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without one word, now contended that it was against
principle to retain the two officers who were, perhaps,
the only ones in the State representing the choice of a
majority of the people of Maryland. The object of the
people in sending them here was to hurl from high places
those who had elevated themselves through fraud at the
polls and yet the first thing they proposed to do was to
turn out the men who almost alone of the officers repre-
sented the unbiased will of the people. It was said at the
last Governor's election that scenes occurred which
curdled—
Mr. Maulsby rose to a point of order that the subject
of a Governor's election was not before the Convention.
Mr. Syester said he was done.
Mr. Groome was unwilling to place himself in the atti-
tude of voting to retain his political friends in office, and
to turn out his opponents.
The amendment was then rejected by a vote of 50 to 47.
The bill being again on its final passage it was passed by
a vote of 90 to 3. Messrs. Duvall, Merryman and Peters
in the negative.
Part 4 of the judiciary report, relating to the courts
of Baltimore city, was then taken up, the pending ques-
tion being on the substitute for the 27th section proposed
by Mr. Ritchie.
Mr. Carter offered as a substitute the first section of
the substitute reported by him yesterday.
Mr. Ritchie asked his colleague, (Mr. Carter, ) to give
an explanation of the substitute.
Mr. Carter said the substitute was reported by him
yesterday, and was printed at large upon the journal. It
had been agreed on by nine of the seventeen members of
the Baltimore city delegation yesterday, and he was au-
thorized to say that two others of the city delegation,
making a majority, were also in favor of the plan sub-
mitted by him. The plan did not destroy the organiza-
tion of a single court as now existing in the city of Bal-
timore. The only changes made were as to the jurisdic-
tion of three of the courts, the Superior, the Court of
Common Pleas and the City Court, to all of which con-
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