Revising Clerk—John McGarigle.
Lamplighter—John T. Wright.
Hall-keeper—John Sullivan.
Pages—Caleb Parker, Charles 0, Isaacs,
John A. J. Metcalf and Melancthon Dodson,
ADDITIONAL PAGE.
Mr. GALLOWAY submitted the following :
Ordered, That Harold Wingate be appointed
by the President an additional page to this
Convention.
Mr. SANDS. I would like to enquire what
necessity there is for an additional page. If
there is any such necessity I will vote the
additional page; if not, then I shall vote
against it. I only ask for information upon
the subject.
Mr. GALLOWAY. From what I have seen
during the sessions of this Convention, I am of
the opinion that an additional page is re-
quired, for I have frequently seen members
compelled to wait for some time before a page
could reach them to take an order or other
paper to the Secretary's table. This young
man has been here during the whole ses-
sion of the Convention, and has been very
prompt in attending to the business of the
Convention. Taking these things into con-
sideration, I have offered this order, and
hope the Convention will adopt it.
Mr. BERRY of Baltimore county. The ob-
jection I have to the order as offered is that
the gentleman from Harford (Mr Galloway)
names the party to be appointed. I think the
appointment should be left to the President.
If the order is so changed, I have no doubt
the gentleman can secure his object by signi-
fying his wishes to the President.
Mr. GALLOWAY. I have no objection to so
modify the order, as to leave the appointment
to the President, and will do so.
Mr. HEBB. My objection to the order is
that I do not think we need an additional
page. Certainly four pages are sufficient for
a body like this.
The question occurred upon the order as
modified, and being taken, upon a division,
the order wag rejected—yeas, 25; nays, 37.
On motion of Mr. CUSHING,
it was ordered to beentered on the Journal
that Mr. Stirling, of Baltimore city, and Mr.
Ridgely, of Baltimore county, are detained
from their seats in the Convention by sick-
ness.
Mr. PURNELL submitted the following order:
Ordered, That the Committee to consider
and report respecting the Elective Franchise,
inquire into the expediency of inserting into
the Constitution a provision allowing any
qualified voter, who may happen to be in any
other county situated in the district in which
he resides at the time of an election, the
privilege of voting for any district officer;
and that all such qualified electors be per-
mitted to vote anywhere in the State for
State officers.
Mr. PURNELL moved that this order be re- |
ferred to the Committee on the Elective Fran-
chise—agreed to.
Mr. VALLIANT. The Committee on Report-
ing and Printing have a report to make
upon several subjects which have been re-
ferred to them. There are three or four orders
connected with the report, which will require
the action of the Convention. I do not know
whether or not this is the proper time to sub-
mit the report.
Mr. PRESIDENT. The unfinished businesss—-
the report of the Committee on Rules—is now
in order.
RULES OF THE CONVENTION.
The consideration of the Report of the Committee
on Rules was resumed, and Rules 38,
39, 40, 41 and 42 were read, and no amend-
ments offered.
Rule 43, as reported was then read.
Mr. STOCKBRIDGE, I would like to make
an inquiry in reference to this rule. It now
reads: " On the final passage of any subject
matter " &c. Of course many of the articles
which will be reported now by tile different
Committees may contain more than one sub-
ject matter. For instance, the report of the
Committee on the Judiciary, it is fair to sup-
pose, will have a provision in relation to the
Court of Appeals, another for the Orphan's
Court, and so on in reference to other Courts ;
each being a distinct subject matter. The
question I wish to propound to the Commit-
tee on Rules is, whether it is intended to take
the yeas and nays upon the report of any
committee as a whole, or upon each of the
subject matters contained in the report.
Mr. KENNARD. My understanding of the
matter is that the yeas and nays are to be
taken upon any subject matter that comes
before the Convention, whether it be an arti-
cle, proposition, or resolution. It does not
follow that it shall embrace an entire report.
Mr. CLARKE. I will state in reference to
this rule that, from the discussion in the
committee, my idea was this, and I supposed
the rule would be so drawn: that reports of
committees when brought in should be di-
vided into different beads. For instance, the
report of the Committee on the Judiciary
would be divided into the heads of " Court of
Appeals," "Circuit Court," &c., each hav-
ing a separate distinct bead, and each head
embracing but one subject matter, the vote
being taken by yeas and nays upon the adop-
tion of each subject matter.
Mr. STOCKBRIDGE. My purpose in calling
attention to this matter was to have the rule
so explicit that hereafter there may be no
misunderstanding as to what is meant by it.
The President, of course, must understand
at what point in the consideration of
a report the yeas and nays are to be
called. We all know how it is in the case of
a bill before the Legislature; the yeas and
nays are always taken upon the bill as a
whole; never in any other place as a mat- |
