Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1830-04-07
On the same day irroposed the in.
s'r,'"n oil new section IN the consti-
tuition, in the following words:

" IL shall be the duty OF the legislature
To fe-spportlon once in ten years. to Wit in
tue year 1871. and every ten Years thereafter
the rcpre.e ntatiou Of the counties CITIES
towns and horonghs, of this commonwealth.
m both OF the legislative bodies Provided,
however. that the number &c delegates from
the aforesaid four grea, districts. aud HE num
! her ct senators from The aforesaid two
great divisions. respectively, shall nerher be
increased nor Diminished by such re..nnor
tionment And when a new county sh,Il
hereafter be created. any ci,v, TOW ~ or bo.
rough, not now eutitlrd To separate represen
ta'on IN the house of delegates, shall have so
increased IN population as to be entitled IN
the opinion OF the general assembly, To .uci,
representation, "a shall be the duty Of tb, g...
neral assembly To make provision by Law for
securing to the people of such ncw county, or
such CITY. town or borough, an ade quatr re
( presentation And If the object cannu, other
wise be effected, " shall ne competent To The
general assembly To re-apporiion the whol,
! representation Of the great district containing
SUCH ne~ county. or such city. town or bu.
rough. s'thin its limits which re apporiion.
rnen's shall continue la force till he next re-.
guar deeennisl re-apportionment
Judge Summers moved 10 amend il
BY substituting the following:
For the purpose effuIure sppor,ionmen,.
on senators and delegates. the general assem-.
oN shall cause registers from time 10 time 20
DC formed. o. the freehold votes IA ,hs- sev,.
/ raj counties, eSues, towns and borouch., IN
which shall be ascertsined the number of
qualhrd freehold voters in each. residing ON
'ne iand an virtue OF which such righ' - found.
cd and also. tie number Of qu.lified free.
hold voters not residing on the hud in RICH,
on winch they vote, but whose fie. hold estate
'herein, shall be OF the ssessed value of TWEEN
" I'VE collars and upwards. That IN the wear
1880 and every tenth year ther. after. i, shall
be the duty of the general ass. nbh TO re- AN
portion the senators and delegates among the
several counties, cities, towns and election
u'''''c's' as nearly as si=; 81, ia proportion TO
ne reg stored freehold voters IN each, v iihout
DIVIDING Counties an the formation nf election
u's'"e's; but no re'spportonment of stna-
tors shall go INTO operation but a, succeeding
elections shall tax. placc.''
rose in my place and expressed nv
hearty appreciation of the an. endmeni,
aud my determination ia votc for II |:
stating that would myself have pro.
posed such a clause, IL. after the total
failure OF the same propo sitlon, lin sub.
stance,) when made by Mr.. ~ ,aie o..
the Goth December. I could have en-
ter'ained the fainte>t hope of success.
explained that the clause proposed by
myself was founded on the apparently
immoyabte determination Of the house.
manifested by repeated votes, NOT 10
approach one step nearer fo the true
principle. the equal superintendent Of
representation among the free white
people oil the common That
the clause proposed by myself was in
tended to ento; two desirable objects:
LIST, just and equal apportionment.
alter every federal census. so long as
The constitution shonld remain unalter-
ed. OF the representation Wifhin zach
al the great districts and .dlvisjnns.'
the constitution itself having Immuta
bly, fixed the numbrr which each di.
trict should send and cd. an adequate
representation III the house of delegates
Tor such new counties a. might b. ere
ated. That II was manifest that new
counties must from time 10 time be ere.
ated. more especially in the country
west OF the Allegheny, for the accom-
modatlon Of the people. and that the
clause IN question was designed TO pro.
vide a representation for such new
counties. | concluded by saving that
" this attempt Of mine fo improve a
scheme at representation (Gen. Cor
don's) which had accepted merely be
cause could not get better one,
could be superseded by the scheme Of
representation now proposed BY judge
Summers, which | considered Tar bel.
Ter, no man would rejoice more hearti.
" than myself az the failure of NV mo.
ton ia such ,c0y.
The question was taken on JUDGE
Summers motion, and il was lost. IA
| knew Il would be. and as he knew il
would be. | voted Ior his amendment
supcrsedIng my own motion, and. Of
course. against the whole eastern par.
/ ~. under whose standard The writer
of tlIe circular has enrolled me-.
/ ! havr been the more particular in
explaining this Transaction, and espo-
Iciaily the true meaning and real object
lot The clause proposed By myself. and
afterwards made part of the constilu
tinn, because The writer ofihc circular.
with the iDveferate maiignity and ma
bi'nai disregard 20 truth which pervade
his whole production, has totally mis-.
represented It's character. lie endra.
vors 10 persuade the Trans AlleehAny
prople, that u j. by the operation and
effect ~ my riSVse. and MT by the -.
senfioi eAaracfer II GeB. GOrdou's piaD.
dat they are tied down forever, or a.
long ~ the constitution shall last, 10
the number Of representatives now a..
signed 10 them. By lNr. Co0ke's ruls
ef Te-GppouioHmtHf.' says he. 'eur
number - never 90 be increased. not
even V our population should eut.num
bcr all the rest u thc state.