The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-05-17
THE 8 CONVENTION.
ITS ADJOURNMENT.
CLOSING SCENES AND PnOCEED.

W lN0Ds
SpRrSariELp, May i3.--The convention
reassembled at Q o'clock.
A resolution was passed that Messrs.
Medill and Cameron be instructed to
measure all work done by the convention
printers certify to the same and perform
all duties connected with settling the nc
counts with the printers.
PAT FOR EXTRA SERVICES.
A resolution was adopted that John q.
Harmon, David Shepherd and A. II. Swan,
secretary and assistant secretaries Of the
convention, be paid ~ per day for extra
services.
RrsoLuTroN or THANKS
we're rendered TO the State officers for their
courtesies and to the State journal and
Register for the gratuitous supply Of those
journal. . BIO
SIGNING TIE CONSTITUTION.
A resolution was adopted that the con-
sttution be signed in the following order
First BY the president; second, by the
members in alphabetical order;
MEMBERS PER DIEM.
Mr.. English offered resolution that the
members receive their regular per diem
during the recess, from March Il to April
II. Lost, TO 80.
EXPENDITURES
The committee on accounts and expend-
lures reported that they were unable to
Ok upon the actual cost Of the reporting
and printing for the convention, but that
the following was an estimate, made from
what facts they had before them, viz:
Reporting, $4,000 to $4,000; printing,
$1,000 TO SEE, 900; paper, 81, 900 to SIC, 900.
THE IRREGULARITIES IN THE sEcRETARYs
oYYIcE.
Mr.. Hay, frow the select committee APP
pointed to investigate the stationary issue,
US between the committee on accounts and
expenditures and the secretary Of state,
makes no specific accusations, but con-
dcmns, In general terms, the improvidcnt
and irregular manner in which supplies
Of stationary for the use OF the state have
been hitherto obtained, and regrets that
there seems 10 be no disposition among
the officials ofthe state to inauguratc any
violent reform. Tho report was sent to
the governor, with the request that he lay
IL before the next general assembly.
the ADDRESS TO TIE PEOPLE.
OUuSr WOtu, trOul bpcCtuI Cou-
mittee appointed, read . lengthy address,
explaining and commencing the new con-
stitution 70 the Endorsement Of this people.
The address was unanimously adopted,
and ordered 10 DO printed with the consti-
tuition.
THE QUINCY RAILRoAD INDEBTEDNESS.
Mr.. Buxton moved that the vote, yester-
day, BY which enrolment was refused TO
ths section adopted on Monday last, CIV
ing power TO the city of Quincy to get
$500 900 from the state treasury TO aid in
building a railroad in Missouri, be recon-
sidered. Carried. He then moved that
tho section bs enrolled, with IN additional
proviso, as follows;
Nothing contained in this constitution
shall be 40 construed m TO deprive the
general assembly Of tho power to author
ize the city Of Quincy 10 create any indebt-
cdness for railroad or municipal purposes,
for which tho people Of said city shall have
voted, and to which they shall have given,
by such vote, their assent, prior TO the
18th Of December, 1869. Prorided, That
no such Indebtedness, so created, shall in
any part thereof be paid by tho state,
from any state revenue tax, or fund, but
| the same shall be paid by the city OF
Quincy alone, and by taxes TO be levied up
ON the taxable property thereof: And
propided, further, That the general assem-
bly, shall have no power In the premises
that Il could not exercise under the pres
ent constitution OF this state.
W. j. Allen offered the following SUBJ
stitute.
Nothing In this section shall be SO con-
| strued as TO prevent the general assembly
from legalizlng subscriptions to stock In
railroad companies by counties, or other
municipal corporations, heretofore made
in excess Of the provisions or without
authority of Oh listing laws, by Il majority
vote of the people, whore rights have
accrued and money been expended ON the
faith of the same.
Laid on the table.
The proposition, a. amended was then
ordered to be enrolled.
PAY OF THE SECRETARIES.
Mr.. Carey moved 10 reconsider the vote
BY which the secretaries Of this convcn-
ton were ordered to be paid 81 per day
| extra. He did this for the reason that he
believed the voting Of that sum was vio-
lation Of law. The resolution was recon-
/ sidered.
Mr.. Cameron offered q substitute, that
| the secretaries DO allowed their regular per
diem during the recess. Adopted.
THE CANAL.
Mr.. Cromwell offered the following
resolution, which war unanimously
adopted;
Resolved, That our senators and repre-
sentatives in congress be, and they are
hereby, respectfully but earnestly re-
quested to use all possible means in their
power to secure, at rs early day as pos
siblc, the passage of an act of congress for
the construction Of ship canal on the line
ofths Illinois and Michigan canal, and the
improvement of the Illinois riverso us TO
admit the passage Of ships and steamers
from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi
river.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention resssembled at 4;30 pm.
The enrolled copy Of the constitution was
then read by the Secretary Its reading
occupied about two hours. At the conclu-
sion Of the reading, President Hitchcock
said to Assistant Secretary Of State, Har-
low:
Mr.. Secretary--In obedience TO the con-
vention, ! deliver to you the enrolled con-
stitution ofthe State Of Illinois, and charge
that you preserve the same among the
public records Of the State.
Gentlemen Of the convention: am
about 20 perform my last official duty ss
your presiding ohicer, by declaring the