Afternoon Session Convention met pursuant to adjournment. On motion of Mr. Emery of Lawrence, the following Resolution was adopted . Resolved – That a Committee on Local Affairs be added to the Standing Committees. On motion of Mr. Brown of Osawatomie – the following Resolution was adopted. Resolved – That a Committee be formed under the head of
Administration – Mr. Holliday of Topeka from the Committee on
Finance
and Taxation – made a Report – which was read the first time.
Mr.
Emery of Lawrence, from the Committee on Jurisprudence, made a Report,
which
was read the first time. Mr. Robinson, of Lawrence, presented the
petition of
S. N. Wood and others, which upon motion of Mr Delahay of Leavenworth,
was laid
upon the Table. Mr. Lane of Lawrence, (Mr. Hunt of Lawrence, in the
Chair) –
presented the following
Resolution –which was ordered to be entered upon the Journal of
the Convention
– Said Resolution being the instructions given by the people of the
2nd
Representative District, at the meeting held at Lawrence on the 7th Oct
which
nominated the delegates to this Convention.
Resolved – That the Delegates nominated to this Convention, be
and hereby
are instructed to use their exertings to submit the question of excluding
Free
Negroes from the Territory, to the people of the Territory, on the day
the constitution
is submitted, their decision
to operate as instructions to the first Legislature upon that
subject. Mr.
Lane of Lawrence submitted the following Resolution, which was adopted,
and
referred to the appropriate committee.
Resolved - That the committee on Miscellaneous Business be and hereby
are instructed
to report a plan to this Convention for submitting the question of
excluding
Free Negroes – from this Territory, to the people, upon the day the
Constitution
is submitted; their decision to operate as instructions to the first
legislature
upon that subject.
On motion of Mr. Robinson of Lawrence the Resolution of Mr. Smith of
Franklin
which was passed on Tuesday Oct. 30th was reconsidered. Mr. Delahay of
Leavenworth,
offered the following as an amendment – That the Executive
Committee appointed
at the peoples convention at Topeka in September last, be and they are
hereby
recognised as the Executive Committee for State Organization purposes in
Kanzas
– Mr. Robinson of Lawrence moved to refer the subject to the
Committee
on Miscellaneous Business –
On this motion the Yeas and Nays were demanded – On the call of
the Roll
– twelve members were founded to have voted in the affirmative and
fourteen
members in the negative – Those who voted in the affirmative, are
Messrs. O. C. Brown – Crosby – Curtiss – Emery
– Hunt
– Hunting – Klotz – Knight – Landis –
Robinson
– Schuyler – Stewart – Those who voted in the negative
were
– Messrs – Delahay- Goodin – Graham – Lane
– Latta
– May – McDaniel – Mewhiney – Parrott –
Roberts
– Sayle – G.W. Smith – Tuton – Wakefield.
The question was then taken upon the amendment of Mr. Delahay of
Leavenworth,
and it was passed. On motion of Mr. Tuton of
Bloomington, it was ordered that when the convention adjourn, it
adjourn to
meet at 61/2 o’clock. The convention then adjourned.
Evening Session
Convention met pursuant to adjournment. On motion of Mr. Parrott of
Leavenworth,
the convention went into Committee of the Whole – on the subject of
immediate
State Organization – Mr. Hunt of Lawrence, in the chair. On the
rise of
the committee the chairman reported that the committee had made progress
in
the consideration of the subject and asked leave to sit again.
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