Mr. GUTHRIE:—The report of the committee has been agreed upon after much discussion, and printed. We all understand it, and I hope we shall adhere to it without any alteration. If we begin to adopt these amendments no one can tell where they will carry us.
Mr. JAMES:—My proposition is offered as an amendment to that offered by Mr. Hitchcock.
Mr. GUTHRIE:—So I understand; but his amendment is proposed as a substitute for the third section of the article reported by the committee. I object to the whole of it.
Mr. RANDOLPH:—Do I understand that the question now is upon substituting Mr. Hitchcock's amendment for the committee's report.
Mr. JAMES:—No. It is upon substituting my proposition for the first section of Mr. Hitchcock's amendment.
The vote upon the amendment offered by Mr. James resulted as follows:
Ayes.—Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, and Indiana—7.
Noes.—Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, Ohio, Illinois, and Kansas—13.
And the amendment was lost.
Mr. WOOD:—I must enter my dissent from the vote of Illinois.