The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-09
Joseph S. Miller for Auditor,
CHARLESTON, June 8.

Special Dispatch TO Register.
After consultation with the friends o
Whesllngs interests, w. W. Miller de-
clined being made temporary chairman
of the Convention, Notwithstanding his
election was almost unanimously assured
and L. K. Cofran, of Grafton, was Sc
lected, and three secretaries were chosen
and the Senatorial districts called for the
members of the various committees.
COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS.
The committee on Resolutions is
nearly as telegraphed last night. First
district, j. II. Good; Second, l.. Is. Hay
mond; Third. John j. Davis; Fourth,
John W. Horner; Fifth, Il. r. Howard
Sixth, Henry s. Walker; Seventh, Ira j.
McGinnis; Eighth, John w. Harris
Ninth, Thomas Bradford; Tenth, james
Ii Carol; Eleventh, Joseph Sprigg;
Twelfth, d. B. Lucas.
A resolution was adopted referring all
resolutions introduced into the Conven.
tion to the committee on Resolutions
without debate. This was done to pre-.
vent the explosion Of the Convention on
the Capital question.
aIi n
after noon, to give the Committees time
to report.
The committee on Resolutions had O
stormy and protracted session. Opinions
on the financial rs we'll as Capital ques-
tion are at antipades and the feeling is u,
fever heat. Is.
SECOND DISPATCH.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, June 8.
Afternoon session d. johnson
was chosen permanent president and
j. Bernard Peyton rs secretary, with two
assistants.
Mr.. johnson made short speech ex-
horting harmony and discreet action.
The committee on Resolutions made
two reports. The majority report, sign
ed by John j. Davis rs chairman and seven
other members and minority report
signed by Henry 5. Walker and three
other members. The minority report con
tanned the pith of the Ohio platform with
the addition Of a resolution in favor OF
submitting the location of the Capital to
a vote OF the people.
Mr.. Walker moved TO substitute this
minority report for that made by the
majority.
After a discussion running through
almost the entire afternoon, some
parliamentary skirmishing and several
collateral votes, the substitute was re-
iected by vote of ayes 22s, to nays 26s'
The defsction of Summers county, por.
ti.n of Greenbrier, Monroe and Fayette,
all OF the third district, voting with US
prevented the passage ofthe Objectionable
resolution with reference to the Capital.
The case was handled with consummate
skill on the part of the minority. A por-
ton of Wood and Harrison and all of
Calhoun and Giimer counties, and some
others voted against us who ought to have
been with US The supreme sbsurdity
of making local question part of our
political creed, ought to have stripped it
Of any support.
The following is the resolution OF the
majority as adopted by the Convention
BY vote o: ayes 2ss to l7s noes;
Resolved That while We belong TO q
debtor State, and believe that tn" Repuo-
hcan party has treated such State un-
fairly and unjustly by its financial policy,
and while we favor the immediate repeal
of the specie resumption act taxation OF
United States bonds like other property,
and the abolition Of the present
banking system, yet at the same time, We
emphaticslly deprecste the eiert to d.
vide the Democratic party upon issnes
involving money only, and recommend
that such issues be RENTED to the Con-
cressional districts, or otherwise subordi-
mated to those great moral and constisu-
tional questions which underlie the very
existence Of the Union and its institu-
tions. d.
LATER
CHARLESTON, June Son assembling
after supper, the President being sick
the first Vice. President Joseph A. Pen