ntertain the motion.
Mr. Bruce contended that his proposition was a fair compromise.
By no other means could the dream of reconstruction be realized.
Mr. Staples inquired, whether, in case the amendment of the gentleman from Halifax were adopted, it would be in order to move to strike out any portion of it ?
The Chaw, Marshall, Maslin, Masters, Moffett, Moore, Orrick, Osburn, Patrick, Pendleton, Porter, Price, Pugh, Rives, Ro. E. Scott, Sharp, Sitlington, Southall, Spurlock, Staples, C. J. Stuart, Summers, Tarr, Tayles, Waiter, White, Wickham, Willey, and Wilson.--79.
The question recurring upon Mr. Scott's amendment, Mr. Wise said he haGrew, Macfarland, Marshall, Maslin, Masters, Molfett, Moore, Osburn, Patrick, Pendleton, Porter, Price, Pugh, Rives, Robert E. Scott, Sharp, Sitlington, Spurlock, Staples, C. J. Stuart, Summers, Tarr, Tayloe, Waller, White, Wickham, Willey, and Wilson.--77.
Mr. Bouldin moved, as a further amendment to Mr. Scott's amendment, to
aldwin, Alfred M. Barbour, Baylor, Berlin, Boggess, Boyd, Brent, Brown, Burdett, Burley, Byrne, Campbell, Caperton, Carlite, Carter, Chapman, Clemens, Coffman, C. B. Conrad, Couch, Deskins, Dorman, Dulany, Early, Echols, French, Fugate, Gillespie, Goggin, Cyrus Hall, Ephraim B. Hall, L. S. Hall, Haymond, Hoge, Hubbard, Hall, Jackson, Marmaduke Johnson, Peter C. Johnston, Lawson, Lewis, McComas, McGrew, Masters Nelson, Osburn, Parks, Patrick, Porter, Price, Pugh, Sharp, Sitlington, Spurlock, Staples, Chapman J. Stuart, Summers, Tarr, Willey, Wilson, and Wysor.--64.
Nays.--Messrs. Ambler, Blakey, Blow, Boisseau, Bouldin, Conn, Forbes, Garland, Gravely, Gregory, Thos. F. Goode, Addison Hall Holladay, Isbell, Kilby, Leake, Charles K. Mallory, James B. Mallory, Moffett, Morris, Richardson, Southall, Strange, Thornton, Whitfield, and Wickham.--26.
Thus the prolonged contest on this subject of taxation has at last resulted in the passage of this resolution:
Resolved, That a co