Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-10-22
THE CONVENTIONS.
WEDNESDAY, OcroaEp pr.

"WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 81.
After prayer by the Row. Mr.. AaMsrpo,o tho
Convention was called to order at 2 o'clock
Judge MARsuALL said it would not probably be tho
OF the House to take up any of the Reports
vi committees, until all the Commit ices should have
reported BE this II may il would bo vou ~
pace the reports in situation i'm which thov co,lS
De acted on without delay. With this view he would
a. INC report OF me Judicial Committee be
referred to Committee eff the whole House.
Mr. UrsaUR sug---e..cl The propr,ety o. voIt;ng
ui the other reports should be presented. He was
uncef the impression that it was the wish of some
euhocrs TO refer the reports TO "a Select COMMITTEES
before they were sent to Committee of tho whole
Hous, IN order that they might be examined and re
ported IN combined form. As the Chairman of the
as no believed was intcnted to give to tho rcpo,t
from that Committee different direction, he baJ
nade-the suggestion no threw out
Judge MARSHALL said few words in rcn,, IN,
which ne stated that the only object he had in view
m making the notion was TO pht the ronort in n
Tram to DO acted on with little delay a. possible
when the business was before the COMMITTEES il could
he postponed from day to day. until there was n de-
position TO act upon it. II might not be the pleasure
OF the House To refer the reports to a Select Com.
rnittee us the gentleman had indicated. He was no,
uhxipus 10 press the motiop If 1t was tho wish of
gentloman that il should be withdrawn
Mr.. DoponiDGE said it the gentleman from Acco.
mack In what he had thrown ont respectur tho
Wish OF members for Select Committee audci 10
any thing which had been said in the House and mr.
tcularly to any thing which had fallen from hin, M
u he had misunderstood him. lie rccolected thai
he had said elsewhere, that it would he manor 10 70
!er me subjects to a Committee of the Whole in
oIuer that the reports may be considered and amend
accepted, or rejected. They would then have 20 he
reported to the House, and sent TO a Copyinr Com
mftre.
Mr. UPsHuR expressed his willingness to nconicsce
IN any COURSE which might be acceptable 10 tho CON-
vention. Wv 10N
The question was then put to refer the repor, 10
committee OF the whole House aud decided in the al
frmatlvc. 80 "
Tho question then being on making i, tho orJo,
Tor specific day,
Mt Lrrou(of Chestd) offered the following reso-
kesolred Tia, bc standing o,ier of the Convention
una. he Conyen'ion shall every day itself into Com
siution Of the Commonwealth and such pronos On o.
amenden or alteration thereof shall he refarrsd to or
Mr. DopnRIDeR moved to lay .hc resolution on
e table, after expressing his conviction TINT there
vas no necessity for tho Convention to 90 into com
Ditteo OF the whole the judicial report al rr. soni
He reminded the House that their present hour of
meeting was O'Clock, and that nnc of tho commit
ices was yet busiiy engaged i'll the CONSIDERATION of
the subjects referred to it,
He asked il there was anv desrn IN not On Tho
other 'cports before any thing was received from
that committee through whose labors he said he be-
gan to discover the dawning light He thoupht thai
no good can arise, but that evil might fr ON the
pdoptIon Of tho resolution.
EiF. SrANARp said that the gentleman from Brooke
would not get rid OF the difficulty which he seemed
20 t7Sc SiScovercd, By his present motion. H. was
necksary to gro some direction to the subject. Il
did nat follow that hcause the House might 20 into
committee of the whole al specific proposition il
coudtnat take up any other subject. II would be
cDmperpt TO the committee to lay nsid3 the specific
proposiar motion Of any member and To take I'D
any other OF tho reports which might have been re-
erred to them. Such wos the practice of the House
OF Delegates to assiuIate To which the practice Of
the Convention the object of rho gentleman from
Chesterfield, in offering his resolution.
mr DopDHIDGE expressed his arquiesccnce in The
general view that propositions must properly be refer
cd IA Ifan nj tho h,,tk L.,
bound the convention to adopt that course po,v1 In
the present state Of the business what good could re-
suit from hs reference Of n single report When
the othor committees shall have reported all the re-
ports might be referred at the same time Were the
resolution to be adopted, he asked If the House would
not DC Obliged evdry day, TO postpone motion, the
order Of the day, to another day?
Mr.. STANARD briefly explained his views
Mr.. p. Z. BARBoUR suggested that the difficulty
which the gentleman had alluded to as In the daily
postponcmcnt By motion would not occur. He had
enGuired OF the Secretary the same practice did not
prevail in the Housc Of Delegates which prevails in
tic House q! Representative There, it requires
No motion 10 postpone the order for going into COM
nrittce Of the whole When, by standing rule it is
mdio always in order tor the House to resolve itself
into committee of the Who'll, there is no Occasion
for any motion Of postponement. II is always ipso
Jdcto in order 20 10 into committee motion, but IL
requires motion U postpone It.
Nm. NERcER- suia he understood the resolution was
90 constitute n committee OF the whole. There is
already such n committee IN existence, and the Con
venon had referred tho judicial report to that
mittee II was alwaysin order at 70 o'clock 60
That tho house resolve iisclf into commit &c of tho
whole. In this respect the House Of Delegates DIFF
for sirom the House Of Representatives. We have
bot one committee Of thowholc, and oil subjects rcfnr
red are sent to that committee. He objected % the
course now proposed, because no thought It WIS in
tended thet tho committee should act on this subject
byitseit' lie thought too that by resolving scf in
TO committee al the whole on the state constitution
the Convention would be adopting that very course
which by a former decision IL had Refused TO adopt
DIR. bTreH (of ChestcrGeld) snid no did not sup
pose that the House By It's former decision meant ic
refuse to resolve Itself AZ any time into a Commit
toe Of the whole on tho CosEitution. If il had s,
intended, the remarks ofthc gentleman weYo merit
nont, but " the Convention meant to 90 INTO Com
mttoe Of the whole IN order TO compare tho prrson
Constitution with the amended dra6, To be sub,nit
ted to IT, TO contrast the changes with the thing chan
god, then were tho remarks irrelevant. II was no
bis intention TO hurry tho proceedings of tho Con
Vontion against the inclination Of gentlemen who,
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