would certainly be allowed to meet with that committee and take their share in the deliberations and preparation of the report. In this case he knew nothing of the meeting or action of the committee until called aside a few moments previous to the opening of the convention this morning, taken into a private room, and this report submitted for his approval. He took exception to this manner of preparing a report and also to every line, word, and letter contained in it. He should prepare and submit a minority report.

Mr. Ryan said he was unacquainted with the members of the committee. As its chairman he had prepared a report and submitted it to the committee singly. All had approved it save Mr. Gibson.

The report was accepted, and on motion was referred to a committee of the whole, and 150 copies ordered to be printed. There was an ineffectual motion to print 2,000 copies of all the reports of the committees for distribution, which led to a warm debate between the "old" and "young" Democracy.

Mr. Judd objected to printing such a large number on account of the expense.

Moses M. Strong would have a large number of this report printed for circulation among the people, that they might see how their delegates to this convention voted upon this most important question. It was most proper they should know, inasmuch as there was a difference of opinion among the Democrats upon this question. There was a bank party as well as an antibank party among the Democrats here. He believed the Progressives were bank men, and he wished to show his constituents that he was an antibank man.

Mr. Gray was opposed to printing so large a number of the report; thought it a bad precedent to spend $175 for printing the report of each committee.

Mr. Kellogg thought this extravagance commenced yesterday, furnishing the members with newspapers, and as these papers would doubtless contain the reports of the committees, thought these quite sufficient for all purposes.

The question was put and decided in the negative—ayes 42, noes 55.-Express, Oct. 12, 1846.

Mr. Gibson said he dissented from the report of the committee. He did this for two reasons: First, the committee had not had a meeting, though he had seen the report in the hands of the chairman and had been told that a majority of the committee were agreed to it. He had supposed that the committee would have a meeting and discuss the matter referred to it, and not that the chairman would draw out a report and call the members into a room singly, and reading it, get their consent or dissent, and then report it as coming from the committee; second, he disagreed with the report in every letter, word, and sentiment. And he intended as soon as might be to make a minority report, if he could have leave to do so.

The President: You can have leave.

Mr. Ryan: It is true that I drew up this report last night, and at an early hour this morning I endeavored to procure a meeting of the committee and could find but a majority, who agreed with me. I subsequently found the gentleman from Fond du Lac and showed it to him, and he did not intimate that he desired to make a counter report or that he wanted time.

Mr. Moses M. Strong moved to print 150 copies for the use of the convention and 2,000 copies for distribution.

Mr. Judd called for a division of the question and asked for the ayes and noes on the motion to print 2,000 copies for distribution.

One hundred and fifty copies were ordered printed, and Mr. Strong, in support of his motion, said it was plain to any man that there was a bank party and an antibank party in the convention. I do not know to which party the gentleman from Fond du Lac belongs. But unless I am mistaken, a large body of that class calling themselves the "young "Democracy will be found acting with the Whigs in favor of banks, and not with the "Old Hunkers" against them.

Mr. Gray deemed the printing of the proposed number an unnecessary extravagance.

Mr. Chase opposed the motion to print, not so much from the sentiments of the report, with which he agreed, as from its unnecessary length. They were going to distribute this report

through the papers, which he deemed sufficient. He cared not where the gentleman from Iowa placed him, whether among the young or the old Democracy, the "Progressives" or the "Retrogressives❞—one thing was certain, they would find him opposing banks at every step.

The motion to print 2,000 extra copies was lost, ayes 42, noes 55.-Argus, Oct. 13, 1846.

Mr. Gibson dissented from the report for two reasons: First, he supposed it was customary for the committee to meet together and compare views and discuss the several propositions there. But instead of this he had been called upon this morning, a few moments before the convention assembled, called out into one corner of the hall, and this report presented for his acceptance. He did not like such a manner of proceeding; and he objected to the matter as well as the manner. He objected to every word and letter of the report.

Mr. Ryan drew the report last night that the convention might have something to do today. He had shown it to the committee this morning, one by one, as he had found them, and it received their acquiescence. He read it to the gentleman last up-he dissented from it, but made no objection to reporting this morning. If the gentleman objected to every letter, he objected to the whole alphabet.

Moses M. Strong moved to refer to the committee of the whole, and that 2,000 copies be printed.

Mr. Judd suggested the second reading by its title.

