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The Daily Dispatch: June 18, 1862., [Electronic resource], Miscellaneous news. (search)
ts of absent members, reported in favor of expelling Messrs. Price, Crawford, Hatcher, Wright, and Turner, from the Convention, on the grounds of their actual participation in the rebellion, and declaring vacant the seats of Messrs. Chenault and Watkins. It was moved to strike out the name of Mr. Watkins, for the reason that he had renounced the rebellion and been pardoned by the President. After a discussion the motion was lost, as was also a motion to simply declare the seat of Mr. WrigMr. Watkins, for the reason that he had renounced the rebellion and been pardoned by the President. After a discussion the motion was lost, as was also a motion to simply declare the seat of Mr. Wright vacant. The report of the committee was then adopted. A petition, signed by seven hundred citizens of the fourth Senatorial district, was received, asking for the expulsion of Price L. Hodings from the Convention, as being unworthy to represent the Union people of that district. No better evidence, they say, was needed to prove his traitorous and contemptible conduct than that he had aided and abetted the rebellion, and has not dared to show himself in the said district since last Sep