The PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Kent
(Mr. Chambers) can very easily understand
that the convention is not required to do its
work over twice. If all that is contained in
the standing rules have been fully complied
with, then the rule is exhausted.
Mr. CHAMBERS. Not in regard to new
matter.
The PRESIDENT. The work has passed
over into the hands of the committee on revi-
sion for the purpose of suggesting any altera-
tion, or recommending anything which they
in their judgment deem proper for the per-
fecting or the instrument. Of course their:
recommendation does not of itself change the
instrument. It is still left to the determina-
tion of the convention whether the change
shall be made or not. That question is to be
determined by the vote of the house upon
concurring in the report of the committee.
The question was upon concurring in the
report of the committee in relation to the
article upon the elective franchise.
Upon this question the yeas and nays had
been ordered.
The question being then taken by yeas and
nays, it resulted—yeas 44, nays 19—as fol-
lows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Abbott, Annan, Audoun, Baker, Barron,
Cunningham, Cushing, Daniel, Davis, of
Washington, Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Far-
row, Galloway, Greene, Hebb, Hoffman,
Hopper, Jones, of Cecil, Keefer, Kennard,
King, Larsh, Markey, McComas, Mullikin,
Murray, Negley, Nyman, Parker, Pugh Pur-
nell, Ridgely, Russell, Schley, Schlosser,
Stirling, Stockbridge, Swope, Sykes, Thomas,
Todd, Wooden—44.
Nays—Messrs. Belt, Bond, Brown, Cham-
bers, Crawford, Davis, of Charles, Dent,
Duvall, Hollyday, Horsey, Lansdale, Lee,
Marbury, Mitchell, Miller, Parran, Peter,
Smith, of Dorchester, Wilmer—19.
The report of the committee on revision
was accordingly concurred in.
Mr. KING. I would ask if we of the com-
mittee on revision have not a right to make
verbal changes and other suggestions to be
brought before this house? Because if we
are merely to take these articles into the com-
mittee room and bring them back again.
without making any alterations, you might
as well dispense with the committee of revi-
sion altogether. My idea was that we had a
right to make these verbal changes, and at
the same time make suggestions to be sub-
mitted lo the house.
The PRESIDENT. The gentleman is cor-
rect, This committee is a very different
tiling from a committee appointed after the
session of the legislature. In that case the
committee has no power to revise the work
of the legislature; they are confined strictly
to the correction of any verbal errors. But
this committee is under the control of this |
house, and all the powers of the house are
confided to it over any article before it.
Mr. KINO. That is the way I understood
it. But according to some of the arguments
here we were authorized merely to take the
document into the committee room and bring
it back again entirely unchanged.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Mr. EARLE, from the committee of revision,
reported back to the convention the article
on the treasury department, and recom-
mended that the first section of that article
be remodeled. This section on adopted by
the convention reads thus :
" Section 1. There shall be a treasury de-
partment, consisting of a comptroller, chosen
by the qualified electors of the State at each
general election of members of the general
assembly, who shall receive an annual salary
of twenty-five hundred dollars, and of a
treasurer, to be appointed by the two houses
of the general assembly at each regular ses-
sion thereof, on joint ballot, who shall also
receive an annual salary of twenty-five hun-
dred dollars, and neither of the said officers
shall be allowed or receive any fees, com-
missions, or perquisites of any kind, in ad-
dition to his salary, for the performance of
any duty or service whatever. In case of a
vacancy in either of the offices by death, or
otherwise, the governor, by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate, shall fill such
vacancy by appointment, to continue until
another election by the people, or a choice by
the legislature as the case may be, and the
qualification of the successor. But the comp-
troller chosen at the first election under
this constitution, and the treasurer ap-
pointed at the first session of the general
assembly held under this constitution, shall
not enter upon the discharge of the
duties of their respective offices until the
expiration of the terms of the present in-
cumbents, unless the said offices, or either
of them shall become vacant by death, re-
signation, removal from the State, or other
disqualification of the said incumbents, or
either of them. The comptroller and trea-
surer shall keep their offices at the seat of
government, and shall take such oath and
enter into such bonds for the faithful dis-
charge of their duties as are now or may
hereafter be prescribed by law."
From the reading of this section it will be
seen that the comptroller is elected by the
qualified voters of the State, and the treasu-
rer by the general assembly,
The offices are distinct and should not be
embraced in one section. The members of
the committee are of the opinion that this
section could be divided with advantage into
at least three. They therefore recommend
the following sections:
"Section. I The treasury department of |
