The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-06-11

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properly indignant, and denounced the kissing
as an outrage.
The report of the Committee on Rules was
read, also minority report. The consideration
OF the report was postponed until after the
! Credentials Committee reported, which the
chair announced would be in half an hour.
AT the expiration Of the half-hour the chair
called the convention to order, il being now
o'clock. He Immediately introduced Hon.
Omar ID. Conger Chairman Of the Committee
on Credentials, who on behalf of the committee
apologized for delay in deciding cases before
them. He represented the difficulties under
which they labored They had been almost con-
| tinuously and laboriousy in session for over two
days. The committee had considered all cases with
| candor and fairness, and without dispute, ex-
cept on the merits of the various questions.
| The committee report a roll of members In
the Louisiana contest, they recommend the ad-
mission of the Warmoth delegation and the ex-
cusion of the Beattie delegation. The report
! discusses the organization of the convention of
the State of Louisiana. They find that the bolt
was without cause.
They recommend the admission of James Il.
Rapier in the Fourth Congressional district of
| Alabama. This case is also traversed. They
also advise that Smith and Warner who were
duly elected by the District Convention, should
be admitted in place of Arthur Brgam and r.
A. Mosely Of the Seventh Alabama.
In the Illinois case the committee recon-
sional districts the contestants are admitted in
place of sitting members. The Second Con-
gressional district (West Side, Chicago) re-
mains unchanged.
The districts in which changes are made in
Illinois First Third, Fourth. Fifth, Sixth.
Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Seventeenth.
The committee report in favor of retaining
the four deegates-at-large from Illinois.
In Kansas four district delegates are reported
in place of sitting members
In Pennsylvania Ninth and Nineteenth dis
trcts, sitting members are recommended as en-
titled to hold their seats.
In West Virginia the sitting members are en-
titled to their seats in contested cases. The
committee rehearses the call of the National
Committee as a basis for its action on all con-
tested cases. and refers to previous calls to sus-
tain their position and to show the justice of
their decision. The calls of 1856, go, ga and
all others down to the present date were the
same in this respect as the calls of this year,
and all were adopted with purpose to remove
doubts and make district representation prin-
cpe that could not be controverted or disputed.
The committee also say that the State con-
ventions, too, have in almost every case do
cided that Congressional districts should have
representation in the National Convention as
they have elected them. The rights OF repre-
sentatives so elected have ever been regarded
as sacred and should not now be invaded for
the first time in the history Of the party by this
pose of the convention is to select the candl-
date most likely to be elected, and the nearer
we get to the true feeling Of the people, the
wiser and safer will be that selection. If State
conventions may select delegates to national
convention who do not represent the feeling OF
the people. then those State conventions might
as well select all the delegates from single
district in the State. This overriding of the
will of the people cannot be too severely CEN
sured.
In the Utah case the committee favors re-
tanning the sitting members as being in accord
with these principles.
Mr.. Clayton, of Arkansas presented a mi
nority report, which was read by the Secretary.
The minority report differed from the majority
mainly on the part of district representation,
setting forth that if the committee should adopt
that method of selecting delegates. 1t would VI
olate one of the best-established customs of the
| Republican party.
MIR. Conger moved that the report be 80 di-
yided that each State shall be considered sep
arately
Mr. Conger presented a corrected roll Of the
convention. according TO the report, and moved
! TO take up the Louisiana case first.
Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, submitted
a proposition that all of the report upon
! which the committee had agreed be
adopted, and then proceed 10 take
! up the four propositions upon which the COM
nlttee had not agreed-those of West Virginia,
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Gen. Logan arose and asked Mr.. Conger if
there was any contest over the four delegates
at-large from Illinois.
Mr.. Conger said there was not.
Gen. Logan asked if there was any particular
reason, then, why this conscientious ma ority Of
the Committee OH Credentials had found it
necessary to consider the Illinois delegates-at
large at all He asked for fair play and de-
cent treatment on the floor. "There is no con-
test in Illinois, said Gen. Logan, "and no COM
mittee has any right to question my title to
seat in this convention" Gen. Logan asserted
that any pretense of a contest Ill Illinois was
false, and altogether unwarranted.
Mr.. Sharpe, of New York, moved to amend
Mr.. Cessnas motion by striking out all refer
ence to the four delegates-at-arge from Hi
nois.
Mr.. Conger replied to Gen. Logan in a warm
speech. He regretted that Gen. Logan or any
one else should feel that the Committee on Gre
dentials was disposed to do them an injustice.
After long and heated discussion, partici-
pated i'll principally by Conkling and Logan on
the one side, aud Raymond, of California, and
Conger, of Michigan, on the other, the motion
of Gen. Sharpe was adopted, with only few
dissentient votes.
That portion OF the report of the Credentials
Committee concerning which there was no dis
agreement was then adopted without opposi-
ton. 80. ,...
That part of the report relating to the State
until ago p. m, when, ON motion Of Senator
Bruce, of Mississippi, the convention took
recess until o'clock.
The convention reassemblcd at 1885 D. m
and Dok up the Alabama case, and on motion
OF Gen. Harrison, of Indiana, forty minutes
times was allotted to the discussion of the case
twenty minutes to the friends Of the majority
and twenty minutes to the advocates
OF the minority report Mr. Turner, of Ala
bama, and Gen. b. +. Tracy, of New York, then
proceeded to state the case of the minority o.
the committee, while Mr.. Parsons, of Alabam ,
and Gen. Bateman, of Ohio, made plea for
the majority report. The motion to substitute
the minority for the majority report was then put
and lost by vote of 306 yeas to 449 nays,
The convention then proceeded to the con-
sideration Of the case of Illinois, and two hours
time was allotted, by vote Of the convention, to
its discussion-one hour to each side. Mr..
Conger, of Michigan and Mr.. Anthony Zone Of
the contesting delegates), OF Illinois, then pro-
ceeded to make the plea for the majority re-
port, while Gen. Raum and Emory A. Storrs, of
Illinois, presented the case of the minority.
At the close Of the two hours Chairman Hoar
shut off debate and Mr.. Cessna. Of Pennsyl
vania, called for division Of the questionable
first part to embrace the First Congressional dis
trict Of Illinois, the second division to embrace
the other districts in dispute reserving the right
II occasion should require, to make further
subdivision Of the second division.