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LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
The convention then resumed the consid
eration of the order of the day, being the re
port of the committee on the legislative de-
partment, which was on its second reading.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, &C.
Mr, CUSHING. I move to take up the thir-
ty-ninth section of the report on the legisla-
tive department. This report was taken up
for consideration on the 7th of July, just
"twenty days ago, and we have not yet fin-
ished it. The judiciary report is not yet in
and when made it will probably consume
some three or four weeks of our time, for
scarcely a lawyer in the convention will not
find something in that report which does not
accord with his views.
Now, after a very long and elaborate dis-
cussion of the subject of the sale of the State's
interest in the public works, there seems to be
no intention upon the part of this house to
change this section as reported by the com-
mittee. We have had amendment after
amendment offered and argued upon hour af-
ter hour; vote after vote taken and then
reconsidered, and no conclusion finally
reached. And I think it simply wasting the
time of the convention to indulge in further
speculations about the matter. The legisla-
tive committee have considered it, I presume,
with a great deal of deleberation and care.
The last proposition on the subject before the
convention was to submit it to an entirely
new committee of nine members, who would
make a report on which we would be de-
tained just as long probably as we have been
upon the report made by the committee on
the legislative department.
Now, if there are any members who would
like so stay here until the day of judgment,
there are others who do not desire to do so, but
who wish to complete our work at the earliest
practicable moment, I hope the house will
take up this section and consider it, and dis-
pose of it to-night as it came from the com-
mittee, with perhaps one amendment, striking
out the word "lease." And I think we might
also dispose of the report of the committee on
apportionment to-night.
Mr. MILLER. I understood this thirty-ninth
section was not to be taken up until every
additional section that might be proposed
should be disposed of. |
The PRESIDENT. There is no other section
not acted upon.
Mr. CLARKE. I have one or two additional
sections which I would like to offer.
Mr. King My collegue (Mr. Ridgely) has
taken an active part in this matter. But not
calculating that this subject would be taken
up to-night, he is absent; be will be here to-
morrow.
Mr. CLARKE. I presume the taking up this
section now, will not prevent the offering
additional sections by way of amendment to
the article.
The PRESIDENT. It will not.
Mr. BELT. I would suggest to my friend
from Baltimore city (Mr. Stirling,) that it
would be much more orderly to allow one or
two additional sections to be offered now,
and let them be voted upon. Nobody desires
particularly to debate them, or call the yeas
and nays on them, or in any way to delay
action. Let those be offered and disposed of,
and then we can take up the section which
has been laid over. I think When we once
go back, we should finish the report einirely,
without having any additional sectiona pro-
posed to the article. Let us dispose of all
the new propositions now, and then we can
take up this section and make an end of the
report,
Mr. Cushing. I must insist upon my mo-
tion.
The question was upon proceeding to the
consideration of the thirty-ninth section.
Upon this question, Mr. CUSHING called
for the yeas and nays, which were ordered.
The question was then taken, by yeas and
nays, and resulted—yeas 32, nays 24—as
follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Abbott, Annan, Baker, Cunningham, Cush-
ing, Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Farrow, Gallo-
way, Greene, Hebb, Hopkins, Hopper, Ken-
nard, Markey, McComas, Mullikin, Murray,
Nyman, Pugh, Purnell, Robinette, Sands,
Schley, Smith, of Carroll, Sneary, Stirling,
Swope, Todd, Wooden—32.
Nays—Messrs. Audoun, Belt, Berry, of
Prince George's, Blackiston, Brown, Cham-
bers, Clarke, Duvall, Edelen, Harwood, Hol-
lyday, Horsey, Jones, of Somerset, King,
Lansdale, Lee, Marbury,Mitchell, Miller, Neg-
ley, Parker, Parran, Peter, Stockbridge—24.
The motion to take up the thirty-ninth
section was accordingly agreed to. |
