Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-06
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

"A resolution has been introduced
providing that oil wives, widows and
female descendants of Confederate
soldiers be allowed to vote at a
separate poll. which shall have women
judges of election and clerks.
The plan Of system of district or
circdit courts, to be held monthly in
each county, seems to find much
favor with the committee. The ulti-
mate action of the committee will be
between some such plan as this, and
Mr.. Hunton's scheme Of county
court system of twenty-five Judges
for the State, with from three to live
counties each, and with concurrent
civil and exclusive criminal iurisdic-
ton and a limited number of from
eight to twelve circuit judges with
sole civil jurisdiction.
Debating the question of submit
ting the suffrage clause Delegate
Summers, Republican, of Washington
county, made the most incendiary
speech heard in Virginia for twenty
years. The colored gallery applauded
yociferously while ladies turned their
backs on him aud members ignored
his speech and proceeded to write or
read the papers. At one time it was
the, intention of the Democrats to
walk out of the convention ball. but
they later considered that it would be
unduly accentuating the speech and
therefore they sat to the end.
The Retrenchment Committee has
decided to recommend that the place
of examiner of records for the Circuit
Court be abolished. The committee
will also recommend that if the
scheme for the separation of subjects
of State and county taxation be
adopted that all criminal expenses
be borne by the counties, otherwise.
that all the expense of misdemeanor
trials be borne by the counties and
felony trials BY the State. The
committee decided by unanimous
vote tn recommend that the office of
the Secretary of the Commonwealth
and the office of the Register of the
Land Office be consolidated.
Mr.. Dunaway, during the debate
in the Constitutional Convention YES
terday, made a sensible remark when
be said ne was opposed to discussing
the proclaiming or submission of a
constitution until he knew what kind
OF constitution he would have to
vote upon. Many people agree with
Mr.. Dunaway and think the conyen-
ton should go to work and frame the
constitution before they waste so
much time in talking about how it
should be put into force. If the in
strument proves to be good and prac-
teal the members of the convention
will soon find out what their constit-
uents think of it and then will be
the time to consider whether it should
be proclaimed or submitted to a voice
OF the people for ratification.-Ale1.
0'adrta Gazette.
ALABAMA's ADOPTED.
The new Constitution for Ala
bama WIS adopted in the Convention
by vote of 1872 to II. Frank S.
White was the only Democrat voting
against it. The new charter will 90
into effect as soon as ratified by the
people.
WHO FAVORED RECESS.
The Free Lance has published the
vote on the recess Of the Convention.
the duration of which was from
August 3 to %. A provision of the
resolution was "with no per diem to
members, but with mileage, and with
half pay to officers, clerks, pages and
employees" The official report of
the vote was as follows:
In favor of recess:-Messrs. Ayers.
Barbour, Barham, Blair, Bouldin,
Brown, p. W. Campbell, Carter,
Cobb, Crismond, Daniel, Earman,
Epes, Fairfax, Garnett, Gillespie,
Hardy, Hatton, Hunton, G.. w. Jones,
Keezell, Lincoln, Lowell, Meredith,
Miller, O'Flarherty, Orr, Pedigo,
Petit, Portlock, Quarles, Richmond,
Rives, Smith, Summers, larry, Turn
bull, Waddill, Walker, Willis, Wise,
Wysor, Yancey-43.
Agaiust-Messrs. w. A. Anderson,
Boaz, Braxton, Bristow, Brooke.
Cameron, Davis, Dunaway, Eggles-
ton, Flood, Gilmore, r. l.. Gordon.
Green, Gregory, Hamilton, Hancock,
Harrison, HUBBARD, Ingram, Kendall,
Lawson. Lindsay. Marshall, Nc
llwaine, Moncure, Parks, Phillips,
Pollard, Stebbins, Thorn, Walter,
Wescott, Withers, Woodhouse, The
President-35.