ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH DAY. FRIDAY, June 27, 1873. The Convention met at nine o'clock A. M., Hon. John H. Walker, President pro tem., in the chair. Prayer by Rev. James W. Curry. The Journal of yesterday was read. Mr. DARLINGTON. I find an omission in the Journal, in receiving the invitation of the citizens of Gettysburg. I moved that the thanks of the Convention be tendered to the citizens of Gettysburg, which motion was agreed to; and I move that the Journal be so amended. Mr. ALRICKS. I desire to state that a few days ago when Mr. Baker left the House sick, I told him I knew the House would excuse him. He asked me to inform the House of his sickness, in case he The PRESIDENT pro tem. The Journal did not recover, and as he is still sick I mention that fact now. will be so amended. LEAVES OF ABSENCE. Mr. J. M. BAILEY asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. M'Culloch for a few days from to-day. Mr. EDWARDS asked and obtained leave of absence for himself for a few days from to-day. Mr. STANTON asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Mantor for a few days from to-day. Mr. WHERRY asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Parsons for a few days from to-day. Mr. CURRY asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Pughe for a few days from to-day. Mr. COCHRAN asked and obtained leave of absence for himself for this afternoon, to-morrow and Monday. Mr. BROOMALL asked and obtained leave of absence for himself for to-morrow. Mr. BIGLER asked and obtained leave of absence for himself until Tuesday next. Mr. H. W. PALMER asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Davis for a few days from to-day on account of ill-health. Mr. J. N. PURVIANCE asked and ob tained leave of absence for himself for a few days from to-day. Mr. ELLIS asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Hunsicker for to-morrow. Mr. MACCONNELL asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Porter for a few days from to-day. The PRESIDENT pro tem. Does the gentleman from Dauphin ask leave of absence for the gentleman from Philadelphia? Mr. ALRICKS. No, sir; Isimply desire to mention the fact of his sickness. Mr. DODD asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Corbett for part of to-day and to-morrow. Mr. DUNNING asked and obtained leave of absence for Mr. Mott for a few days from to-day. Mr. BUCKALEW asked and obtained leave of absence for himself for to-morrow and Monday. Mr. CURTIN. Mr. President: We are granting leaves of absence to nearly all of the Convention for to-morrow. I move that when this Convention adjourns today, it adjourns to meet on Monday next at ten o'clock. The PRESIDENT pro tem. That is not in order at this time. Mr. BAER. I ask leave of absence for all the members of this Convention until Tuesday, the eighth day of July. [Laughter.] Mr. J. W. F. WHITE asked and obtained leave of absence for himself for a few days from to-morrow. Mr. HARRY WHITE. Mr. President: I desire to return home, and I am not able to get here on Monday without travelling on Sunday. I therefore ask leave of absence from to-day until Tuesday for that purpose. MANY DELEGATES. No. No. The PRESIDENT pro tem. A gentlemam who has scruples about travelling on Sunday asks leave of absence until Tuesday. [Great laughter.] MANY DELEGATES. No. No. The PRESIDENT pro tem. him go. [Renewed laughter.] Leave was granted. PROPOSED RECESS. were going to do this work right and well by remaining here in July, there would be some sense in it; but you cannot do it. You cannot keep a quorum here; you cannot keep your doors closed: you Oh! let cannot keep the gentlemen at work who are in the House; you cannot keep this deliberative body engaged in its duties in hot weather. What was the nervous sensibility which Mr. HEMPHILL. I offer the following led the gentleman from Indiana (Mr. resolution: Resolved, That when this Convention adjourns to-day, it be to meet on Tuesday, September sixteenth, at eleven o'clock A. M. On the question of proceeding to the second reading and consideration of the resolution, a division was called for, which resulted thirty-four in the affirmative, forty-five in the negative. So the Convention refused to order the resolution to be read a second time. ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY. Mr. CURTIN. I move that when this Convention adjourns this afternoon, it adjourn to meet on Monday morning at the usual hour. Mr. HALL. I move to amend the motion so as to extend the adjournment to Tuesday, July eighth, at ten o'clock A. M. Mr. WOODWARD. This proposition to bring members of this Convention back here again on the eighth of July is all wrong. You had better keep them here while you have got them, if you can, and acclimate them to the heat of July. I do not know how to account for it, but this has been the coolest June known in modern times. 