THE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS.
Mr. HUSTON offered a resolution that the Clerk of the House request the Secretary of State to furnish the House with certified copies of all proceedings in the last General Assembly concerning the proposed amendments to the Constitution.
Mr. HUSTON said: My reason for introducing that resolution is that it is the only proper course we can pursue to get before us the amendments that passed the last General Assembly. He then read from the statutes that portion which provides that the Secretary of State shall submit and lay before either House of the General Assembly all papers and acts concerning either House of the General Assembly.
Mr. JEWETT opposed the resolution and said: "This resolution ought not to prevail, it seeing to me. This resolution requires the Secretary of State to transmit certified copies of the acts of the last General Assembly to this House. This is already done in the statute books that are on the desks of every member. This statute provides that the acts of our General Assembly shall b entered upon the journal and submitted to the next General Assembly. There is no provision authorizing the Secretary of State to submit such acts."
Mr. GIBSON-I now insist upon the motion to lay upon the table.
The motion was agreed to by yeas, 60; nays, 89.
