DRAFT IN MARYLAND.
Mr. MARBURY submitted the following, which
was read the first time, and laid over :
Whereas, The citizens of the State of Ma-
ryland have been drafted until the draft baa
reached the home of nearly every able-bodied
man in the State; and whereas the slave conn-
ties of the State have almost been depopula-
ted of their whole laboring force; and whereas
the slaves who have been enticed or volunta-
rily gone off from this State, and entered the
service of the United States, have nearly all
of them been accredited to other States, con-
trary to the laws of the land, and in violation
of every principle of justice and right; and
whereas, the upper counties of this State have
been so entirely laid waste and so depleted of
their population that they have scarcely
men enough left to protect and support the
helpless women and children who are entitled
to their care; therefore,
Resolved, That the members of this conven-
tion deem it a duty they owe their consti-
tuents, to appoint and do hereby authorize
the President of this convention to appoint a
committee of five, of whom he (the President))
shall be one, to wait on the proper authorities
at Washington, explain the condition of our
pie, request and urge that they be relieved
from all further draft during the war.
ABSENCE OF MEMBERS.
Mr. ECKER. I offer the following order. It
is unnecessary for me to make any remarks
upon it, for it is a little like what the man said
about Henry Clay; it will speak for itself,
The order was read as follows :
Ordered, That it be entered upon the jour-
nal that the members of this convention who
have been in almost constant attendance since
its commencement, are hereby declared not
responsible tor the many delays and waste of
time in its deliberations; and in order to show
where the responsibility for such delay pro-
perly belongs, the clerk is required to have
published daily a list of those members who
do not attend the evening sessions.
The question was upon the adoption of
the order.
Upon this question Mr. ECKER called for
the yeas and nays, and they were ordered,
The question was then taken, by yeas and
nays, and resulted—yeas 35, nays 33—as
follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Abbott, Annan, Brown, Carter, Cunningham,
Cushing, Daniel, Davis, of Washington, Den-
nis, Earle, Ecker, Galloway, Hoffman, Hop-
kins, Hopper, Keefer, King, McComas, Mul-
likin, Murray, Negley, Parker, Pugh, Pur-
nell, Russell, Sands, Scott, Smith, of Carroll,
Smith, of Worcester, Stirling, Swope, Thrus-
ton, Todd. Wooden—35.
Nays—Messrs. Audoun, Belt, Billingsley,
Bond, Brooks, Crawford, Davis, of Charles, |
Dellinger. Edelen, Gale, Harwood, Hatch,
Hodson, Jones, of Somerset, Kennard, Lee,
Mace, Marbury, Markey, Mayhugh, Mitchell,
Miller, Morgan, Parran, Peter, Ridgely, Rob-
inette, Schlosser, Smith, of Dorchester,
Sykes, Thomas, Turner, Wickard—33.
The order was accordingly adopted.
Pending the call of the yeas and nays, the
following explanations were made by mem-
bers as their names were called:
Mr. DAVIS, of Charles. I would be very
willing to vote for the first part of this order ;
that those who have been in attendance here
are not responsible for the delay. But I ana
not willing to vote for the, latter part of it.
As it is too late to ask for a division, I shall
have to vote '' no."
Mr. MILLER. I am one of those, I believe,
who have attended here the most promptly ;
it may be from the fact that I am a resident
of this city. I think I should have attended
as punctually if I had been a resident of any
other part of the State. But I cannot vote
for such an order as this, because I conceive
that it is undignified, and entirely outside
of and beyond any precedent heretofore set
by any legislative body in this country. 1
vote " no."
Mr. MULLIKIN submitted the following or-
der :
Ordered, That any member of this conven-
tion who shall absent himself from said con-
vention without the consent of a majority of
the members present, shall not receive his
per diem for the time he is absent.
Mr. THOMAS. I would like to inquire, in
case this order is adopted, what power has
any number of this convention to stop the
pay of any member "
Mr. MULLIKIN. That is an after considera-
tion.
The question was upon the adoption of the
order.
Upon this question Mr. MULLIKIN called
the yeas and nays, and they were ordered.
The question was then taken, by yeas and
nays, and resulted—yeas 30, nays 38—as fol-
lows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Abbott, Annan, Cunningham, Daniel, Davis,
of Washington, Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Gal-
loway, Hoffman, Keefer, Mayhugh, McComas,
Mullikin, Murray, Nyman, Parker, Pugh,
Purnell, Robinette, Russell, Sands, Scott,
Smith, of Carroll, Smith, of Worcester, Stir-
ling, Swope, Thruston, Wickard—30.
Nays—Messrs. Audoun, Belt, Billingsley,
Bond, Brooks, Brown, Carter, Crawford,
Davis, of Charles, Dennis, Edelen, Gale,
Harwood, Hatch, Hodson, Hopkins, Hopper,
Jones, of Somerset, Kennard, King, Lee, Mace,
Marbury, Markey, Mitchell, Miller, Morgan,
Negley, Parran, Peter, Ridgely, Schlosser.
Smith, of Dorchester, Sykes, Thomas, Todd,
Turner, Wooden—38.
The order was accordingly rejected. |
