Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1850-11-14

oropriey in relation to the publication of the
and Debates II is clearly due, alike to the people and
the members Of the Convention that the former may be
able know action of their Delegates and the lat
have the MEANS all times to place their labor IN
its proper light Your committee is further of opinion,
that the Legislature of the State would not have direct
ed the Governor employ Senographer if it had not
intended that the proceedings Of the Convention should
be published in such form to comprise lasting
part of the history of the State
The committee therefore, report the following reso
lutions and recommend their adoption:
c. c. GRAHAM,
SCHUYLER COLFAX,
SABrL ]. ANTHONY,
w. c. FOSTER.
The undersigned, while concurrng in the above
port desires to add that in common with other MEMBERS
he has hold and uniformly voted that the State printer
had a claim to the printing of this Convention But
large majority of this body having concluded differently
having repeatedly attested that conclusion by
that effect and having elected Printer to this Conven.
on he deem. his duty yield that decisions and
not to continue opposition to the resolves of the
ority which mis- ht be considered factious Believing,
therefore, that the Printer of this body like the Printer
of the Legislature clearly entitled print every por
ton of its proceedings he print the reports from
committees and resoluons-and believing further, that
if the Convention does order the printing of its De-
bates and Journal the Legislature will not, he has
Cured with hi. colleagues of the committee in their re-
port and resolutions SCHUYLER COLFAX.
The resolutions of the committee provide for the print.
ing, by the Printer the Convention of seven hun
dred and fifty copies of the Debates and five hundred
copies of the Journal; which adopted.
On printing the Debates the stood-ayes g.
/ 81.
On printing the Journal, the vote stood-ayes Ga
noes 80.
The Printer to the Convention under the resolutions
agrees print the Debates 80 per thousand
and 40 cents per token-being according calculation
made by Mr.. CoLFAx, of the members of the commit
tee twenty per cent less than the price paid the State
Printer for public printing The Journal to be printed
at the usual price paid for public printing
! Mr.. GRAHAM from the same select committee to whom
communication from the Auditor of State referred
propounding certain queries and objections in relation
auditing the account OF the Printer to the Convention
reported that in the opinion of the committee the
for printing should be audited and paid for in the
manner other expenses of the Convention including
the pay of members are paid which was concurred il
/ by the Convention.
The Convention then took up the orders of the day
and resumed the consideration of the section in relation
to the payment of damages for property taken for pub
nc improvements. LIE DISCUSSION was continued bl
Messrs. Read of Clark, Ritchey, Rariden, Badger
Miles, Dunn of Jefferson Walpoe, Bright, Owen, ShouI
and others-the pending question being amend
ment to the amendment of Mr.. NILES offered yes
terday, by Mr.. BERRY, providing that in lieu of Mr.
Niles amendment, that No mans services shall be
ken without compensation. Private property shall b,
taken by law against the consent of the owner for any
other purposes than the defence of the State and the RICH
of way for public Improvements, and when taken fo
these purposes shall be paid for in money, rrespect
i've of extrnsiC benefits in such manner as shall be di
rected by the General Assembly" During the discus
sion amendment was offered to the original section
by Mr.. HOLMAN, with view Of obyiatng objections
when Mr.. SHoUP moved to re-commit to a committed
with instructions; when Mr.. KILGoRE moved to substi
tute the amendment of Mr. NILES the instructions
the committee with view, he remarked, of taking
direct vote Mr. Niles proposition, and if voteC
down that the friends of thaproposion might know how
to act Before the question taken, the Convention
i adjourned.