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certainly entitled to vote on this resolution. He therefore moved, with the permission 1 of the gentleman from Maryland, to lay the whole subject on the table until the case of New York was decided.
 * * 1 MT. Howard stated that the committee on credentials were ready to report in part.
 Mr. Yancey moved that the ll6th rule of the House of Representatives should be excluded from the rules adopted fol the government of the convention. in or der that the question on the adoption ol ihe two.thirds rule may be left entirely open.
 The motion was put and unanimously agreed to.
 The question was here put, by unani. nous consent, upon the final adoption o1 the two first resolutions as thus amended, and they were agreed to.
 I Mir. Reeder of Pennsylvania rose hul the chair decided that the gentleman from Maryland (Nr. Humphrcys) was still en- titled to the floor.
 Mir. Howard renewed h,s application for leave to report from the committee on credentials.
 MT. Hubbard rose to order, and insisted that the question submitted by the gente- man from Maryland must first be dispos- ed of.
 MT. Morse rose to a question of privi- eoe. The convention had adopted the rules of the House of Representatives, and by those rules the question as to the right of delegates to seats had preference of all other questions.
 The Chair overrulcd the question of or der.
 Mir. Yancey said that the report could not be made except by the universal con. sent of the house.
 MT. Howard then moved to lay the pen. \ ding question upon the table temporari- ly, for the purpose of receiving his re. port.
 The question was then taken by States I upon the latter motion, with the following result:
 Yeas. Nays. 12l l33. { So the motion to lay on the table was not agreed to.
 When the State of South Carolina was called, on the above vote.
 MT. Hallct. of Massachusetts, rose to a point of order. There was but one del. egate from the State of South Carolina; ronra -aotin 1T n,,a onanracs;nnal J. rct r,, ly. and he desired to know whether that delegate was to be regarded as entitled to cast the entire vote of the State. Cries of "proceed with the call of the States. "l
 The Chair. The call cannot proceed until the point of order is disposed of r MT. Hallet. If this convention be rea- dy to to assume the sovereignty of South Carolina, upon the representation of the distinguished individual present here from that State, and to force her into this con- vention against her will, it must take the responsibility. I trust we shall bestow upon question of the representation of a State entertaining so nice and delicate notions on State.rights that full delibera- tion which it demands. South Carolina applies with hut one delegate here from a single district, without any orgination or any authority to call the meeting by which he was nominated.
 Mr. Hannegan desired the reading of the resolution under which the member from South Carolina had been admitted to a seat.
 I The resolution was read. ! Mir. H. was about to proceed to ad- 1 dress the convention.
 The Chair. Let us first get the pro- position of the gentleman from Massa- chusetts. , ~ l MT. Hallct then moved that the delegate from South Carolina be allowed the priv. ilege of casting only one vote instead of nine.
 Mir. Hannegan All desire to say is, that, in the first place, by the solemn and deliberate action of the convention, a committee was appointed for the purpose iof asceraining its members. That com- mittee, by a majority, reported that the gentleman from South Carolina was enti. tied to his seat. By your calm and delb. crate action this morning, you have put in his hands--as think properly -the power of casting the nine votes to which South Carolina was entitled. Applause. You have adopted the report of the com, mittee; it stands upon your record and now allow me to say to my friend from Massachusetts, that South Carolina will as soon as November comes, cast her vote for the nomination. Will Massachusett: do so? Let her history answer; [Ap plause.] For long, long time, to oul grief, South Carolina has been lost sis ter; now, however, she returns to us, ant 1 with open arms and beating hearts let u' welcome her back again. Loud ap plause.
 MT. Hallet. only wish to be under stood in this convention upon this subject and am sure that my friend from Indian. would be the last man to fo;eclose qees tion in this body. When the committee made that report to which he has referred they simply reported the fact that Soul Carolina was entitled to nine votes, ant that the distinguished gentleman (wbon