The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-07-06


candidate for President of the United States
(Cheers.)
Mr.. Brewer, OF Pennsylvania. offered resolu'
ton OF thanks TO the temporary Chairman, Mr.
Palmer, OF Wisconsin. Adopted. (Applause)
Mr.. Phillips, of Missouri, offered the fol-
lowing
Resolved. That the delegates to this Conven.
tion pledge themselves In advance to support
its nominees.
The question was stated by the Chair on Mr..
Bigler's resolution.
A Counter Melton.
Mr.. Hutchins, OF Missouri, moved to amend
by substituting resolution that no steps be
taken towards the nomination of candidate
for President until after the platform shall have
been presented and adopted.
A vote on this amendment was ordered to be
taken by u call Of the States.
Mr.. BigleT explained that his proposition was
not to proceed now to bRllotting for candi-
date, but looked to putting Candidates before
the Convention. He was himself In favor OF
adopting the platform prior to any balloting
The vote by States was then taken on the
amendment. At the conclusion, New York
asked leave to retire for consultation, but the
Chair declared that l59, half the votes, had been
cast In the affirmative, and that the amend
ment had been adopted.
Mr.. Garretson, of Pennsylvania, offered a
resolution declaring the sense of the Conven.
tion that in future Democratic Conventions u
majority vote shall effect nomination. (Ap-
plause) Referred.
PIsdRtnR the Candid Ates.
Mr.. Spauldng, of Kentucky, offered q res0lu-
tion that parties put In nomination before this
Convention shall be pledged by their friends TO
support It's ticke and platform. Referred.
A delegate from Kentucky moved a resolu'
tlon requesting the President OF the United
States to issue proclamation of universal am
nesty.
Mr.. Dawson, of Pennsylvania, asked an i'm.
mediate vote on the resolution, and 1T was
adopted. with q few dissenting votes
MIR. Schwartz, of Missouri. offered resolutions
on finances and taxation, which were re ferred.
Mr.. Reeve, of Indiana, offered resolution
providing that five minutes recess shall be
taken in every case before the roll is called on
any question: the vote upon which by States is
ordered.
Mr.. Crawford, OF Nebraska, offered a resolu-
ton cohdemning the reconstruction acts OF
Congress, which was referred.
MIR. Emerson, of Missouri, offered resolu.
tion, calling upon the Committee on Resolu-
tions to report the platform at the earliest pos
sible moment.
Mr.. Stuart, OF Michigan, from the Committee
on Platform, hoped this would not be adopted.
The committee were industriously at WORK
and would report az soon as practicable.
Mr.. Preston, of Kentucky, also of the Com
mittee, said they hoped to be able to report to
ihe Convention to- night.
The Ad IOurn ment.
Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, as a privileged
motion, moved that when the Convention ad-
journ 1t be to meet again at O'Clock p. NJ,
which was modified by substituting o'clock
and in that fol the motion was adopted and
the Convention then adjourned.
The Soldiers and Sailors Convention.
Despatch to the Associated Press.
THE REASsEMBLING.
NEW YORK, July 6.-The various delegations
having paraded in procession as announced
from their headquarters at Moffat Mansion,
passed New Tammany Hall, where sits the
Dem ocratic National Convention TO Cooper Ia.
stitute, and arrived at the great hall OF the
Cooper Union at IL o'clock. Torn and tattered
battle flags from nearly every field of strife OF
the late war were present, prefacing the en-
trance Of the dele CATION, and in their rear ar
rived various delegations, rapidly filling up the
hall. The police arrangements were ample
precautions being taken to preserve the most
perfect order.
The various bodies composing the procession
as they entered the hall were heralded by the
bands play Ing airs which have become familiar
to veteran delegates upon the bloody field of
battle. The Convention 1s emphatically an
asse blage OF soldiers, and tn cir enthusiasm
gives vent not in clapping Of hands and stamp.
Ing OF feet, common to other bodies, but In re-
sounding cheers from ntorian lungs at each
name pronounced, signals and shouts either of
deafening applause or vociferous groans. each
given with will and displaying to the peace
full mind little glimpse of what battle.cry
might be.
During the filing In OF the delegates, aud the
Uaking of seats OF the officers of the Convention
upon the stage, the various bands, by concerted
arrang cement, played HAL Columbia" "Rally
Round the Flag" etc. Cheers were given, Il ags
| dipped, and shouts OF applause rent the air
| Such names Mcclellan, Hancock. Packer
| Slocum, and Franklin were greeted with inva.
rlable applause.
THE GALL TO ORDER.
| Precisely at noon, the chairman, General
| Franklin, called the Convention to order.
| The Secretary, Colonel O'Brien, then read the
rules of order as reported by the Committee on
| Resolutions.
| A resolution was offered that all speeches,
motions, ETC., should be made from the floor, so
| as to avoid the undue prominence gained by the
members upon the platform, which, after being
amended to allow officers of the Convention to
| speak from the platform, was carried.
| General Slocum, OF New York, from the Com
mittee on Resolutions, reported that the COM
mittee was not ct prepared to report its draft
| of platform, and reported an address to the
| National Democratic Convention In response
| to an Invitation TO the floor of that body. de-
claIipg the objects OF the So diers and Sailors
| Convention To be the same as those which ami
mated them during the war, deploring radical
legislation, denouncing the apostacy ofthe men
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