Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-05-03
Large Circles Of relations.
Adopted with much LAUGHTER.


Large Circles Of Relations.
Adopted with much laughter.
j. N, Rhodes, of Ohio, offered the follow
| ing resolution, which was received with
cheers and referred to the Committee on
Resolutions.
sWhereas, the President of The United
States is an executive and not legislative
officer of government, enforcing, not max
ing laws; and whereas, delegates to this
convention hold divers opinions on the
tariff question, as to whether it should be
for revenue purposes only, therefore
"Resolved, that this question be referred
to the congressional districts as an issue to
be properly made there, and that the will
of the people as thus expressed, should
be the policy of the administration"
A motion to adjourn until 8 O'Clock on
Friday was lost.
A delegate from Indiana moved to sus-
pend the rules and take up
The Tariff Resolutions,
and act on them finally.
The convention was thrown into partial
confusion by a vehement discussion about
proceeding to present candidates. There
was general anxiety to get the floor and ex-
cited speeches were made, some urging inn
mediate action, others demanding that the
tariff issue, which it is announced the Com
mittee on Resolutions and Platform cannot
agree about, be settled by the convention
by leaving the whole question to congress
sional districts. As each speaker makes
some point considered strong by one side,
loud cheers and hand clapping greet it.
More feeling, excitement and vOciterous
than any previous period. The convention
fa1 h. 80, a-,1 fhk.r
admit the consideration of the resolution on
tariff. The question was accompanied by
cumultuous cheering, both as regards ayes
and noes. The call by States on the motion
to suspend the rules was ayes $50, noes |
229, thus carrying the proposition by two |
votes more than the required tWO-thirds. !
The chair announced that tariff resolution
had been adopted by the Committee on
Resolutions, and he suggested the propriety |
of delaying further action until the commit I
tee reported. e |
Adelegate from Kentucky desired to make |
a few remarks on the subject Of the plat
form and free trade.
A delegate from OhiO-I desire that the
rules be suspended that the resolutions that
had been referred to the Committee on Re
solutions be referred to this body.
CuluUldu WHICH, bnC tNltO 10
suspended it is suspended for all purposes.
The resolutions of Mr.. j. W. Rhodes were
then read by the Secretary for the action Of
the Convention.
Hon. Cassius IL. Clay.--I nave known
all along where the trouble would lie in
this Convention, and this has embarrassed
our deliberations, and like the apple OF
discord troubles all our deliberations. When
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June next in Philadelphia, to nominate
Grant, or any other man, there is not sim
gle thing You could do in this city tonight
that would benefit them better than to
bring the ample of discord to which L have
referred. What are you going to do?
Should you permit questions of vital i'm
pOrtsnce to the perpetuity Of the country,
the restoration Of civil liberty, to be pu.
aside for the question of tariff? Shall you
continue in power the present administra
ton which is overriding all guarantees of
constitutional liberty, or shall the States be
allowed an opportunity of recovering their
original sovereignty? Whether the Congress
the people or whether the SOW
ereignty Of the people shall be retained by
those to whom il rightfully belongs, and
Tic NOuLlIl DIOuSub BdCk " lIlO oOllu AOIA- /
datiOns of the Constitution.
Hon. Stanley Matthew'S would have
been very glad to have avoided a discussion
Of this question and hoped effective meas
ures had been taken to that end when by
a deliberate and solemn resolution OF this
body a committee, selected from each dele
CATION, was appointed for the purpose Of
this and other questions neces-
proposed 20 be adopted, and then by the
adoption Of a proposition by which all indie
pendent volunteer provisions offered in the
should be referred to that COM
mittee without debate. Gentlemen, con- |
slider the rational ground on which those
were taken. Was it not for the
purpose Of protecting ourselves from the I
damages of haste andimpulse? Have you !
not selected a body taken from your midst !
for the purpose of weighing proper views,
and now when you have taken such pains {
TO guard yourselves against the consequent z
ces and injurious influences of being misled :
by the Impotence and haste growing out Of {
The very constitution Of your body which is {
not that Of deliberatiVe assembly, you are 5
throwing down the bar in fit OfimpatieLce {
IN consequence of haste and impulse and !
throwing away the advantage which I
you have secured. [Applause.l What are t
you proposing to do? a hasty resolution l
.Arown into a night session, when you are |
assembled for the purpose of business, t
v hen your committee has been at work all |
Jay long, and it is nowI announced that by r
IN almost unanimous vote, there being 2 a
lssentiGnts out Of % agreeing TO the pro-
position. Is it supposed that for the pur
pose Of reyiying the forgotten sovereignty of
The States, we are to be mislGd into a state
nent of doctrines which we do not believe |
10 be true. l hare a counter proposition to 1
make, which was issued as the basis of the L
oall for this Convention, which | will read
and move as a substitute for the PROPOSE
ion pending before this body:
"ResOlyed, That as no form Of taxation {
IS just or wise which puts needless burdens
IpOn the people, We demand a genuine re-
'orm tariff, so that its duties, in addition to !
he revenue yielded the Treasury, involve
IN increase in the price of domestic pro-
iucts, and a consequent tax for the benefit :
f fay ored Interests"
Now [ will tell You! one of the reasons whyI
uttered into this movement. 1t was that '
night assist in emancipating the politics l
lud business of this country from the DOM
nation of rings. l mean the political rings
n Washington. mean the railroad rings
which are stealing public land, and l mean
he pig iron rings which are robbing the
country, and yet which pretend to relieve
he burdens of the people by taking the t
axes off of tea and coffee in order that they ?
nay keep them on salt and iron. loud
heers. Mr.. Atkinson, of Massachusetts, L
IS member of the Committee on Resolu- ?
0ns, permits me 20 inform you that the
Ielay under which YOU are perhaps rightly P
impatient, was not caused by any
elay in the tariff question. loud cheers. t
That plank, he repeated, has been decided +
n the committee by nearly unanimous f
-ote. IN ordsR to keep any bitter discus
ions of this floor, and you are all aware l f
hOuld be as much interested in this as any \
nan, the sub committee has acted, and the q
be whole Convention has acted in such
gay, as L think, you viii do wisely in wait
Nc for their reports.
The Chairman-The motion to lay upon
he table is not debatable.
Several Intellectual attempts having been
made by delegate to obtain the consent :,
a 10 oI,o r. he aI,oirT IL