and he had also learned, that a Constitution was to be introduced and carried in two days-that all difficulties would be cleared away-and that the debate would be cut off by the previous question. He did not, and would not, charge any gentleman with having recommended this course, but it came to him in the shape of a report, and it must go out in the same character. How could that gentleman contemplate such a course, when he now condemned it with so much apparent zeal. Now, the gentleman seemed to be friendly to the conservatives, if he (Mr. M'C.) understood him correctly, charged the reformers with retarding the despatch of business, and causing the expenses so much complained of. This was the first time that he had heard the gentleman rally the conservatives. he abandoned the friends of reform, and gone over to those opposed to any alteration, simply to get rid of the difficulty which effected his personal convenience? He (Mr. M'C.) would be sorry that the Convention should lose his valuable services. He would feel great regret. He trusted that the proposition to rescind would not prevail, and that the Convention would adjourn to meet again in October next, when such amendments would be made, and being then submitted, would, he trusted, meet the approbation of the people.

Had

He would vote against rescinding, because he thought that under existing circumstances, it would be impolitic to do so. He confessed, that he should like the subject of the Judiciary to be brought before the Convention, and he would oppose the application of the previous question in reference to it. He should be glad to hear the views of the gentlemen who well understood the subject, and also, that those views should go forth to the public, and then when we met again in October next, we should be able to act with a perfect understanding of the matter. He would conclude by expressing his hope that the amendment to the amendment would not pre vail.

Mr. HIESTER, of Lancaster, said that when the gentleman from Lancaster proposed his resolution, he (Mr. H.) had voted for taking it up, because he was in hope that something would be said on the subject of Judicial tenure. However, on further reflection this morning, he was opposed to its consideration. The reason was, because it was so indefinite in its. terms, that he could see no advantage that could be derived from it. With regard to the amendment of the gentleman from Northampton, to go into committee of the whole on the Judiciary question, he was in favor of it the other day, and had voted against taking up the sixth, in order that the fifth might be considered in regular order. Now, he thought, that it was too late to take it up, as the day of adjournment was fixed. He was opposed to all adjournments. He wished the work to be finished before we went home. Now, however, it would be unwise to rescind the order. We had already spent several days on the question of adjournment, and we had, from time to time taken it up, and considered it and rejected it, until at length, on Friday last, the majority succeeded in obtaining a vote for an adjournment till next October. It was quite apparent that gentlemen were quite unsettled, and he, for one, had made up his mind to adjourn, because he believed that we were not in a state to do business as we ought to do it. Under these circumstances, he would vote for the indefinite postponement of the subject, in order that we might proceed to business in the regular order-taking up for consideration the different sections of the sixth article of the Constitution,

Mr. FORWARD, of Allegheny, said, that he should vote for the indefinite postponement, because he thought that after an adjournment of a few weeks, we would then be more in a condition to give the subjects, refered to by the gentleman from Indiana, that sober attention, and that calm and cool deliberation, which they demanded. He had understood his worthy friend as assenting to an adjournment, in order to effect so desirable an object. Under existing circumstances, we were not in a frame of mind to discuss any subject of importance, and to lay our opinions before the people.

