Seventh resolution, fixing the right of suffrage in the first branch, resumed — Motion to amend so as to provide that the right of suffrage in the first branch should be the same as in the Articles of the Confederation, (an equality, each state having one vote therein,) — Postponed.
Amendment proposed to the seventh resolution, so as to give each state an equal suffrage in the first branch, resumed — Disagreed to — Remaining clauses of seventh resolution postponed.
Eighth resolution, fixing the same right of suffrage in the second branch of the legislature as in the first — Motion to amend so as to provide that each state should have an equal suffrage in the second branch — Adjourned.
Amendment proposed to the eighth resolution, so as to give each state an equal suffrage in the second branch, resumed — Proposition to amend so as to provide that each state should send' an equal number of members to the second branch; that, in all questions of state sovereignty and of appointments to office, each state shall have an equal suffrage, and that, in fixing salaries and appropriations, each state shall vote in proportion to its contributions to the treasury — Not moved.
Amendment proposed to the eighth resolution, so as to give each state an equal suffrage in the second branch, resumed — Disagreed to.
Motion to refer the clauses of the seventh and eighth resolutions, relating to the suffrages of both branches of the legislature, to a committee — Agreed to.
Report of the committee to amend the seventh resolution, so as to provide that the proportion of suffrage of each state in the first branch shall be one member for every forty thousand inhabitants of the description mentioned in that resolution; that each state shall have one member in the first branch; that all bills for raising or appropriating money shall originate in the first branch, and not be altered in the second; and that no payments shall be made from the treasury, except on appropriations by law.
Report to amend the eighth resolution, so as to provide that each state shall have an equal suffrage in the second branch.
Clause of the report on the seventh resolution, providing that the proportion of suffrage of each state in the first branch should be one member for every forty thousand inhabitants, resumed — Referred to a committee — Clause of the report on the seventh resolution, providing that all money bills shall originate in the first branch, resumed — Agreed to.
Report of the committee, to amend the clause of the seventh resolution, relative to the proportion of suffrage in the first branch, by fixing at present the whole number therein at forty-six, and apportioning them in a certain ratio among the states, considered — Referred to another committee.
Report of the committee, providing that the future number of members of the first branch may be altered from time to time, and fixed by the legislature, on the principles of the wealth and numbers of inhabitants of each state — Agreed to.
Report of the committee on the seventh resolution, providing that at present the whole number of members in the first branch shall be sixty-five, and apportioning them in a certain ratio among the states — Agreed to — Motion that a census be taken every ——— years, and the representation in the first branch be arranged by the legislature accordingly — Adjourned.
Amendment to the seventh resolution, requiring the future representation to be arranged by the legislature according to a periodical census, resumed — Motion to amend it by requiring the legislature to arrange the representation according to a census of the free inhabitants, taken at least every fifteen years — Agreed to — Motion further to amend by requiring the census to include three fifths of the negroes — Disagreed to.
Seventh resolution, relative to the proportion of suffrage in the first branch, resumed — Motion to provide that representation and direct taxation shall be in the same proportion — Agreed to — Motion to provide that for the future arrangement of representation, a census shall be taken within six years, and within every ten years afterwards, and that it shall be made according to the whole number of inhabitants, rating the blacks at three fifths of their number — Agreed to.
Seventh resolution, relative to the proportion of suffrage in the first branch, resumed — Motion to provide that, until the first census be taken, the proportion of the representatives from the states in the first branch, and the moneys raised from them by direct taxation, shall be the same — Agreed to — Motion to strike out the amendment heretofore made for regulating future representation on the principle of wealth — Agreed to.
