Resolved, That the committee on Legislative Department be instructed to inquire into the expediency of incorporating into the Constitution a provision that no general law passed by the General Assembly shall take effect until it shall have been published to the several counties of the State, and that the Legislature shall have no power to pass special laws.

Mr. Wait offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Revision and Adjustment:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that the contemplated amendments to our present Constitution should be so worded and framed as to be entirely free from ambiguity or any reasonable uncertainty as to their meaning.

Mr. Wait offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Bill of Rights:

Resolved, That, in the government of this State, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them-to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.

Mr. Wait offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Electoral and Representative Reform:

Resolved, That all elections, whether by the people or the legislature, shall be free and voluntary; and any elector who shall receive any gift or reward for his vote, in meat, drink, moneys, or otherwise, shall forfeit his right to elect, at that time, and suffer such other penalties as the law shall direct. And any persons who shall directly or indirectly give, promise or bestow any such reward, to be so elected, shall thereby be subject to such penalties as future legislation shall direct.

Mr. Ellis offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Federal Relations:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that any proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States should not be acted upon by the first Gencral Assembly of the State of Illinois after the submission of the amendment.

Mr. Archer offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Executive Department:

Resolved, That the committee on the Executive Department be instructed to inquire into the expediency of so amending the Constitution of this State, as to limit, by proper restrictions, the pardoning power of the Governor of this State.

Mr. Cameron offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on the Right of Suffrage:

Resolved, That the present system of numbering the ballots of voters, provided for in sections 5 and 7 of the act of February 22, 1861, is a gross violation of the great vital principles of the ballot, sanctity and secrecy, and should be changed.

Mr. Anthony offered the following resolutions, and moved that they be made the special order for January 8th, at 10 o'clock, A. М. :

In order that the great essential principles of liberty and free government may be recognized and established, and the relations of this State to the Union and government of the United States, and those of the people of this State to the rest of the American people, may be defined and affirmed, we do declare, that:

SEC. 1. The State of Illinois shall be and forever remain one of the United States of America, and a member of the American Federal Union, and no power exists in the people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to secede or dissolve their connection therewith, or perform any act tending to impair, subvert or resist the supreme authority of the United States.

SEC. 2. Every citizen of this State owes paramount allegiance to the Constitution and government of the United States; and the Constitution of the United States, and the laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land.

SEC. 3. The Constitution of the United States confers full powers on the Federal Government to maintain and perpetuate its existence; and whensoever any State, or any portion of the States, or the people thereof, attempt to secede from the Federal Union or forcibly resist the execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the Constitution, employ armed force in coercing and compelling obedience to its authority.

SEC. 4. All persons, born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. This State shall not make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall this State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

SEC. 5. The right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States, or by this State, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.

Mr. Anderson moved to lay the resolutions of Mr. Anthony on the table; and called for the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays being demanded by five members,

It was decided in the negative,

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Yeas....

Nays

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Messrs. Brown,

Ellis,

McDowell.

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Cary,

Merriam,

Church,

Moore,

Cody,

Parker,

Coolbaugh,

Parks,

Craig,

Pierce,

Cross,

Pillsbury,

Cummings,

Poage,

Eldridge,

Robinson,

English,

Ross,

Fox,

Scholfield,

Fuller,

Sedgwick,

Goodhue,

So the motion to lay on the table was disagreed to.
On motion of Mr. Pierce,

The resolutions of Mr. Anthony were referred to the committee on Federal Relations.

Mr. Underwood offered the following resolutions; which were referred to the committee on Bill of Rights:

BILL OF RIGHTS-SOVEREIGNTY-NATIONAL RIGHTS AND CIVILŲ PRIVILEGES-NATIONAL AND STATE RIGHTS.

Resolved, That while in civil war many sacrifices must necessarily be made of natural rights any civil privileges, for the public safety, on the restoration of law and order the great principles of American liberty, in Bills of Rights, should be erected in the beginning of Constitutions, as beacon lights to all departments of the government; and a frequent recurrence to and faithful regard for such fundamental principles of civil government are absolutely necessary to preserve the blessings of liberty.

Resolved, That all political sovereignty emanates from the people; a portion of which they have delegated to the government of the United States for national purposes-a still larger portion of which they have delegated to State governments for local, domestic and municipal purposes--and the residue of that sovereignty, consisting of natural rights and civil privileges, they have expressly reserved for themselves in Bills of Rights and restrictions upon their governments.

Resolved, That our National Government is one of limited powers, defined in its Constitution and the amendments thereto, with power to pass all laws necessary and proper to carry those powers into effect, and power to expound and enforce said Constitution, amendments thereto and laws passed in pursuance thereof; and, so expounded, are the supreme law of the land.

Resolved, That the history of our country, and the late civil war, have proved that the National Government, when sustained by a patriotic people, has, under a reasonably strict construction of its powers, ample authority for its own self-preservation and to defend itself, its property and its loyal citizens, at home and abroad, against its enemies, foreign and domestic, by the civil authorities in ordinary times, and by military and naval force whenever the civil authorities are unable

so to do.

