1867.] OF THE SENATE. 519

Messrs. Bowie, Brodwater, Compton, Earle, Henkle, Jump, Kimmel, Mackall.	AFFIRMATIVE. Maddox, Spates, Stephenson, Stirling, Vickers, Waters, Young — 15.
Messrs. Billingslea, Davis, of Caroline, Davis, of Washington, Frazier,	NEGATIVE. Holton, Mules, Philpot— 7.

The President declared said bill rejected, and stated that he
had no disposition to discuss the question. He would simply
refer the Senate to the 2d section, XI article of the Constitu-
tion, which is as follows :

''Whenever two-thirds of the members elected to each
branch of the General Assembly shall think it necessary to
call a Convention to revise, amend or change this Constitu-
tion, they shall recommend to the electors to vote at the next
election for members of the General Assembly for or against
a Convention; and if a majority of all the electors voting at
said election shall have voted for a Convention, the General
Assembly shall, at their next session provide by law for call-
ing the same."

The Chair added that he had no other guide in decisions
upon such subjects than the Constitution of the State, and he
had decided upon his judgment of its proper meaning, irre-
spective of his personal convictions of the merits of the bill.

Mr. Earle took the following appeal from the decision of
the Ckair :

That fifteen votes having been given in favor of the bill, and
the Chair having decided the bill uuder these circumstances
lost, that the decision of the Chair is in error, and that the
bill has become a law.

On the question being taken,

"Shall the decision of the Chair stand as the judgment of
the Senate,"

It was determined in the negative by yeas and nays as fol-
low :

Messrs. Billingslea, Davis, of Caroline, Davis, of Washington, Holton,

AFFIRMATIVE. Maddox, Mules, Philpot— 7.