Mr. J. Randolph said, if gentlemen were unprepared, he had no objection to waive his call until to-morrow.
The Speaker remarked that there could be no debate on the priority of business.
Mr. Conrad moved to discharge the Committee of the Whole from the further consideration of the resolution. He said he would briefly assign his reasons for this motion. The session had progressed and the season was fast approaching when every man of agricultural pursuits would be anxious to attend to them, unless detained by important business. He did not believe the proposed amendment to the constitution so important as to require immediate attention. He hoped, therefore, that it would be postponed until the next session, and that the way would thereby be paved for transacting the important national business that claimed their earliest attention.
The Speaker said the first question was on the House resolving itself into a Committee of the Whole.
The question was taken on this motion, and carried—yeas 61.
Mr. Gregg was called to the Chair, and the resolution having been read, as follows:
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, That the following article be submitted to the Legislatures of the several States, which, when ratified and confirmed by the Legislatures of three-fourths of the said States, shall be valid and binding as a part of the Constitution of the United States:
The Judges of the Supreme and all other Courts of the United States shall be removed from office by the President, on the joint address of both Houses of Congress requesting the same.
The committee divided on agreeing to it, without debate—yeas 51, nays 55.
The committee then rose, and reported their disagreement to the resolution.