The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-13
PERMANENT CLAUSE:
IS SWEPT ASIDE
Glass Substitute for Majority
Report is Adopted.
MAJORITY is QUITE LARGE RICE
DECISIVE Vote Indicative Of Opposition to
Permauent Rather Than Friendship for
Temporary Clause kiessrs. Thorn
aud Turnbull Speak.

The suffrage conference took long step
an its march Of progress YESTERDAY ps'
Temporarily at least, eliminating the per
n1anent understanding feature IRON me
realm Of disputat.on-
1t was defeated by a large majority by
The a6option of the Glass plan, Wh1ch
Was tl,s one in immediate competition
with it.
The whole of The afternoon session was
consumed in the argument of Mr. Turn
hull in support of a substitute Tor the
3 Glass plan, which contains no uiluss-
4 ..t:,,n.i;l- ieaitre but has the nooiileo
property qualification. poll tax and cdu,
cationaI feature. NO vote was 'ea is
on this substitute.
1t vas a day of extended speeches, N T.
1hom using two hours Of The morning
and Mr.. Turnbull one and half hours
IF fine afternoon session. Both mace
strong speeches.
AGAINST RESEMBLING.
President Goode called the convention
TO order at 10 o'clock. prayer being OIL
5ered by Rev. II. II. Moore, of the Chris
tian Church. SiXty-four members We're
present
Chairman Cameron. OF The Committee
on Executive Department, reported from
that committee that it had declined by
a vote of six to five to recommend Ine
resembling of action of the convention IN
providing for the election of State Treas
l,rer by the people. and unanimously de-
clined to recommend that the acton pro-
viding for the election of Secreta1,! Oh
the Commonwealth Ivy the people be re-
scinded.
MIR. THOTS FINE SPEECH.
The convention adjourned at 100
o'clock and the suffrage conference was
called DR.. Dunawy made The first speech
It's: opposed the permanent and tempo
3 r:,,,y understanding clauses and advocated
noil tax prerequisite. saying that me
only scheme which would IN any way
rect the pledges made to the people Was
the grandfather clause, but he was salts
fel the convention would not adopt that.
MI Thorn begun The closing speech III
support of the ma oritys plan and III OPP
rosition 10 the Glass substitute at lO:4O
2 c'o;cck.
In his opening Mr.. Thorn feelinEly al
1uded to conditions of the people OF a,
large portion of the State. who had ex-
pected and had reason to believe that
the convention would make such a solu-
ton of the suffrage question as would
give them taot temporary and expert
mental expedient. but a permanent settle
mert Of the blighting evil of negro po-
litical equality at the ballot-box. From
propositions made and seriously adFo-
Gated. 1t was evident that members mad
s lost sight of the fact that those who had
suffered the intolerable blight of black
4 ma iorities could not be granted relief by
any measure which operated for only
one election, and the bars thrown down
4 for the future for all who cared to. 70
come in and qualify. No such nakcshlft
was a solution of the problem 1t was
a matter that could be properly and per-
manently adjusted only by a%per1nanent
and in many respects a radical step.
PROPERTY QUALIFICATION.
Mr.. Thon. here reviewed the position
taken by one set of members against
property qualification, by another against
the grandfather clause others against
any understanding principle and sui
more against any permanent provision
that was at all fitted to the seriousness
Of the situation. He said these difficult
ties only showed how earnestly and
saithfulw the ccmnitte. had. labored
md how the majority recommends tor
had been arrived at as the only way open
mat was efficient and at the same time
constitutional
1Ie said that he did not approve OF
scarcely anything the convention had
none hut when his position on other
upestions had not been acceptable to the
T majority, he had always earnestly en-
desyored to assist in perfecting mea'
sure ne at first opposed. And in this
shirt he might be brought to accept the
Il Glass plan, but he thoroughly reallzcc
that 1t was not sufficient. II the CON
yention means to take nothing rather
than the permanent understanding Ptiii
chile. 1t means that it is not IL sympa'
81 tl:v with the object for which they were
called here and do not intend 10 grappls
with this problem in manly way. a; "a
understood that the parliamentary piai
~-as to unite every advocate OF every
ttlaer proposition in solid vote asal,is
the majority report. and then 70 scratnoi'
nmonk themselves for some'n.p else
He asked il that was wise, SAFE. @
S 4 fair course to pursue Was 1t not I'M
si,ty OF each Individual member TO CIV
I 4 fair. honest vote on each proposition
az Il came up In Immediate competition
s With another.
ne contended that both inc poll Ia,
ard educational qualification would bea'
ax heavily upon whites as blacks. ant
4 woud disfranchise white people by tn
thousands
POLL gTA,s AND EDUCATION.
Next. talSing w the operation of TIL
nea7 tax and educational features Q
isouisiana. Alabama, Mississippi an
s south Carolina, he read statistics t
elow that these measures were no
s ADOPTED there to produce white politica
rnaSor1tiea. but TO eliminate the negro a
q factor IN politics.
msnst = single one oS those States ha