The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-06-08
GENERAL ASSEnBLY OF MARYLAND.
ADJOURNED SPECIAL SESSION.
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SENATE.
The business transacted in the Senate was alto
gether LEGAL in character.
Petitions against the confirmation of Tench
Tilghman, as Major General, were received from
Cecil and Talbot cnnnties.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
FREDERICK, June IA number of local bills
were disposed Of.
The bill reported by Mr. WALLIS authorizing the
Baltimore Board of Police to temporarily close all
drinking saloons, whenever necessary for the pres
ervation of the peace of that city, passed.
Mr. WILSON reported bill relative to the inspec-
ton and weighing of loose hay and straw brought
to Baltimore in wagons or other vehicles. Passed
The bill reported by Mr.. WAKEFIELD authorizing
the Mayor and CITY Council to increase the pubic
debt of Baltimore 81 500 600 beyond the sum al
lowedb law and to issue bonds to meet the increase
excited lengthy and animated debate. Mr. Nor
FITT,n Baltimore opposed the bill on the ground that
the City of Baltimore was already burdened with
debt and would be unable to meet an augmented OBJ
legation. He presented amendment, "a proviso
that portion of the money proposed to be raised
shall be issued for the payment OF any interest upon
railroad stock or water tax. or any other debt Tor
which the city is the guarantor and not the origi-
nal creator.
Messrs Pitts, Wallis and Gordon of Allegheny,
vigorously opposed the amendment. contending
that its effect would be to repudate obligations for
which Baltimore was legally and morally bound
The amendment rejected-ayes s. nays 81.
The bill was then passed-aves so, nays7.
Mr.. DENNIS, of Somerset, offered a prean-
Dle ana resolutions, lne FORMER OF WnlcH
recited at length that MARYLAND is yet
State in the Union, submitting peaceably to the
Federal Government, yet nevertheless the Presi-
dent has raised and quarered large standing ar
mics upon her territory; has occupied the houses
of her citizens without their consent and has made
the military superior to and above the civil pOwer
has assumed to regulate the internal policy and
government of the State; has seized upon and ap-
propriated railroads and telegraphs; has seized
and searched vessels has forcibly entered
houses; has deprived people of their arms; has
seized and transported citizens to other States
for trial upon charges, or pretended charges; has
taken the private property OF our citizens; has
caused peaceable travellers to be stopped and
their persons, trunks and papers to be searched;
has arrested and caused to be imprisoned without
any civil process whatever, the persons of citi-
zens, and by the military power kept, and still
keeps them in confinement against, and in contempt
Of all civil process The resolutions protest against
these acts of the President a gross usurpation,
and in utter violation of the Constitution. They
declare that the right of secession is not a cOnsti
tutonal but revolutionary right. That the Fed
eral Government has no right, under the Constitu-
tion, to wage against State. That prudence
and policy demand a recognition of the Southern
Contederacy, and denounce with Indignation the
suspension of the writ OF hdbeds corpus the Mer
ryman case.
The resolutions were laid over under the rule.
The resolutions of Mr.. Chaplain, made the special
order for to-day, adopting the report of the Com
mittee on Fedeaal Relations expressing the
policy which Mary land should pursue, and instruct
ing the representatives of the State in Congress to
vote for the i'm mediate recognition of the Southern
Contederacy, were taken up.
Mr.. CHAPLAIN advocated their adoption at length
when, without coming to a vote, the House ad-
iourned.