1, in many respects, have rejoiced at it, because it has enabled us to get along with our work comfortably. If we had had such a June as we had last summer, we could not have lived here. But we have not had it. Then I take it we are to have our hot weather in July, and probably all the more hot because of the coolness of June. Now, I tell you, Mr. President, and I tell gentlemen around me, that it is not safe to life and health to remain in this city during the month of July. It is true some people do it, and many people die; but what sort of an argument is that to keep us here at the peril of our lives? Is it right for you to imperil your families, your interests, your own lives, by an effort to do business in a high state of the mercury, which you cannot do. If you Harry White) to move to reconsider the resolution to adjourn the other day? It is these mischievous newspapers around us, all of which I observe are praising him and his friends for reconsidering that most sensible resolution. I hear continually from the interior, that the newspapers of Philadelphia give the people no idea of what this Convention is doing, and I defy any man who reads the daily papers of Philadelphia to get a tolerable idea of what is going on in this Convention. Here sit some gentlemen, very respectable reporters, who give slight sketches of what occurs here and what is said; and that is served up in the papers without any connection, without any explanation, without any full exhibition of the question, and it conveys no idea to the people. Now, why do not these papers that are so hurrying of this body through the months of July and August give to the people of Pennsylvania some intelligible account of our proceedings? They have not done it, and because they have not done it, I moved the other day after we had passed our resolution of adjournment, that the Secretary should prepare and publish in every newspaper of the several counties a list of the amendments we had agreed to; and a howl arose against me here from gentlemen behind me as if I had proposed to cut off somebody's head. It was voted down with that sort of ven geance with which many of my propositions are voted down in this House. [Laughter.] Mr. LILLY. I desire to explain. I want to say to the gentleman that I was in front of him when he offered his ridiculous resolution. Mr. WOODWARD. I am very sorry there are not two men in this body, so that all these duties should not devolve upon one man, although he be the greatest man who has appeared in modern times. It is unfortunate that there is but one man in this body, and that man hails from Carbon county. I wish there were somebody else. He is the man who knows when to call the question. He is the man who knows when a proposition is ridiculous. Now, how ridiculous was it that I should propose that the amendments that we had agreed to should be printed in our local county papers so that the people would get some knowledge and idea of them? That was ridiculous in the judgment of the one man in this body. Well, sir, there is no disputing about tastes. I do not know that I shall renew that motion, but I shall vote for it if anybody else makes it. I think it would be a ridiculous thing not to do it and a very wise thing to do it. Mr. President, do not bring us back here on the eighth day of July. You will not bring me back. I am not speaking for myself. Mr. CORBETT. We are not going to come back on the eighth; we are going to stay. Mr. WOODWARD. I have no objection that you should come back if you desire. Mr. CORBETT. We are not going to come back; we are going to stay. Mr. WOODWARD. Very well, you can stay, enjoy yourselves and stay; but I advise you, Mr. President, not to come back on the eighth of July. If we adjourn over let us adjourn over until cold weather, adjourn over until October, publish our amendments, with the leave of the gentleman from Carbon-not without -publish our amendments, give the peo ple some idea of what we are doing, and come back here in October and finish our work, and my word for it the work will be better done than if hurried through during this heated term. Mr. LAWRENCE. Mr. President: I do not know who made this motion, but I do think the gentleman who did it has assumed a responsibility before the people which he will probably regret. I am tired, as you are, of this attempt to adjourn from day to day and from time to time. I have as high a regard for the gentleman from Philadelphia (Mr. Woodward) as any man in this Convention, but if he or any other man here at home cannot afford to come here from day to day and help us to perform our duties, we will give him leave of absence. The people have sent us here to perform a duty. We trifled away the time in winter when we should have worked. Some of us here have voted against every attempt to adjourn even for a day or for a week. I voted against the adjournment at Harrisburg. I voted against the adjournment on the first of April, and I have voted steadily against all these adjournments. I think we could have been through our work by this time and before this time if we had all been as vigilant