A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention: For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
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A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention: For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861
Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)
Conference Convention (1861 : Washington, D.C.); United States -- Politics and government -- 1857-1861
_Resolved, therefore_, That this Convention adjourn to meet
in the city of Washington, on the 4th day of April next; and
that the President be requested to address a letter to the
Governors of the several States not now represented in this
body, urging the appointment and attendance of
Commissioners.
Mr. EWING:--I wish to state here that I do not concur in these
resolutions.
Mr. WICKLIFFE:--I now offer two resolutions, one providing that debate
shall cease upon the report of the committee, at 10 o'clock to-morrow.
The other, that five minutes shall be allowed to the mover of an
amendment to explain it, with five minutes to the committee to reply.
Upon reflection, I will offer a third: That a motion to strike out and
insert shall not be divided. If desired, a vote may be taken on the
resolutions separately, as I wish to have each stand upon its own
merits. I will not discuss these resolutions, for I think all must be
impressed with the necessity for passing them now.
The resolutions were as follow:--
_Resolved_, 1st, That at 10 o'clock, the 22d February, 1861,
all debate upon the report of the Committee of one from each
State shall cease, and the Convention will proceed to vote,
and continue to vote until the whole subject shall have been
disposed of.
2d. If an amendment be offered by the Commissioners of any
State, or the minority of such Commissioners, five minutes
is allowed for explanation, and the like time is allowed to
the committee to resist the amendment, if they desire to do
so; and the mover of the amendment, or any member of the
same State, may have five minutes for reply.
3d. A motion to strike out and insert shall not be divided.
Mr. CHITTENDEN:--I shall not debate these resolutions. As I am engaged
in taking notes of the discussion, I cannot enter into a contest for
the floor, and I would not if I could. My State has not occupied a
moment of time on the general subject, nor are her delegates very
anxious to address the Convention at all.
Whether the Conference will give one of us a few minutes or not, is
simply a question of policy, of which I am not a disinterested judge.
It is possible that some suggestions might be made which would be
worthy of attention.
Mr. GOODRICH:--I move to amend by inserting Saturday, instead of
to-morrow, in the first resolution.
Mr. RANDOLPH:--There is force in the remark of the gentleman from
Vermont. No State should be cut off. I suggest that the States whose
delegates have not addressed the Conference, should have the
preference.
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