Mr. DANIEL demanded the yeas and nays,
and they were ordered.
Mr. BERRY, of Prince George 's. If this
motion does not prevail, I shall have to be
excused to-morrow; for I have important
business which will confine me to my room
to-morrow.
Mr. BARRON. I hope the gentleman will
withdraw the call for the yeas and nays. The
gentleman slips away in often as any of us,
and perhaps a little more.
Mr. DANIEL. I have been here night and
day, and that gentleman has been away
nearly every night, and a good deal of the
time during the day.
The question being taken, the result was—
yeas 42, nays 34—as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Audoun, Barren, Belt, Berry, of Prince
George's, Blackiston, Bond, Briscoe, Cham-
bers) Clarke, Dail, Davis, of Charles, Dennis,
Duvall, Edelen, Galloway, Harwood, Hatch,
Henkle, Hollyday, Hopkins, Horaey, John-
son, Jones, of Cecil, Jones, of Somerset,
Kennard, King, Lansdale, Larsh, Lee, Mar-
bury, Mitchell, Miller, Morgan, Parran, Peter,
Ridgely, Robinette, Russell, Smith, of Dor-
chester, Thomas, Wilmer—42.
Nays—Messrs. Abbott, Annan, Baker,
Brown, Cunningham,Cushing, Daniel, Davis,of
Washinston, Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Farrow,
Greene, Hebb, Hopper, Keefer, Mullikin, Mur-
ray, Negley, Nyman, Parker, Pugh, Purnell,
Sands, Schley, Smith, of Carroll, Sneary,
Stirling, Stockbridge, Swope, Sykes, Val-
liant, Wickard, Wooden—34.
When his name was called,
Mr. RUSSELL. asked to be excused from
voting, but not being excused, voted "no."
The motion was accordingly adopted.
Mr. HEBB. When the convention ad-
journs to-night, I understand to be the effect
of that.
Mr. KING. The motion was, "when the
convention adjourns to-day."
Mr. STIRLING. The order was that the con-
vention hold evening sessions on the evening
of every day on which the convention shall
be in session, except Saturday. If we ad-
journ over to-night it does not conflict with
the order, but if we adjourn to-day we violate
that order.
The PRESIDENT ruled that upon adjourn-
ment the convention stand adjourned until
Monday next, at 12 o'clock.
THE PUBLIC WORKS.
Mr. NEGLEY, from the majority of the select
committee on the 39th section of the report of
the committee on the legislative department,
and amendments thereto, submitted the fol-
lowing report:
"The undersigned members of the special
committee, to whom was referred the 39th
section in the report of the committee on the |
legislative department, and the proposed
amendments thereto, beg leave to submit the
following majority report, recommending
the following as section 39 in the aforesaid
report:
"Sec. 39. The governor, comptroller, and
treasurer of the State are hereby authorized
conjointly, or any two of them, to exchange
the State's interest in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company for an equal amount of the
bonds or registered debt now owing by the
State, and subject to such regulations and
conditions as the general assembly may from
time to time prescribe, to sell the State's in-
terest in the Other works of internal improve-
ment, whether as a stockholder or a creditor,
also the State's interest in any banking cor-
poration, and receive in payment the bonds
and registered debt now owing by the State,
equal in amount to the price obtained for the
State's said interest; provided, that the inter-
est of the State in the Washington Branch of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be reserved
and excepted from sale; and that at the elec-
tion to be held for the adoption or rejection
of this constitution, the sense of the people
shall be taken for or against the selling of the
State's interest in all the works of internal
improvement or other corporations.
"All of which is respectfully submitted.
PETER NEGLEY,
DANIEL CLARKE,
JOS. H. AUDOUN,
ISAAC D. JONES,
C. S. PARRAN."
Mr. STIRLING, from a minority of said com-
mittee, submitted the following report :
"The undersigned, a minority of the spe-
cial committee to which was referred the
39th section of the report of the committee on
the legislative department, are not able to
concur in the report of the majority for the
reason that after full investigation of the
subject, and consideration of the wide differ-
ence of opinion which exists in the conven-
tion, they think it inexpedient to make any
provision in the constitution for the sale of
the public works.
It is not the duty of the convention to act
on the subject as it is not necessarily or pri-
marily a constitutional subject, though under
some circumstances it might have been ex-
pedient so to do.
The undersigned are satisfied that any
action the convention may take will dis-
satisfy a large part of the people, and they
deem it wise to avoid all matters that may
tend to produce aide issues on the adoption
of the constitution by the people.
The undersigned doubt whether any plan
from this committee can command a majority
of the convention, and the time of the con-
vention will be taken up by mere amend-
ments and more debate, they therefore recom- |