and careful of our time as we should have been. Now, when the weather here is remarkably cool for this season of the year, when we are progressing with our work to the satisfaction, I think, of all the members of this Convention, or nearly all,going along steadily to perform our work from day to day, we are to be met by some motion to adjourn for a brief time or for a longer tiine. Now I have lived on a farm. I have driven four, and five, and six-horse teams, and I have always found that one baulky horse in the team pulling back would spoil the rest. Sometimes at the foot of a hill one horse would fall back and directly one or two others pull back and you fail to get up the hill. So it is in this Convention. We have found certain gentlemen here, without naming them, who have all along resisted every effort to go on with the business. They say you cannot finish the business; you must publish these reports in the papers and let the people know what we are doing. My friend from Philadelphia ought to have learned by this time that the people of this State understand what we are doing just about as well as he does. Mr. WOODWARD. They do not know anything about it. Mr. LAWRENCE. These reports are published in the papers. I see this from day to day. They know exactly the questions we are considering; they know what the state of affairs is, and they know who is responsible for this trifling with time, and they will hold them responsible for it. I do not speak with ill temper. I only say this because I believe it to be a duty that we owe to the people to finish our work and submit it to them this fall. If you do not submit it this fall or soon, as was said the other day, you allow these "rings" all over the State who are opposed to it, and members on this floor who have been opposed to reform from the first, to go home among the people and array an opposition against it, which you cannot suppress when you do submit it, just as was done in New York. I say for the sake of the people, for the sake of this Constitution, for the sake of the amendments which we propose to make, and which are important, and admitted to be important, we ought to go on with our work. If it gets too warm to stay here, if the typhoid fever or the cholera should break out in this city we can adjourn to another place, to Bethlehem, or better, probably, to Williamsport, or some other place. But I beg of gentlemen to let us go on from day to day, not even adjourning on the Fourth of July, or on Saturdays, and let us finish up our work like men, and go home like men to our families. Mr. H. W. PALMER. I suggest to the mover of this resolution that the select committee on this subject is now ready to report, and their report will put this matter in such an intelligible shape that we can finally dispose of the whole subject. Mr. CURTIN. I did not expect when I submitted the motion that it would provoke a discussion or take time. I therefore withdraw it. The PRESIDENT pro tem. The motion is withdrawn. Original resolutions are yet in order. If there are none, reports of committees are in order. RAILROADS AND CANALS. Mr. COCHRAN. Before passing from the order of original resolutions, I move to make the report of the Committee on Railroads and Canals the special order for next Tuesday morning. The motion was agreed to. SUMMER PLACE OF MEETING. Mr. BRODHEAD. I beg leave to present the report of the select committee appointed to select a place for meeting during the summer. Mr. LILLY. The order for original resolutions has not been passed. If it has has not, then I insist on the orders of the day. The PRESIDENT pro tem. Reports are in order. The report will be read. The CLERK read as follows: The undersigned, committee appointed to select a suitable place for the future sittings of the Convention, respectfully report that invitations have been received from The borough of Gettysburg. The borough of Bedford. The borough of Bethlehem. The borough of Shippensburg. The city of Allentown. The city of Wilkesbarre. And that we have no doubt the Convention would be abundantly accommodated and entertained at either place. Admonished by the approach of the heat ed term and by the failing health of some of the members, the committee are of the opinion that removal to another locality is an absolute necessity if the labors of the Convention are to be completed during the present year; and we therefore recommend that one of the foregoing places be selected in manner following: Let a vote be had upon the question, to what place shall the Convention adjourn, when each member may vote for one of the places above named, and after each vote the name of the place receiving the lowest number shall be dropped. The name of the place finally receiving a majority of the votes to be inserted in the following resolution: Resolved, That when the Convention decides to leave Philadelphia it will meet at And in order that the whole subject may be finally disposed of without further loss of time, we recommend that the