The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-26

our intelligent white citizens who Hl1Sht
not own $3.50 worth OF property.
He concluded In an eloquent protest
agaist the adoption Of any property quail
ification and for the acceptance OF the
compromise plan.
LIMIT UNDERSTANDING CLAUSE.
Mr.. NVysor offered to amend by strik-FF
ing out 1909 from the understanding
clause and inserting 1904 and spoke his
five minutes, devcting several OF them
to humorous ridicule of Mr.. Class SIso
dog.
Mr.. Braxton offered his plan as a sub
stitute for the compromise plan. g
# DIr. Thorn spoke for five minutes in OPP.
position to the Wysor amendment.
b Mr.. r. Walton Moore spoke in support
of the amendment.
Mr.. Watson explained that the compro-
misc plan gave some hope to the black
belt by giving to the Legislature, after
six years peace under the temporary un-5
derstanding clause, the privilege OF ex-
tending that principle, provided the peo-E
Die OF the whole State thought it wise to;
do so.
Senator Daniel recapitulated the events
leading up to the adoption by divergent
elements of the compromise plan and IN
sisted that it was agreed to, only after
ten days struggle In the conference. IL
became evident that unless this was &C
cepted the. result would be the final
adoption of property qualification meas
urc.
Further five minute speeches against the
compromise plan and in support of the
Wysor amendment were made by N1essrs
McIlwaine.. Portlock. O'Flaherty. BraN-z
ton. end Ha!ftn.
THE STAMPEDE BEGINS.
Mr.. wysor arose and promised IL the
amendment was adopted he would leave
the Meredith plan and support the Glass
plan. Messrs. Dunnaway, Braxton, Car
nett, Poraock, and others prom
Used the same, thing, although being
repeatedly called to order. N1essrs. Kee-
zell and Lindsay Gordon had made strong
speeches for the compromise plan. After
the demonstration of members arising
and promising to support the Glass plan
had subsidized, Mr.. Carter made an earnest
speech in support Of the compromise plan,
predicting if by such promises and tactics
as had just been witnessed the compro-
mise plan was defeated, as all others had
been, the convention would find itself
again completely at sea
While Mr.. Carter was speaking leading
.dissenters' like Messrs. Moore, Braxton
and others were df.owding around Mr..
Glass and Senator Daniel. begging them
to desert tho compromise plan. There
was a scene Of great confusion. Mr..
Glass could be seen shaking his head and
Senator Daniel looked extremely austere
and serious.
THE AMENDMENT ADOPTED.
Amid extreme excitement, the roll
was called at 1856 o'clock. The
rol-call showed 81 ayes and 80 noes,
but before the announcement was made
Mr.. Kendall stated that he was paired and
had voted by mistake. Mr. Stebbins
changed his vote from no to yes. Mr.
Bouldin stated that he had voted no by
mistake and changed to aye.
This gave the amendment sc votes to
81 and there was great applause whe,
the result was announced. The vote was
as follows:
Ayes-Messrs. George X. Anderson, Will
liam A. Anderson, Manly II. Barnes,
13ouadin. Braxton, Brown, c. j. Campbell,
Chapman, Crismond, Dunaway, Fletcher,
Garrett, Gilmore, James w. Gordon.
Gregory, Hancock, Hardy, Hatton, c. B.
Jones, Marshall, McIlwaine, Meredith,
Moncure, Moore, O'Flaherty, Orr, Parks,
Pollard. Rives. stebbins. larry, Turn
bull, Waddill, Willis, Wysor, and Yancey
Sc.
Noes-Messrs. Barbour, Barham, 7. Fl.
Barnes, Brooke. Cameron, P. W. Camp
bell. Carter. Cobb, Daniel, Fairfax, Flood,
Glass, Goode, r. Z. Gordon, Green, Gwyn,
Harrison, Hunton, Ingram, G. W. Jones,
Lawson, Lindsay, Miller, Petit. Quarles,
lt1chn1onO, SCUdIt, IHOliI, LuoIulou, v III
cent Watson, Wescott, Wise, Withers,
and Woodhouse-35.
These pairs were announced: Robertson
with Hamilton, Portlock with Ayers, AL
len with Eggleston, Epes with Hooker.
Walker with Kendall, the first-namcd yot-
ing in the affirmative.
81 offered an amendmer
to strike out the proyisio" "',''rr
Legislature the power to submit to tho
voters the question Of extension of the
understanding clause. The amendment
vas adopted by a vote of 46 TO Is, and
the conference took a recess until
o'clock.
Afternoon Session.
When the conference convened at
o'clock Mr. Meredith and Mr.. Braxton
withdrew their suffrage plans, and state,
that they thought the compromise plan
as amended. should be adoped. as they
had promised not to oppose the under
standing clause any further Mr.. Mere
dith said he would not vote for it, bu'
had succeeded in killing all vestige of
permanent understanding clause. and wa
satisfied.
Judge Green then moved to strike out
subsection four of section two of the
compromise plan, that being the claus,
requiring voter, prior to registration
to be able to read any section of TIN
Constitution or give a reasonable eNpla
nation thereof when read TO him.
Mr.. Thorn said he desired the conven
ton to understand that the adoption of
the plan as it had been enlasculatcd wa.
affording no relief from present conds-
lions, and that those sections of the Stat.
which had suffered the darkness of dam
nation for twenty years could feel tina