Chambers, Cushing, Dellinger, Dent, Earle,
Gale, Galloway, Greene, Hodson, Hollyday,
Hopper, Johnson, King, Lansdale, Larsh,
Marbury, Markey, McComas, Morgan, Mulli-
kin, Murray, Negley, Nyman, Peter, Pugh
Purnell, Ridgely, Schley, Scott, Smith, of
Dorchester, Sneary, Swope, Sykes, Thomas,
Todd, Turner, Wooden—42.
Nays—Messrs. Annan, Baker, Bond, Brown
Crawford, Cunningham, Dail, Daniel, Davis,
of Charles, Davis, of Washington, Duvall,
Hatch, Hebb, Henkle, Hoffman, Horsey,
Jones, of Cecil, Keefer, Kennard, Lee, Mitch-
ell, Miller, Parker, Russell, Schlosser, Stir-
ling, Stockbridge, Wilmer—28.
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. CUSHING. I shall vote for this order,
both from a sense of justice, and a desire to
be right. I voted fur an order to pay the
secretary extra compensation for doing in
addition to his own work, the work of the
assistant secretary while the latter was ab-
sent. And I voted for extra compensation to
the assistant secretary under similar circum-
stances. I shall therefore vote to increase the
pay of the folder for doing the work of two
folders. I vote "aye."
Mr. DAVIS, of Washington. In order to
be consistent, as the gentleman from Balti-
more city (Mr. Cushing) is, as I am opposed
to all this matter of extra compensation, I
vote "no."
Mr. HEBB. I am compelled with some re-
luctance to vote against this proposition, as I
consider it a bad precedent to pay the folder
for twenty-five days extra work, inasmuch as
some other proposition may be introduced to
pay the postmaster and the pages who as-
sisted him in that work, I therefore vote
"no,"
Mr. STIRLING. I regret very much to vote
against any order of this sort. I am always
in favor of paying everybody who has done
work for us. I am not very well acquainted
with the facts in this case. But I understand
that while some additional labor has been
thrown upon this folder, still he has been
assisted by the page's and other officers of
this house. I do not gather that he has done
the whole of the work himself. I vote
"no."
BOUND COPIES OF THE CONSTITUTION.
Mr. GREENE submitted the following or-
der:
" Ordered That the State librarian be and
he is hereby directed to purchase of James
Wingate two hundred and fifty copies of the
constitution passed by this convention, when
adopted by the voters of this State, said
constitution shall contain an elaborate.' index,
prepared with references to articles and sec-
tions, and also to the page, said constitution |
shall be printed in the best style, (with side
notes,) on fair white paper with large fair
type and well bound, and shall contain the
names of the members of this convention,
said constitution shall contain the certificate
of the clerk of the court of appeals, that it is
a true copy of the constitution passed by this
convention; and the indexing and publica-
tion of said constitution shall be approved by
the president of this convention.
"And the State librarian shall distribute
said copies of the constitution, as follows :
' ' One copy to each member of the conven-
tion; to the governor, lieutenant governor,
comptroller, treasurer, attorney general, ad-
jutant general, superintendant of public
education, and commissioner of the land
office, each one copy; to the judges and
clerks of the circuit courts, and the courts of
Baltimore city, each one copy; to the judges
and the clerk of the court of appeals, each
one copy; to the orphans' courts of the
State, each one copy; to the State's attor-
neys, each one copy; to the register of wills,
each one copy; to the boards of county com-
missioners, each one copy; to the mayor of
Baltimore city, one copy.
" And the remaining eleven copies shall be
retained in the State library, subject to the
disposition of the general assembly.
"And the president of this convention .is
hereby authorized and directed to pay James
Wingate one hundred dollars, for preparing
said carefully elaborated index and side notes
to said constitution, and also two dollars per
copy for said constitution when published by
James Wingate "
Mr. THOMAS. I move that this order be
laid over, so that it may be printed upon the
journal, and an opportunity given members
to examine it.
Mr. Greene, I hope the convention will
pass upon this order at once. It is merely
following the precedent of the convention of
1850. There is nothing so very extraordinary
about the order as to require twenty-four
hours consideration.
The question was then taken upon the mo-
tion of Mr. THOMAS, that the order be laid
over, and it was not agreed to.
The question was upon agreeing to the
order.
Mr. BARRON. Did this order come from
the committee on printing ?
The PRESIDENT. No, sir; it was offered by
the gentleman from Allegany (Mr. Greene.)
Mr. BARRON. I think it should come from
that committee.
Mr. THOMAS. I understand that the committee
is in session now, considering among
other subjects the very one to which this or-
der relates.
Mr. GREENE. I think my friend from Bal-
timore city (Mr. Thomas) is mi-informed.
Different members of that committee have |
