Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1860-06-30
THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CON-
MENTIONS.
Another SIM ash Up!
THE PARTY RENT IN TWAIN.
Details of the Killed and Wounded.

Surrirors' Ticket.
For President STEPHEN A, DOUGLAS of III.
For Vice Pres, BENZ. FITZPATRICK of Ala.
SccedeS Ticket
For President, JOHN c. BRECKENRIDGE of Ky
For Vice Pres JOSEPH LANE of Oregon
FOURTH DAY.
AT the assembling of the convention Thurs
day, Mr. Krum of Mo-, presented the majority
(Douglas) report of the committee on creden-
tias, in regard to the disputed seats as follows
Admits Chaffee Oouglas) instead of Ben. L.
Haett, from Massachusetts O'Fallon doug
las) in place of Gardy, from Missouri the
Soule-Douglas delegation from Louisiana; the
Douglas contestants from Texas; the Forsyth
Douglas delegates from Alabama the regular
delegation (beng uncontested) from Mississippi;
and divides the votes of Arkansas and Georgia
between the two sets from each of those States.
Florida and South Carolina not having asked
admission, by any delegates, are not alluded to.
MIR Krum attempted to make some remarks
before his report (above) was read, but Virginia
objected and wordy row ensued. Members
were all over the hall in grand confusion
President Gushing at last succeeded in inducing
Mr. krum to stop, and having quoted down
the multitude the secretary read the report
Then Mr. Krum spoke in advocacy of the re-
port, asking its adoption.
Mr. Isaac !. Stevens, delegate from Oregon,
presented a report on behalf of the PRINCIPAL
part of the minority Of the committee recon-
mcnding the admission of Mr. Iaett of Mass.
MIR Gardy of Mo-, Messrs Bayard and White
ley (regulars and seceders) of Delaware; and
the regular seeding delegations from all the
Southern States, Florida also to be counted in.
The report stated that the question affected the
future existence Of the party, and argued against
the right of the convention to declare seats va
cant, when the States had elected delegates to
represent them, even if they had withdrawn,
their withdrawal not being resignation. The
report entered into an elaborate argument of
the case. The signers of the report are the
members of the committee for the States of
Oregon, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky,
California, ard lin part New Hampshire.
MIR Cuttings of Nd, for himself as a member
of the committee, made a report agreeing with
the majority except in the case of Alabama, in
which case he reported in favor of the original
iancey delegates. After reading his report,
Mr. Cuttings moved that all the reports be
printed and recess be taken to o'clock
[Cries of no." "no."l Mr. Cuttings withdrew
the notion
The remainder of the day was spent in angry
and excited debate, during and following which
several personal encounters took place New
York was not ready to vote on the report and
asked time to consider. So the convention ad-
.journed without reaching a vote.
FIFTH DAY.
AS soon as the convention could come to or
der on Friday Mr. Krum read statement Civ
ing his reasons for the conclusions of the ma
jority of the committee on credentials. He ar
gued that the secession of the delegates did
create vacancies, and the resolution adopted at
the Charleston convention recognises such va
cancies, and called on the States to fill them
The minority Of the committee, while denying
that vacancies exist, proceed to render their ar
gument absurd by filling these very vacancies.
The States themselves had recognised vacancies
70 Bne"T %99 tredc%faafs y The Issis
sippi delegates bore on the face the fact that
they were appointed on the 30th of Nav, and
many were new names. The Alabama creden-
tials of the old delegates bore on their face the
ton, but to Richmond, ard lower down they
were accredited to this convention. They might
have been appointed also to the Chicago con-
vention, but what democrat would desire to ad-
NIT men on such rowing commission TO
democratic convention? The statement pro-
ceedcd to give similar reasons for the admission
of the Soule delegation from Louisiana, and
compromise of the delegations from the other
States
The question was then put on the substitu-
ton of the whole of the minority report, made
by Mr. Stevens, of Oregon, for the report of the
majority.
The vote was called by States, and resulted
as follows:
Maine, aye 2i nay 81 New Hampshire, ave /, nay
Al; Vermont, aye II, nay 81 Massachusetts, aye s.
nay 3; Rhode Island, nay 4 Connecticut ave 81 nav
81; New York, nav IS; New Jersey, aye T. nay j;
Pennsylvania, ave IL, nay 10; Maryland aye 81, nay
81, and one delegate declining to vote; Virginia. ave
II, nay /; North Carolina, aye o. nay /; Arkansas,
aye !, nay !! Missouri, aye s. nay 4; Tennessee ave
10, nay q Ohio, nay 49, Indiana, nay lS; Illinois,
Michigan, nay 8; Wisconsin, nav 6; Iowa nav 4:
Minnesota, aye l. nay q; California; aye A. oregon,
aye 3. Total, aye lOoli nay 100.
So the motion to substitute Mr. Stevens mi
norlty report for the majority was lost
The chair having requested that no express
sion of applause or dissent should be INDUCED
in the result was announced in silence.
The vote then required on the adoption of
the majority report.
Mr. Church of New York, and Mr. Jones of
Tennessee, called for division of the question
on each proposition.
The question was first put on the first resou-
ton of the majority report, admitting the orig
inal delegates from Mississippi, which was car
ried nearly unanimously the only negative votes
being two from Pennsylvania and one-half from
Iowa. a half vote from Massachusetts declined
to vote
A vote was then taken on the second resolu-
ton of the majority report admitting the Soule
delegates from Louisiana.
The vote is precisely the reverse of that on
the rejection of the minority report, except the
following States:
Vermont, aye At, nay /; New Jersey, aye %, nay
~ Maryland, aye p, nay Of; Virginia. aye /, nay
ID; North Carolina, aye ., nay S; Tennessee, ave 3
nay 10, Total aye 1853; nay 5s.
So the second resolution was adopted.
The question was then taken on the third
resolution of the majority report, admitting Mr.
llindman and his colleagues from Arkansas
with power to cast two votes, and Mr. Hooper
and his colleagues the contestants, with power
to cast one vote, and Droyidinp if either set of