White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-09-24

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rest. lam fully confident that you viii be, and
are fitted to the occasion; and, gentlemen,
can give you the assurance, that in all your &C.
tons that viii be just and proper to Kansas
just. proper and right to the principles of the
Government under which we live, and which
looks 70 the prosperity of Kansas, and the pre-
serration of the Union, yeu shall have my fall,
hearty and honest cooperation. l again tender
to you my thanks for the honor which you have
conferred on me for deem it higher honor
to stand here to-day, the presiding officer Of this
convention, than to fill any other position that
the American people could confer upon me
loud cheers.)
Mr.. Hugh NJ. Moore, Of Leavenworth, and
Mr.. George Cramer, of LecomptOn, were elect
ed respectively President FRO TEN. and Ser
geant-at-Arms, by reclamation.
Messrs. Thomas C.Hughes, J. E. NOunnan,
P. II. Carey and Col. Cook, were elected Sec
Rotary, Reporter and Door Keeper, respectively,
by large mAjorities over their opponents.
On receiving the official announcement of the
election, and being conducted to the Chair,
Gen. Calhoun made speech to the Convention,
in which, after returning his thanks to the Con-
vention for the honor they had conferred on him,
and expressing his high opinion of the impor-
lance Of the position to which he had been
elected, he stated it to be his firm belief and I'M
wavering trust, that If the Convention submit
ted the Constitution to the true citizens of the
Territory, not only would Congress admit them
as a State, but they would feel warranted in de-
manding admission without further parley.
After the transaction of some formal business,
the Convention adjourned for the day.
THIRD DAY.
The Convention met at 10, A. ".
The President was accompanied to the Chair
b. the Rev. John G. Magee, the chaplain.
After the assemblage had been called to order,
the chaplain was introduced to the Convention.
and after returning his most sincere thanks for
the honor of his appointment, offered the follow
ing prayer:
MAY the Lord God, in his infinite wisdom,
Undue this Convention, and each of its mem.
bers, with the same spirit with which He imbued
Jefferson, Adams, and the i'm
mortal Patrick Henry.
The minutes of the previous session were
then read, and after considerable lamentations,
erasures and additions, approved. The Presi=
dent undertook to supervise the daily record for
the future.
Several members who had not before been in
attendance, were sworn in.
Mr.. Thomas ]. Key, from the Committee on
Rules and Regulations, presented series OF
rules for the government of the Convention, and |
arranging the order OF business.
After reading these rules, Mr.. Key submitted
an additional one. which, he said, had been
handed to him by one of the members of the
prohibiting smoking in the apart
nent during the hours of session. This led to
IN earnest discussion, which was terminated by
The declaration on the part of Mr.. A. w. Jones,
of Douglas, that he had written the resolution
Is joke, directed against Col. J. D. Hender-
who was then smoking, and that he not only did
not expect that it would be passed, but had
hardly. thought it such an one as would be
offered.
The resolution was WitnuraWn-
After some discussion as to the proper mode
IF disposing of the report of the committee on
Jules and regulations, it was eventually resolved
IN the motion of Mr.. Dolman, of Nemaha, that
t be perceived, and 100 copies Of it printed for
he use of the members.
Major L. S. Boiling, of Douglas, moved that
The Convention now proceed to the election of
| public printer. Carried.
Mr. Boiling nominated for the Office Col. J.
D: Henderson, Of the LeavenEorth Journal, and
urged his election in terms of high personal
compliment, and spoke of the political course,
md mechanical execution of that journal In q
style of lofty compliment.
Mr.. Danforth, of johnson County, placed in
nomination Mr.. S. G. Reid Of the Tecumseh
Note Book, whose services he said, though not
IF so long duration as Col. Henderson's, had
been equally as valuable to the party which the
convention represented.
Mr.. Blair, of Donipban, nominated Mr.. Thos.
!. Key; Mr.. Key declined on the ground that
, few weeks since, the opposite party had in
lulged in threats, which if carried into execu-
ion, would not leave him in possession Of
press a week hence.
Mr.. Randolph, of AtchisOn, did not expsct to
support Mr. Key, of the Constitutionalist, in
he matter, but he hardly thought Mr.. Keys
press would 90 in the river this fall.
Mr.. Jenkins, of Marshall. Nj. Wells, of Doug
as, and several others urged on the convention,
he propriety Of postponing the consideration Of
he subject until some future occasion, so as to
'ave the mourning of extrayagant debts which
heir constituents would have to pay, and on
notion of the former, the election Of public
PRINTER was made the special order for Thursday
morning.
Mr.. Hugh NJ. Moore, Of ,Leavenworth, pro-
POSED that a committee consisting of = mem
,ers be appointed to draft constitution for the
State of Kansas, and report the same to this
Convention on the-day of-or as soon there
liter as possible. This resolution was simply
meant, he said, for the purpose of bringing the
natter before the Convention.
Judge McKown, of Calhoun, thought the mo-
ion Of the gentleman from LeaTenworth, (Mr.
Moore,) was quite an unusual mode of proceed
ng, and offered resolution providing that the
President Of the Convention be required with !,
'ut delay to appoint standing committees to the
number Of Eve each, who should report to the
Convention upon the several heads Of the Gen.
1titution following, to-wit:
LIST State Boundaries.