The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-06-02
CHICAGO.
Exciting Time In Prospects for the
Convention To-Day.


THE MEETING OF THE NATIONAL COMMIT
TEE-CAMERoN BOTH IMPUDENT AND
pErrANT-ARBITRAIsYR ErUsALs TO PUT
MOTIONS TO THE UoMMITTEE-GEoRoE
y. HoAR, OF MASSACHUSETTS,, NAhED
FOR TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN-REDlsTRi-
BUTTON OF TICKETS oRDERED-ISDiGSA-
TON AT CAMERoN's CoURsE-GRANT
LEADERS HIssED-DENocRATs WORKING
FOR ~RAHT-THE GRANT COLUMN WA
vpRaNG-BoLT IN THE NEW YORK DELE
GAgyoy-yATIoNAL UNION VETERANS IN
FAVOR OF GRANT.
tFrcm Mr. c. c. Fnl sms,, spec,I'' l" '"e ~
CHICAGO, May Sl.-Thc movement begun
Yesterday towards the consolidation OF All
the anti. Grant elements OF the Convention
upon all questions involved In the organi-
zatjou OF the Convention have been
Thoroughly successful, and the friends OF
oil the candidates other than Grant are act
| ing IN perfect accord. a. .
statement. soon reported around, that TWEEN
tv-two of the New York delegates bad
signed paper pledging themselves not to
vote for Grant. The following is rer0dtan
copy: d.
publcan National Convention. representing
our several congressional districts IN the
State OF New York, desiring above all tne
success OF the Republican party at the ap,
preaching election, and realizing the hazard
attending an injudcious nomination, de-
clare our purpose TO resist the NOMINATION
of General U. S. Grant by all honorable
means. We are sincere in the conviction
that In New York at least his nomination
would insure defeat. We have great bat
lie TO fight, and victory is within our reach,
but we earnestly protest against entering
the contest with nomination we regard as
unwise and perilous.">
CHICAGO, May 81, 1880.
Twelfth district, W. Ii. Robertson;
Twenty-sixtb, A. b. Woodin; Thirty.third,
Lorin b. Sessions; Fourteenth, M. ID. Sti-
yers; Twentieth, Webster Wagner and
George West; Third, Albert Dagget; Four
teenth, b. q. Wales; First, Simon S. Haw-
kins and John Birdsill; Twenty-second,
John p. Douglas and Sidney Sylvester I;
Thirteenth, John b. butcher; Nineteenth,
Henry r. James and Wells S. Dickson;
Twelfth, James w. Hustled; Twenty-first,
Ferris Jacobs, Jr.; Eighteenth, Oliver
Abel; Thirty.third, N. NJ. Allen.
1t is claimed that probably two additional
signatures will be appended to the above,
and the excitement the bolt has created Is
unusual.
This revolt against Senator Conkling be-
ing so much more extensive than had been
calculated gave great encouragement TO the
Blaine men, and the Grant men were unde-
niably depressed by the intelligence.
A MEETING
OF members Of the National Committee OPP
posed TO the unit rule was held in the morn
ing, at which it was resolved TO resist by
every means in their power the enforcement
OF the unit rule in the organization OF the
Convention, and to depose Cameron ii 1t
should be necessary. The committee con-
sists Of forty.seven members; thirty were
present.
The National Republican Committee met
this evening at s O'clock. and was called 10
order by Cameron. Chandler offered the
following resolutions:
RESOLVED, That this committee approves
and ratifies the call for the approaching Re-
publican National Convention which was
issued by its chairman and secretary, and
which invites two delegates from each con-
gressional district, four delegates at large
from each State, two from each Territory,
and two from the District Of Columbia, to
compose the Convention.
The resolution was adopted without OPP
position. Senator Chatfee then offered the
following:
RESOLVED, That this committee recognizes
the right Of each delegate in a Republican
National Convention freely to cast and to
have counted his invdual vote therein &C
cording TO his own sentiments, and il he so
decides against any unit rule or other in
structions passed by State convention,
which right was conceded without dissent,
and was exercised in the Conventions OF
1860 and 1868, and was, after full debate,
affirmed by tue Convention ci 1876, and has
thus become a part of the law of Repubi-
can conventions, and until reversed by
convention itself must remain governing
principle.
Mr.. Gorham, OF California, asked the
chairman il he intended to entertain the re-
solutions. Mr.. Cameron announced that he
would not entertain the resolutions. Mr..
Cbaffee appealed from the decision of the
chairman. The Chairman said there could
be no appeal, as there was no question be-
fore the committee. Mr.. Chaffee again ap-
pealed from the decision OF the Chair, say
III
might as well have king"
Chairman "1here eau be no appeal, and
the Chair will not put the motion on any ap.
peal"
Mr.. Chandler again appealed to the chair
man to allow vote to be taken on the APP
peal. The Chairman again said, emphati-
cally: 81 will not put the question on the
appeal"
Mr.. Filley, Of Maryland, said that the
committee assembled merely to select the
temporary chairman for the National Con-
yention. Mr.. Stone, OF Iowa, arose to
point of order, and declared that the decis-
ion Of the Chair IS unparliamentary and ar
bitrary. The Chair refused again to enter.
tain the appeal. Mr.. Filey, Of Maryland,
again demanded that vote be taken on his
motion to proceed to the selection OF tenn
porary chairman. The Chairman said there
was no question before the committee on
which an appeal can be made, and none that
he will entertain.
A long debate ensued on questions Of or.
der between Gorham, Filey, and Stone, of
Iowa. Cameron said: "The chairman has
decided over and over again that there is
nothing before the committee to decide
upon or to appeal upon. Chandler again ap-
pealed to the Chair to allow vote on the
resolutions, but the Chairman again declared
that the resolutions were out OF jurisdc-
ton Of the committee, and he would per-
nit no appeal. Root. OF Illinois, said that
the committee, not the chairman, was the
source of power, and it was for the com.
mittee, not the chairman, to decide whether
the resolution was germane or not. Cor
ham asked whether it would not be better
to keep his subject out OF the committee,
the chairman having again decided that
there was nofhinD before the commiffoe m