The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-19
Chs 8ew ORLEANS Crescent.
THE RECONSTRUCTION CONVENTION
SIXTY SEVENTH DAY.

TUESDAY. Feb. Is, 1868.
Couyention metal 1870 A. Judge Ta!iaferro
pres ding; ffth-eight delegates present.
A resolution by Marie Of Terrebonne. regulating
the standard OF weights and measures in the State
was read and laid over.
motion by p. g. Oeslonde, prohibiting the
presence OF wOrkmen in the hall during the ses
sions of the convention. was lost.
resolution, paying the New Orleans Republ
can end Tribune for copies Of their Journals fur
nished the convention, was adopted.
Upon motion Of McMilen, OF Carroll the work.
ing OF painters in the hall during the conventions
sessions was prohibited.
The committee on style, to whom had been en-.
trusted the work Of revising the Consultation. re.
ported eleven additions or amendments 10 the
Constitution. Accompanying this report were
printed cspies Of the Constitution, en.JOdyiaq a
part Of he alterations IN question.
Messsrs. hchillen and NAPLES, members Of the
committee protested in writing against the report
Upon motion that the report be received and
taken up seriatim, Mr.. NAPLES objected, on the
ground that the report was not that Of the com.
mitiee.
Upon motion Of Pinchbeck, Of Orleans, the mo-
ton TO receive the report was laid on the table.
motion by Crane, OF Orleans, to recommit
the report with instructions 10 report the articles
and provisions OF the Constitution adopted, and
their recommendations seDaratey was adODted
with an amendment that the printing COMMITTEES
have charge OF the matter, and that any amend.
ment TO any article be inserted in the margin op-
pOsite that article.
Wcklife, OF Orleans, moved that the committee
on style be discharged and new committee ap.
appointed. on the ground that it bad been the fault
OF said members of the committee who had not
discharged their duties as they should have
done.
The following protest was entered by members
Of the committee, viz:
ave, the undersigned, members of the COM
mitee on style and arrangement, state that we
never have had the report signed By the chair
mfn Of the committee submitted to Us at all that
We never saw 1t till laid desks this morning
IN a printed form.
(Signed) r. wAPLEs,
W. L. MMTLLES,
P. @. DESLOSDE,
~ L. 8. ECDRIGUEZ,
s. BELDEN.p
An exciting debate ensued, during which Crane
OF Orleans. offered the following as an article u
the Constitution, viz:
Should. from any cause, a failure occur 10
eject The officers authorized in preceding article
in the schedule of the election on the question Of
its ratification; and should the Constitution be
ratified pursuant to the provisions of the congress
sional acts Of recOnstructiOn-then, and in the
event of the happening Of the aforesaid coudi.
Constitution shall be ordained and held pursuant
to the following articles, i. e. l49 aud $50 OF the
majority report on the draft of Constitution
IL IL, perhaps, supeIuous to state that the FORE
going not adopted:
Pinchbeck, Of Orleans moved TO adopt the p-e.
ambe reported previously by the majority Of the
committee on dat OF the COnst tuition.
NAPLES. of Orleans, amended by inserting the
preamble reported by Wickhfe ofthe committee
on style.
During the discussion thereupon, the lobby was
cleared and the convention went into secret ses-
sion.
Without final action upon the question before it,
II subsequently adjourned to TO-DAY.