Browsing named entities in The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource]. You can also browse the collection for Keily or search for Keily in all documents.

Your search returned 1 result in 1 document section:

The Daily Dispatch: March 10, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 2 (search)
ped the vote would not be reconsidered; that the bill would be left to sleep the sleep of death. Mr. Buford, of Pittsylvania, hoped the House would arraign itself upon the question fair and square, without prejudice. He thought no harm could come of a convention. The time might come when legislators would find themselves behind the people in this matter. He was willing to trust the people, and the people should be willing to trust their legislators. Mr. Sheffer (Speaker), with Mr. Keily in the chair, spoke in opposition to the motion to reconsider the vote by which the bill to clothe the General Assembly with constitutional powers was lost. Of the two evils proposed, he would choose the least — a straight-out convention. He did not understand that there was to be any difference in the powers to be conferred upon either body. True, the Legislative could not touch the Bill of Rights, nor unite the powers of the Legislature, Executive and Judicial. If anything was conte