Negative.—Messrs. Chapman, President, Morgan,
Blakistone. Hopewell, Ricaud, Lee, Chambers
of Kent, Mitchell, Dorsey, Randall, Kent
Weems, Dalrymple, Bond, Brent of Charles
Merrick, Jenifer, Buchanan, Welch, Chandler
Ridgely, John Dennis, Crisfield, Dashiell, Williams,
Hodson, Goldsborough, Chambers, of
Cecil, Miller, McLane, Bowie, Tuck, Sprigg
McCubbin, Spencer, Fooks, Jacobs, Biser, Annan,
Hardcastle, Gwinn, Stewart, of Baltimore
city, Brent, of Baltimore city, Presstman, Ware,
Mill, Davis, Kilgour, Waters and Hollyday— 50.
So the resolution was not laid on the table.
The question then recurred on the adoption of
the resolution.
Messrs. JOHN NEWCOMER and HARBINE asked
the yeas and nays, which were ordered.
Mr. MERRICK. I suggest to gentlemen who
demand the yeas and nays—
Mr. BUCHANAN. (Interposing.) And who are
so anxious to save time ?
Mr. MERRICK. (Continuing.) And are so
anxious to save time, that we have just taken the
yeas and nays on a motion to lay the resolution
on the table. I hope, therefore, that the call
will be withdrawn.
Mr. NEWCOMER insisted on his motion for the
yeas and nays.
Mr. HARBINE. If the. call for the yeas and
nays should be withdrawn, the time of the Convention
will be taken up in something a good
deal worse.
Mr. MITCHELL. I suggest to my friend on
the left, whether if be is opposed to the con-
sumption of time, the demand for the yeas and
nays upon every motion that is made, is not a
very effectual mode of consuming it?
Mr. HARBINE. Assure me that the time will
not be more unprofitably spent, and I will con-
sent to withdraw the call. I feel as sure as fate
what result will be.
The question on the adoption of the resolution
was then taken, and resulted as follows:
Affirmative.—Messrs. Chapman, President,—
Morgan, Blakistone, Hopewell, Ricaud, Lee,
Chambers, of Kent. Mitchell. Dorsey, Randall,
weens, Dalrymple, Bond, Brent, of Charles,
Merrick, Jenifer, Buchanan, Welch, Chandler,
Ridgely, John Dennis, Crisfield, Dashiell, Williams,
Hodson, Goldsborough, Phelps, Chambers,
of Cecil, McCullough, McLane, Bowie, Tuck,
Sprigg, McCubbin, Spencer, Jacobs, Annan,
Hardcastle, Gwinn, Stewart, of Baltimore city,
Brent of Baltimore city, Presstman, Ware, Niell,
Davis, Kilgour, Waters and Hollyday— 48.
Negative.—Messrs. Dent, Kent, Lloyd, Sherwood,
of Talbot, James U. Dennis, Eccleston,
Grason, George, McMaster, Hearn, Fooks, Shriver,
Biser, Sappington, Stephenson, Magraw,
Nelson, Carter, Thawley, Stewart, of Caroline,
Schley, Fiery. John Newcomer, Harbine. Slicer,
Fitzpatrick, Smith, Parke, Shower, Cockey and
Brown— 31.
So the Convention decided that hereafter, un-
til otherwise ordered, the daily hour of the meet-
ing of the Convention should be eleven o'clock. |
THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE:
Mr. CHAMBERS, of Kent, from the Committee
on the Elective Franchise, made a report, being
an additional section to the first article of the
Constitution heretofore reported by the same
Committee.
The report was read, and—
On motion of Mr. CHAMBERS,
It was ordered to be printed.
On motion of Mr. BLAKISTONE,
The report was referred to the same Commit-
tee of the Whole, having under consideration
the previous report of the said Committee.
THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.
On motion of Mr. RANDALL,
The Convention proceeded to the consideration
of the amendment offered by him yesterday, to
the 17th rule, &c.
Mr. R. briefly explained its object. He dis-
claimed any intention to call the previous question
or to encourage its application, and took oc-
casion to say, that he had not the slightest
complaint to make of the course, of the de-
bates which had taken place here. He had offer-
ed the amendment, with the concurrence of
friends who were anxious for the transaction
of public business, but who desired that the
operation of the previous question should be
so restricted, that it would apply only to one
proposition, or to such portion of the pending
matter as the mover might designate. And Mr.
R. briefly exemplified the operation of the change
which he proposed to make. The adoption of
the amendment, he submitted, would expedite
the business of the Convention, without depriv-
ing it, in any sense, of the full benefit of the
rule.
Mr, BROWN. Your amendment can only op-
erate in Convention?
Mr. RANDALL. Certainly.
Mr. BROWN suggested the propriety of making
the previous question applicable in Committee
of the Whole, so far as regarded the pending
amendment. Time and trouble would he saved.
He was opposed to going into committee, and
should oppose, going into it for the future, unless
some means could be devised for arresting de-
bate. That object could be effected under the
existing rules in Convention, but not in Commit-
tee; therefore, it was, he had suggested that the
previous question should be made applicable in
Convention.
THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISE.
Pending the motion of Mr. RANDALL, (the us-
ual hour having arrived,) the Convention,
On motion of Mr. JENIFER,
Resolved itself into Committee of the Whole,
Mr. BLAKISTONE in the Chair, and resumed the
consideration of the report of the committee on
the Elective Franchise.
The question pending before the Committee
was on the motion of Mr. PHELPS, to amend the
amendment offered by Mr. CHAMBERS, of Kent,
as a substitute for the first section of the report, |
