nor-whether it should be by the popular vote
or by college.
The division was ordered.
Mr. DORSEY said, he had on a former occasion
expressed his reasons for desiring a change in the
mode of electing a Governor. He would not
trespass on the time of the Convention by repeat-
ing them.
Mr. D. then made a few remarks as to the in-
crease of power which Baltimore would obtain
after the next census.
Mr. MITCHELL said:
That as far as he understood the history of the
State, the counties of St. Mary's and Kent were
the original State. In consideration of this fact,
he would suggest as an act of generosity and
grace on the part of the Convention, that each
of these counties should be allowed twenty votes.
[Laughter]
The question then recurred, and was taken on
the first branch of the amendment of Mr. DOR-
SEY, in these words:
"To he chosen by an electoral college."
Mr. WARE asked the yeas and nays,
Which were ordered,
And being taken, resulted as follows:
Affirmative—Messrs. Chapman, Pres't, Cham-
bers of Kent, Dorsey, Wells, Kent, Bond, Sprigg,
McCubbin and Fooks—9.
Negative—Messrs. Blakistone, Dent, Hope-
well, Ricaud, Lee, Mitchell, Donaldson, Randall,
Sellman, Weems, Dalrymple, Sollers, Jenifer,
Bell, Welch. Ridgely, Lloyd, Colston, Dashiell,
Hicks, Hodson, Goldsborough, Eccleston, Chambers
of Cecil, McCullough, Miller, Bowie, Bow-
ling, Spencer, Grason, George, McMaster,
Thomas Shriver, Gaither, Biser, Annan, Sap-
pington, Stephenson, McHenry, Magraw, Thaw-
ley, Hardcastle, Gwinn, Brent of Baltimore city,
Sherwood of Baltimore city, Presstman, Ware,
Schley, Fiery, Neill, John Newcomer, Michael
Newcomer, Weber, Hollyday, Slicer, Parke,
Ege, Cockey and Brown—60.
So the first branch of the amendment of Mr.
DORSEY was rejected.
The rest of the proposition of Mr. DORSEY
fell, the first branch having been rejected.
Some conversation followed in relation to the
order of proceeding.
Mr. DORSEY moved an amendment, (as to the
day of the election,) which amendment, he said,
had been made necessary by the action of the
Convention in relation to the day of the meeting
of the legislature. As originally reported, the
bill was all right. The charge had been made
since.
Mr. GRASON was not, he said, in the Conven-
tion when the time was fixed for the meeting of
the legislature. He would prefer the second
Wednesday in January.
Mr. DORSEY accepted the modification.
The amendment was agreed to
The question was then stated to be on the mo-
tion of Mr. GRASON to strike out three years, (as
the term of the governor,) and insert four.
Mr. JENIFER briefly sustained the motion. |
Mr. SPENCER called for a division of the ques-
tion on striking out;
Which was ordered.
The yeas and nays were asked and ordered,
and
Being taken, resulted as follows:
Affirmative—Messrs. Chapman, Pre'st, Blakis-
tone, Dent, Hopewell, Ricaud, Lee, Chambers
of Kent, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey, Wells,
Randall, Kent, Weems, Dalrymple, Bond, Jeni-
fer, Bell, Welch, Ridgely, Crisfield, Dashiell,
Hicks, Hodson, Goldsborough, Eccleston. Bowie,
Sprigg, McCubbin, Bowling, Spencer, Grason,
George, McMaster, Fooks, Thomas. Gaither,
Annan. Sappington, Thawley, Hardcastle, Schley,
Fiery. Neill, John Newcomer, Davis, Weber,
Hollyday, Slicer, Ege and Cockey—51.
Negative—Messrs. Lloyd, Colston, Chambers,
of Cecil McCullough. Miller, Shriver, Biser,
Stephenson, McHenry Magraw, Gwinn, Brent of
Baltimore city, Sherwood, of Baltimore city,
Presstman, Ware, Michael Newcomer, Parke
and Brown—18.
So the motion to strike out was agreed to.
The question then recurred on the motion of
Mr. GRASON to insert "four" years.
Mr. EGE moved "two years."
The question was taken on the motion to in-
sert "four" years, and
The result was as follows:
Affirmative—Messrs. Chapman. Pres't, Blakis-
tone, Dent, Hopewell, Ricaud, Lee, Chambers
of Kent, Mitchell, Donaldson, Dorsey, Wells,
Randall, Kent, Weems, Jenifer, Crisfield, Da-
shiell, Hicks, Hodson, Goldsborough, Eccleston,
Bowie, Sprigg. McCubbin, Spencer, Grason,
George, McMaster, Fooks, Thomas. Annan, Mc-
Henry, Schley, Fiery, Neill, John Newcomer,
Davis, Hollyday and Slicer—39.
Negative—Messrs. Dalrymple, Bond, Bell,
Welch, Ridgely, Lloyd, Colston, Chambers of
Cecil, McCullough, Miller, Bowling, Shriver,
Gaither, Biser, Sappington, Stephenson, Hard-
castle, Gwinn, Brent of Baltimore city, Sherwood
of Baltimore city, Presstman Ware, Web-
er, Parke, Ege, Cockey and Brown—27.
So the motion to insert ''four" years, was
agreed to.
And then the Convention adjourned until to-
morrow at ten o'clock.
DEFERRED DEBATES.
Remarks of Mr Constable, March 4th, on the motion
made by him to strike out a portion of the
amendment of Mr. George. [See proceedings of
March. 5 ]
Mr, CONSTABLE was understood to say, that
when the Convention, on Friday last, reconsider-
ed the section proposed by the gentleman from
Queen Anne's, (Mr. George,) he, (Mr. C.,) had
offered a substitute, with the understanding that
the subject would he postponed to a future day,
when he hoped to be able to take some part in
the discussion. In this, however, he was disap-
pointed, as ill health still admonished him to ab- |
