The Litchfield County post., 1827-05-31

or. aRd l2 assistants, while the House con- sisted of g members only; that the pro- portion of the Lower House to the Upper, was less than four to one, and now it was as sixteen to one; that man was indivis- ible, but there are now 8 counties and l2 l men. man aud half to a county. MT. Parish moved to erase the words shall be chosen by districts" He said his object was to obtain unity on one point; all agreed that the senate is too small, and it ought to be enlarged for the safety and honor of the State-he wished to keep this article unfettered from all others.
 MT. Lyon moved the yeas and nays up- on this notion carried.
 Mr. Storrs said the object of the amend ment was not so much to get the senate enlarged as to defeat the part of the bill which provided, that they should be cho- sen by districts: that the amendment had nothing to do with the number of the Sem ate,but merely as to the mode of choosing 1; no member can vote for the amendment without expressing an opinion as to some other mode of choosing them. He again said that the real object of the amendment was to destroy the principle of districting contained in the bill.
 Mir. Parish said that object had been imputed to him which he had disavowed in the sight of this house, and with the oath of God upon him.
 Mir. Storrs here explained.
 Mr. Parish said he did not suppose the gentleman intended to impute any impro- per motives to him. but that was the effect of his remark. He said his object was to present one point at time /; that the in- crease of the senate and the mode of choos- ing them were two distinct propositions.
 Afternoon.
 Mr. Shepard moved to postpone the 1st section and take up the 2d section-motion did not prevail.
 Mir. Hawley moved to reconsider the decision of the House, ordered ayes and nays. Tie Speaker decided the motion to be in order, but the House decided it to be out of order.
 The ayes and nays were then taken on the motion to strike out the words " and be chosen by districts''-Ayes, 3s nays, 161.
 The 1st section of the bill was then pas sed.
 MT. Rider moved to amend the 2d sec- ton by substituting a new section--pro- viding that each county should constitute a district, and that no county should have more than senators nor less than 2. Mo- tio was not seconded.
 Mr. Shepard said he did not like to trou- ble the House often, but as the bill on the table allowed five districts, he would state, that it was important, that the people should be acquainted with the candidates, and there were variety of local interests, that fair representation of all parties in the Senate was the object of his heart; and if fair and just system of districting could not be obtained, he was opposed to' it, unless this was the object, it was mere bugbear.
 MT. Rider said-if all the members from Hartford county, voted with the gentle man Mir. Shepard,) they would do what they did not do very often. He wished to put it out ofthe power of the Legislature, to cut up counties, he had no idea of di- viding Middlesex county, and a part of it with New London County.
 Mr. May thought there was danger of over acting. By drawing the pendulum of a clock too far one way, it will swing back too far the othor way-there was danger that the bill would become dis trocting instead of districting bill-there was no danger of the small counties over balancing the larger ones.
 MT. Warren said he was opposed to the amendment, be had no very great objec- ten in altering the word five to twenty were for constituting the Sem ate like the Senate of the U. States, &c.
 MT. Hubbard observed that the Senate in Massachusetts represented the property, and the Representatives, the population.
 MT. Shaler said he had always been in favour of districting, but did not like to di- vide counties.
 Mir. Storrs said he was opposed to putt ting it in the power of the Legislature to divide counties-he had no objection to counties being divided into two or more districts, but if one county or part of it was attached to the others, they would he aleniated from their own interest-he wish ed to provide that no county or town be divided in forming a district.
 Mir. Warren moved to amend the a. mendment by substituting one instead of two.
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