Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-01-14
A VETO FOR THE GOVERNOR


cooper q mOtiOn.
The motion was adopted.
Mr.. Biggs offered d further amend
ment reducing the time OF residence
in the county from three months to
three weeks and the time OF residence
in the voting district or hundred fran
30 days to 10 days.
DIR. Pratt favored 30-day limita-
tion, HIS it would serve to prevent
colonization.
Mr., Burris favored the l5-day amend.
ment.
The amendment was carried.
DIR. Cooper offered an amendment by
inserting after the time limitation
the words, land in which he shall
have been duly registered, as herein
after provided for" which simply re-
quired registration.
Or. Pratt having euggested that pro-
vision should be made that would
allow man to vote in a district other
| than the one in which he is registered,
| he having been required by business 10
remove from the place where he was
| registered, Mr.. Bradford said that
| could be overcome by giving certiti-
Gates of registration from ono district
| in the State to another.
| @hp ANoo utoptobb ubo
| the paragraph. as agreed to, was made
| to read as follows:
Every male citizen of this State of
the age OF q years, who shall have
| been a resident of this State one year
next preceding an election, and for the
| last three weeks resident of the
county. and for the last 10 days resi-
dent of the hundred or election dis
| trict in which he may offer toIvote.
and in which he shall have been duly
| registered, as hereinafter provided for.
| shall LIE entitled to vote at such
election in the hundred or election dis.
trict OF which he sball at the time
be resident, for all officers that nov
are or hereafter may be elected by the
people, and upon all questions which
may be submitted to the vote of the
people. -
The remainder of the paragraph in
the present Constitution, which is pre-
coded by the amendment, reads as fol.
lows:
Provided that no person in the
military, naval or marine service of the
United States shall he considered as
acquiring a residence in this State, by
being stationed in any garrison, bar
rack, or military or naval place or
| station within this State; and no
idiot, or insane person. pauper, or
person convicted of a crime deemed by
law felony, shall enjoy the right of an
elector; and that the Legislature may
impose the forfeiture of the right OF
suffrage as a punishment for crime"
| As soon as the amendments were
agreed to the convention adjourned
until 4.30 o'clock Monday afternoon.
Dover, Jan. IL. The Constitutional
| Convention was in session 20 minutes
yesterday afternoon, and did nothing
except refer to the committee on ac-
counts bill of s.. Is from Arthur
HutGhins for type writing. Adjourn
nent was made to II o'clock this morn
| ing.
Dover Jan. 13. Tho Constitutional
Convention yesterday assembled
promptly at II O'Clock, the roll cali
showing 26 members present. In his
| prayer Chaplain Avery referred feel
ingly to the death of Miss Jones,
| daughter of Charles II. Jones, clerk of
| the convention, who was buried yester-
day in Georgetown.
| Ni. NuOCh pTbhoHtbu plllb iUT DuUhh
amounting to s73, which were referred
| to the committee on accounts, and at
| 10, on motion of Mr.. Cannon, the
mittee of the whole on the second re-
port of tho committee ON the Governor
and other elective officers, with Wood
burn Martin of Sussex in the chair.
| Mr.. Bradford introduced an amend
naDt In nanfion I nf tho rannrt fnI.
lows:
Upon any vacancy happening in the
| Office OF Governor by hin death, removal
from office or resignation, the uieuten-
ant Governor shall become Governor for
| the residue of the term; but in case
of inability of the Governor. the Lieu
tenant. Governor shall exercise and be
| entitled to all the rights and emolu-
ments of the Office Of Governor until
such inability shall cease"
Mr.. Richard offered further amend
ment to insert after the word "resigna-
tion" the words or failure to qualify"
This amendment was opposed by
Messrs. Bradford, Evans, Lavender and
Cooper.
Mr.. Spruance said the question
should and could be- dealt with either
by further amendment or by the adop-
tion of an entire new section. In case
of any inability which might be only
temporary, we none of us, he said,
would wish to have the Governor re-
moved and the Lieutenant Governor
become Governor. But where the Gov
ernor becomes permanently incapable of
performing the duties either ny physi-
cal or mental incapacity, then the
amendment applies. He appealed to
Mr.. Richards to withdraw his amend
ment and introduce it again in another
and separate clause. Mr.. Richards re-
torted that he thought tho amendent
proposed was entirely proper and should
be disposed of at this time.
Mr.. Spruance replied that the object
of the committee was to make the
Lieutenant Governor really tine Cover
nor when that official was out OF the
way for any reason. He said it was not
the intention TO allow the Lieutenant
Governor merely to exercise the func-
tions and receive the emoluments Of
the Governor, but to make him Cover
nor in fact.
Mr.. Salisbury said that to his mind
all the amendments offered were incom-
plets because the man elected Governor
Is never Governor until he qualities
Our present Constitution, he said,
covers this point already.
Mr.. Salisbury then quoted that por-
tion of the Constitution bearing upon
the matter. Continuing, he said: 'lt
seems 10 me wN could make the matter