postpone the whole Declaration of Rights
until Friday,
Mr. SANDS. If those asking postponement
will agree to the exception of these three ar-
ticles, I will vote for that with great pleasure.
If that is nut accepted, I must, under the
circumstances, vote against the postponement.
The amendment was rejected.
The question then recurred upon the motion
to postpone until Friday next at 12 o'clock.
Mr. HEBB demanded the yeas and nays, and
they were ordered.
The question being taken the result was—
yeas 39, nays 42—us follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Goldsborough, President ;
Belt, Berry of Prince George's, Billingsley,
Blackiston, Bond, Briscoe, Brown, Chambers,
Clarke, Crawford, Dail, Daniel, Davis of
Charles, Dennis, Edelen, Harwood, Henkle,
Hodson, Hollyday, Horsey, Johnson, Jones of
Somerset, King, Larsh, Lee, Mace, Marbury,
Mitchell, Miller, Morgan, Murray, Parran,
Peter, Purnell, Smith of Dorchester, Smith
of Worcester, Thomas, Wilmer—39.
Nays—Messrs, Abbott, Annan, Audoun,
Baker, Carter Cunningham, Davis of Wash-
ington, Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Galloway,
Greene, Hatch, Hebb, Hoffman, Hopkins,
Hopper, Jones of Cecil, Keefer, Kennard,
Markey, McComas, Mullikin, Negley, Nyman,
Parker, Pugh, Robinette, Russell, Sands,
Schley, Scott, Sneary, Stirling, Stockbridge,
Swope Sykes, Thruston, Todd, Valliant,
Wickard, Wooden—42.
So the motion was rejected.
Mr. PUGH, when his name was called, said :
I would he perfectly willing to have voted in
favor of the postponement of the three articles
referred to, hut I am not willing to vote to
postpone the whole subject, because I think
it will nearly amount to an adjournment of
the Convention I therefore vote—no.
Mr. SANDS, when his name was called, said :
I would gladly have voted to permit those
three articles to go over, but as the report of
the committee to be offered to-morrow morn-
ing will have to lie over and we shall have no
work to do, I vote—no.
The result of the vote having been an-
nounced,
On motion of Mr. THRUSTON,
The Convention adjourned.
NINETEENTH DAY .
WEDNESDAY, May 25th, 1864.
The Convention met at 11 A. M.
Prayer by the Rev. Mr Patterson.
Present at the call of the roll, the follow-
ing members;
Messrs. Goldsborough, President; Abbott
Annon, Audoun, Baker, Barron, Belt, Berry
of Prince George's, Billingsley, Blackiston
Bond. Briscoe, Brooks, Brown, Carter, Clarke
Crawford, Cunningham, Cushing, Dail, Dan-
iel, Davis of Charles, Davis of Washington, |
Dellinger, Earle, Ecker, Edelen, Farrow,
Galloway, Greene. Harwood, Hatch, Hebb,
Henkle, Hodson, Hoffman, Hollyday, Hop-
kins. Hopper, Horsey, Jones, of Cecil, Jones,
of Somerset, Keefer, Kennard, King, Lee,
Marbury, Markey, McComas, Mitchell, Miller,
Morgan, Mullikin, Murray, Negley, Noble,
Nyman, Parker, Parran, Peter, Pugh, Pur-
nell, Ridgely, Robinette, Russell, Sands,
Smith of Worcester, Sneary, Stirling, Stock-
bridge, Schley, Schlosser,' Scott, Smith of
Carroll, Smith 'of Dorchester, Swope Sykes,
Thomas, Thruston, Todd, Valliant, Wickard,
Wilmer, Wooden—85.
The proceedings of yesterday were read
and approved.
Mr. VALLIANT submitted the following or-
der:
Ordered, That one hundred and thirty
copies of the Rules and Orders for the gov-
ernment of the Convention be printed in
pamphlet form for the use of the members.
The consideration of which was postponed
until to-morrow
Mr. STIRLING submitted the following or-
der:
Ordered, That the Committee on Accounts
be authorized to pay to Mr. Garmong, of
Washington county, for services rendered
to the Committee on the Bill of Rights, such
per diem as they may think reasonable.
Mr. STIRLING said: There was an order of-
fered the other day for the appointment of the
gentleman named in this order, as an addi-
tional clerk, and that order was lost. He had
already performed some service in that ca-
pacity, and I therefore have offered this or-
der.
Mr. SCOTT. Was the gentleman employed
by order of the Convention? We bad com-
mittee clerks appointed to do the work of the
committees.
Mr. STIRLING. So far from that being the
case, at the lime this service Was rendered,
not only were the committee clerks engaged,
hut my friend, the Reading Clerk, rendered
considerable assistance, it was a long docu-
ment, and we wished to get it finished that
day. It was an emergency to have it copied
ait once, and I found the clerks employed.
The order leaves it discretionary with the
committee. It is not binding upon them.
Mr. BARRON. I hope the committee will
pay the gentleman if he rendered any ser-
vice to this Convention. I am in favor at
all times of paying individuals for their labor.
Mr. KING. I have understood that some of
the committee clerks were sitting here and
were never called upon. They were tired of
sitting here, and wanted the work, at the
very time that these services are alleged to
have been performed. I do not see any ne-
cessity for cumbering the committee with it
atall.
The order was agreed to—ayes 46; noes
not counted. |
