Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Official Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the State Convention, 1853 If the order was adopted, he hoped it would be adhered to rigidly, and he could see no reason why it should not be. A Member suggested that all the subjects of importance had been before the Convention, and had been discussed to a considerable extent, and there was, therefore, no more need of long speeches. Mr. Earle, of Worcester, said, that so far as he was personally concerned, he did not care whether the order was adopted or not, but if it was adopted, he hoped that members would not be allowed to go on by general consent, beyond the time allotted to them under the rule. If one member was allowed, by general consent, to go on beyond his time, no gentleman would think of enforcing the rule against another member who desired also to speak more than his time. He hoped the rule would be rigidly enforced if it was adopted. And he gave notice that if, should it become one of the rules of the Convention, and any member in future was allowed to go on beyond his time, he would move to abrogate the rule itself. Mr. Knowlton, of Worcester, said, he was as anxious as any member in the Convention to bring this session to a close. He had given a practical demonstration of his anxiety in that respect, by sitting quietly in his seat ever since the session first commenced. But there were important questions upon the table of the Convention, which had not been touched. There was one, especially, which he had been waiting a fortnight for an opportunity to call up, but had not yet found a chance - a subject which is regarded by a portion of the community, and an influential portion too, as one of the most important that can be brought before the Convention. While, therefore, he did not wish that any man should occupy the time of the Convention for a moment more than necessity required, he desired that the subject to which lie had referred should receive more consideration than it could receive in a half hour discussion. For that reason, he hoped the order would not be adopted. Mr. Stevens, of Rehoboth, remarked that he had noticed, since the hour rule was adopted, that when members had spoken to the extent of their limit, there was a general cry of "go on," and they had taken it for granted that such was the desire of the Convention, and without any formal action upon the part of the Convention granting them leave, have gone on. That was all right. He supposed that when any one came to the end of his hour, and no one cried "go on," he would take it for granted that the Convention did not want to hear him, and sit down. Again, he had noticed that when any attempt had been made here to curtail debate in any shape whatever, for the purpose of progressing more rapidly with the business, nothing had been accomplished by it, and he believed no good would be accomplished by the adoption of this limit. There was yet important business to come before the Convention. The gentleman from Worcester, (Mr. Knowlton,) had referred to an important matter which he had been for some time waiting for an opportunity to call up. So far as the one hour system was concerned, if any gentleman could not say all he wanted to say in that time, and it should be the general wish for him to continue, he saw no objection. He should vote against the adoption of the order. Mr. Walker, of North Brookfield, trusted that the motion would prevail, as the Convention ought to adjourn next week, and the adoption of this rule would facilitate such a result. The hour rule had worked well, and although in a few instances speakers had been allowed to go on beyond their hour, yet we had gained a good deal of time in the long run by its adoption. He hoped, therefore, that the present proposition would be adopted.
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