posed to amend the proposition with a view
to meet what I believed to be the rights and
just demands of the county which I have the
honor in part to represent. The call of the
previous question has denied me that oppor-
tunity; and I cannot therefore withhold my
assent from the proposition, simply because I
have not been able to amend it to suit my
own sense of what is right. So far as it goes
I accept it, and will vote for it " aye. "
Mr. WICKARD said: I do not approve of
the proposition of the gentleman from Frede-
rick (Mr. Schley,) but being the beat we can
get, I shall vote for it "aye."
The third section as amended was accord-
ingly adopted.
The second section of the report was read
as follows :
Sec. 2. Every county in the State, and
each district of the city of Baltimore, as here-
inbefore provided for, shall be entitled to one
senator, who shall be elected by the qualified
voters of the counties and city of Baltimore
years from the dateof their election.
Mr. MILLER. I have an amendment to offer
to the section.
The PRESIDENT. It will be proper first to
fill the blank.
Mr. ABBOTT. The reason the blank was.
not filled by the committee was that it more
properly comes from the committee on the
legislative department to fix the period; and
what action they would take we did not
know.
Mr. SCHLEY moved to fill the blank with
"four."
Mr. CHAMBERS moved to fill the blank with
"six, " and demanded the yeas and nays,
which were ordered.
The question being taken upon the amend-
ment of Mr. CHAMBERS—the longest time—
the result was—yeas 17, nays 55—as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Berry, of Prince George's, Blackiston, Bris-
coe, Chambers, Dennis, Duvall, Farrow,
Henkle, Hollyday, Horsey, Jones, of Somer-
set. Miller, Morgan, Parker, Parran, Peter
—17.
Nays—Messrs. Abbott, Annan, Baker,
Barren, Bond, Brown, Clarke, Crawford,
Gushing, Dail, Daniel, Davis, of Charles,
Davis, of Washington, Earle, Ecker, Edelen,
Galloway, Greene, Harwood, Hebb, Hodson,
Hopkins, Hopper, Johnson, Jones, of Cecil,
Keefer, Kennard, King, Lansdale, Lee, Mar-
bury, Mitchell, Mullikin, Murray, Negley
Nyman, Pugh, Purnell, Bidgely, Robinette,
Russell, Schley, Smith, of Carroll, Smith, of
Dorchester, Sneary, Stirling, Stockbridge,
Swope, Sykes, Thomas, Todd, Yalliant,
Wickard, Wilmer, Wooden—.55.
The amendment was accordingly rejected.
Mr. STOCKBRIDGE. I move to amend the
section by striking out the last clause: "and
who shall serve for — years from the date |
of their election." This disposes of the
blank. The fourth section of the legislative
article disposes of this whole question, and I
think there is no necessity for farther action.
Mr. HEBB. I hope that will not be
adopted, This is the language of the old
constitution, an exact copy.
The amendment was rejected.
The question recurred upon the motion of
Mr. SCHLEY to fill the blank with "four."
Mr. CLARKE. If this blank is filled with
" four," the result will be that the three sen-
ators of Baltimore will not go into the ap-
portionment at all, and they will serve for
four years.
Mr. HEBB. I will gay that it was intended
to provide in the legislative article that lots
should be drawn and the senators divided ;
and of course Baltimore city would take its
chances.
Mr. CLARKE. It might be construed in
this way, that there being a separate article
there would be no necessity to include the
senators from Baltimore city; and the result
might be—
Mr. STIRLING, The committee of revision
will have to take the report of this committee
and of the legislative committee and arrange
these articles. The two reports together
will constitute the legislative article, as in
the old constitution. These two things will
be in the same article, and will explain them-
selves.
The amendment was agreed to.
Mr. MILLER moved to strike out the words,
"each district of" in the first line, and the
words, ''as hereinbefore provided for" in the
second line.
Mr. MILLER said: This amendment will
give every county in the State and the city
of Baltimore one senator each, as provided in
the present constitution. By the basis of
representation adopted for the lower house
by the 3d section of this article, we have de-
parted from the principle of representation
according to population, and have adopted a
theory which is neither flesh, fish, nor fowl.
Under that theory Baltimore city gets
eighteen delegates in the house of delegates ;
and I think she may very well be content to
go into the other house with one senator.
Mr. BARRON called the previous question.
Mr. DAVIS, of Charles, called the yeas and
nays, and they were ordered.
The question being taken the result was—
yeas 39, nays 27—as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Abbott, Annan, Audoun, Baker, Barron,
Cunningham, Gushing, Daniel, Davis, of
Washington, Earle, Bcker, Galloway,
Greene, Hatch, Hebb, Hopkins, Hopper,
Jones, of Cecil, Keefer, King, Mullikin, Mur-
ray, Negley, Nyman, Parker, Pugh, Purnell,
Robinette, Russell, Schley, Smith, of Car-
roll, Sneary, Stirling, Swope, Sykes,
Thomas, Wickard, Wooden—39. |
