Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-16
Constitutional Convention.
THURSDAY, June o.
AFTERNOON.

the following resolution, the passage OF
which was refused
Resolved, That the President be direct.
ed to appoint stenographio reporter ina,
its debates be taken and preserved In full
Mr.. Morse, of Newfane, presented the
petition of Mrs. Kezieh Park and 101 9th.
ers, ladies of Newfane, in favor of extend
ing the right of suffrage to women; which
was laid on the table.
The President announced as committed
on mileage and debentures
Messrs. Dillingham; of Waterbury
Clark of Lincoln Garfield, Arlington
Judevine, Hardwick Holbrook, Milton
Beattie. Brunswick Hamilton, Richford
Kinney, So. Hero Griswold, Cambridge
Hyde, Chelsea Robinson, Barton Wood
ward, Brandon Lynde, Marlboro Ray.
mond, Bridgewater.
The President also announced as the
committee on final adjournment:
Messrs. Francis, Wells; Phelps, Bur.
lngton; Swain, Rockingham Ferris,
Swanton Brastow, st. Johnsbury.
The President made the following APP
pointment of officers of the Convention
Henry Mutt of Montpelier, door
keeper; Eugene Burnham, Montpelier,
Assistant door keeper G.. w. Grandey, jr :,
Vergennes, messenger Herbert S. Foster,
Calais, assistant messenger.
The Convention then went into com.
mittee of the whole on the 1st article of
amendment. Mr.. Phelps of Burlington
opposed the article in both its clauses.
allusion to the fact that this is not the
proper tribunal before which especial
grievances are to be brought, said that al
though the especial grievances to which
he referred this morning were local in
their immediate efforts, yet the whole
State had an interest in the matter The
town of bennington had lost thirty per
cent. of population and forty per cent of
business on account of the especial legis-
lation of the past two or three years, and
he called upon the Convention to relieve
the town of Bennington from the burdens
under which they are laboring, and he
hoped the Convention would adopt the
amendment.
Mr.. Sherman of Ludlow moved that the
committee rise and report to the Conven-
ton that it is not expedient to adopt the
amendment. Which motion was agreed
to.
The committee thereupon rose and Mr..
Bingham of Stowe, reported to the Con-
vention that the committee of the whole
recommend to the Convention that it is
not expedient to adopt the proposed
amendment; and on the adoption of the
report of the committee, Mr.. Field of
Rrattlahnrp 1a,nan1aI ha M
After considerable discussion as to the
form in which the question should be put
by the chair, the President stated the
question to be, will the Convention
adopt the first article of amendment as
proposed by the Council of Censors p"
On this question the yeas and nays were
taken, and were as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative
were:
YEAs-Messrs. Aldrich, Atwood, Bates,
Benjamin, of West Windsor, Briggs.
Brown, of Burke, Brown of Waterville,
Button, cleveland, Conant, Crane, Cur,
tis, Davis of Baltimore. Davis of Sheffield.
Edmunds, Ellis, Everts, Field of Brattle.
boro, Fletcher, of Cavendish, Fletcher of
Holland, Gaige, Gilmore, Gorham, Har-
mon, Harrington. Harris of Panton, Hib-
bard, Holbrook of Lexington, Holbrook
of Milton, Horrobin, Howes, Jenney,
Judevine, Jenness, Lynde, McGaffey,
Morse, Newell, Owen, Parker of Pownal,
Patterson, Pearl, Phelps of Fairhaven,
Quinlan, Reed. Royce, Rising, Sargent of
Corinth, Sargent of Jay, Shattuck, Slade,
Smith of East Haven, Stephens, Stoddard
of Westminster, storrs, Swain, Waldo,
Walker of Peacham, Wells, Wild, Will
liams, Wood, Young-63.
Those who voted in the negative were
NAYs.-Messrs. Adams, Bailey, Barnes,
Barrett, Bartholomew, Beattie, Benjamin
of Berlin, Bennett, Benton, Bingham of
Fletcher, Bingham of Stowe, Bittinger,
Bottum of Orwell, Bottum of salisbury,
BarstOw, Brewster, Brigham, Britteil,
Brooks of Plymouth, Buel, Butler, Camp
of Gilmore, Camp of Newport, Garfield,
Carlton, Carpenter, Chase, Churchill,
Clark of Lincoln, Clark of Peru, Clark of
Poultney, Clark Of Topsham, Clement,
Closson, Cobb, Colburn, COLON, Cotton,
Cowles, Crandall, Damon, Day, Dean,
Deavitt, Dillingham;, Drake, Duuton,
Dyer, Eaton, Ewens, Farnoworth, FELTON,,
Ferris, Field of Guilford, Field of Jericho,
Fisher, Foote, Francis, Furman, Gibson,
Giddings, Gillette, Green, Grout, Girls
void, Hamilton, Harding, Harris of Wind
ham, Hartshorn of Canaan, Hartshorn of
Guildhall, Hastings, Herrick, Hewitt,
Hildreth, Human, Hobart, Holcomb
Holmes, Howard Of Irasburgh, Howard
of Townshend, Howe, Hubbard, Huntoon,
Hyde of Castleton, Hyde Of Chelsea,
Hyde of Sudbury, Ide, Jones, Joselyn,
Kellogg, Keltop, Kent, Kimball of Clio
yer, Kimball of w. Fairlee, Kingsley of
Athens, Kingsley Of Salem, Kinney, Lang
don, Lawrence, Lincoln, Lyford, McAlis-
ter, Mclaughlin, Marsh of Bethel, Marsh
of Woodstock, Mason, Miles, Morton,
Munson, Nelson, Nichols of Braintree,
Nichols of Mortified, Noble, Olmstead,
Paine, Parker of Wocott, Peake, Phelps
of Burlington, Pierce, Porter, Post, Pow
ers, Putnam, Raymond, Ray, Reynolds.
Richardson of Westfeld, Richardson of
Vershire, Richmond, Roberts, Robinson of
Barton, Robinson of Londonderry, Ross,
Russ, st. John, Sampson, Sanford, Saw
yer, Seymour, Shaw, Sherman of Dover,
Sherman of Ludlow, Sherwood Shoff,
Smith of Tunbridge, Smith of Williams
town, Spaulding, Stearns, Stoddard of
Newark, Taylor, Tewksbury, Thompson,
Tisdale, Topper, Walbridge, Walker of
Whiting, Walton, Warren, Washburn,
Way, Welch, Whitney, Willmarth, Will
son, Wiswell, Woodward, Wright of
Bradford, Wright of Shorebam-169.
So the adoption of the frat article of
amendment as proposed by the Council of
Censors was refused.
Mr. Bartholomew of Washington offer
ed the following resolution: |
ReSolged, That the adoption of the End,
3rd, 4th, 9th and 9th articles of amend
ment as proposed by the Council of Cen
sors is not expedient, and ought to be re-
jeeted.
Mr.. Cleveland of Brookfeld moved that
the resolution be referred to the committee
of the whole; but before doing so he
asked leave to present several petitions
which he had in his keeping, which leave
being granted.
Mr. Cleveland presented the petition of
Mrs. A. B. Reed and 104 others, ladies of