Mr. DUNLOP, of Franklin, said he would be pleased if the Convention would agree to the motion for the postponement of the subject, as it was no time now to discuss a matter of so much importance. I am, sir, said he, a whig-a mere whig-whose only policy was his country's good; a man merely of business, or at least, one who wished to be so, and owned no party, but that which promoted employment-a mere working man, who knew of no plots and caucuses, (that have been so freely alluded to.) either to hurry or retard the business before the Convention: he owned no prompter in politics but sincerity, and lent himself to no devices inconsistent with straight forward integrity. I am unwilling, therefore, to believe, sir, said he, in the tricks and contrivences of others; to hope that nothing was introduced, except with the plainest purposes and sincerest intentions. I will not lend myself to the opinion, that the gentleman from Fayette, (Mr. FULLER,) has introduced this resolution with any other than an ingenuous purpose. I believe that gentleman to be an honest man, and above the little arts of deceit: I cannot agree that he has acted with deceptious views, and that he has been made the tool of sinister designs. I have too good an opinion of that member-an opinion justified by all that I have witnessed in him here, to admit that he wishes to impose upon us, or to believe that this resolution has been the result of caucus plots, to deJude us; but I hope, as I believe, that every gentleman here will act upon each proposal, as disconnected with party, or manoeuvre, and upon its own abstract merits. But, sir, had this resolution come from a less suspicious quarter, I should have viewed it with no little scruple; and as it is, Mr. President, I cannot but wonder how it comes to pass that the gentleman from Fayette has offered it now, at this closing period of our session, when so many members are absent-when so much listlessness prevails in this body, and when so very short a time must intervene before we disperse. But, is it not odd that the gentleman from Fayette should introduce this grave, momentous subject now, sir, when he voted against taking it up so long ago as the 28th of June? If the committee will turn to the page of the Journal, they will find that Mr. MEREDITH moved to go into committee of the whole, upon the report of the standing committee on the sixth article, with the obvious view of passing by the important subject of the fifth article, (on the Judiciary,) until the Convention was more disposed to consider it gravely. I find, sir, among the ayes and noes on that motion. the name of one "FULLER", in the affirmative. I presume, however strange it may seem now, sir, that that name belongs to the gentleman from Fayette. I know, sir, (giving Mr. F. a most inquiring look,) but one FULLER in this House. Yes, sir, it is the gentleman from Fayette; it must be he, who thought that the 28th of June was too late to take up this important question, and now thinks it can be done in a twinkling! I

should be glad to know, sir, what cantrip sleights, what tricks of party have changed the gentleman's views so totally, so effectually.

But, sir, said Mr. D. before I enter upon the investigation of the merits of this matter, I wish to say, sir, that I have not risen so much to urge the postponement of this subject before us, as to deplore the fate of GUYER"the indefatigable GUYER"-and I do it, sir, in tears. How comes it, sir, that the gentleman from Indiana. (Mr. CLARKE,) can blunder into no error -that his friends can make no false or foolish step, but that poor GUYER must be continually licked for it? I use the word licked, as one most intelligible to the gentleman himself, and perfectly familiar to his constituents of Indiana. Why is it, sir, that GUYER is the scape-goat of all the faults and errors of the gentleman and his friends? When a radical member introduces an ill-judged measure, the mischief must be saddled upon the Daily Chronicle: when the gentleman is rated about the expenses into which he and his party of reformers are plunging the State, he falls upon GUYER! Poor GUYER, like the helpless SCIPIO in GIL BLAS, is flogged for every error, and blunder, and negligence of his master! Every letter which the nobleman's son learned, as we are informed by the immortal novelist, cost poor SCIPIO a most effectual drubbing: and so every speech with which the gentleman instructs the Convention, at the expense of the Commonwealth, costs poor GUYER a pummeling at his hands! If you tell the gentleman that his friends, the radicals, are costing their fellow citizens nine hundred and sixty-seven dollars, as the daily expenses of our Reform Convention, he forthwith falls on GUYER! If you argue that the course pursued by himself or his friends, is inconsistent with their professions, uncourteous to their opponents, and dangerous to the community, he sallies out and belabors the Daily Chronicle! Poor GUYER! how inconsolable would be his fate, were he not so placid and imperturbable ?— And how deplorable would be the situation of the gentleman from Indiana, if he had not GUYER to bear his blunders and his blows?

But, sir, the gentleman from Indiana, amidst his other vagaries, has wandered into charges against the conservatives, of endeavoring to distract the attention of the Convention, from time to time, and to protract their proceedings. Who is meant as doing so, it is difficult to ascertain, as the conservatives are reduced to a very few. We have become nearly all reformers, to a certain extent; but, I presume, the member means all those who do not exactly agree with himself, none else being of the truly accurate. Sir, the gentleman charges members with using improper means, of pursuing a censurable course with sinister motives to protract debate, and prevent conclusion: and yet, at the same time, tells us he does not blame such conduct-that it is all fair and proper! To be deceptious, meets his entire approval-does it? To act under false pretences, meets with his approbation! I do not understand such logic. Deceit, sir, is as unbecoming a gentleman here as elsewhere, however it may agree with the gentleman's morality to approve of it. Falsehood and fraud are as odious in one place as another, however much some politicians may think to the contrary.

