On motion of Mr. STOREY, the first resolution relative to reporters of the Convention was taken from the table and the same was adopted.

Mr. HANSCOM offered the following resolution, and the same was agreed to: Resolved, That there be added to the standing committees of the Convention, one on supplies and expenditures, to consist of five members.

On motion of Mr. HANSCOM, the subject of postage and newspapers was referred to the committee on supplies and expenditures.

THURSDAY, (4th day,) June 6.

The Convention was called to order at 9 o'clock.

On motion of Mr. ROBERTS, the Convention then adjourned.

Mr. VAN VALKENBURG, from the committee appointed to invite resident clergymen to officiate at the opening of the daily session of the Convention, reported that they had performed that duty; and the committee was discharged.

RESOLUTIONS.

get the attention of the President, as members had taken the floor and gone on to speak without addressing the President. He moved that the resolutions be referred to the committee on printing.

The motion of Mr. BRITAIN was carried. Mr. ARZENO offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a certificate of five dol

lars be drawn and presented to each member of this Convention, to be used by such member in the purchase of stationery.

Mr. CRARY said the object embraced in this resolution would come up under Mr. GARDINER offered the following: the report of the committee on supplies Resolved, That a standing committee of and expenditures. He moved to lay the five be appointed to superintend the print-resolution on the table. ing to be done for this Convention, to be called the committee on printing.

Mr. COOK inquired what printing it is intended to superintend.

Mr. HASCALL--Reports of committees and such printing as the Convention may order.

The resolution was adopted, and the President appointed Messrs. Gardiner, HASCALL, CHURCH, ROBERTS and BUSH such committee.

Mr. STOREY offered the following: Resolved, That the State Printer be instracted to print an edition of 250 copies of the daily official journal of this Convention, in book form, for binding; and that he be instructed to print a like number of all reports of committees for binding.

Resolved, That the contractor for doing the binding for the State, be instructed to bind in the same manner the journals of the Legislature are now bound, the jour nals and such documents as may be printed by order of this Convention, in one volume-the reports to be inserted as an appendix to the journals.

Mr. VAN VALKENBURG asked what disposition was to be made of these books. Mr. STOREY remarked that it was intended to distribute them in the same manner as journals of Legislature. The copies remaining after members of the Convention had been supplied could be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

Mr. BRITAIN thought it was a standing rule of the Convention, that every member, previous to speaking, should address himself to the President; he had risen several times, but had been unable to

The resolution was laid on the table. Mr. ROBERTS offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That a committee on governmental and judicial policy of the Upper Peninsular, be added to the standing committees, to consist of nine members. Adopted.

Mr. N. PIERCE moved that the vote by which the 34th rule was stricken from the report of the committee on rules to govern this Convention, be reconsidered.

The PRESIDENT suggested that the subject would come up to-day, when the report of the committee on rules was taken from the table.

Mr. CORNELL moved to lay the resolution on the table. Carried. Mr. BUSH moved to take from the table the report of the committee on supplies and expenditures. He considered it very important that the resolutions should be adopted. Members of the Convention were without stationery, and it was necessary they should be supplied. The report was taken up.

Mr. HANSCOM asked that the resolutions be acted upon separately,

The first resolution being under consideration,

Mr. VAN VALKENBURG presented the following (resolution offered by Mr. ARZENO and laid on the table,) as a sub

stitute:

Resolved, That a certificate for five dollars be drawn and presented to each mem ber of this Convention, to be used by such member in the purchase of stationery.

Mr. HANSCOM hoped the resolution

of the committee would be adopted. The system proposed in the resolution just of fered would operate unequally and unjustly. The relative position of the members made it necessary that some should have fivé, some ten and others twenty dollars worth of stationery, while many could pocket the five dollars proposed to be given by the resolution. He knew not that there were such in this body, but there had been in the Legislature. He knew how the system worked in the Legislature last winter; some members of committees were compelled to pay from ten to twelve dollars out of their own pockets, when others saved money. The resolution of the committee was equal and just-it was more economical. It proposed only three hundred dollars, and this five hundred. He thought the resolution recommended by the committee embraced the better system, and hoped it would be adopted.

