Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1869-11-10
TENNEssEE LEG1sLATURE.

By Mr.. Cubbins-A bill to incorporate
| the Grader Cotton Gin Manufacturing
| Company. Passed first reading and re-
ferred to the Committee on incorporation.
By Mr.. Cubbins-A bill TO incorporate
the Memphis Gruelti Society. Passed trst
reading and referred to the Committee on
Incorporation.
By MIR. Cubbins-A bill to incorporate
the Memphis and Vicksburg Packet Com
pany. Passed first reading and referred to
the Committee on Incorporation.
P. L. NIcKoI-
Senate resolution authorizing the Comp
troller to issue his warrant to z. l.. Nlchol,
Clerk Of the County Court OF Davidson
county, for the amount OF costs adJudged
against him in certain suits involving the
receipt of the notes of the Bank Of Ten
nessee as taxes due the State, was adopted.
JOINT SESSIONS.
House Joint resolution authorizing the
Judiciary Committees of both Houses to
meet in joint session to discuss such ques-
tons as the chairman of each committee
may select, was concurred in.
EVANSVILLE, HENDERSON AND NASHVILLE
RAILROAD
House Joint resolution calling for
Joint committee to investigate certain
matters pertaining to the Evansville, Hen
derson and Nashville Railroad, was concur
red in, and the speaker appointed Messrs.
Hart and Slaughter on the part OF the Sen
ate.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
House bill to abolish the County Com
missioners of Fayette county, passed its
first reading.
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To protect the citizens of the State Of
Tennessee from being compelled, by law
to again pay debts heretofore due and
owing to the Bank of Tennessee.
Mr. Hall offered an amendment, - I'M
less they seem to have been paid in Con
federate money"
On motion of Mr. Cooper, of Bedford,
the amendment was laid upon the table.
The bill then passed by a vote of % to /,
Mr. Hall voting in the negative.
To change the county line between the
counties of Hawkins and Hancock. Passed.
To change the line between the counties
of Rutherford and Bedford. Passed.
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
The time to which the discussion OF the
Convention bill was postponed having ar
rived,
Mr.. Cooper of Bedford addressed the
Senate in favor of the substitution offered
by the minority of the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Mr.. Etheridge said he was willing to
trust the people. He was not afraid OF the
people suspending the writ of habeds cor
pus, or establishing drumhead court mar
tial, and would therefore move to lay the
motion to reconsider upon the table. The
motion prevailed by the following vote:
Ayes-Messrs. Bryant, Clementson, Cub
bins, Eason, Etheridge, Faulkner, Hall,
Hart, Luttrell, Martin, AIillsaps, McFell,
Palmer, Sell, Slaughter and Speaker
Thomas-1G.
Noes-Messrs. Cason, Cooper of Bed
ford, Cooper of Davidson, Greene, Morris
Nelson and Pearson.
Mr.. Nelson moved to recommit the bill
to the Judiciary Committee, but afterward
withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Etheridge moved to take up the mo-
ton entered by Mr. Eason, to reconsider
the adoption of the amendment offered by
Mr.. Cooper, of Bedford, which places GER
tain restrictions upon the convention.
MIR. Cooper, of Bedford, raised a point
of order, that the Senator from Maury Mr..
Eason) could not, according to parliamenta-
~ usages, make such a motion after the
amendment had been adopted, and the bill
passed on its second reading as amended.
A motion to reconsider the passage Of the
bill as amended would have been proper.
The Speaker decided that the motion of
Mr. Eason to reconsider the amendment
was out of order, in as much as the mo-
ton was entered after the bill passed its
second reading as amended.
Mr.. Etheridge said that the amendment
as it stood would be a nullity, it being a
part of the bill If the vote was reconsid-
cred, and the amendment rejected, the bill
would be on ito third reading.
| The Speaker then changed his decision,
in order to give the Senator's who voted for
| the amendment under q misunderstanding
an opportunity to place themselves Alright.
Mr.. Cooper moved to lay the motion to
reconsider the adoption Of the amendment
on the table Lost by the following vote
| Ayes-Messrs. Cason, Cooper of Bedford,
Cooper of Davidson, Green, Morris Nelson
| and Pearson.
| NOes-Messrs Bryant, Clementson, Cub
bins, Eason, Etheridge, Faulkner, Hall,
Hart, Luttrell, Martin, AIillsaps, McFsll,
Palmer, Self, Slaughter and Speaker Thorn
| as.-16.
Mr.. Etheridge then moved to lay the
amendment offered by Mr.. Cooper, of Bed
ford, on the table. Carried-ayes 16,
noes :.
Mr. Etheridge offered an amendment
striking out lone hundred IN the fourth
section and inserting fifty.
Mr.. Cooper, of Bedford, moved to lay
the amendment on the table Lost.
! Tho ar,,an6voaT1f x-oc than a1OTDtah
Mr. Etheridge offered an amendment to
strike out, in the same sentence, the
words lone delegate, and insert q" two
delegates" Adopted
Mr.. Etheridge moved to strike out see
tions five and six of the bill in relation to
the Representative and Floaterial dis
tricts Adopted.
Mr.. Etheridge moved to strike out O
section seven the words Representative
and Pictorial. Carried
Mr.. Slaughter offered an amendment tC
strike out the words ''twenty-one' in the
eighth section and insert ''thirty.
Mr.. Cooper, of Bedford, moved to lay tht
amendment on the table. Carried-Aye:
Is, noes Z.
| Mr.. McFall offered an amendment Il
strike out the words Commissioners o
Registration, wherever they may occur
in the bill and insert ''Sheriffs
Mr. Etheridge moved to lay the motion
ON the table. Carried
Mr. Slaughter offered an amendmen
that, in all cases when any Commissioner o
Sheriff fails or refuses, or from any othe
cause, fails to hold said election, it shall b.
lawful for any three freeholders to hol,
said election, by summOning as many by
ISLANDERS as may be necessary to hold sal,
election all of whom shall be freeholders
Adopted.
Mr.. McFall moved to strike out the thir,
section of the preamble of the bill
Mr. Etheridge moved to lay the motion OF
the table Carried.
Mr.. Nelson then offered a bill in lieu
which provides that the Convention shall
be composed of fifty members, two from
each senatorial district of the State, to b
: elected on the second Saturday in Deem
Der, 1869, in the same manner and unde
e the same rules, restrictions and regulation
| that the members of the General Assembl
, are now elected; that the delegates electe
shall meet in Nashville on the first Monda
/ ! in January, 1870, to revise, amend an
, | alter the present or form a new constitu
, | ton: that in case of death, resignation
| refusal to serve, or removal OF any dele
J | gate to the Convention, the vacancy sha
be filed in the manner provided by law fo
the filling of vacancies in the represents
: ton to the General Assembly; that whe
= the new constitution is formed, it shall b
5 submitted to the people for their sane
5 ton by majority of all the votes cas-
in the State before it shall becom
the established constitution of Tennessee
4 The bill further provides that no membe
: of this General Assembly shall he ehgibl
TO a seat in the Convention to remodel th
State Constitution.
q Mr.. Etheridge moved to lay the bill
= lieu on the table Carried, ayes Is; noes
The House bill then passed its thir
reading as amended, by the following vot'
, Ayes-Messrs Bryant, Clementson, Coo
er of Bedford, Cooper of Davidson, Cul
bins, Eason, Etheridge, Faulkner, Green'
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