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basis in the Senate, and white population :
the House, to go into effect when the col III
stitution is ratified by the people. 0n-
Mr. Moore of Wake, said he des;rod !.
direct attention of delegates to what wo,,i9 10
be the character of our State governO'ul uiu
should the white basis be adopted for hotH
Senate and House of Commons 0'l
The Governor is elected by white neon,o
with no veto power, the House of CommpU,
is elected by the same people and the Senato
would be elected by the same.
So that all checks established in tbo w..
stitution would have been swept away ons
that instrument placed in the hands Of ~,u nnt
class alone. The State government wouIs s
only be kept from anarchy by the protectin,l tn,a
hand of the federal government.
He admitted the fundamental nrino;,,
that all power was derived from the nen,pIo
but he held that it was no abridgment oftttI,
powers of the people to fling checks and 'ue ="
straints about their agents. -
Every government has its checks rho
United States government is one of cbeoi,s
and balances. and SO is the English govern
ment. In government there were two oront
interest, persons and property. Both onoS. %.
to be protected, and he desired that tbe H,a n'
lection given to property by our State toD rDO-
stitution should remain. H
If the West should now establish the whit.
basis, in order to regain power, ese lono '0 the
East would agitate for negro suffrage Wbae
condition would we be in then He .a.
ed gentlemen to pause and consider the e,
turc.
Mr.. Moore proceeded at some furtbo,
length, when
Mr. Caldwell of Burke said he was w;ll;r,,
to vote for Mr.. Phillips amendment nrov;gS
ed that it went into effect immediately 90
tkl fI,a olo&,,
tuted under it.
A debate here sprung up between Nessr,
Settle, Caldwell, Dick, and Messrs. PhiIIinS
Rumley, Satterthwaite, Bynum, StarLuck and
King, all favoring the compromise measure
| of taxation in Senate and white basis in
House, but disagreeing as to the time tho
amendment should take effect. the former fo-
| immediate effect and the latter advocatine
that it should be submitted to the people.
A motion was made to refer the whole
matter, but was lost.
The amendment was then adopted by the
following vote.
YEAs-Messrs. Alexander, Allen, Baines
Barrow, Berry, Boyden, Brickell, Brown
Brooks, Burgin, Buxton, Conigland, Dock,
cry, Eaton, Faircloth, Ferebee, Foy Gillian
Goodwin, Grissom, Hodge, Howard, jackson,
Jarvis, Joyce, Joyner, King, Lash, Lyon,
McCauley, McCorkle, McKoy of Sampson.
Mckay of Harnett, McGehee, Nat. Mclean
Nc Laughlin, Nc Rae, Mebane, Moore of
Wake, Murphy, Norfeet Odom, Patterson,
Perkins, Person, Phillips, Polk, Richardson,
Rumley, Russell, Rush, Satterthwaite, Sim,
mons, Sloan, Smith of Anson, Spencer of
Hyde, Spencer of Montgomery, Starbuck,
Stephenson, Thompson, Walkup, Ward,
Warren, Wiley, Williams, Winburne and
Wright-70.
NAYs-Messrs. Baker, Bingham, Bradley,
Bryan, Bynum, Caldwell of Burke, Caldwell
of Guilford, Dick, Dickey, Ellis, Faulkner,
Gahagan, Garland, Garrett, Harris of Gull
ford, Harris of Rutherford, Harrison, Haynes,
Henry, Jones of Davidson, Jones of Hender;
son, Jones of Rowan, Logan, Love of Jdck-
son, Mcdonald of Chatham, Mcdonald Of
Moore, Moore of Chatham, Smith of John.
ston, Smith of Wilkes, Stewart and Swan
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When, Mr.. Bynum offered the ordinance
originally introduced by himself as sub
stitute for the whole.
Mr. Bynum said the only difference be
tween his ordinance and the amendmen
just adopted, was that his ordinance provi
ded for the change in basis of representation
to take mediate effect.
Mr.. Grissom moved to reconsider the ord
nance for exchanging stocks of the State fo
bonds issued before the year 1861, whic
motion lies over until tomorrow.