Mr. VAN VALKENBURG preferred that each member should have control over his own stationery. He considered the plan proposed by this resolution much more economical and just, than that by the committee. Let their plan be adopted, and members would soon hear the stationery had all been exhausted.

Mr. MORRISON moved to amend by striking out the word "five," and inserting "three."

A division of the question being called, the question was first taken on striking out, and the same prevailed. The blank was then filled with "three.'

Mr. CROUSE would barely cbserve, from experience, he would much prefer the resolution offered in the report of the committee. He did not like the plan of running to this shop and that, for the purpose of buying a small quantity of stationery. It was paying too dear for the whistle. The committee could purchase more with three hundred dollars, than could be bought with five hundred, as proposed by the substitute.

On motion of Mr. MORRISON, the substitute was so amended as to appropriate two dollars, in addition, to the chairman of each standing committee, for the use of the committee.

Mr. J. D. PIERCE hoped the resolution would not prevail. He would call attention to a resolution already adopted, by

which members were to be furnished with stationery to an amount not exceeding five dollars each. [The reading of the resolution adopted being asked, it was read by the Secretary.] He thought the resolution would also conflict with the report of the committee. The substitute ought not to prevail unless the resolution already adop¬ ted be repealed.

Mr. S. CLARK was opposed to the substitute and in favor of the resolution reported by the committee. The amount suggested by the committee was much more economical, and by the plan proposed, the necessary supplies would be distributed as the various wants of members required.

Mr. REDFIELD concurred with the report of the committee. It was of little matter in what manner the supplies were distributed. Let every member receive what was actually necessary.

The reading of the resolution reported by the committee being asked, it was read by the President.

Mr. WITHERELL was more in favor of the resolution than the substitute. If this body could appropriate three dollars, it could three hundred. The design was to give members supplies, act money. He preferred the original resolution, as by it. each member might obtain what he wanted. He did not like the plan of appropriating

money.

Mr. HANSCOM considered the substitute void, if adopted-no warrant would issue. The resolution of the committee followed the law and was a saving to the state. He was opposed to members huckstering about the streets like schoolboys trading in marbles.

Mr. WALKER asked if there were any restrictions in the resolution of the committee, to prevent ten or fifteen members from drawing the whole amount of stationery. He believed there were none.

Mr. HANSCOM would answer the gentlemen from Macomb. There was nothing to prevent stealing. The committee regarded the members of the Convention as honorable men, and considered the open account proposed to be kept with the Secretary a sufficient restriction. If any gentleman was disposed to rob that officer, there was nothing in the resolution to prevent him.

Mr. WALKER thought the Secretary

should have some check on members. Experience said it was proper.

Mr. BAGG did not believe the constitution would suffer by the manner in which stationery was distributed. He would not dictate to any member whether he should buy gilt-edged paper or fools-cap; common goose-quills or gold pens, let every gentlemen get just what he wanted. He preferred the money to purchase what he considered necessary, and was therefore opposed to the original resolution, and in favor of the substitute.

The substitute as amended was again read.

Mr. BRITAIN was of the opinion that the state would be put to too much expense if the resolution prevailed. The convention had already adopted a resolution requiring the "committee on supplies to furnish for the use of this Convention such stationery as is allowed by law, not exceed ing five dellars to each member, and to each officer so much as he shall require;" and if this resolution be adopted, the amount appropriated by it would be in addition to the amount already appropriated. He was opposed to the resolution for another reason. It proposed to appropriate money, not stationery; and this Convention had no constitutional right to appropriate money to its members, to be by them either paid out for stationery, or placed in their pockets to be used for other purposes, at their option.

The system of drawing money, instead of supplies, was urged by many members of the last legislature and adopted. He was familiar with the workings of the plan then, and did not like it. It would be much better for each member to furnish himself with stationery, and present an account therefor before drawing the money, or a certificate therefor.

Mr. N. PIERCE disagreed with the gentleman. He did not see what they had to do with the constitution-they were not subject to it. The members of the legislature last winter were subject to constitutional rule, and took the constitutional oath. Members of the Convention were under no such rule--they were not sworn to anything. The legislature could draw for what they wanted in money, or in any way they choose.

