REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS.
Mr. BEESON offered the following:
Resolved by the Senate of Indiana, the House of Representatives concurring therein that the Constitution of the United States ought to be so amended as to cause the Representatives in Congress to be apportioned among the Federal States according to the number of male inhabitants, over the age of 21 years, who are by the Constitution and the laws of said States, respectively entitled to vote at general elections in said States.
Resolved, that our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested to use their irfluence to procure the passage of such an amendment of the Constitution of the United States as is indicated in the foregoing resolution, to be proposed to the several States for ratification.
Mr. COBB looked upon this proceeding as wrong. He moved to refer the resolution to the Committee on Federal Relations.
The motion was agreed to.
