The PRESIDENT:—The question will now be taken upon the substitute of the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Franklin), offered for the first section of the article reported by the committee.
Which vote being taken, resulted as follows:
Ayes.—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois—14.
Noes.—Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Missouri—4.
And the substitute was agreed to.
Mr. FIELD:—There seems to be a misapprehension as to the proper time for offering substitutes for the whole report of the committee. I shall act upon the understanding that the proper time to offer them will be when we have gone through with the report of the committee. If I am wrong I wish to be corrected now.
Mr. LOGAN:—I am informed that Mr. Lincoln, the President-elect, has arrived in this city. I feel certain that the Conference would desire to treat him with the same measure of respect which it has extended to the present incumbent of that high office. I therefore move that the President of this Convention be requested to call upon the President-elect of the United States, and inform him that its members would be pleased to wait upon him in a body at such time as will suit his convenience, and that this Convention be advised of the result.
The motion of Mr. Logan was agreed to unanimously.
Mr. WILMOT:—I move an adjournment to half-past seven o'clock this evening.
The motion was agreed to, and the Conference adjourned.