The age-herald., 1901-07-31
Means the Adoption of the Suffrage Plan and is Climax
 of the Convention
MIR. LOWE MAKES HOT SPEECH
Says President Knox Has Not Treated Him Fairly and That the Suf- frage Plan Will Perpetuate
 Fraud Forever.
BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.

BY FRANK HARVEY MILLER.
 Montgomery. July So.-(special.) )-The convention today laid the minority report to the suffrage article on the table by a vote of 1o9 to 2S This means the adop- tion of the grandfather clause by a vote of 1O4 to IA.
 Many speeches were made this morn ing for the majority report, and MT. Murphree of Pike opposed it. Those who spoke in its favor were Delegates Sen tell Vim, Greer of Perry, Bulger and Lomax.
 The convention decided to 1engthen it's daily sessions an hour and a half. They will now begin at g o'clock and work till o'clock, with a two-hour recess for dinner. There was an intensely exciting and- dramatic incident at the afternoon ses- sion when MT. Lowe of Jefferson, aris- ing to a question of personal privilege, accused President Knox of having been unfair to him and said that the purpose of the majority report was to perpetuate fraud forever.
 The convention besides the grandfather
 
 of the temporary plan.
 Tn educational and property qualifica- tions, in the permanent plan, were being discussed at the hour of adjournment.
 Convention Opens.
 The fifty-eighth days session of the con- stitutional convention was called to or der by President Knox at 9:30 o'clock. A prayer was offered by Rev MT. Marshall. Roll call showed 9S members present.
 The privileges of the floor were extend 'ed to State Senator R. l.. P. Hipp. MT. Porter of Coosa and MT. Rogers, Of Iowndes arose to correct errors in the official report. Governor Oates, chairman of the com mittee on legislative department asked to have the article on that department read the third time and referred to the com mittee on order and harmony. Action on this was postponed.
 The committee on rules reported a res- olution limiting debate today on the suf- frage article to ten minutes for each dele gate. After some conference with dele gates this report was withdrawn
 The committee then reported a resolu- tion that hereafter the convention should meet at a. m., adjourn at 1:30 D. m; meet at 3S0 p. m. and adjourn at p. m.
 Judge Howse of Jefferson moved to amend by adjourning at p. m. This was adopted. An amendment of Mr. Sullie to meet at instead of S:s0 was adopted and the resolution as reported was adopted.
 The convention then took up the pend ing question, which was section of the article on suffrage.
 MT Sentell of Crenshaw spoke in favor of the majority report He said there had been few speeches from delegates from his section of the State and he thought he should state the attitude of the people of the white counties. The negro there had become menace to good government and he thought the majority report would solve the difficulty. He thought it consti- tutional. The negro was not disfranchised because he was negro, but because he was unfit for the ballot The white man is superior to the negro by nature, and the negro was not improved by education. He has not the capacity for exercising any control in the affairs of the govern ment. He ought not to vote at all, but lthe fifteenth amendmen prevents our dis fcrimination on account of his race. We must do the best we can and the majority report does that. The people of the United States as well as those of Ala bama are watching the settlement of this question. and 1t behooves us to solve it rightly. (Applause.)
 Other Speeches.
 MT. Murphree of Pike sent up to the clerks desk his written remarks and had them "a IJa fay fl,a minority report and said the provisions of our constitution ought to be such as would withstand an attack in the courts He thought the grandfather clause was not constitutional Governor Jones' Sen ators Morgan and Pettus and the distin- guished gentleman who had signed the minority report agreed with him in this view Mir. Smith of Mobile had said in his able argument that the grandfather clause was unnecessary. Why then take this risk when we could get along with out it? If the minority report was not adopted he would accept the majority re- port the best thing obtainable
 Dr. Winn of Barbour favored the ma jority report He had been greatly en- frightened, he said, by the able argument of Judge Walker to the difference be- tween personal rights and political rights as conferred by the fourteenth and fif- teenth amendments, and he now heartily accepted the majority report (Applause) The negro who was capable of voting. as we'll as the white man, would be delight ed that the vicious were eliminated from the franchise He paid a tribute to the Confederate soldier, and contrasted his physical condition now with what it had been in 1881. He s9oke of his own experi- ence in the war. saving that these four years were the prouE Edest period of his life Talk about soldiers being humiliated to ask registration onI this ground No, 1t will be his pride. (The younger men of the convention canlnot conceive of the cluded by saying the people would ap- prove the suffrage plan.
 Mir Greer of Pefry, spoke in favor of the majority plan. He said that the state ment of MT Lowef of Jefferson, that this convention came fnot in response to the demand for whit< supremacy. but for the demand for fair elections was incorrect