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ered the following resolution: Resolved. That after to-day, until otherwise ordered, the Convention will assemble at 11 o'clock A. M., and at 12 o'clock M. will go into Committee of the Whole and continue in session until 3 o'clock P. M., at which time a recess shall be taken until 8 o'clock P. M., when the Convention will again meet in Committee of the Whole. Mr. Staples, of Patrick, deemed it improper to take the vote on the resolution while the attendance was so meagre. Mr. Turner then moved that the resolution be laid upon the table, giving notice that he would call it up to-morrow morning. Agreed Personal explanation. Mr. Hall, of Marion, made an explanation of some portion of his previous remarks on taxation, the same having been misunderstood. Committee of the Whole. The hour of half-past 10 having arrived, the Convention went into Committee of the Whole. The Chairman (Mr. Southall) being absent, Mr. Price, of Greenbrier, was called to the ch
e rise. The motion was decided in the negative — ayes 44. noes 63. Mr. Turner, of Jackson, desired to offer a substitute, which embodied amendments to the ry interest in it, and appealed to her history to sustain him. In conclusion, Mr. Turner moved that the Committee rise. The motion was lost. Amidst cries ofng him to withdraw his substitute in the early stage of the proceedings. Mr. Turner, of Jackson, said he believed it was due to the gentlemen from Wetzel, that teen minutes after the Convention again went into Committee of the Whole. Mr. Turner, of Jackson, claimed the floor, on the resolutions relative to equality of taitted. Mr. Clemens desired to offer an amendment to the resolution. Mr. Turner raised a point of order, and Mr. Clemens said the rule required him to reduce it to writing, on the demand of any member. Mr. Turner contended that a point of order was not a motion, and therefore the rule did not require him to reduce it