented to the governor; If he approve
! ne snail sign 1t, but If he shall not ap-
prove he shall return it with his OBJ
Jections to the House i'm which il shall
have originated, which House shall
enter the objections at large on the
journal and proceed to reconsider it.
If latter such consideration, three
hfths of all the members elected to that
| house shall agree to pass the bill il
shall be sent together with the obiec-
tions to the other house by which il
shall likewise be reconsidered. and If
approved by three-flfths of all the
members elected to that house, it shall
become a law; but in neither House
shall the vote be taken on the same day
on which the bill is returned to it. In
all such cases the votes of both Houses
/ shall no 1pf a,ta1
and the names of the members voting
for and against the bill shall be en-
| tered on the journal of each house re-
| spectively. If any bill shall not be re-
! turned by the governor within ten
| days (Sundays excepted after It shall
have been presented to him. the same
shall be a law, in like manner as if
he had signed it. unless the General
Assembly shall. by their adjournment.
prevent its return, in which case it
shall not become a law without the an
proval of the governor. No bill shall
become a law after the final adjourn
ment of the General Assembly unless
approved by the governor within thirty
days after such adjournment
The convention debated this ques-
ton for twenty-four hours. and the
vote records the first transaction of
aNAh-ii WAlh uDlC lOWdIun uldhlnR ln6
new Constitution. The "three-ifths''
proviso was a compromise. The COM
mittee report called for a "two-thirds''
vote. The opponents of the veto power
amended by substituting the word
majority for "two-thirds." Presi-
dent Biggs proposed that three
tifths' OF the members should be re-
quired. There was no politics in the
division. IL was a difference rather be
tween the more progressive members
and the conservatives Messrs. SDru.
ance and Biggs led the former. Will,
r Dr. Cooper William Salisbury anC
. Mr.. Bradford cCntended for the modi-
fed veto.
WILL HEAR WOMAN SUFFRAGISTS
Soon after the Constitutional Con
, vehtion had assembled in the east wins
of the State House yesterday morning
, Mr.. SDruance. of Wilmington, Offered
a resolution permitting a delegation oi
the Woman Suffragists to address The
q convention at some future day relative
, to the Incorporation into the state Con
stitutiOn of clause giving the women
' of Delaware equal voting privileges
with men. The resolution was passed
g without opposition and the Equal Suf
fragists will formulate their petition.
, and present them to the convention il
a short time. Not only that but promi
6 nent advocates of equal suffrage from
! different parts Of the country will b,
p asked to speak to the delegates in tn,
interest of the cause. hTe suffragistl
want to take a hand in the reforma
ticn Of state politics. They also arr
n fighting against corrupt usuages Of th'
: polls.
/, RATIFICATION NOT NECESSARY.
Z; John F. Salisbury said yesterday i
u was his opinion that Gre Constitution
: | would be framed and put in force with
. out submission to the people He state,
that the Constitution of 81 was neve
3 submitted to the people for ratification
= and if this Constitution was submitte
Is to the vote of the citizens at all. the re
strictiCns would be such that it woul
= require an overwhelming popular vOt
to defeat it. He thought Delaware wa
ready TO accept a new Constitution
and, while John NJ. Clayton was be
d, licved to have thrown away the key Z
"a Delaware's organic law nearly half
y century ago, the key had at last bee
AZ found and is being used to advantag,
\ II WANT FIFTY-TWO LEGISLATORS
\ The convention is thinking of in
b. oreasing the membership of the Stat
lg Legislature from thirty to fifty-tw
Ne members; that is, seventeen state sena
q tors and thirty-fve representatives wi
40 constitute the General Assembly, theI
er being at the present time only min
state senators and twenty-one repr,
sentatiyes, or thirty in all.
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