do not choose to listen to it, they can do as
they please,
The PRESIDENT. The convention will come
to order. Members will take their seats.
Mr. SANDS resumed: I was just going to
say I hope our friends will not exhibit so much
of the spirit of the late Charleston convention
here; that if they cannot have matters entirely
their own way, they will not threaten to
fly off and request something else unreasona-
ble. Here is Kent county nearly up to the
standard. My friend from Frederick proposes
to leave it to the next legislature; so that
we shall be necessitated to have an entire
State enumeration, simply to give Kent an
additional member. Is that wise? I shall
vote to give another member to Kent county,
and another to Baltimore county, and there I
shall stop; believing that these two counties
are actual cases of hardship.
This rule of adopting the absolute ratio of
population does very well in the large cities ;
but how does it operate upon the counties?
It goes right out of Baltimore city, and ap-
plies city rules, based upon a large floating
population, to the large counties so as to
bring down a population of fifty or sixty
thousand souls almost upon a level with a
population of twenty-five thousand. I do
not think we ought to hold on to any such
arbitrary rules, where they work injustice,—
I shall with great pleasure vote for the mo-
tion of the gentleman from Kent (Mr. Holly-
day,) and if Baltimore county makes a claim
for another member I will vote for that; but
I do not believe that any other county is in a
condition to urge any claim for another.
Mr. MAYHUGH demanded the yeas and
Bays.
Mr. CLARKE. Is the question upon opening
the section ?
The PRESIDENT. The question is upon open-
ing the section for the purpose of making the
amendment proposed by the gentleman from
Kent (Mr. Hollyday) to give Kent county
an additional member.
The yeas and mays were ordered.
Mr. RIDGELY. Is the proposition before the
house subject. to enlargement or amendment?
The PRESIDENT. I rather think not.
Mr. STIRLING. Any other amendment can
be offered afterwards.
The PRESIDENT. Any amendment can be
offered to this amendment for the purpose of
perfecting it.
Mr. STIRLING. If the house decides not to
let this amendment in, any ether member can
move to open it for any other amendment,
and it can be opened for that if the house
consent to it,
The PRESIDENT. Yes, sir; they must consent
to each amendment.
Mr. CLARKE. Is it not in order to amend
the amendment of the gentleman from Kent,
so as to extend the proposition to all the
counties having one representative ? |
The PRESIDENT. No, sir; it must be an
amendment to the particular proposition of
the gentleman from Kent.
Mr. RIDGELY. We can make a similar
proposition for another county, I understand,
only through a similar motion,
The PRESIDENT. Yes, sir; the gentleman
from Kent (Mr. Hollyday) moves to open the
report for a particular purpose. No other
amendment than to accomplish that particular
purpose will be admitted.
The question being taken, the result was—
yeas 45, nays 24—as follows :
leaf—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Billingsley, Blackiston, Bond, Briscoe, Brown,
Carter, Chambers, Daniel, Dellinger, Dennis,
Dent, Duvall, Earle, Ecker, Greene, Hodson,
Hoffman, Hollyday, Hopkins, Hopper, Horsey,
Jones, of Cecil, Kennard, King, Larsh, Lee,
Markey, Miller, Morgan, Mullikin, Nyman,
Parker, Parran, Pugh, Purnell, Ridgely,
Sands, Scott, Smith, of Dorchester, Smith,
of Worcester, Stirling, Swope, Sykes,
Todd—45.
Mays—Messrs. Abbott, Annan, Audoun,
Baker, Barron, Bolt Brooks, Clarify Cunning-
ham, Cushing, Davis, of Washington, Farrow,
Galloway, Hatch, Hebb, Keefer, Mayhugh,
McComas, Murray, Negley, Russell, Schley,
Valliant, Wickard—24.
The PRESIDENT. Under the fifty-third rule
the consent of the majority of the members
elected to the convention is required. The
motion therefore is lost.
Mr. PUGH. I move a reconsideration of the
vote; I voted in the majority
The motion was seconded by Messrs. SANDS
and TODD.
Mr. MAYHUGH demanded the yeas and nays
on the question of reconsideration; and they
were ordered.
The question being taken, the result was—
yeas 49, nays 22—as follows :
Teas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President;
Belt, Billingsley, Blackiston, Bond, Briscoe,
Brown, Carter, Chambers, Clarke, Daniel,
Dellinger, Dennis, Dent, Duvall, Earle, Ecker,
Galloway, Greene, Hodson, Hoffman, Holly-
day, Hopkins, Hopper, Horsey, Jones, of Ce-
cil, Kennard, King, Larsh, Lee, Markey,
Miller, Morgan, Nyman, Parker, Parran,
Pugh, Purnell, Ridgely, Sands, Scott, Smith,
of Dorchester, Smith, of Worcester, Stirling,
Swope, Sykes, Todd, Valliant, Wooden—49.
Nays—Messrs. Abbott, Annan, Audoun,
Baker, Barron, Brooks, Cunningham, Cush-
ing, Davis, of Washington, Farrow, Hatch,
Hebb, Keefer, Mayhugh, McComas, Mullikin,
Murray, Negley, Russell, Schley, Stockbridge,
Wickard—22.
The vote was accordingly reconsidered.
The question recurred upon the motion to
open the section for the amendment proposed
by the gentleman from Kent (Mr. Hollyday.)
Mr, PUGH. I move to suspend the fifty-
third rule. |
