The Pennsylvania Speech Annual

Author : Pennsylvania Bar Association Meeting
Publisher : General Books
ISBN 13 : 9781458962089
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Bar Association written by Pennsylvania Bar Association Meeting and published by General Books. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Finally, after this momentous question had been settled by the adoption of the resolution, the following resolution was adopted: Resolved, that it is inexpedient for this convention to debate or vote on any abstract question not having for its object an amendment to the constitution. If a further digression from the question now under discussion may be permitted, I would like to quote again from the report of the debates, remarks by Mr. Porter, of Northampton County, who said, on page 345: I do not think that the convention is in a humor to come to a decision on this matter at the present time. We had better put it off until some day when the convention will be in a better humor to consider it. I hope that this storm in a tea pot is passed and that a further consideration of the subject will be postponed, and that we shall be permitted to proceed to transact our regular business; but before I resume my seat I take the liberty to express the hope that when the gentleman from Chester addresses the Committee of the whole on any subject, he will set us a good example by making as short a speech as possible. I confess that I insert this quotation from the remarks of the gentleman from Northampton with some trepidation, lest the audience may say that the present representative of Northampton is not following the good example suggested by Mr. Porter. Again, as offering some light on the estimate that was placed by the statesmen of that day upon the value of the Legislature, we find on page 349, that Mr. Porter, of Northampton, offered the following resolution: whereas, the legislature of this state meet early in December and seldom dispatch much business until near the dose of a long session at great expense to the Commonwealth, often without rendering an equivalen...