Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-01-14
CONSTITUTIONAL CONyEy--
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Special Dispatch to the Chicago Times.
Sprinpfeld. Ill. Jan @

Springfield. H., Jan 9.
In the convention. Tits mornin, Mr..
Thornton, from the select committee to in
qnire iuto the power of the convention to
appoint printer, and as to how far the
law creating the body governed its action,
reported that tie power VI the convention
was supreme.
During the debate on the adoption of the |
report, which touk, up the whole Of the .
morning session, it was distinctly asserted, /
Gn the par: Of the democratic members, |
thai the action OF the convection would be !
submitted to the people for ratification; Lut !
that, II exIsencies required it. il had pow~
er to appoint Governor and State officers
Mr. Ficklln urged that the constitution of
the United States was the only restraint On
the acton u the body. but that tie demo-
cratic members had NJ desire to sduEt
revolutionary code.
MeSsrs Sheldon, Anthony. Juslyn, Ell.
wards, Dement,, R,ss, and others took part
in the discussion.
After voting down motion to strike out
the clause declaring the power of the con-
veution snpreme-by ayes 81 nays 40
the report was odnpted ayes As, RAYS II.
The cuuveuti, II took recess unui the
afternoon.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention reassemLIed at two
o'cl'ck.
A resolution to employ cficial reporters
of the proceedings and debates Of the cor
vsntion, and TO publish Gle thousand cup
les ct tie same, gave rise 10 IL considerable
/ discussion, aud MAS finally referred to "a Sc
lsct committee.
/ ttharlas ~ &C l..
| Register, VAS elected printer OF the cuaven.
! ton, to do the work at the sanIe prices as
nov paid to the public printer.
After unanimously adopting resolution
offered by Mr.. Dement,, that il is the sense
OF members that alter ations and amend.
meI.ts of the CONSTITUTION should DO sub
mitted to the people for their approval on
rejection, the convention adjourned.
Springfield, Jan. TO-
resolution was adopted this morning
Calling upon the clerks Of courts of record
il the State for information as to tho mum
Der Of days grand juries have been in session
the past year; the expen.e of the same +:
the number of indictments found, and the
number tried the number of mol pros. en-
tered; the cases as common lsw tried and
still pending, &c.
information In relation TO the Supreme
Court Of the State, aud the Circuit and Su-
Perior Courts of Cook county.
The convention resolved that its procee-
dings ought 10 be reported officially and
published.
A resolution was also adopted declaring
that the Legislature ought to be prohibited
by constitutional provision from releasing
the Illinois Central Railroad COMPANY
from the payment Of the seven per cent
STATE tax on the earning of the road
The Governor, Quartermaster General,
and Board ct Army Visitors we're called on
by resolution for AZ account Of the claims
allowed IN account IF the war appropria-
tions made by the Legislature, and wheth
err the general government has sigui6ed its
intention 10 relieve the State government
from further supplying aud equipfipg the
troops.
The Auditor, by resolution was directed
to inform the convention of the amount due
the State from the Illinois Central Rail
road Company
Mr.. Hacker offered a resolution, declarinq
that It 'rGs the sense Of the contention. that
tie tc'H OF hG6eaS corpus Should nerer be
suspended IN the State =; which was laid
on The table, and order to be printed.
a resolution was submitted prohib o
the Legislature of the State from incorpora
ting any bank except on a specie basis, and
submitting the act Of incUrpt ration to the
people.
The resolution was laid on the table, and
ordered to be printed.
Springfield. H., Jan. IL.
The convention met at 10 a NJ. After
prayer by Rev. Mr.. Clark, aud reading of
thu Journal
The President laid before the convention
communication from the Hon Jesse X
Dubois, Auditor of Public Accounts, stating
that such information as was called for by
the convention, as ii was in his bower ~
give, would be laid before :be body at the
earliest practicable period that he could
not fully give the amount Of the State in.
debtedness. the greater part of il being re
corded 10y the Fund Commissioners. under
control OF the Governor aud that was I'M
possible to furnish a complete statesment of
assessments and collection of taxes for 1861
the statements of collectors not vet having
| all been received, and the taxb0uks for the
year having just gone into the hands of
collectors, from whom returns cannot be
expected for some time
Inc convention occupied the greater part
OF me morning session III committee of the
whole, discussing the report of the Commit
tee on Rules.
But one material amendment to the report
has been made, and that was offered bv
MIR. Ross, viz: dividing tbs Comm ittee on
Alportionment, by providing for a commit
teeot nine on superintendent of Senators
and Representatives in the State Legisla
ture, aud u committee Of thirteen on C0nsti
tutinal superintendent
That portion ofrule six, excluding out.
siders from the ball. except ouly when the
convention may he in session, was stricken
out
The committee Of the whole reported its
action to the convention and the rules a.
amended in committee, were adopted.