. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . alfor submission, and the Democratic legislature passed a bill, after it hadbeen indorsed by the Democratic State Convention. The act was ap-proved January 15, 1849, and when submitted at the regular election inAugust, votes were given for a convention, and was a clear majority of all the voters of the State, and the legislatureof 1849-50 provided for the election of 150 delegates to a convention, atthe regular election. Efforts to have the election at another tim
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . alfor submission, and the Democratic legislature passed a bill, after it hadbeen indorsed by the Democratic State Convention. The act was ap-proved January 15, 1849, and when submitted at the regular election inAugust, votes were given for a convention, and was a clear majority of all the voters of the State, and the legislatureof 1849-50 provided for the election of 150 delegates to a convention, atthe regular election. Efforts to have the election at another time weredefeated. Some efforts were made, chiefly by the Whigs, to have the 4 Convention Debates, p. 51. 5 Senat-e Journal, p. 41. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 441 election put on a non-partisan basis, but without success. The Whigsheld a meeting on January 16. and adopted resolutions in favor of mostof the changes that had been proposed. Their suffrage resolution was forthe extension of the suffrage to all native and naturalized citizens overthe age of 21 years. On March 1, the Democratic State Central Com-. George Whitfield Carr(President Constitutional Convention) mittee issued a circular calling for party nominations, which were madeby both parties, and appeared on the tickets with the other election resulted 33 Democrats and 17 Whigs from the senatorialdistricts; and 62 Democrats and 38 Whigs from the representativedistricts.* The Convention met in the hall of the House of Eepresentatives, at 6 For a more detailed account of these preliminary steps, see Constitution Makingin Indiana, Vol. 1, pp. xxxv, Ixi-lxxxiii. U2 INDIANA AND IXDIANANS Indianapolis, on the morning of October 7, 1850, and was called to oiderby the Secretary of State, Charles H. Test. The oaths of office were ad-ministered by Judge Blackford of the Supreme Court, and the Conven-tion elected as president George W. Carr, a delegate from LawrenceCounty, who had been Speaker of the House for the two pre
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