The Virginia Plan, and subsequently the New Jersey Plan, had first been considered in committee of the whole, and the question of "proportional representation," as it was then called, would accordingly come up again in formal session.

Several weeks had been occupied by the proceedings, so that it was now near the end of June, and in general the discussions had been conducted with remarkably good temper.

But it was evidently the calm before the storm.

And the issue was finally joined when the question of representation in the two houses again came before the Convention.

The majority of the States on the 29th of June once more voted in favor of proportional representation in the lower house.