Here Mr. D. said he had much to say, and would move that the Convention adjourn.

The motion was agreed to; and

The Convention adjourned.

MONDAY AFTERNOON-JULY 10.

The Convention being called to order,

The question being on the motion of Mr. KoMIGMACHER to postpone indefinitely the resolution of Mr. FULLER, and the amendments,

Mr. DORAN asked for the yeas and nays, which were ordered.

The question was then taken on the motion of Mr. KONIGMACHER, and decided-ycas, 44; nays, 60-as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Ayres, Baldwin, Barclay, Barnitz, Bayne, Bell, Biddle, Brown, of Lancaster, Carey, Chambers, Chandler of Philadelphia, Chauncey, Clarke of Beaver, Cline, Cope, Craig, Crum, Cunningham, Darlington, Farrelly, Forward, Fry, Harris, Hiester, Hopkinson, Houpt, Jenks, Konigmacher, Long, Maclay, M'Call, M'Sherry, Merrill, Pennypacker, Pollock, Porter of Lancaster, Porter of Northampton, Reigart, Russell, Saeger, Serrill, Sill, Snively, Thomas, Todd, Young, Sergeant, President-47.

NAYS-Messrs. Agnew, Banks, Barndollar, Bedford, Brown of Northampton, Brown of Philadelphia, Butler, Clapp, Clark of Dauphin, Clarke of Indiana, Cleavinger, Cochran, Cummin, Curll, Darrah, Dickey, Dickerson, Dillinger, Donnell, Doran, Earle, Fleming, Fuller, Gamble, Gearhart, Gilmore, Grenell, Hastings, Hayhurst, Helfenstein, High, Hyde, Ingersoll. Keim, Kennedy, Kerr, Krebs, M'Cahen, Merkel, Miller, Montgomery, Nevin, Overfield, Purviance, Read, Riter, Ritter, Rogers, Sellers, Seltzer, Scheetz, Shellito, Smyth, Sterigere, Stickel, Swetland, Taggart, Weaver, Weidman, White-60.

The question recuring on the motion of Mr. DICKEY to amend the amendment,

Mr. DICKEY asked for the yeas and nays, which were ordered.

The question was then taken on the amendment of Mr. DICKEY, and decided-yeas, 32; nays, 79-as follows:

YEAS-Messrs. Agnew, Ayres, Banks, Barndollar, Barnitz, Bayne, Butler, Clarke of Beaver, Clark of Dauphin, Cline, Cochran, Crain, Cunningham, Denny, Dickey, Dickerson, Dunlop, Hayhurst, Hiester, Hopkinson, Kerr, M'Sherry, Meredith, Merrill, Merkel Montgomery, Purviance, Scott, Snively, Sterigere, Weidman, White-32.

NAYS-Messrs Baldwin, Barclay, Bedford, Bell, Biddle, Brown of Lancaster, Brown of Northampton, Brown of Philadelphia, Carey, Chambers, Chandler of Philadelphia, Chauncey, Clapp, Clarke of Indiana, Cleavinger, Cope, Crum, Cummin, Curll, Darlington, Darrah, Dillinger, Donnell, Doran, Earle, Farrelly, Fleming, Forward, Fry, Fuller, Gamble, Gearhart, Gilmore, Grenell, Harris, Hastings Helffenstein, High, Houpt, Hyde, Ingersoll, Jenks, Keim, Kennedy, Conigmacher, Krebs, Long, Maclay, M'Cahen, M'Call, Miller, Nevin, Overfield, Pennypacker, Pollock, Porter of Lancaster, Porter of Northamp ton, Reigart, Read, Riter, Ritter, Rogers, Russell, Saeger, Sellers, Seltzer, Serrill, Scheetz, Shellito, Sill, Smyth, Stickel, Swetland, Taggart, Thomas, Todd, Weaver, Young, Sergeant, President-79.

The question recuring on the amendment made by Mr. PORTER, of Northampton,

Mr. PORTER withdrew his amendment.

