The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-01-09
THE DANIEL PLAN
IS WITHDRAWN
That Of Senator Glass to Take Its
Place,
CHANGE IN MAJORITY SCHEME
requisite o, Three Months' Employment
s,rickea Out Conference to Meet
Five Nights week and viii
Make Better Progress.
CHANGE IN MAJORITY SCHEME

A great deal Of the mist and fog sur
rounding the suffrage situation was
cleared away at the conference last night.
1t not only agreed to have meetings
every night, except Saturday, but adopt
ed q resolution to proceed as in the Com
mittee of the Whole, and dispose Of the
various plans in regular order, taking up
first the report of the Suffrage Commit
tee and allowing other plans to come IN
as substitutes or amendments.
A sensation was created by Major VIII
liam a. Anderson. acting chairman of
the Suffrage Committee. announcing that
the minority had held a conference and
unanimously agreed to withdraw what
was known as the Daniel plan and sub
stltute therefor the plan introduced III
the conference and advocated by Mr..
Glass. It Will be remembered that the
minority report was signed by Chairman
John w. Daniel, and Messrs. W. A. An
derson, Stewart, -Bouldin. Smith and
Harrison, of the committee.
There was another surprise when Mr..
Thorn, for the majority, announced that
the committee had agreed to strike out
that portion which required that a voter
should have been. three months prior to
an election, engaged in some regular en-
ployment in the State. The majority re-
port was regularly taken UP for consid-
Grafton, and section one was read by Sec
retary John Garland Pollard At the con-
clusion Of its reading Mr.. Glass an
nounced that he had been taken COM
pletely. by surprise by the announcement
made by Major anderson. He desired to
offer his plan as q substitute for the
| majority report. It was not printed. and
he would offer it in the convention to-
day and have it printed for use tonight
Mr.. Thorn then announced that Mr. Wat
son had been assigned to defend section
one of the majority report, and as 1t was
9:30 O'Clock and Mr.. Glass substitute had
unexpectedly taken the place of the mi
nority report. Mr.. Watson would address
the conference tonight It adjourned at
$40 o'clock.
MCFE FREQUENT CONFERENCES.
The first hour Of the session had been
devoted to an Intellectual effort to have
the conferences in the daytime. The ses-
sion opened with sixty-five members pres
ent.
Mr.. Watson offered resolution that
conferences be held each day. beginning
at II o'clock, after two hours session
of the convention. This was strongly
supported in speeches from him, Mess.s.
Thorn. w. A. Anderson and Glass, and
opposed by Messrs. Turnbul and McI'
waine. It was defeated by a vote of 20
to A.
AS soon as this result was announced
Major Anderson moved to reconsider the
vote limiting conferences to three nights
aaweek. and, this being done. a resolu-
ton to meet five nights week was car
9ried.
An episode of this debate was a decla-
ration by Mr.. Turnbul that most OF the
ciamor. as well as the delay, in connec-
ton with the suffrage and other mat
ters came from members who came to the
committee opposed to any change IN the
present Constitution. and who had work
ed hard to make the convention disrepu-
table in the eyes of the people He also
said that criticisms from certain sources
were inspired by influences that were
determined to defeat every effort to give
the people a new Constitution that was
worth having
This was the most interesting and
fruitful conference yet held. and II mem
bers can be induced to attend every
night betokens an early solution OF the
suffrage problem.