Question on the section 1. down to the last sentence
N. H. ay. Mass. no. Ct ay. N. J. ay. Pa [19] no. Del. ay. Md ay. Virga ay. N. C. no. S. C. divd. Geo. ay.
[ [19] "In the printed Journal Pennsylvania ay."–Madison's Note.
Mr Randolph moved that the last sentence "each member shall have one vote," be postponed.
It was observed that this could not be necessary; as in case the sanction as to originating money bills should not be reinstated, and a revision of the Constitution should ensue, it wd still be proper that the members should vote per Capita. A postponement of the preceding sentence allowing to each State 2 members wd have been more proper.
Mr Mason, did not mean to propose a change of this mode of voting per capita in any event. But as there might be other modes proposed, he saw no impropriety in postponing the sentence. Each State may have two members, and yet may have unequal votes. He said that unless the exclusive originating of money bills should be restored to the House of Representatives, he should, not from obstinacy but duty and conscience, oppose throughout the equality of Representation in the Senate.
Mr Govr Morris. Such declarations were he supposed, addressed to the smaller States in order to alarm them for their equality in the Senate, and induce them agst their judgments, to concur in restoring the section concerning money bills. He would declare in his turn that as he saw no prospect of amending the Constitution of the Senate & considered the section relating to money bills as intrinsically bad, he would adhere to the section establishing the equality at all events.
Mr Wilson. It seems to have been supposed by some that the section concerning money bills is desirable to the large States. The fact was that two of those States (Pa & Va) had uniformly voted agst it without reference to any other part of the system.
Mr Randolph, urged as Col. Mason had done that the sentence under consideration was connected with that relating to Money bills, and might possibly be affected by the result of the motion for reconsidering the latter. That the postponement was therefore not improper.
Question for postponing "each member shall have one vote,"