New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-31

Credentials, Permanent Organization, and me ME-
Alabama, which was contested, being called nrSs
Goseral WoodfoFd Of New-Y0rk, said theFe was
manifest imprupriety in allowing those stases OF
TfrFftariAs where there were contests TO name
naernbers Of the Committee on Credentials, and
9uegeated the enforcement Of the usual parlia-
mentary rule that where q State or Territory was
reached in which there were contestng Delegations
that state should be passed on the ron-can' 1en-
eraI Woodford embodied this in formal motion,
and it was adopted without division. Inc UIanV
people would no doubt be ready to argue tnat tnis
apul,es only to the Committee on Credentials, but
the heat parliamentarians are we'll understood to
agree in the opinion that contested delegation has
no right to a vote upon any subject until the con-
test has been decided
The Blaine men are much encouraged By the re-
salt of Wednesdays meetingsin thisoty. Such de-
monstration of public sentiment has not Deen
without effect. They say that the sentiment OF the
country is beginning to make itself felt as wen as
that of the interior of Illinois, and the result Is seen
in the quickening of the sentiment against third
term.
FEELING AMONG NETWORK DELEGATES.
BLAINE5s STRENGTH NOT ovEREsTIMATED-FRoM
TWENTY TO THIRTY DELEGATES OPPOSED TO
THE UNIT RULE.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
CHICAGO May 31.-A majority OF the New-YOTK
delegation are now here, and canvass reveals the
fact that the number of anti-Grant men has not
been over-estimated. 1t reveals also fact
which has not been made public, that there are
number of Grant men in the delegation who will
not vote to sustain the unit rule Friends of Cen
eral Grant admit this, some saying that there will
be twenty votes in tho delegation against the unit
rule and some that there will be twenty-five. Judge
Robertson said to-day that there will be fifteen votes
against General Grant, and between twenty and
Twenty-Five votes against the unit rule Judge Rob-
ertson of course, represents the Blaine and anti
Grant feeling in the delegation.
Senator Rockwell, on the other hand, Is
about as good a representative as could be
desired of the Grant element. He said to-
day, promptly and decisively, when questioned on
the unit rule, that he is opposed to it
He wants to see things done fairly, and does not be-
lieve in the unit rule He put the number Of New
York delegates who are opposed to it as high as
thirty, but the best informed Blaine men do not
claim 80 many.
The fifteen anti Grant men in the delegation who
are confidently counted on are Senator Blrdsal and
s. l.. Hawkins, of the LIST District. Albert DaGgett
of the IIld Speaker Hustled and Judge Robertson
of the XIItb John b. butcher of the XlIIth. NJ. d.
Stvers and B. G. Wales Of the XVIII, George
West, of the XXth Ferris Jacobs, Of the XXIst;
J. z. Douglass and S. Gilbert, of the XXIId Sena,
tor WoodIn, of the XVIII Senator Sessions and
N. Il Allen, of the XXXIIId.
1t Is positively stated by those who have
talked with him that ex-Speaker Hustled is for
Blaine, although the Grant leaders have been
claiming him as surely for Grant. There are
several delegates who may decide to vote against
Grant bat whose position is yet little doubtful