New-York tribune., 1874-10-14
CHATTANOOGA CONVENTION
COMPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE
WORK SET BEFORE 1T.

| PURPOSE OF OPPOSING THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL
AND OTHERS TO FAVOR 1.-THE GARRETT
BAGGERs INTERESTED ONLY IN HOLDING THEIR
| OFFICEs-A GLANCE AT THE COMPOSITION OF
THE CONVENTION
fDY TELEGRAPH TIE TRIBUNE1
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Oct. 13.-Wlliam Markham
| of Georgia, who was called by Senator Clayton to
preside temporarily over the Convention. when he
took the chair. declared this meeting to be the most
| important that had ever convened in the recon
| structed States. The announcement met with no
responses from the $50 delegates present, but each
looked at his neighbor as if asking What we here
| forf Nobody could answer. The delegates from the
cotton belt came to get an authoritative declara-
| tiOn from the united Administration party of the
South in favor of the Civil Rights bill,
that they might take it back to their black
supporters and set at rest the doubt which has
already begun to creep into the minds OF the col
| Ored men. The delegates from the border States
to prevent any such daclaratioD believing it to
be fatal to all their prospects of success in the
elections next month. Carpet-baggers who have no
interests in the States from which they nomnally
hail, except to hold the offices, State and Federal
came to united cry to the President for more
troops to help them. Men who are Republicans, but
who identified with the material industries OF
the South came to prevent the further injury OF the
States of their nativity or adoption by shutting
down to-day on new food of Misrepresentation to
frighten and capital from their neglected fields
and factories.
A glance at the composition of the Convention
| will show. better than anything which can be said,
the character of the work it may be expected TO ac-
| cOmplish. The delegation from Arkansas is the
largest here. numbering about 30 men, it Is headed
by Powell Clayton and Senator Dorsey, the former
taking the lead, and more than any other single
man. shaping the business of the meeting. 1he
Senators from Arkansas are supported by ex-C0n-
gressmen Boles Chief-Justice Mcclure, Joseph
| Brooks and some Others who have been prominent
in the diary of politics in that State. They need no
| introduction to the people. From Louisiana has
come the only Senator from that State in Congress,
Mr. West Associated with him are Pinchback At
torney General Field, and about dozen
Others. At the head of the Mississippi dele
cation are Senator Pease and ex-Representative
Perce, and il musters in all nearly 80 men. The
Republican Committee of Virginia appointed large
delegation but very few have appeared, and none
of them have national reputation. From Texas
there are about dozen men, the most prominent OF
whom are ex-Gov. Davis, Geo. w. Paschal, jr, and
Boulds Baker. The latter is, or has been, Chairman
of the Republican Executive Committee of the
State He left Alabama four or five years ago, after
cotton permits was discovered. Senator Spencer
presides over the delegation from Alabama, and has
associated with him ex-Gov. Parsons, Arthur
| Bingham. and a dozen others. Parsons will
| be remembered as Andrew Johnsons
Provisional Governor of Alabama, one Of the strong
est opponepts of negro suffrage and Conservative
until 1872 when he went into the Republican party.
He is now Speaker of the State House OF Repre-
sentatives Bingham is the editor of The Mont
oomery State journal and Republican candidate Tor
State Treasurer During the Busteed investigation,
| last Winter, the gentleman swOre that he had
printed lies about Judge Busteed to get even with
| him for charging in court against his paper. Inc
| Tennessee delegation, contrary to expectation IS
very small; that from Flori1a consists of only one
man. and the Carolinas are not represented at ALL
DIVERSITY OF SENTIMENT IN THE CONVEN-
| TION.
| TWO SESSIONS HELD WITHOUT ACTION-ORGANIZA-
| TIoN CONGRATULATIONS OF OPINION REGARD
ING THE THIRD TERM QUEsrIoN-RUMoR THAT
| AN INTTMArION FROM WASHINGTON HAS BEEN
RECEIVED THAT THE SUBJECT SHOULD NOT BE
| MENTIONED - TIE CONTEST OVER THE CIVIL
RIGHTS QUESTION TO BE SETTLED IN COMMITTEE
THE DELEGATES GENERALLY OF ONE MIND ON
THE SUBJECT OF oUTRAGEs.
iBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUSE1
| CHATTANOOGA, Oct 13.-The Southern outrage
Convention has held two sessions here to-day ana
| has completed its organization and appointed
| series of committees to map out and arrange lts
work. Among these are committees on resolutions
on address to the people of the United States on
facts and statistics sc. The last is to be auxiliary
to the committee on address, and Is TO gather for
their use the reports of Ourages which the deiega
tons from the several States have brought In ofder
that they may be set forth in their most striking
form. 1t has been suggested that 1t be continued
till Congress meet and report from Time 10 tiihe
through the press. All of these committees are at
work tonight and expected to report to the
| Convention some time tomorrow, TINS evening
being set apart for speeches. of which there is to be
plentiful supply.
The great diversity of sentiment in the Conven-
ton is already apparent The third-term men from
Soutb Carolina and elsewhere have not yet appeared
1t is whispered about town tonight that an lntlma-
ton has been received from the party headquarters
at Washington that it will be better to avoid that
question at present declaration from this body,
II ia believed woud force the President either to
come ont opeplv as a candidate for reelection or to
| ayow his intention to Withdraw from the field
| Longer silence will be almost impossible, or II
IT was preserved it would rghtfully be interpreted
| as meaning assent. This is Just wnat Tue
wiser of the third term men wish TO avoid lucy
desire to leave the question open' IN oroer no' ~
excite the oppositon of any element in the Repub-
hcan party by hasty action. while they themselves
are quietly working up matters for the campaign.
For these reasons it is not believed that the ques
ton of third term will be brought into the Con-
vention, though there is doubt that there will be
among the resolutions one indorsing Gen. Grant
and warmly approving his action in the Louisiana
case and in sending troops to other parts OF the
South.
An attempt will be made to settle the Civil Rights