Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1851-05-20
pICHM0ND ENQULR u L.
r, :: T1Inn.y MORNING, MAY II, leoi.

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i"o'e Wa e.-Iv all ,r lime and fills great pof'lor
WHICH dow For some of the details we reier 10 ie
,h heow The grand result may be sunl'ii00 ut' '"
~ majority Of s. Mr.. Wse's propos'o', '''o,'u Va
Thursday was struck out; then the CoI'l" :.
. votes being in its favor insert Mr.. ir'es
yy majority of A. the Committee re'useu ~
mort OF the Compromise Committee OF o. very s's"' ~
which was moved by Mr.. Chiffon Len Ius'e'' '.'''
voted for such nsertion Things now looking '' sen
GUS great interest and some eHci'cHe" "e'' '''1'''
cd Mr. Saunders motion strike out with view 10 IN
-. III; ,orroose was then rejected by 10 majority. The
hour was lnte and three Intellectual movements were made
q opck succession the ayes and being called that the
comttee rise The friends OF the compromise however thus
far successful determined to keep the vantageground
and 10 obtain the advantage onsertng their They
succeeded and at late hour and by majority OF 4 MIR
cbons nronusiou as inserted the blank created by the
stkinp out Of proposition A. [Ten Eastern voted in
tho arma,iye-not counting Mr. WISE who had paired of
with Mr. Edmunds gone home Thus after protracted and
most extraordinary battle of intellect worthy OF any debc
raiye body the first affirmative proposition has been ut las
created by act of the body If the members shall oIo"
Mr. clabones advice and stake step backward" we
NAV confidently express the opinion that will form par
of the Constitution. is however, still open TO amendment
and has 10 pass through the committee and finally through
he Convention This proposition r Chions as inserted
yesterday is as follows;
The Legislature shall be formed ofwo distinct branches
which together shall be complete Legislature and snail oe
called the General Assembly Of Virginia. L. g
One of these shall be called the House OF Delegates
and shal consist of hundred and fifty Members 10 Dc
chosen bennay for and by the several countess ces an
towns OF the Commonwealth Whereof eghtywo Delegates
shall be chosen for by the countless cities and towns
np West Of the Blue Ridge Of mountains and 10
and by the councs cities and towns lying East OF the ue
Ridge and said Delegates shall De dslouseo anu
3 The other House of the General Assembly shall be call
ed the Senate and shall consist of fifty Members 10 &c elec
ted for four years. of whom thirty shall be chosen tor
by the counties cities and lying East oil the bt
RIDGE of Mountains and twenty for, and by me coun
ties cities and lying West thereof; and LOT I
election of whom, the counties, cities and towns shal
bedivided into fifty districts, to DO composer oi
territory and compact in form as may oe tacI eou
~ cv and town of the respective DISTRICTS al Tue e
n the 6rs election of its Delegate Or Delegates unae
This Constitution shu vote for one senator, anu ie
Shers other Offices holding me eieco or h I Lee
CITY and town. within five days at iarlhes u.cl alt Jus,
ZION in the district, chull meet at some convenient pa
within the respective Districts and from inc Pos 80
,he;r resnec,ye counties cities and towns return as BE-
major the person who shall have the greatest NUMBER OF
votes in the whole district Immediately alter inc
shall be assembled in consequence OF sucn b
sha he divided by lot into classes The seats Of inc
Senators of the first class shall be vacated al the
of the second year. and Of the second class at the
he fourth wear after such first election, and which rotation
shall be continued biennaly that half may DC CHOSEN
every second year and for the election OF Senators the
counties of - shall form one district, &c
t. 1t shall be the duty OF the General Assembly IN INC
1865 10 reapportion representation in the Senate and
House of Delegates; and in The event the General Assembly
shall not be able agree as TO the principle OF
ON which such reapporonment shall be made or snail ran
m make such REINFORCEMENT then the Governor of the
Common wealth. shall by his Proclamation, immediately
thereafter require qualified voters OF the Common@
to assemble in their respective counties IN he
and to declare by their votes whethe- ep ~ 49,,
General Assembly or in '6aaed voters in the Common
wealth or according to the NUMBER Of "he iupta ;
conaineG the amount of all taxes raised oy e Le
paid in the several counties cities and towns OF Inc
,iCommonweah deducting thereom all taxes palo on ice
ces and law process and allowing one delegate to every
seventy fifth part Of the said inhabitants and one delegate
for every part of the said taxes and distributing
the number of Senators in like manner or "hethe
,a,ion shall be appuoned in both Houses OF Inc ueaefa
Assembly according all the white population contained m
or the whole of rased by the LEGISLATURE pao
in the several counties, cities and towns OF the common
wealth. r
taking said polls within five days after the same shall have
been closed 10 certify copies thereof 10 the Governor
who shall lhe early may be- ascertain he
r said vote and make proclamation thereof 1t shall also DC
the duty the Governor to communicate Inc same " c
first General Assembly which shall convene alter he aAs
of The sid vote and the said General Assembly thereupo
at the session thereof which shall be held next ate inc
taking of said vote shall apporon representation IN eacn
House of the General Assembly, according 70 tue ihcip
of rentesentaon therein for which majority OF the quail
fed voters shall have declared their preference oy e fo
aforesaid; and thcnceorth ii shall be the duty OF e
Assembly in every year thereafter e-apportlon ana
the number of Senators and Delegates lhroughou
the Commonwealth according to the same principle Oh rep
reseutation.
