On motion of Mr. Dill the convention came to the following resolution, to wit:

Resolved, That there be allowed to the secretary of this convention, the sum of three dollars and fifty cents per day; to the assistant secretaries each, three dollars and fifty cents per day; to the doorkeeper, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents per day, and to the assistant doorkeeper one dollar and fifty cents per day, for their services, respectively, during their at tendance on this convention, and that the General Assembly shall provide by law for the payment of the said officers, respectively; which services shall be certified by the President of this convention.

On motion,

Convention adjourned till five o'clock this afternoon.

FIVE O'CLOCK P. M.

Convention met pursuant to adjournment.

On motion,

Ordered, That Mr. Parke, on account of indisposition, be excused from any further services in the Committee of Enrollments.

And on motion,

Ordered, That Mr. Badollet be added to that committee.

On motion of Mr. Dill, the convention came to the following resolution, to wit:

Resolved, That it be recommended to the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, to appropriate the money voluntarily given by the citizens of Harrison County to the State, to the purchase of books for a library for the use of the Legislature and other officers of government; and that the said General

Assembly will, from time to time, make such other appropriations for the increase of said library, as they may deem neces

sary.

On motion,

Ordered, That the convention do now adjourn till tomorrow morning, eight o'clock.

SATURDAY MORNING, 8 O'CLOCK, JUNE 29, 1816.

Convention met pursuant to adjournment.

On motion of Mr. Dill,

Resolved, That there shall be two complete copies of the Constitution of Indiana, one of which shall be lodged with the President of the convention, to be kept by him until the meeting of the first General Assembly, at which time the Constitution shall be laid before them, and to be disposed of in such manner as they may direct.

On motion of Mr. Johnson, the convention came to the fol lowing resolution, to wit:

Resolved, That the President of this convention do forward one printed copy of the Constitution to the President of the United States, one to the President of the Senate, and one to the Speaker of the House of Representatives of Congress.

On motion of Mr. Johnson, the convention came to the following resolution, to wit:

Resolved, That Messrs. James Lemon and Robert A. New, be appointed as a committee to superintend the printing of the Constitution of the State of Indiana; and that they report to the first General Assembly.

On motion,

Convention adjourned till eleven o'clock A. M.

ELEVEN O'CLOCK A. M.

Convention met pursuant to adjournment.

On motion,

Ordered, That the convention do now adjourn till three o'clock this afternoon.

THREE O'CLOCK P. M.

Convention met pursuant to adjournment.

Mr. Scott, from the Committee of Enrollment, reported that the committee had, according to order, compared the engrossed articles of the Constitution with the enrolled, as submitted to them by the enrolling clerks, and had found the same correctly enrolled-and thereupon,

On motion,

Ordered, That one copy of the same be read-and thereupon, On motion,

The convention adjourned without day.

WILLIAM HENDRICKS, Secretary.

The Trial Court

HON. LOUIS B. EWBANK.

Apologies are always in bad form when they are offered to a company that has gathered to be entertained; but under the circumstances, I feel that I may reasonably, in addition to my apology for my undress uniform, preface my remarks with a further apology.

"Radical” was once used as a term of reproach. "Progressive" is now used in commendation; at least, a great many persons intend a compliment, not to say a boast, when they apply that term to themselves. The spirit of change pervades all subjects.

In literature the study of modern slang is substituted for a knowledge of the masterpieces of Greece and Rome. In surgery the removal of the appendix and cutting out of the tonsils are urged as essential to perfect manhood. In medicine drugs are to be discarded for thought and prayer. In politics the choice of representative men who have devoted their lives to public affairs is rejected, and a mob of one-fifth of the voters, induced by brass bands, personalities and open purchase to attend a primary, declare a preference for candidates which it is scarcely less than treason to oppose. In law new constitutions are framed over night, and to the annual sessions of Congress and biennial meetings of the General Assembly, turning out hundreds of additional laws before we have read those passed at the session before, is to be added a recall of judicial decisions; and laws may be changed by popular vote of those interested, to fit the facts of past transactions.

Change is glorified and "Progress" is almost defied. That we may be headed backward, toward the abandoned follies of our ancestors, or obliquely, toward conditions that are new, but worse than what we discard, seems unimportant. Progress down stream toward the cataract is more thrilling than the slow and labored pull up stream to safety.

Realizing that this is the spirit of the age, I come before you with an apology. I was born in a past century. I was brought up to read and admire the classics in literature. I still have my appendix and tonsils, and even dare to believe that the Almighty knew how to make a man, and that his own image was not a bad pattern. When I am sick I take medicine; and am not persuaded that even a progressive, "by taking thought, can add a cubit to his stature." I do not prefer the candidate chosen by a plurality vote at a primary attended by ten or fifteen per cent of the voters to one approved by representative men and nominated by a convention, even though it has steam roller attachments. I still revere the Constitution framed by our fathers, which we have so often sworn to uphold, and believe that Legislatures and Governors have no functions in Constitution making, except as the Constitution itself prescribes. I do not think any new law is good which goes farther than to express in outward form the existing life and development of society, or to abolish an existing abuse; that laws cannot make social conditions, and that Society alone is competent to make laws. I am opposed to any device by which an Act, not unlawful when it was done, shall be declared unlawful by a future popular vote. My belief in further progress in the direction we may be going at the time ceases whenever I become convinced that we are going to the Devil. Like Patrick Henry, “I know of no way to judge the future but by the past," and favor trying all new