The Portland daily press., 1880-06-23

New York sitting us a member OF the commit
tee ON credentials, inasmuch as his own seat
was contested. The chairman ruled the OBJ
lection out of order, as there was no notice Of
a contest before the committee. A long lime
was spent in fixing the length of time for ar
gument. 1t was finally resolved to give each
speaker an hour and a half to presenI his case
The committee then adjourned to meet at Z
O'Clock tonight. On motion to give each side
in the New York contest only an hour to pre-
sent their case to the committee it was 2 tie,
but the vote was not considered to have any
significance.
The Committee on Permanent Organization,
serving by unanimous vote, determined to re-
port to the convention the name of j. w.
Stevenson, of Kentucky, as chairman and of
Vice President and Secretaries, one from each
State. The Vice President from Maine is
Arlus Alden, Secretary John R. Redman, of
Ellsworth. The committee then recon-
mended that the Secretaries, reading clerks
and Sergeant-at-Armso of the temporary organ
ization be- retained. The report concludes as
1olloWs:-The committee further report that
they have duly considered the memorial in
relation to representation of the District of
Columbia and of the territories, and have
heard the arguments of the memorialists, and
respectfully recommend the following resolu-
ton:
ReSolred, That two delegates from the District of
Columbia and two delegates from each of the terri
tories be admitted to the convention and have the
right to participate in debate and every other right
and privilege enjoyed by the delegates from the
States, excepting the right to vote.
The committee on credentials reassembled
at Z 80 and entered upon the consideration of
the New York contest. An hour and half
was allowed for the presentation of the case Of
the Tammany Hall contestees, which was oc-
cupied by Judge George f. Comstock, Amasa
J. Parker, Mr.. Moak of Albany, George Mil
Ter and John Kelly. The anti-Tammany case
was presented by Gov. Walker, George NJ.
Bebee, Lester B. Faulkner, Rufus Pickham,
John Fellows and j. Thomas Spriggs. All
Tammany asked was that its representatives
be allowed equal representation in the con-
vention with the sitting delegates, and this
they asked in the name of harmony of the
party in New York, stating that were it re-
fused it would endanger the national ticket in
that State, in which the Democratic party
were not in position to lose chance.
The sitting delegates replied that the admis-
sion OF Tammany would lose as many votes for
the Democrats as Tammany could bring it.
At IL o'clock the committee closed the doors
and went into secret consideration of the case.
Before doing so committeeman asked Kelly
whether if his delegation was admitted he
would pledge himself to support the nomi-
nee of the convention whoever it might
be, saying his vote on the contest would be in
fiuenced by Kelly's answer. Kelly replied that
speaking freely and frankly for himself, he
would say that if admitted to the convention
and Tilden was nominated he would not and
Coulu Hoo ouppuTb HIN, DuI IL any OtHer udn
was nominated he would work his best for the
nominees. Judge Comstock replied to the
same question that he would support the nomi-
nee of the convention unless he was a murder
er, thief or felon. Putrick Cowan, OF Sarato-
ga, Tammany contestant, stated that he
would feel in honor bound, if admitted to par
ticipate in the convention, to support the NOM
inee. At 12.15 the committee, by vote of 80
to 4, Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey and Del
aware voting no, voted in favor of allowing
the setting delegates from New York to retain
their seats.
Committee on resolutions did not re-assem-
BILE until late in the evening and then organ
lied by the election of Henry Waterman as
chairman and John p. Irish of Iowa as secret
airy. Miss Susan B. Anthony, Mrs. Meri
wether and other representatives of the
Woman's Suffrage Association were allowed
to present their case and to make an argu-
ment of considerable length. The representa-
tives of the different states then submitted re-
solutions which they desired to be incorporated
in the tplatform, and one or more were SUBJ
mitted from most of the states. They were
all referred to the subcommittee: The COM
mittee then adjourned till tomorrow morning
at 11.30. The subcommittee commenced the
task of sitting and classifying the resolutions.