Mr. DICKEY moved to amend the resolution, by striking out all after the word resolved", and inserting as follows:

"That the following amendments to the Constitution shall be submited to the people of this Commonwealth, for their confirmation or rejection at the next general election, in the following manner: The amendments shall be submited all together. The several inspectors appointed or chosen to conduct the next general election, shall, at the times and places of holding said election, receive written or printed tickets from the electors qualified to vote at said election, labelled on the outside," amendments", and containing on the inside," for the amendments", or "against the amendments"; an the votes thus given shall be counted and returned in the same manner as is now provided for in the case of votes for representatives-which said votes shall be opened, counted, and declared by the

next General Assembly in joint Convention, on the third Wednesday of December next; and if a majority of all the votes thus given shall be "for the amendments", then these amendments shall become and be part of the Con-titution of this Comm nwealth; otherwise they shall be void. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall cause the amendments to be published in at least two new spapers in each county, (containing so inany) for at least two months before the election.

AMENDMENTS.

ART. I. After the sections second and tenth, so as to read as follows:

SECT. 2. The Representatives shall be chosen annually by the citizens of Philade'phia, and of each cou ty respectively, on the third Tuesday of Oct her.

SECT. 10. The General Assembly shall meet on the first Tuesday of January in each year, unless somer convened by the Governor, and shall adjourn on the first Thur-day in April, unless continued in session by Law for that purpose.

ARTICLE II. OF THE CONSTITUTION. Alter section th ́id to read a follows:

SECT. 3. The Governor sha I hold his office during three years from the third Tuesday of January n xt ensuing his election, and shall not be capable of holding it longer than six in any term of nine years.

AREICLE III, OF THE CONSTITUTION.

Alter section first, so as to read as follows:

SECT. 1 In e'ections by the cit z ns. every freeman of the age of twenty-o e years, having reside in the State one year, or if he had previously been a qualified elector, six months before the election, and within two years next bfore the electi›n. pail 1 St te or county tax, which shall have been as-e-sed at least te i dys next b for the election, shall enjoy the rights of an elector: Providel, Th-t freemen, ci izens of the United States, having resided in the State as afo esa d, bing between the ages of twenty-me and twenty-two years, shall be entitled to vote, although they shall not have paid

taxes.

AT. V. Alter section second to read as fllows:

SECT. 2. The Judges of the Supreme Court, of the several courts of the Common Pleas, and of such other cou ts of Records, whi hare or shale established by law shall beomina ed by the Governor, and, by and with the co is nt of th Smite appoint d, and commissioned by him. The Judges of the Supreme Court shall hold their o fices for the term of fifteen years, if they shalio long behavet emselves well. The President Judges of the several courts of Common Pe s, and of such other courts of Record, as are or shall be established by law, and a 1 other Jules req tired to be l ́arn d in the law, shall hold their offices for the term of ten yea ́s, if they shal so long behave them elves well. The A sociate Judges of the c. urt of Common Pleas shall hold thei offices for the term of five years, if they shali so long behav› themselves well. For every reasonable cause which shall not be sufficient ground for impeachmant, &c. to the end of the existing section.

Alter st on ten to read as fo'lws:

S.CT. 10. A competent number f the Jus'ices of the Peace and A'dermen. to be fixed by law, shall in the several townships, boroughs, and war 14, of the sev 'ra' counties and cities of this Commonwealth, be elected by the qua ified ele tors of Represent itives, They shall be commissioned by the Governor, and shil had their offices for the term of five years; but may by him be removed on conviction of misbehavior, &c. to the end of the existing section.

ART. V1, OF THE CONSTITUTION. Alter it to read as follows:

SECT. 1. Sheriff's and Coroner shall, at the times and places of el ction of Repre sentative, he chosen by the citize is of ea h county. One person shill by chow for each office, who shall be commissioned by the Governor. Tev sh ll hold their offices for three years, if they shall so long behave t'imse ves wl, and unt la successor be duly qualified; but no person shall be twice chosen, or apointed Sheff in any term of sx years. Vacancies in either of sad office shall be filled by a new appointment to be made by the Governor, to continue until the next general election, and until a succes sor shall be chosen and qual fied as aforesaid.

Add a new section, to be called section six, as follows:

SECT. 6. Prothonotaries and clerks of the sever. curts, (except the Prothonotaries of the Supreme Court, who shall be appointed in the respective districts by the court for the term of three years, if they shall so long behave themselves well, and are not re:no

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