The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-01-14
PAPER FOR PRINTING.

Mr.. E. GIBSON offered the following:
ReSolved, That the Committee on
Printing BIO required to report how it pro-
cures the necessary paper for printing the
various documents and business of this
Convention and at what price the same
is being gotten; as well as all other matters
herewith connected"
Mr.. GIBSON said that he had offered the
resolution in order to show that the Com
mittee on Printing was obtaining paper at
ten cents per pound more than it could be
gotten for from the manufacturer.
Mr.. ALLAN said it would be remember
ed that shortly after the Christmas holl-
days a resolution was adopted authorizing
an arrangement with the Superintendent OF
Public Printing for the supply of paper re-
quired by the Printer of the Convention.
In pursuance of that resolution he called
on that functionary and notified him Of the
resolution. The Superintendent required
official notification, but stated that he
would supply the paper until the re;issem-
bling of the Convention. He (Mr. ALLAN
charged that nothing further had been
said upon this subject until he had tried to
change the arrangement by which the pa
per was being supplied, because he had
found out that the paper was costing forty
per cent. more than it could be bought for
at the Manchester mills. He supposed,
further, that as soon as the Superintendent
of Public Printing had heard OF his en-
deavor he had gone to member of the
Convention to get him to make it appear
that the Committee on Printing were fur
nishing the paper.
Mr.. GIBSON said he introduced this reso-
luton 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 the committee was
practicing fraud upon the people and
laundering the Convention and the State
Treasury to the amount of ten cents on
every pound of paper used by this Con-
vention that it was now paying twenty.
five cents per pound for paper when il
could be obtained for fifteen; that its
chairman had failed to give the Superin.
tendent of Public Printing the authority
by which he was to act, but had purchased
paper at this price from Baughman & Bro.
theirs, and had requested the Superin.
tendent of Public Printing that as they
had started with this kind of paper it was
necessary to 60 on with it. He was pre-
pared to prove the charge that these state.
ments were false and fraudulent, and would
be responsible if he did not do so.
Mr. ALLAN said that he did not know Of
any such firm as that of Baughman & Bro.
Tiers. As far as the statements made by
the gentleman were concerned, he would
hold him accountable for them at the pro.
per time.
The resolution was laid over.
PREAMBLE AND BILL OF RIGHTS.
The hour for the order of the day having
arrived, the Convention resolved itself into
Committee of the Whole, Mr.. BowDEN in
the chair.
Mr.. CAMPBELL offered an amendment to
the substitute of Mr.. THOMAS, which was
lost. Mr.. THoMAs's substitute was then
adopted.
The question then recurring to the adop-
ton Of the preamble as reported aud
amended, the following substitute for the
entire preamble was offered by Mr.. HINE {:
eve, the people of Virginia, grateful
to Almighty God for our freedom, in order
to secure its blessings, do establish the fol-
lowing Constitution" Lost.
The preamble, as amended, was then
adopted.
The following article, proposed by Mr..
THOMAS, to Immediately precede the Sc
cond, was then taken up:
"That this State shall ever remain q
member Of the United States of America,
and that the people thereof are part of the
American nation, and that all attempts,
from whatever source or upon whatever
pretext, to dissolve said Union or to sever
said nation are unauthorized, and ought
to be resisted with the whole power of the
State"
Mr.. WALTON moved that as members
had just been furnished with printed copies
of the proposed article they should have
time to consider them. Lost.
Mr.. SNEAD offered the following as an
"That the Union of the States under
the Government of the United States is
except by the consent, free
and voluntary, of a majority of the people
IF the United States, directly or indirectly
through their representatives or
,y successful armed revolutions"
Mr.. L1GGATT offered the following as
substitute:
"That the people of Virginia have no
Intention or design other than an adherence
o the United States Government under
he Constitution and that all acts repug-
amt to the Constitution of the United