844           JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [March 6,

	Negative.
Messrs. Waller,	Bowlus,	McPherson,
Dail,	Root,	Summers,
Thomas,	Koons,	Gray,
Harding,	Hanway,	McKinstry,—12.

The said bill was then returned to the Senate.
Mr. Thrust on offered the following order :

Ordered, That it be entered on the Journal that if Mr.
Belt and Mr. Spence had been in their seats yesterday when
the bill authorising the call of a Convention to reform the
Constitution was on its passage they would have voted in the
negative;

Which was adopted.

The hour having arrived for taking up the order of the
day:

The House took up for consideration, the bill entitled, an
act to establish a uniform system of public education in the
State of Maryland;

On motion of Mr. Stirling,

The consideration of said bill was indefinitely postponed.

The House then took up for consideration, the bill entitled,
an act to establish a Normal or Training school for teachers,
at St. John's College, in the city of Annapolis;

Said bill being upon its second reading,

Mr. Thruston proposed the following amendment.

"Strike out the enacting clause of the bill;"

Mr. Koons, called the previous question on the amendment,

Which was sustained.

The question then being "shall the main question be now
put;"

It was determined in the affirmative.

The question then recurring on the amendment,

It was not assented to by yeas and nays as follow:

	Affirmative.
Messrs. Walker,	Harding,	Summers,
Allender,	Bowlus,	Schnebly,
Ford, of Balt. co.	Root,	Riddlemoser,
Tilghman, Dail,	Koons,	Worthington,
Hobbs,	Thruston,
Richardson,	Baker,	Mountz,
Ford, of Cecil,	McPherson,	McKinstry,
Sudler, of Q.A.	Smith, of B. city,	Day—25.
Thomas,