The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1870-04-28
The Cairo Bulletin, April %.
THE CONVENTION.
Tuesdays Proceedings.

The convention has disposed of the iu-
dietary article and referred il to the com
mittcc on revision and adjustment. Sew
eral material changes, substitutions, and
amendments were made while other Mt
tempted notifications We're unsuccessful.
Except in one particular the Cook county
Judiciary articles are essentially what the
delegation from that country has desired
| Commencing with section 33, the conven-
ton, with slight amendments, adopted all
! up to section 30, for which Mr.. Anthony
proposed substitute the provisions Of
| which were intended to harmonic
with the amendments introduced
| into the county court sections. Quite
| discussion ensucd. but no serious oppose
| ton was made to the substitution, which
rs adopted, will be found elsewhere. For
section I6, also, substitute was offered by
Mr. Hayes, which provides for the APP
pointmcnt of Justices of the senate, the
same, however, to be nominated by IA ma
jority of the superior, circuit, and county
courts. Upon the presentation Of this,
Mr.. Browning made strenuous objection,
denouncing it rs u prctcncc that the gov
ernor appointed the justices. SO far from
that he had nothing whatever to do with
II, and he considered the proposition an
lowed upon the same side by Mcssrs
Turner Cummings, J. e. Allen,
and Hawkins. Mr.. Turner desired
uniformity in the creation of justice, and
the other three gentlemen considered the
| appointment of these minor official, ~ n
betrayal of the principles of republican
government. Mr.. Coolbaugh urged that
| this measure was desired no less by the
business men of Chicago than the lawyers,
while Mr.. Hayes made an energetic eTpoN'
| of the manner in which the lower Clu..c.
managed to elect and to run the Justice
In Cook county Mcs,r.. Wall and Tn
dcrwood recognized the fact that the situ'
alton in this regard was materially differ
ent from that in rural districts, and advo
Gated the substitutes. Explanations wcr,
the order of the day while the votes wer,
, being taken. Mr.. Allen, If Crawford
, limiting sarcastically ut the possible con
nection between the necessity for this In
novation and the late Acknowledgement o
, ignorance by the Fifteenth Amendment
f for which the gentlemen from Cook wcr
50 urgent. The substitute passed, by
vote of forty-two To- thirty-thrce. Still
another breeze was raised nj the next sec
ton, providing for the election Of II re
, corder of deeds. Mr.. Anthony moved 4
i
November next. and for his payment bv
salary. Mr.. Cody moved 10 amend b.
y proyidinp for the election of recorder ID
o NIL counties Of over 10000 inhabitants, bu
>, without in any way affecting the pre,cn
; incumbents. Thcreupon the debate be
came decidedly interesting. the Cook coun
TO delegates strongly urging the grca
= amount of fees and salaries received by tn
present recorder of Chicago, and the fac
: that the pcople of that city desired 10 Gu
I, them down the president, Mr.. Hitchcock
n leaving the chair to make explanation re
A rardins the amount of fees. They wcr
9ppose3 bv the bulk of the country dele
n yntc., chief among whom were Mcs.r.
Cody. Tincher, and Church. Mr.. Tinche
EXPRESSED the prevalent feeling among IN
straight out radicals when he snid that n
man who voted the straight radical tcko
= In Chicago last fall should be- singled ou
l. for persecution.
A motion to Law Mr.. Cody's amcndmen
on the table was lost by vote of 80 10 /,
i the aycs being Mcssrs. w. j. Allen, An
: thony, Coolbaugh, j. q. Haines, Ha,