Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-01-10
Virginia Convention Finishes One
Portion of Its Work.


Portion of Its Work.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
RICHMOND, Va, January 8, 1902.
The constitutional convention has COM
pleted one report submitted to it by a COM
mittee. The result came today after pro-
tracted fight to reconsider the section
touching the method of electing the Judges
of the supreme court of appeals. When the
final vote was taken on the last section
and President Goode announced that the
report as amended in committee of the
whole had been adopted round OF ap-
plause greeted the announcement.
Mr.. Gordon of Richmond sought to have
the report amended by requiring the gov
ernor to nominate and the legislature to
confirm the judges. This was rejected. and
a vote was then taken on the report as it
came from the committee, an again 1t was
adopted.
Section %, dealing with justices of the
peace, the number, jurisdiction and man
ner of appointment was disposed OF by re-
ferring the whole matter to the legislature
for adjustment. A section was added TO
the report, leaving the matter Of designat-
ing an officer to determine the question OF
bail for persons charged with offenses to
the legislature. That was the last of the
report of the committee on the Judiciary,
and. on motion of Mr.. Hunton. it was sent
to the committee on final revision and adj
justment.
OF the whole and resumed consideration of
the report of the committee on education,
the unfinished business being the motion
of MI. Marshall to strike from the report
of the committee the section providing for
an annual appropriation of not less than
$50 600 to the University Of Virginia. The
motion was defeated. Then an effort was
made to have the Virginia Military Insti-
7 yNlo Ar, tba ff-
tion and the sum of $4,000 yearly set
aside from the states revenues for it's sup
port, and a pledge made to provide for the
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and the Fe-
male Normal College likewise inserted In
the constitution. The motion to Include
the Virginia Military Institute prevailed
by vote of IS to 36, the other amendments
being defeated. In the course of the de-
bate on the proposition to include the state
institutions other than the university, Mr..
Glass repeated the statement that the de-
noininational colleges were in open antag-
onism to the university, whereupon DIR.
McIIwaine, chairman of the committee
land president of Hampden-Sidney Col
lege), denied the accuracy of the statement
OF MT. Glass and declared that you have
dominated this COMMITTEES long enough, and
I, for one, am tired of it, The remark
created a good deal of confusion, but Mr..
Glass made no reply.
Another suffrage proposition was intro
duced In the convention today, the patron
being Mr.. Barbour of Culpeper The fea-
lures OF the plan are as follows: Granting
right of suffrage to all persons who have
performed military service in any state
prior to 1891, or in the confederate states
or federal armies; ca to all persons who
were entitled to vote prior to 1851 and who
would have been entitled to vote in any
state. but for their color or condition of
servitude; CD all naturaiized citizens of
the United States; "a all descendants of
voters designated in the three classes first
designated; to) all persons who own prop
erty to the value of $500 on which they pay
taxes. A poll tax of $1.50 is required, but
ex-confederate soldiers are exempted from
the payment of the poll tax
The suffrage plan presented by Senator
Daniel was withdrawn in the democratic
conference last night, and that proposed
by Mr.. Glass was presented in Its stead.