below a majority — Disagreed to — Motion to authorize the compulsory attendance of members — Agreed to — Motion to require a vote of two thirds to expel a member — Agreed to — Motion to allow a single member to call the yeas and nays — Disagreed to — Motion to allow senators to enter their dissent on the Journals — Disagreed to — Motion to strike out the clause which confines the keeping and publication of the Journal of the Senate to its legislative business — Agreed to.
Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the legislature, resumed — Motion to except from publication such parts of the Senate Journal, not legislative, aa it may judge to require secrecy — Disagreed to — Motion to except from publication such parts of the Senate Journal as relate to treaties and military operations — Disagreed to — Motion to omit the publication of such parts of the Journals as either House may judge to require secrecy — Agreed to.
Article fourth, relative to the House of Representatives, resumed — Motion to require only citizenship and inhabitancy in members — Disagreed to — Motion to require nine years' citizenship — Disagreed to — Motion to require four and five years' citizenship instead of seven — Disagreed to — Motion to provide that the seven years' citizenship should not affect the rights of persons now citizens — Disagreed to.
Article fifth, relative to the Senate, resumed — Motion to require seven years' citizenship in senators, instead of nine — Disagreed to.
Article fourth, relative to the House of Representatives, resumed — Motion to restore the clause relative to money bills — Disagreed to.
Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the legislature, resumed — Motion to permit members to be appointed to office during their term, but to vacate their seats — Disagreed to — Motion to permit members to be appointed during their term to offices in the army or navy, but to vacate their seats — Postponed — Motion to pay the members, out of the national treasury, a sum to be fixed by law — Agreed to.
Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the legislature, resumed — Motion to unite the judges of the Supreme Court with the President, in his revisory power over acts of the legislature — Disagreed to — Motion to require three fourths, instead of two thirds, to pass bills, negatived by the executive — Agreed to — Motion to extend the negative of the executive to resolves as well as bills — Disagreed to — Motion to allow the executive ten days to revise bills — Agreed to — Article sixth, as amended, agreed to.
Article sixth, relative to the elections, qualifications, and proceedings of the legislature, resumed — Motion to subject joint resolutions {except on adjournment) to the negative of the executive — Agreed to.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature — Motion to exclude exports from duty — Postponed — Motion to authorize the establishment of post-roads — Agreed to — Motion to forbid the emission of bills of credit — Agreed to.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion that it may appoint a treasurer by joint ballot — Agreed to — Subdue rebellion in a state without the application of its legislature when it cannot meet — Disagreed to — Declare war — Agreed to.
Motion to add various powers to the legislature — Referred to the committee of detail.
Motion relative to an assumption of the state debts — Referred to a grand committee.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of the legislature, resumed — Motion that it may make rules for the army and navy — Agreed to — Motion that the army shall be limited in time of peace to a fixed number — Disagreed to — Motion that the subject of regulating the militia be referred to the grand committee — Agreed to.
Motion to add various powers to the legislature — Referred to the committee of detail.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of Congress, resumed — Motion that it may pass sumptuary laws — Disagreed to — Motions to amend the language defining and providing for the punishment of treason — Agreed to — Motion to require the first census in three years — Agreed to.
Report of grand committee on assuming state debts, and regulating the militia.
Article seventh, relative to the powers of Congress, resumed — Motion that state quotas for the expenses of the war be adjusted by the same rate as representation and direct taxation — Postponed — Motion that, until a census, direct taxation should be in proportion to representation — Disagreed to — Motion to raise direct taxes by requisitions on the states — Disagreed to — Motion to permit taxes on exports by a vote of two thirds — Disagreed to.