Convention act upon the following resolution: Resolved, That when the Convention adjourns on Wednesday, July second, it will be to meet at the place heretofore selected, on Tuesday the eighth of July, at ten A. M. CHARLES BRODHEAD, S. L. RUSSELL. Mr. STANTON. I move to add Philadel phia to the places named. Mr. H. W. PALMER. This only contemplates removing from Philadelphia. It is a question whether we shall go away at all or not. The PRESIDENT pro tem. The resolution reported by the committee is before the Convention. What action will the Convention take upon it? Mr. TEMPLE. I move to postpone the consideration of the resolution for the present, and on that question I call for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDENT pro tem. That motion cannot be received until the matter of the second reading of the resolution is disposed of. The question is on proceeding to the second reading and consideration of the resolution attached to the report. Mr. DARLINGTON and Mr. TEMPLE called for the yeas and nays. Mr. H. W. PALMER. I ask that the report be read again for information. I do not think the Conyention fully comprehend the scope of it. We can settle this ques once. tion on this report understandingly and at Metzger, Minor, Newlin, Palmer, G. W., Ross, Sharpe, Smith, H. G., Smith, Wm. H., White, David N. and Meredith, President-34. The PRESIDENT pro tem. The report and the resolution will be read again for information. Mr. DARLINGTON. Mr. President: We understand it perfectly. The PRESIDENT pro tem. Debate is not in order. The CLERK again read the report. Mr. HAY [after first voting in the negative.] I desire to change my vote. I vote "yea" for the reason that I think the Convention ought always to proceed to the second reading and consideration of any resolution reported by a commitee of this body. The result was announced, yeas fortyeight, nays fifty-one, as follow: YEAS. Messrs. Achenbach, Alricks, Andrews, Armstrong, Baer, Bailey, (Huntingdon,) Beebe, Bowman, Brodhead, Buckalew, Cochran, Corbett, Cronmiller, Curtin, Davis, De France, Dunning, Elliott, Ellis, Ewing, Funck, Gibson, Hall, Harvey, Hay, Hazzard, Lamberton, MacConnell, MClean, M'Murray, Mitchell, Mott, Niles, Palmer, H. W., Parsons, Patterson, T. H. B., Pughe, Reed, Andrew, Runk, Russell, Smith, Henry W., Struthers, Van Reed, Wetherill, J. M., White, J. W. F., Woodward, Worrell and Wright -48. NAYS. Messrs. Baily, (Perry,) Bannan, Bigler, Black, Charles A., Boyd, Broomall, Brown, Bullitt, Calvin, Carey, Carter, Cassidy, Church, Corson, Curry, Dallas, Darlington, Edwards, Fulton, Gilpin, Green, Guthrie, Hemphill, Heverin, Horton, Hunsicker, Kaine, Knight, Lawrence, Lilly, Littleton, Long, Mann, Patterson, D. W., Patton, Porter, Purman, Purviance, John N., Purviance, Sam'l A., Read, John R., Reynolds, Rooke, Simpson, Stanton, Stewart, Temple, Turrell, Walker, Wetherill, Jno. Price, Wherry and White, Harry-51. ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY. Mr. LILLY. I offer the following resolution: Resolved, That when this Convention adjourns to-day it will be until Monday next, at ten o'clock A. M. der. Resolutions are not now in order, Mr. LITTLETON. I rise to a point of orand I object to the reception of the resolution. Mr. HEMPHILL. The time has gone by to present resolutions. The PRESIDENT pro tem. The resolu tion has been received and read, and the question is on proceeding to its second reading and consideration. Mr. BAER. I call for the yeas and nays. Mr. NILES. I second the call. YEAS. Messrs. Armstrong, Bannan, Bigler, Buckalew, Calvin, Cassidy, Curry, Davis, Black, Charles A., Brodhead, Broomall, Gilpin, Green, Guthrie, Hall, Harvey, Dunning, Edwards, Ellis, Ewing, Funck, Howard, Hunsicker, Kaine, Lamberton, Lilly, Long, M'Camant, Mott, Parsons, Patterson, T. II. B., Read, John R., Runk, Smith, Henry W., Stanton, Van Reed, Wetherill, J. M., White, Harry and White, J. W. F.-39. NAYS. Messrs. Achenbach, Alricks, Andrews, Baer, Baily, (Perry,) Bailey, (HuntingBoyd, Brown, Bullitt, Carey, Carter, don,) Bardsley, Beebe, Biddle, Bowman, Church, Cochran, Corbett, Corson, CronFrance, Elliott, Fulton, Hay, Hazzard, miller, Curtin, Dallas, Darlington, De Hemphill, Heverin, Horton, Knight, Law M'Culloch, M'Murray, Mann, Mitchell, rence, Littleton, MacConnell, M'Clean, Niles, Palmer, H. W., Patterson, D. W., Patton, Porter, Purman, Purviance, John N., Purviance, Samuel A., Reed, Andrew, Reynolds, Rooke, Russell, Simpson, So the question was determined in the Smith, H. G., Stewart, Struthers, Temple, negative. ABSENT.-Messrs. Addicks, Ainey, Baker, Barclay, Bardsley, Bartholomew, Biddle, Black, J. S., Campbell, Clark, Collins, Craig, Cuyler, Dodd, Fell, Finney, Hanna, Howard, Landis, Lear, MacVeagh, M'Camant, M'Culloch, Mantor, Turrell, Walker, Wetherill, John Price, Wherry, Woodward and Wright—63. So the Convention refused to proceed to the second reading and consideration of the resolution. ABSENT.-Messrs. Addicks, Ainey, Baker, Barclay, Bartholomew, Black, J. S., |