M[oses] M. Strong said that it was the most important report that had been made, and he wanted it to go before the people. There was a bank party and an antibank party in the Democratic ranks; and in that portion styled the "Young Democracy" in contradistinction to the "Old Hunkers" the bank men were to be found. He was an out and out "hard", and if they were afraid of the effect of this report, he wanted the people to know it.

Mr. Judd thought, if this was the most able report yet made, when others, still more able should be made for instance, the report of the gentleman from Iowa-they would have to vote a still greater number.

Mr. Kellogg was opposed to every species of banks, as his constituents were. He did not care to what part of the Democracy he was attached. But he was opposed to this extra printing.-Democrat, Oct. 10, 1846.

Moses M. Strong, from the committee on suffrage and elective franchise, reported No. 2, an article relative to suffrage and elective franchise.

"A majority of the committee on suffrage and elective franchise respectfully report and recommend the adoption as one of the articles of the constitution of the state of Wisconsin the following article on suffrage and elective franchise:

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'Section 1. Every white male person of the age of twenty-one years, or upwards, who shall either be a citizen of the United States, or who shall have declared his intention to become such in conformity with the laws of Congress now in force regulating the subject of naturalization, and shall have taken and filed in the office of the clerk of the district court of the county in which he resides an oath to support the Constitution of the United States and of this state, and who shall have resided in the state six months next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election for every officer, which by this constitution or by law shall be elective by the electors; and every white male person of the age aforesaid who may be a resident of this state at the time of the adoption of this constitution by the people and who shall either be a citizen of the United States or shall have declared his intention to become such as aforesaid shall be entitled to vote as aforesaid; but no such person shall be entitled to vote except in the district, county, or township in which he shall have actually resided for ten days next preceding such election: Provided, That whenever Congress shall dispense with a declaration of intention as a requisite to citizenship, the same shall be dispensed with in this state as a qualification of electors.

"Section 2. All votes shall be given viva voce, except for such township officers as may by law be directed or allowed to be otherwise chosen; and in all elections to be made by the legislature the members thereof shall vote viva voce; and their votes shall be entered on the journal.

"Section 3. Electors shall in all cases except treason, felony, or breach of peace be privileged from arrest during their attendance at elections and in going to and returning from the same.

"Section 4. No elector shall be obliged to do militia duty on the day of election except in time of war, actual invasion, insurrection, or public danger; nor shall any elector on the days of election be obliged to attend any court, either as a suitor, witness, or juror.

"Section 5. No person shall be deemed to have lost his residence in this state by reason of his absence on business of the United States or of this state.

"Section 6. No soldier, seaman, or mariner in the army or navy of the United States shall be deemed a resident of this state in consequence of being stationed in any military or naval place within the same.

"Section 7. No member of Congress nor any person holding any office of profit or trust under the United States (the office of postmaster excepted), or under any other state of the Union, or under any foreign power, shall hold or exercise any office of trust or profit under this state.

"Section 8. No senator or representative in the legislature of the state shall, during the time for which he was elected, nor during one year after the expiration thereof, be appointed or elected to any civil office under the authority of this state, which shall have been created or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased during the time for which he was elected.

"Section 9. It shall not be lawful for any voter directly or indirectly to make any bet or wager on any election at which he shall vote, and it shall be the duty of the legislature to prescribe as a part of the oath to be taken by any voter that he has not directly or indirectly made any bet or wager on the election at which he offers his vote. "All of which is respectfully submitted.

MOSES M. STRONG, Chairman
FRANCIS HUEBSCHMANN

HOPEWELL COXE

JOHN H. MANAHAN”

Which was read the first and second times. The report of the committee was accepted and the committee discharged from the further consideration of the subject.

Mr. Baker moved that 150 copies of said report be printed and that said report be referred to the committee of the whole, which was decided in the affirmative.

Mr. Moses M. Strong, from the committee on suffrage and elective franchise, reported an article on that subject.

Mr. Manahan said he had agreed to make this report, but should at an early day take occasion to report, or to amend some report, in relation to negroes and negro suffrage.

Mr. Burchard gave notice of intent to make a minority report.-Argus, Oct. 13, 1846.

A. Hyatt Smith, from the committee on the eminent domain and' property of the state, reported No. 3, an article on the eminent domain and property of the state.

"The committee on eminent domain and property of the state have had under consideration the subject referred to them, and have the honor to report and recommend the adoption of the following article on eminent domain and property of the state:

"1. The legislature of this state shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil of the United States, nor with any regulation Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the