The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-04-05
This Concession Made, but Au
to Be Chosen at Once.
JOYOUS ARE CLOSING SCENES
After Nearly Ten Months in Session tho
Members Rejoice that Their Labors
Are About at an End-Thc Final s
Revision TO Be Made. ard
Question ofSubmission
to then Be Decided.


BY devotinS the first few minueeSS&
the session yesterday to cutting off pro-
tracted speeches. the convention not onlQ
disposed OF tho suffrage question in shorS
order, but before tho hour of five ha0
dispatc an immense amount of hiShlN
important business to the apparent sat- i
isfacton of all concerned. and wound ~
in a. spirit of brotherly love over mutual
compromise on the much vexcd subjeeo
OF tho hold-over Senate.
Having settled every material MATES
connected with the new Constitution. exc
ccpt that of submission or proclamation
of the instrument. an adjournment nnu1
Thursday, May ed, at Il O'Clock. was
had without difficulty or dispute.
Tho proceedings yesterday were kale1dos
scopc. There was swing ard q
momentum attained by the time the sttts
trage matter had been voted on tnae
would not permit Of the usual scenes o1
demonstrated excitement, but lifted the
actors Immediately into other roles Wito
constantly accelerated speed
Great matters carne up in quick SuScesS
/ sion. fingered a moment. and. ike
stereopticon picture. vanished from the
! canvas. =.
WAS A FITTING CAPSTOSE.
7 The days work was a fitting scapston0
to the long period OF earnest and con.
scientious labor of a patriotic body aoIss
representative VirginiSns- -
Tho final acts, relating to the asktleeF
ment of the question of suffrage: ana ot
the highest branch OF the law-maktno
i power tho Senate OF. the sConnlonweafth,
cnff Ind He. OF CfS1 Ire
the surrendering of Individual opinion tn
aggregated Judgment, the supremesttesS
as well as the glory of true representa~
tive agents.
| moment of turmoil or confusion. No I'm.
dignifed action, no word Of anger or roe
proach-
And when it was all over the remark.
able demonstration of rejoicing came
spontaneously, having more Of the pa-
thetic than the ludicrous, in its wild
abandon.
The pent up Utica simply burst tts
bounds: a great statesman recalled tho
truisn:
eve are but children of larsea
growth
Last Days Morning Session.
The convention was opened yesterday.
| with prayer by DR.. NIcIlwaine, fifty-thre0
| members being present.
General Ayers offered a resolution thaa
when the convention adjourned for the
nesday, May 2od, members the Com-
mittee Revision to comple.o
their work and print 1000 copies
of their draft of the Constitution. and
| those who attend the meetings of the
committee to receive per diem for the
days they actually attend its session.
General Ayers said it would be folly to
nt IN pa l,non 10 rexcindinp rasn~
lutions now, when bare Quorum waN
present It would only amount to having
to go all over it again when a full mems
bership was back after the recess. He
thought if the resolution to adjourn was
I not acted on now, there would be no
| quorum here to-day to do so.
Mr.. Boaz moved to pass by considerations
of the resolution for the present. AfteR
the suffrage vote was taken he was in
favor of sitting here until midnight, In
order to get, through. He believed the.
resembling resolution could be settled in
half ar hour. and it would be great
deal better to have everything settles
before taking a recess.
The motion was adopted -
ONLY SHORT SPEECl1E3.
| General Ayers next introduced d resose
| luton limiting all further speeches on tho
| suffrage question to ten minutes, with
| leave TO print longer speeches in tbs
stenographic report. The pending ques-
| tton was called on this resolution before
! any objection could he made. An offer
| for unlimited time had been suggested
by Colonel Petit for the Republicans. bue
| AIr Davis sta.ed that they did not desire
| il, The resolution was ad6pted by; an
| o..rageously overwhelming majority. Z.
Judge Hancock made 4 tcn-minutese
| speech in support os the confcreEcs rlaA
and was loudly applauded-
SUBSTITUTE BEATEN.
| The vote was taken on the Gillespie
substitute for the conference plan ana
it was defeated by vote OF to s.. as
| follows:
Yeas-Messrs. Br.stow, Davis, Earman.
! Mundy, and Phillips.
Nays-liessrs. Allen. George X. Andef.
son. w A. Anderson, Ayers, Barbour.
Barham, VI. II. Barnes. Thomas II.
Barnes, Boaz. Bolen, Bouldin. Braxtol,
Brooke, p w. Camsbell. Cobb, Cris-
mond. Dunaway, EsSleston. Epes.
| Fairfax, Fletcher. Garnete. G:lmore.
Glass. B. T. Gordon. r. I. Gordon.
Green, Gregory, Gwyn. Hancock. HARDY.
Hubbard. Ingram. Clagsett f. Jones (i.
". Jones. KeezelL Kendall. Lawson.
! Lindsay, Lowell. Marshall, aIcIIwafns.
Meredith, KILLER, Nloncure, r. Waitoe
Moore, O'Flaherty. Parks. Petit. Pollard.
bins. Tarry. Thornton. Turnbuli, vaAdfts
Walker. Watson. Willis, Wise. and Bin
MR. GLASS CLOSES.
Mr. Glass arose and said he had once
| intended to present his --sesws; III full In
defense OF the plan mr. considerations,
! bnt5 on consideration HS rad conelude0s
| that to answer the crit tic'ssils made ny !:
/ democratic members here in their e1asss
I peration of defeat would Cut furnish new
weapons to the common enemy Tor thSH
Icontemplated assault upon the Whole