Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-01-21
NUMBER Xxx.

a report upon the eligibility of Fayette Mauzy
Esq, the delegate from Culpeper county, ac-
companled by large number of certificates and
other papers, and concludes as follows: I'm
the event of your body declaring Mr.. Mauzy
ineligible to his seat, the question will arise
whether new election should take place in
Culpeper county, or whether the person who
received the next highest number of votes
should be entitled to Mr.. Mauzy's seat IF
the Convention should arrive at the latter con-
clusion, it becomes necessary to state that Mr..
John M. Bolts received the next highest vote
at the election held in Culpeper county on the
22d day of October, 1867, for delegates to the
present Convention.
Mr. Mauzy submitted protest to the report
of the committee, which, with the report of the
committee, was laid on the table, and ordered
to be printed.
Mr. E. Gibson offered the following:
Resolved, That the committee on printing be
required to report how it procured the neces-
sary paper for printing the business documents
of this Convention, and at what price the same
is to- be gotten, as we'll as all other matters
Herewith connected.
In support of his resolution Mr.. Gibson said
he introduced this resolution for the purpose
OF getting at the committee on printing. He
was prepared to prove that the reports of this
committee were false, and that said committee
was practicing fraud upon this Convention
and upon the people, and plundering the State
treasury to the amount of ten cents upon every
pound of paper used by this Convention; that
it was now paying twenty-five cents per pound
for paper when it could be had for fifteen that
its chairman had failed to give the superinten-
dent of public printing the authority by which
he was to act but had purchased paper at this
price, and requested the superintendent OF pub
lie printing that, as they had started with this
kind of paper, it was necessary to go ON with 1T.
He was prepared to prove this fraud and the
talsity of these reports. He charged them as
being false and fraudulent, and was responsible
for it, if he failed to prove it.
Mr.. Allen said he knew nothing of Baugh-
man Brothers; had never had any intercourse
with that firm, directly or indirectly, and at the
proper time would call on the gentleman to SUBJ
stantiate what he had said.
Mr.. Gibson said he was prepared to comply
with any requisition made on him.
The Convention then went into committee OF
the whole on the preamble to the constitution,
Mr.. Bowden in the chair.
The amendment offered on Saturday by Mr..
Thomas, and amended by Mr.. Campbell, was
adopted.
Hine moved substitute, which was voted
down.
The preamble was then adopted.
Mr. Snead offered the following:
Whereas, the State of Virginia did not, In
the year 1861, have the right to withdraw the
allegiance of her citizens from or to dissolve her
with the government of the United
States Therefore, be it
Resolved, That the so-called ordinance OF Sc
cession, passed by the convention which as
sembled in the city of Richmond, on the 18th
day of February, 1861, was null and void and,
the government of the so-called Con-
fo1o coeA A
the State government of Virginia which ex-
listed during the late war, and which recognized
the pretended authority ard jurisdiction OF the
SO called Confederate States was likewise an
usurpdtion, and that those engaged in maln-
tanning the authority of either were upholdlng
usurped and illegal governments, in opposition
to the rightful authority of the United States
over that portion of the national domain known
as the seeded States; that the white popula-
ton born therein and then inhabiting the same
are not citizens of a nationality separate and
distinct from that of the United States, but cit
izens of the United States, subject, and right
fully subject, to the jurisdiction of the United
States, the constitution and laws thereof.
Mr.. Liggett offered the following as substi-
tute
Whereas, General Butler is about to favor
Richmond city with a visit,
Resolved That the citizens thereof be re-
QueSted to observe more than ordinary vigilance
on the preservation of their plate and silver
ware.
Mr.. Clements moved that when the Conven-
ton again 90 into committee of the whole not
more than half an hour be allowed for the dis
cussion of any question.
The ayes and noes were called, and the vote
resulted: ayes 81, noes Al. The motion was
lost.
Curtis moved that the Convention hold night
sessions until further ordered No second.
The Convention then adjourned.