, 1870-04-29
THE CONVENTION.

where there should hare been only a period.
TIE CONVENTION.
Il srRISGFE.p, April Is.
RAILROAD STAII5T1CA
The convention met at O'Clock. The Cha{rma,
presented the report Of the Auditor relative to sui
| scr!ptons to railroads, the number Of miles i
each county, the cost and numerous other na rtIcr
, la1a Laid on the table and 1000 copies oTdered
uess 11EeHER SfaSPHtt rf7RNRR4 rTfEFkAH,4sGS5 EH5a,o
6ooDHuE rose to personal explanations
| PETITIONS.
WINGS ME MGcpa p presented petition Of citizens
sss,en1 & 81 &tqwnshig orKanIzation.
III BSJA pfssen1sS Ienne netI13on S9asas g ,o-
five ladies' OF the Normal University at BioomIny5
Ton to the same effect 49, -'ooAS
OF the convention protesting against lis aciIou.
Ailsr some discussion the petitions were re-
TIE REPORT ON COUNTIES.
| consideration Of Section OF the report upon
Gonntles t vas resumed, the question bclng upon
I words in the fourth line, as follows: An cases
Where county has been located twenty Jears and
In which was adopted.
second amendment to strike ont t'two-thlids" In
the seventh line and insert "three-niths," and It
A vote was had upon the motion of Mr.. ALLEN
81 AeSaneT to strike out the entire proriso, and
Mr. CRAIG moEed to amend By inserting the
wozds 'thrscdfths In place Of ia majoritS.r in
the second line Of the amended section.
MI ALLEN, of Crawford, Thought majority Of
leeM registered voters should be reautrctl anil
as follows: '''''''1'e'
.So county seat shall be removed until the
point to which 1t is proposed to he removed shall
pc liked by l3N, and majority Of the legal Iesis-
tered voters Of that county shall have voted in
fsss fss1r Of It's removal to sucha point; but 10
otteneT than once IN ten years
Mr.. SCH0LF1ELD said even this would not COM
Pei strictly fair vote. He offered substitute,
the same to De submitted to separate vote 81 the
Mr. ARCHER had always been opposed to any
principle " which minority q the people were
polls. He favored Nj. Aliens substitute.
MI CAMILLE offered m amendment that all
PERSONS voting on such questions shall have re-
sided IL the county SIX months.
Ill. UNDERWOOD said Let us have peace"
tbs was good motto tor county matters as well
thtce-nfths requirement. There could be no per-
manency without some such provision.
n. Gra'gs amenlmens was laid Oh the table.
. no person shall vote upon the question who mas
not resided in the county six months, and in The
election district ninety daTs next preceding the
= NJ T1NcHER moved to amend the amendment,
as follows:
4ITovlted that the question Of the removal Of
county seat Shall not he submitted ofteuer than
once IN ten years to q vote Of the people''
Both amendments were adopted
"Sotine on The question: Which was &c carried Wv
Mr. ATKINS, of Morgan. moved to amend by
inserting after county" ID the second line, the
be prescribed by general law." Adopted.
The section was adopted. as fol1ow1:
r1' IT. tant ~ q comfy sat ssa be Temore
moved shau he nIed in pursuance OF law aud q |
majority Of 1hc voters Of the comfy. to be ascer-
general Law, shall hare rotcd IN favor OF Its re-
moval TO such polnt prorsded that no person shall
Il he sT .nS .Da ~ has not
ton; and prorided u.zher that the question Of the
oftener than once Il ten sears to to - Tose % of tae
II: TURNER moved to reconsider the amend
thousand population may be made into separate
counties, Int withdrew It.
IHK RICHMOND CALAMITY.
Mr. HAYES, OF Cook, sent to the Clerks desk to
oe read despatch relative to the terrible accident
II Richmond, Va, and offered resolutions OF re-
net Mt the>sa9 occurrence, which passed, and the
~ AFTERNOON SESSION.
TIE RErORT on COUNTIES
The convention reaEsembled at o'clock. Con. |
liberation Of the report on counties wnsrencwed, |
be question being on the adoption Of the NTH sec
Ar. CROSS moved to reconsider the vote BIZ
which the convention concurTed In the amend
nents to this section. Carried.
The same gentleman then moved to strike out
sixty" go that it would read, 'te1cept In ali
onnties having sixty thousand and more inhahi-
aIr. ATKINS moved to amend by inserting
forty-1yc-" Laid on the table
Mr. UNDERWOOD moved TO insert "nfty.r
The question was taken on striking out "fortr.n
The blank was filed with "slxty,r 80 that the
ecdon now reads, Except IN all counties having