1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 2015

mons, Smoot, Walbach, Benson, Cockey, Fitzsimmons,
Green, Stevenson, Collins, Dodson. Jackson, Mil-
bourne, Miles, Riggan, Hopkins, Wingate, Jones,
Murphy, of Dorchester; Keys, Kirk, Fryer, Hill,
Ray, Tighe, Wells. Walls, "Butler, Wilson, Carey,
Dennis, Kirbin, Crawford, Harrison, Harry, Hite-
shew, Andrew, Carroll, Hitchcock, McComas, Goslin,
Willey, Becker, Bosse, Evans, Lipman, Norris, Reed,
Hall, Morrison, Murphy, of Baltimore city; Orem,
Roth, Trager, Bouchet, Dawkins, Durham, Grant,
Linthicum, Moore, Bald, Godwin, Henkel. Lock, Miller
Pairo, Baker, Bingham, Charles, Mitchell, Tennant,
Amiss, Johnston, Lansdale, Williams, Drumm, Feaga,
Stump, Jenkins, Fuss, Haines, Kain, Oursler, Gill,
Pearre, Bennett, Hearn, Messick, Harvey, Howard—99.

Mr. Atkinson arose to a question of personal pri-
vilege, and delivered the following remarks:

1 rise to a point of personal privilege.

Last week I supported the movement to advance to
enactment the so-called Worthington Amendment to
Constitution. I was sincere then in that support and
I am sincere in the position I shall take on the same
measure today.

Upon careful investigation I have been convinced
that the Worthington Amendment should not be fur-
ther pressed upon this House for the following reasons:

First. Because there is in the minds of many of the
leading lawyers of the State and Nation a doubt as to
its constitutionality.

Second. Because its main feature is a property
qualification which not only may alarm non-property
holding white men; but alters, in this State at least, a
principle of suffrage which has always been main-
tained, that man upon attaining the age of twenty-one
years is inherently entitled to a vote and a share of
responsibility in the Government he is compelled to
exist under, whether he had acquired property or not;
provided, he had been convicted of no crime or was
not considered by a majority of his fellow-men to be
a menace to good government. In addition to con-
victed criminals, there are, as I understand it, three