He thought the gentleman had erred in

his reasoning. It appeared to him the Convention, if it thought proper, had a right to appropriate a sum of money to buy stationery. He saw nothing to hinder it.

Mr. BRITAIN supposed the Convention was subject to the Constitution. The only law under which it was called, was passed in accordance with constitutional provisions. The only law under which the Convention can furnish its members with stationery, was that under which the Convention was called, which provided that "the said Convention may furnish for its own use, such stationery as it may require, as is usual for Legislative bodies; and the amount due therefor shall be certified to, and paid for in the same manner as the delcgates and officers are paid.”

Under this law the Convention can only appropriate the money after it shall have become due for stationery, previously purchased; and under the constitution, which the Treasurer has sworn to support, no money could be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law. It must therefore, he thought, be evident that the Convention is subject to the constitution in this respect, and that it has no right to appropriate money to its own. members, to be used by them as they may think proper.

The question was taken on the substitute as amended, and lost.

Mr. BUTTERFIELD offered the following as a substitute for the first resolution:

Resolved, That the Secretary of the Convention be instructed to purchase five hundred dollars worth of stationery for the use of the Convention, and that the Secretary distribute to the members not exceeding three dollars worth each, and such stationery as their official duties may require to the chairmen of standing committees.

Mr. MORRISON moved to strike out "three" and insert "two," in the substitute. Lost.

The question being taken on the adoption of the substitute, as offered by Mr. BUTTERFIELD, it was not carried.

The question then recurring on the adoption of the first resolution reported by the committee,

On motion of Mr. MASON, all after the word "resolved" was stricken out.

On motion of Mr. WHIPPLE, the re

Mr. BRITAIN offered the following as a substitute:

Mr. BRITAIN—It is the duty of the Post Master to detect that fraud.

Mr. CORNELL knew there were some cunning fellows in the Convention, and it would be hard for the Post Master to find cut their tricks.

The question being taken on the substi tute, it was lost, and the resolution adopt

ed.

RULES.

On motion of Mr. COOK, the report of the committee on rules was taken from the table.

The PRESIDENT stated the question to be on the adoption of the substitute of | Mr. WALKER to the 23d rule.

Mr. COOK suggested to the gentleman [Mr. WALKER [Mr. WALKER to strike out the words "without a vote of two-thirds." That

number could suspend the rules and reconsider at any time.

The substitute was modified as proposed, and the words stricken out by general

consent.

Mr. BRITAIN moved to amend the

substitute by striking out the two first lines, as printed, and inserting:

Resolved, That the Post Master at Lansing be and he is hereby authorized to charge to the State the postage on all mail matter received by members and officers of said Convention, and all journals and "A motion for reconsideration shall be in documents of said Convention sent from order at any time, and may be made by this post office by said members and offi- any member of the Convention; but if the cers; provided said amount do not ex-motion to reconsider shall not be made on ceed five hundred dollars.

His object was to confine the payment to that description of mail matter necessary to the people. The substitute also proposed to pay the postage on documentsnot on newspapers. He did not wish to incur expense by sending useless matter throughout the State. The postage bill of the last Legislature amounted to eighteen hundred and forty dollars.

Mr. CORNELL would like to hear the resolution reported by the committee, and the substitute read. [They were read.] He saw no difference in them.

Mr. BRITAIN—-Under the resolution, the postage on all newspapers sent off by members would have to be paid. The substitute proposes to pay only for journals and documents sent from this office. Members could not send newspapers.

Mr. CORNELL-Suppose a member should envelope a newspaper with a journal, how would the Post Master find it out and get his pay?

the same day or the day after that on which the decision proposed to be reconsidered was made, three days' notice of the intention to make the motion shall be given.”

Mr. J. D. PIERCE much preferred the 19th rule of the last Convention, and requested the Secretary to read it. [It was read.]

The motion to amend was not carried; and the question being taken on the substitute it was lost--yeas 33, nays 53.

Mr. MORRISON offered the following as a substitute:

"When a motion has been once put, and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member who voted in the majority to move for a reconsideration thereof, on the same or the succeeding day. And it shall be in order for any member thereafter to make such motion, by giving at least two days' notice of his intention to do so. But a motion for reconsideration being put and lost, shall not be a second time renewed without a