Alter prayer Oy the Rc' oTEPhhS AAiLof, NNN oN'
ton went into Committee Of the whole
The question being the adoption OF Mr "lses pfopo'
son Mr. FIxsEY moved substitute, providing that the
House shall consist Of $50 members 81 appointed from
the East and 60 from Wes-and the Senate shall consist
of So viz 81 from the East and % from the West In l5ol
the Governor by proclamation shall summon the quahea 'o
tiers declare whether the apportonmen shall oe on e
age basis or the mixed basis of population and taxation
deducng the merchants licenses and on law process
II flu her provides guarantees of the night OF properly III
slaves not 10 be destroyed impaired by the Legislature
without the of the owner-aso that II snail require
majority of each house to pass any bill for borrowing mo-
new or making any appropriation or other Pecunay ao u
internal improvements.
Mr. BoTTs-Itis very evident that the Convention IS IN
yerv compromising hunor-but members cannot vote un'
dersandingy, without due dehbeatlon and examination
We Of other propositions to be offered MI b. Wouia
suggest that they be all offered to-day ordered TO oe
the Convention to adjourn over for day Nj b eaH
compromise which no himself had prepared ana mght o.
fer hereafter. II provides Tor me appolohnens " Ju
population; re-apporonment to be made every ~ years
Al present his plan would give about equal numbers 10 Inc
East and the West.
and inserting Mr. FrNSEYs, MIR. STASAap asked division
of the question and separate vote on striking Out
Mr. BORIS said that if forced to vote now ne shouo Fo
against all propositions of Compromise
Mr. WIsEs proposition was them struck out by the follow"
ing vote-ayes &c. noes SO:
Barbour, Bocuck, Bos, Bowes, Braxon Burgess Gha'
bliss Claiborne Cooke, Douglas, Edmunds Edwards Faux
ner, Finney Flood Fuz, Garland, H. r: H; Garnet,
ood Hopkins Jasper Jones Ls1ks LgGn
Lynch Lyons, McCandlsh, VIM Martin, Meredith MOTIFS
Petty, Randolph Ridley, Rives Saunders Scogsln f. W.
Scott R. E. Scout R. G. Scott Shell A. r. Smith Sno%aen
Southal Sanard Strother Taylor rredway Tunis, Turn
bull Wallace S. Watts Whitt!s and Wngfsd,5s ,,,,,
NoEs-Messrs. Armstrong Bland, Blue, Bowden kich'd
f. Byrd, Camden Care d. Carrier, J. A. Carter, Chap
man, Chiffon Deneae Ferguson Fisher Floyd Fuserson
Fuqua, Hays, Hoge Jacob, johnson, kenney k,lgore'
Knoe, Lctehc Lonberger, LUCAS MccSnan MeCamas
j. 7. Martini Miller, Moore Murphy, Neeson, Newman
Seymour, Shelley Sloan b. H. Smith, Joseph Smith, VIM
Smith, Snodgrass, Stephenson, J. E. Stewart, A. stuart
Summers, Tate, Trgg Van Wrinkle, White, Wiley, S. C.
Williams and Wse-53
The question being inserting Mr.. FSSEYs proposition
was decided in the ncgave-aycs 2 tsessrs Fnney and
Taylor) noes lO4.
Mr. Chiffon moved the report of the Compromise Com
mee of eight slightly modified by providing that the qucs
ton of representation white population and the whole
taxation shall also the time be submitted 10 the vote Of
| the qualified voters in 1865.
Mr. Scorr of Fauquie The proposition of colleague
varies in small particular from the report OF the Compfo
mise Committee which ccted Yesterday He agreed
with his colleague yesterday that compromise should be
pressed unless with considerable favor both sides
His colleague had yesterday said that he could not 60 for
any compromise unless it secured the support Of conslde