Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ...from the deliberations of that Committee, and based upon the statements made by the contesting parties from Missouri, this Convention has before it here this morning in the report of the majority; and I beg leave to say to the Convention, with all respect to the Hon. Chairman, and without violating any of the proprieties of that Committee Eoom, that the very same proposition presented here before the Convention this morning by him, was presented before that Committed and voted down; and why so? Is it improper, then, to present the same question to this Convention as a whole? Most assuredly not; but remember that this Convention entrusted to that Committee the care of deciding all these questions. They did decide. They agreed to the report of the majority. They voted down the very proposition which the Honorable Chairman now proposes to the Convention. The President.--Will Mr. Dorsey stop for a moment 1 The Chair did not call the gentleman to order when he referred to the proceedings of the Committee, . in the hope that he would make a bare reference to them. The Chair now rules that it is not in order in a discussion in this Convention to refer to the proceedings of a Committee. Mr. G. Volnev Dorsey, of Ohio.--Then I will not do so. I only intended to add to what I have said, that the committee having been entrusted by this Convention to decide upon this important question were more competent to do so than a mass convention, for they have listened carefully to the contestants, and the opinions presented by those persons who were set forward to speak as advocates of the contesting parties, and they have come carefully to the conclusion presented by the majority, and as such they feel willing to entrust the report of the ma-f jority to the..
