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Mr. Barnes said of course it would be impossible if
members continued to talk and do no work. He, how-
ever, saw no reason whatever why they could not get
through by the last of the week. He argued in favor of
the election of judges taking place in October, and the
withdrawal of the candidates for these offices from the
corrupt influences and the log rolling which prevailed at
the general elections in November.
The amendment was then agreed to.
Mr. Merrick moved to amend by providing for the elec-
tion of judges on the same day every fifteen years there-
after, viz: On the Tuesday after the first Monday in No-
vember in the counties, and on the second Wednesday in
October in the city of Baltimore.
Pending discussion, the Convention took a recess until
8 o'clock.
[Mr. Brown desires the following correction to be made
in the report of his remarks of Monday last. ]
He found fault with the existing judicial system in the
city of Baltimore, but said nothing whatever about the
judges. He thought the present organization of the Su-
perior Court and the Court of Common Pleas is defective,
because jurisdiction is given to the former in cases over
$1, 000 in amount, and to the latter in cases only of less
than that amount, a distribution of business which ho
thought caused inconvenience, and sometimes injustice,
but he did not say that those courts were of no value,
and is very far from entertaining that opinion. He con-
tended that the Criminal Court should not consist of one
judge exclusively, to be elected to serve for fifteen years,
but that some of the other judges should in turn sit on
that bench.
SIXTY-FIFTH DAY—EVENING SESSION.
Convention met at 8 o'clock, eighty-one members being
present.
The report of the committee on the judiciary was taken
up, and Mr. Merrick withdrew his pending amendment to
the third section.
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