Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-02
southern Conventions.

TALLAHASSEE, Feb, hin the ConEen.
ton a resolution was offered, that no dele
egate now in the Convention be eligible to
the office Of Governor, Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Secretary of State, Auditor or Reg
lister, within ten years from date. The
resolution went over A resolution was
also offered, asking Congress to repeal the
cotton tax. Laid over under the rules
The balance of the session was consumed
in debate on the recommittal of the re-
port of the committee ON privileges and
relations, pending which the Convention
adjourned. But little order and no har-
mony prevailed in the Convention. ms
The question pending at the adjourn
ment yesterday was taken up and disposed
of, resulting in the denial Of a seat to Mr.
Butler. A delegate from the first district
made motion TO reconsider and postpone
the matter until the first of March. The
motion to reconsider was ordered to lie on
the table. The excitement on the ques-
ton of eligibility continues. None of the
work for which the Convention assembled
has been done. The Convention adjourned
before noon until the 4th.
RALEIGH, Feb. 1.-The convention en-
gagged almost the entire session to day in
discussing the relief clause proposed to be
attached to an article in the new constitu.
ton. No conclusion was reached on the
Judiciary question, the dominant party not
having united on any plan.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 1.-The Appeals Little
Rock special to-day says: In the eonven-
ton, Mr.. Mcclure offered resolution dis
franchising all who oppose reconstruction,
and declaring voting against the ratification
of the constitution a sufficient ground for
Acknowledgement. Referred.
A memorial in reference to the continu-
ance of the Freedmen's Bureau caused a
spirited discussion, and consuming the day,
but was finally adopted by strict party
vote.
RICHMOND, Feb. lin the convention
to-day The Committee on Internal Inns
provements reported clause directing the
Legislature to provide for the exchange Of
the States interest in internal improve
ments for bonds Of the State.
The Committeeonb banks reported in favor
of prohibiting the Legislature from grant
ing charters to corporations who discount
paper at unlawful rates of interest also
prohibit person who do 80 from holding any
State office.
A substitute for the clause in the finance
report was adopted, taxing male citizens
one dollar for the bene.;j of school and
fifty cents for general purposes.
ATLANTA, February 1.-The convention
adopted the following to-day:
Resolved, That the Congress of the
United States be respectfully petitioned to
appropriate thirty million dollars in United
States currency, to be loaned under the
proper regulations, to aid in developing
the agricultural interest Of The Southern
planters.
Resolved, That copies of the foregoing
resolution be transmitted to the President
of the Senate and Speaker of the House of
Representatives of the United States with
request that they be laid before those
bodies; and that copies be, also, transmitted
to the Presidents of the Constitutional Con-
ventions in the Southern States, aud We in
vite the cooperation of such conventions
on this application to Congress.