Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1865-01-24
HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The House was called to order at IL o'clock
A. NJ.
Mr.. Shepherd presiding in the absence of the
Speaker.
The Speaker laid before the House the resigna-
ton of NeIll Mckay, one of the Engrossing
Clerks.
On motion of Mr. Grissom this resignation was
sent to the Senate with proposition that the two
Houses elect clerk to fill the vacancy at half past
eleven o'clock. The names Of MeSsrs. Walter A.
Huske, T. Ii. Hill and - Pfohl were put in no.
mination.
An engrossed bill, from the Senate, to facilitate
the building of bridges which have been washed
away in the counties of Alamance and Granville,
passed its several readings under q suspension of
the rule.
Leaves of absence were granted to Messrs. Ams
and Afford.
A message from the Senate announced its concur
renee in the proposition from the House to elect
Eugrossing Clerk at half past eleven o'clock The
House proceeded to vote Mr.. j. w. Davis having
been also nominated The committee to superin.
tend the election subsequently reported "nO cleo
tion"
Mr. Hanes introduced resolutions on the subject
of q general Convention Of the Confederate States,
as follows:
Resolutions on the subject of General Gonpeation
Of the Confederate States:
WHEREAS, The present system Of legislation by
the Congress Of the Confederate States, by which
the most oppressive and unconstitutional laws have
been passed from time to time by the votes Of ir-
responsible representatives from Missouri, Ken
tucky and other States, some OF whom have never
seeded from the Government Of the United States,
but have at this time their full quota of in the
armies OF our enemies, and who therefore have
constituents upon wnom the laws passed by them
can operate, and some Of whom dare not even show
themselves IN the States which they profess to
present is an outrage to which no free people ought
to submit:
And, Whereas, Article of the Constitution of
the Confederate States provides, "Upon the de-
mand of any three States, legally assembled in
their several Conventions, the Congress shall sum-
mon Convention of all the Confederate States, to
take into consideration such amendments to the
Constitution as the said States shall concur in sug-
costing at the time when the said demand is made;
and should any Of the proposed amendments to the
Constitution be agreed on by the said Convention
voting by States-aud the same be ratified by the
Legislatures of two-thIrds of the several States
by Conventions in two-thirds thereof-as the one
or the other mode of ratification may be proposed
by the general Convention-they shall thencefor-
ward form part of the Constitution. But no State
SHALL without its consent be deprived Of its equal
representation" in the Senate
Therefore, Resoloed, That the Joint Select Com
mittee on Confederate relations be instructed to
frame and bring in bill calling Convention of the
ueople of this State or submitting the question to
them so as to enable them to assemble in Conven.
tion-if q majority of them should desire to do so
for the purpose of cooperating with any two other
States in calling Convention Of all the Confeder
ate States, for the purpose of amending the Con-
sttution, so as to provide that hereafter the repre-
sentatives Of any State States, whose territory
is in the hands of the enemy that the Confeder-
ate laws cannot be enforced therein shall not dur
ing the continuance Of such occupation By the enc
nv be permitted to vote upon any question Of leg
isiation but shall have only such rights ts are al
lowed to the delegates from the Territories of the
Confederate States; and Of considering such other
amendments as the said three States shall concur in
suggesting.
Resolued, further, That State sovereignty being
the principle on which North Carolina and the other
States withdrew from the Federal NJ on the States
composing the Southern Confederacy gre soyeregns,
and the Confederate Government is ly their agent
and subject to their control and that the States in
their sovereign capacity, in GeneEal Convention
sembled have the right tn negotiate 4 peace with
the government of the United States, without con-
sultation with the President of the Confederate
States but subject only to the subse quent rat6ca
ton of the several States in their separate State
Conventions.
AT Mr.. Hanes' request his remr rks in support of
these resolutions were read FROM. the desk By the
Clerk
Pending their reading there was another ballot
for Engrossing Clerk resulting rs before. On this