Senator Tillman remarked that that was what he proposed to do.
Smalls—Ah! I am beginning to know the Senator at last. [Laughter.]
Suffrage Plan Adopted.
The following is the plan reported by the suffrage committee, which was adopted by the Convention, and which is now a part of the Constitution of South Carolina:
ARTICLE II.
RIGHT OF SUFFRAGE.
Section 1. All elections by the people shall be by ballot and elections shall never be held or the ballots counted in secret.
Sec. 2. Every qualified elector shall be eligible to any office to be voted for, unless disqualified by age as prescribed in this Constitution. But no person shall hold two offices of honor or profit at the same time, except that any person holding another office may at the same time be an officer in the military and a notary public.
Sec. 3. Every male citizen of this State and of the United States 21 years of age and upwards, not laboring under the disabilities named in this Constitution and possessing the qualification required by it, shall be an elector.