wed one member.[541]

Reporting on this question the fifth of July, the Committee of the
Whole decided to submit:

That the subsequent propositions be recommended to the
Convention, on condition that both shall be generally adopted.

1st That in the first branch of the Legislature each of the
States now in the Union be allowed one Member for every forty
thousand inhabitants of the description reported in the seventh
resolution of the Committee of the whole House. That each State
not containing that number shall be allowed one Member--That all
Bills for raising or appropriating money and for fixing the
salaries of the Officers of the Government of the United States,
shall originate in the first Branch of the Legislature, and shall
not be altered or amended by the second Branch and that no money
shall be drawn from the public Treasury but in pursuance of
appropriations to be originated by the first Branch. 2ndly That
in the second Branch of the Legislature each State shall have an
equal Veto.

Discussing this question on the sixth of July:

Mr. Pinkney saw no good reason for committing. The value of land
had been found on full investigation to be an impracticable rule.
The contributions of revenue including imports & exports, must be
too changeable in their amount; too difficult to be adjusted; and
too injurious to the non-commercial States. The number of
inhabitants appeared to him the only just & practicable rule. He
thought the blacks ought to stand on an equality with whites: But
wd.--agree to the ratio settled by Congs. He contended that
Congs. had no right under the articles of Confederation to
authorize the admission of new States; no such cases having been
provided for.[542]

On the ninth of July, according to Madison, Mr. Gorham said:

Some provision of this sort was necessary in the outset. The
number of blacks & whites with some regard to supposed wealth
was the general guide. Fractions could not be observed. The
Legislre. is to make alterations from time to time as justice &
propriety may require. Two objections prevailed agst. the rate of
1 member for every 40,000 inhts. The 1st. was that the
Representation would soon be too numerous: the 2d. that the
Western States who may have a different interest, might if
admitted on that pr