The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-03-26
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
More Interesting Data Is Furnished By MadisOn's
 Notes on Session

any time before the vote upon !t shall have been declared.
 Orders of the day shall be read next after the minutes, and either discussed or postponed before any other business shall be introduced.
 When a debate shall arise upon a question. no motion other than to amend the question, to commit 1t, or to postpone the debate shall be received.
 "A question which is compll- cated, shall, at the request of any member, be divided, and put sepa- rately on the propositions of which it is compounded.
 Committees shall be appointed by ballot.
 "A member may be called to order by any other member, as well as by the President; and may be allowed to explain his conduct or expressions supposed to be rep rehensible-and all questions Of order shall be decided by the President without appeal or de- bate.
 Upon a question to adjourn for the day, which may be made at any time, if 1t be seconded, the question shall be put without de- bate.
 That no member be absent from the House, so as to interrupt the representation of the State, without leave.
 That nothing spoken in the House be printed or otherwise published or communicated with out leave.
 That Committees do not sit whilst the House shall be or ought to be sitting.
 On Tuesday, May 29th, James Madison records:
 MT. Randolph (of Virginia) then opened the main business i'll a long speech in which he point cd out the various defects of the federal system, the necessity of transforming 1t into a national efficient government, and the ex- treme danger of delaying this great work, concluding with sun dry propositions as to the outlines of a proper form.
 Tt was then Resolved: That the House will tomorrow resolve itself into a Committe of the whole House to consider the State of the American Union-and that the propositions made by MT. Ran- dolph be referred to the said Con- mittee.
 MT. Charles Pinckley (of South Carolina) laid before the House the draft of a federal Government which he had prepared to be agreed upon between the free and independent States of America. Ordered that the same be referred to the Committee of the whole appointed to consider the State of the American Union. Adjourned.
 (The first of Mr. Randolph's resolutions was:
 "1. Resolved that the Articles of Confederation ought to be so corrected and enlarged as to &C., complish the objects proposed by their institution; namely, 'com- mon defence, security of liberty and general welfare'.")
 8. Thet 8 national Govern ment ought to be established con- sisting of supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
 Quoting from James Madison's notes. the next entry Is:
 "Wednesday, May 30. Roger Sherman (from ConnecticuD took his seat. The House went into Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union."
 The Madison notes further show that Roger Sherman entered the debate actively that day and his opinions seem to have been con- tinually sought by his fellow delegates from then on during the four earnest months of the Con- vention that produced what Gladstone pronounced "The most wonderful piece of work of Its kind ever strurk off at one time by the purpose and brain of Man." (T0 Re COntinuedl