Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-06-01

| De ara they are hereDy appointed 10 eilect 81
necessary arrangements for the control of the
hall, which are or may be required of the
National Committee for the purposes of the
Convention.
TEMPORARY OFFICERS.
George T. Hoar was selected by the com.
mittee as temporary Chairman for the Con.
vention, and Colonel J. H. Roberts of Chi.
cago was appointed temporary Secretary.
| These nominations We're made on the
| recommendation of the committee appointed
| for the purpose, and consisting of William Z.
Chandler, Cooper Of Ohio, Forbes of Massa-
chusetts, Pratt of New York, and Jones of
Nevada.
The question of the unit rule was not again
brought forward during the meeting, which
did not adjourn until after midnight, but will
come up tomorrow.
SUBSTANTIAL VICTORY CLAIMED.
The anti-Grant members of the committee
claim a substantial victory on every point so
far, having displaced the Committee of Ar
rangements. which was composed of Grant
men entirely, with new committee, in which
the opposition are in a majority, and having
named the temporary Chairman.
Cameron's ruling ON the Chaffee resolution
against the unit rule was that he did not de.
eide it out of order, but simply refused to
entertain it, and consequently when Chaffee
appealed he declared there was nothing be-
fore the house, and that there could be no
appeal. The contest will be renewed to-
morrow over the unit rule.
CAMERoN's HEAD IN JEOPARDY.
The committee met again at 1880, and
nothing has since transpired as to its action.
Conversations with members of the com.
mittee indicate that there is likely to be a
warm session, and it is alleged by some of
them that it is probable that Cameron viii be
deposed tonight.
GRANT AND SHERMAN cLUBs-THE UNIT RULE.
CHICAGO, May 3lst.-A Grant Club, 100
strong, came from Cincinnati, and Sherman
Clubs, one from Cincinnati numbering 500,
and one from New York, have also arrived.
The Indiana delegation took a vote to-day
on the unit rule, and of the twenty-four pres.
ent only one favored it. The Alabama dele
gates voted solid for it.
FAILURE TO OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES RESOLUTIONS
CHICAGO, May 3lst.-At the meetings On
the lake front, the advertised speakers did
not all appear. Neither SWEET, Storrs, Conk-
ing nor Carpenter spoke at the Grant meet
ing, and Ingersoll and Hale failed to appear
at the anti-Grant meeting.
Resolutions were adopted by the latter
denouncing the nomination of Grant as being
opposed to the wishes of the party, and de-
claring that in case he is nominated they
would not sustain his nomination.
WEAKENING OF THE GRANT MOVEMENT
BLAINE STOCK RISING.
CHICAGO May 31st.-The Grant move
ment has apparently spent its force, and few
shrewd observers here tonight consider his
nomination possibility. This impression is
strengthened by the despondent air of Conk-
ling and other third-term managers. Every
hour develops evidence that the Grant move
meht was not near as strong as its managers
had asserted. But one of their most serious
and dishearteDing surprises was the discovery
tonight that nineteen New York delegates
had signed q written protest against Grants
nomination, and pledged themselves to op-
pose it by all honorable means, as fatal to
Republican supremacy. This destroys the
great effect expected from New York's unan-
imous presentation of Grant 1t is thought
that two other signatures will be appended
before the papers publication tomorrow
There are still other surprises in store for
the Grant men. Cameron cannot hold the
Pennsylvania delegation, nor come as near
to doing so as he supposes. In other States
the detection from the third-term movement
is spreading hourly IN the presence of the
accumulating evidence of its unpopularity
and danger.
As the delegates compare notes Blaine
are extremely confident of his nomination,
and some of the Grant men betray their
fear OF this result by sullen threats of beating
him by combinations for Washburne. 1t is
generally conceded that Grant cannot be
nominated unless on the first ballot, and
that seems impossible without the enforce
ment of the unit rule, which majority OF
more than 100 is pledged to repudiate.
The Sherman men are working quietly and
earnestly, but apparently making little pro-
gress nor do Edmunds' supporters seem to
gain any positive accessions to their strength.
Tomorrow will probably give new shape
to the combinations
In the National Republican Committee
meeting tonight, there was long and acri-
monious discussion growing out of the refusal
of Chairman Cameron to entertain resolutions
moved by the Blaine men. prescribing the
order of conformity to past practice, and
especially discarding the unit rule The
mover ,sappealed from his decision ruling ont
their resolutions, and he then refused to en-
tertain the appeal. At this writing the COM
mittee is still sitting, though the Blaine men
won victory in securing the acceptance of
Judge Hoar, of Massachusetts,, for temporary
Chairman