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 Proceedings of the Democratic Caucus to Nominate Candidate for United States
 Senator.
 Pursuant to notice, the democratic members of both Houses of the General Assembly oi | the State of Arkansas met on the 9th of Mo- vember, 1858, in the hall of the Ho6se of Rep resentatives to hold caucus for the nomina. ton of candidate for United States Senator At o'clock P. M., the caucus was called to order by Hon. Samuel T. Abbott, and on his motion, Hon. F. P. Redmond was called to the | chair.
 On motion of Hon. John I. Stirman John D. Kimbel acted as secretary pro tempore Mir. Oates suggested that the convening of | the caucus was premature, and moved re- cess until 71a o'clock, the hour appointed for | the meeting of the caucus, which motion pre-. vailed.
 At 71s o'clock, P. M., the caucus was again called to order by Mr. Oates, and on his mo- ton, Mir. Floyd was called to the chair until the election of chairman to preside over the caucus.
 Nominations for chairman being in order, MT. Oates nominated Hon. F. P Redmond.
 Mir. Baxter nominated Hon. D. c. Mont gomery.
 No other nominations being made. the rolls were called, when 1t appeared that MT. Red mond had received joint vote of 59 and Mir. Montgomery joint vote of 30
 Those members of the Senate who voted for Mir. Redmond are
 Messrs. Clark, Davies, Fletcher Floyd, Gaines, Hammond, Hampton, Humphreys, Jones, Me- Colloch, Pennington, Rosson, Smithsou, Stir man, Terry, Watkins and Willams-17
 Those members of the Senate who voted for Mr. Montgomery are
 Messrs. Douglas, Marshall, McCreery, Red mend and Trimble-5.
 Those members of the House who voted for MT. Redmond are
 Messrs Abbott, Anderson of Greene, An derson of Phillips, Bateman, Beshoar, Bunch. Bussey, Carlisle, Couch, Craighead, Dufiie, Dunn, Farmer, Fitzpatrick, Ford, Garland, Gray, Griffin, Heffington, Jacoway, Johnson of Desha, Johnson of Pulaski Johnson of St. Francis, Jeffrey, Kilgore, Macon, Mitchell, Montgomery Moss, McKean Neal, Oates, Rob- erts, Robertson, Savage, Saxon, Stuart, ThroweI, Torbitt, Vaughan, Weir and Wliams-42. Those members of the House who voted for Mir. Montgomery, are Messrs. Barker, Baxter, Brewster, Carroll, | Childers, Cook. Crawford, Doak, Duval, Ed wards, Green, Hammond, Hays, Hemingway, Hill, Murphy, McCammon, Mccoy, McRae, Newton Quarles, Reynolds, Shaver, Venable and Wilson-25.
 Mr. Enforce voted for Billy Patterson" Several members cast the votes of absentees, stating that they had authority to do so. MT. Redmond having received majority of all the votes cast, was duly elected chairman of the caucus, and accordingly took the chair and returned his thanks for the honor conferred upon him.
 On motion of Mir. Gaines John D. Kmbell was elected secretary of the caucus.
 Mir. Griffin offered the following resolution:
 Resolved, That all questions to be determined by this convention shall be determined and de- cided by majority of those who are present in person or by proxy.
 Mir. Baxter offered the following as substi- tute for Mir. Grifin's resolution, to-wit:
 1st. Resolved, That we, as representing the democracy of Arkansas, do cordially indorse the well-known principles and policy of our party, and fully approve that ancient, well-es- tabshed and invaluable democratic usage the convention system.
 20. Resolved, That none except good and true State rights democrats should be admitted into democratic convention caucus, and we re- fuse to recognize any man as a democrat who was elected in opposition to a regular demo- cratic nominee, or who failed, unless provden- tially prevented-to vote for the nominee of the democracy of his district for Congress at the August election, 1858.
 3d. Resolved That we deem this suitable occasion for declaring that whatever may be the result of this caucus-we condemn and re- pudiate any and all appeals by democratic aspi- rants to know nothings or disorganzers for sup port.
 4th. Resolued, That we will not go into the election of United States Senator, until after a nomination has been made according to our party usages and precedents. 5h. Resolved, That as to the number of votes necessary to a nomination, the same rule shall be in force in this caucus that governed the 1 caucus of 1852, which nominated candidate for the senatorial seat for which this caucus is about to nominate candidate, to- wit: the two- | thirds rule.
 Mir. Baxter advocated the substitute, and MT. | Oates spoke againstit, concluding with motion to lay it on the table. After an animated discussion of the resolu- tions before the caucus, Mr. Oates offered the following for the purpose of defining his posi- ton on one branch of the subject before the caucus:
 Reso1uea, That in a legislative democratic caucus are not the principals, but the agents of the several counties we represent and the 1 political character of the county and not of it's agent is to be questioned in judging of the right | to take seats in said caucus. The question before the caucus being the motion of Mr. Oates to lay the substitute of l ferred by Mr. Baxter on the table, the yeas and nays were called for, which being sustained, the rolls were called, when it appeared that there was joint vote of 55 in the affirmative and B in the negative.
 Those members of the Senate who voted to lay the substitute on the table, are Messrs. Davies, Fletcher, Floyd, Gaines, | Hampton, Jones. McCulloch, Pennington, Red mond, Rosson, Smithson, Stirman, Terry and | Watkns-14.
 Those members of the Senate voting in the negative, are
 Messrs. Douglas. Hammond, Humphreys Marshall, McCreery, Trimble and Williams | z.
 Those members of the House who voted to | lay the substitute on the table, are M eSSrS. AODOtl, AuueIsou oi Oreeue, De- shoar, Bunch. Burns, Bussey, Carlisle Couch, 1 Craighead, Crawford, Duffie, Dunn, Enforce. Farmer, Fitzpatrick, Ford, Garland, Gray, Grif- fin, Hefington, Hill, Jacoway, Johnson of De- sha, Johnson of Pulaski, Jeffrey, Kilgore, Ma con, Mitchell. Murphy, McKean, Neal, Oates, Roberts, Robertson, Saxon, Stuart, Thrower, Torbitt Vaughan, Weir and Williams-41. Those members of the House who voted in the negative, are
 Messrs Anderson of Phillips. Bateman, Bar ker, Baxter, Carroll, Childers, Cook, Doak, Du- val, Edwards, Gordon, Green, Hammond, Hays, Hemmingway. Montgomery, McCammon, Me- Coy, McRae, Newton. Quarles, Reynolds, Sav- age, Shaver, Venable and Wilson-26. So the motion to lay tho substitute offered by MT. Baxter on the table prevailed. Several members cast the votes of absentees, stating that they xere autharizad to do so