Resolved, That while we may glory in the legitimate powers of our National Government, we must ever remember that all powers not delegated to the National Government are reserved to the States or to the people; and peace, union, harmony and prosperity will be best preserved by both governments avoiding the exercise of doubtful powers; by the National Government confining its legislation and action to national matters and interest, and State governments to State interests and domestic affairs, and by both governments holding sacred the natural rights and civil privileges enumerated in Bills of Rights, and thus we can secure and perpetuate in the United States good government and equal and exact justice for all our people.

Mr. Sedgwick offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Manufactures and Agriculture:

Resolved, That for the encouragement of the establishing of manufactures in this State, there ought to be a clause in the new Constitution exempting all manufacturing companies from taxation, by all laws of this State, for the term of five years after the adoption of said Constitution by the people.

Mr. Wells offered the following resolution; which was adopted: Resolved, That two hundred copies of the order of the President appointing additional committees be printed on a page of the same size as the rules now on the desks of members.

Mr. Cary moved that when the Convention adjourn it adjourn till 10 o'clock, A. M., to-morrow; which was agreed to.

Mr. Wright offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Judiciary:

Resolved, That all terms of the Supreme Court of this State should be held at the State Capital.

Mr. Haines of Lake offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Retrenchment and Reform:

Resolved, That no public officer or person holding any place or employment, by election or appointment, shall ever receive, as a salary or compensation, exclusive of office expenses, more than three thousand dollars per annum.

Mr. Whiting offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Internal Improvements:

WHEREAS a law was passed, approved Feb. 28th, 1867, for extending the Illinois and Michigan Canal westward to the Mississippi, near Rock Island, and for the improvement of the Illinois and other rivers; and whereas, at the last session of the Legislature, an appropriation of four hundred thousand ($400,000) dollars

was made for commencing the work, which sum is now being expended in the building of a lock and dam on the Illinois river, near the city of Henry, and $35,000 for the improvement of the Little Wabash, which sum has been expended in completing a lock and dam on that river, near New Haven; therefore,

Resolved, That the said canal and the navigable waters of the State shall never be ceded, sold or leased to any individual or corporation, but forever remain the property of the people, to be used in their interest and improved, as may be found expedient.

Mr. Snyder offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on Legislative Department:

Resolved, That the Constitution be so amended as to vest the legislative authority of this State in a single body, to be called the "Legislative Assembly," which shall consist of not less than three hundred members, to be elected by the people, and that no person who shall not have attained the age of twenty-one years shall be eligible to a seat in said body.

Mr. Washburn offered the following resolution; which was referred to the committee on the Right of Suffrage:

Resolved, That it is the sense of this Convention that section 1st of article 6th, of our present State Constitution, be so amended as to secure to the citizen soldier of this State, while in the military service of the United States, the exercise of his right to vote, in all elections, whether he be in or out of this State.

Mr. Bayne offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That section 1 of artcle 6, of our present Constitution, be so changed as to read as follows:

In all elections, every male citizen above the age of 21 years, having resided in the State one year next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election; and every male inhabitant, of the age aforesaid, who may be a resident of the State at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall have the right of voting as aforesaid; but no such citizen or inhabitant shall be entitled to vote, except in the district, township or county in which he shall actually reside at the time of such election.

Mr. Haines of Lake moved to strike out the word "male," in the resolution of Mr. Bayne; which amendment was accepted, and the resolution, as amended, was referred to the committee on the Right of Suffrage.

On motion of Mr. Merriam,

At 12 o'clock and 5 minutes, the Convention adjourned.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1870.

The Convention met, pursuant to adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Carnahan.

Journal partially read, when,

On motion of Mr. Anthony,

The further reading of the journal was dispensed with.

The President laid before the Convention a report from the State Auditor, giving a statement of the gross earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad; which was partially read, when,

On motion of Mr. Haines of Lake,

The further reading of the report was dispensed with, and five hun

dred copies ordered to be printed. The report is as follows:

HON. CHARLES HITCHCOCK,

STATE OF ILLINOIS, AUDITOR'S OFFICE,

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., January 5, 1870.

President of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois : SIR-In compliance with the following resolution of the Constitutional Convention, passed on the 20th day of December, 1869:

"Resolved, That the Auditor of State furnish a full statement of the gross earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, and all payments received by the State from said company, under the provisions of its charter to pay seven per cent. of its gross earnings into the State treasury, since June 11, 1862, with the date and amounts of receipts since said time,

I have the honor to herewith present a statement, showing the amount of the gross earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, as appears by the semiannual statements of said company, examined and approved by the Governor, and filed in this office. Also, the date and amount of all payments received by the State from said company, under the provisions of its charter to pay an amount not less than seven per cent. on its gross earnings into the State treasury.

The accompanying statement shows in detail the amounts received by said company from the several sources of earnings, during each six months, as reported in said semi-annual statements, with a recapitulation, giving the aggregate of each six months and the grand totals for the time asked for in the resolution of the Convention. Very respectfully, C. E. LIPPINCOTT,

Auditor P. A.

Statement of the Gross Earnings of the Illinois Central Railroad Company, as shown by the Semi-Annual Statements of said Company filed in the Auditor's Office, since June 11, 1862, and all payments received by the State from said Company, under the provisions of its Charter to pay an amount not less than seven per cent. on its Gross Earnings into the State Trea