The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-06-04

rival factions upon every point. 1t would be
hazardous'to predict the results (; but IL ia be-
lieyed the Credentials Committee will ad-
NIT at least eighteen of the twenty contest
ants from Illinois, who were admitted origin.
ally to the Springfield convention and subse-
quently ousted.
MIR. tloar called the convention to order at
HAS. He requested all Others than mem.
bers of the convention To withdraw from that
part of the hall assigned To delegates, and d.
rected the Sergeant-st Arms to enforce the
request The aisles were cleared, and after
some delay, the Rev. A. Noble, of the Union
Park Congregational church, Chicago, offer
cd a prayer.
1t Is said the Committee on Contested
Seats will not DO ready TO report before four
p. m.
THE ILLINOIS DELEGATION.
ll:46 a. m. - At midnight Kirk
Halves concluded the presentation TO
the Committee on Credentials of his
side Of the case OF tho contesting delegates.
He not only claimed that the committee
should seat the twenty delegates from the
ten centesting districts in Illinois, but that it
should declare the seats of the four dele
gates-at.large vacant, on the ground that
they were chosen by the State convention in
which y majority had been obtained by the
exclusion of the regularly appointed delega-
ton from Cook county.
COLONEL Ron INGERs Ii.
made the concluding argument for the con-
testants.
After Z. A. Storrs had presented the case
of the sitting elegation, member of the
committee said there was no doubt the con-
testants would be seated, and probably the
seats of the d legates-at-large vacated,
IN THE GRANT CAUCUS
last evening, a shorthand reporter, who was
present during the speeches which Boutwell,
and Conkling made, said that the former de.
ciared they Yield from 800 to $50 votes on the
first ballot, and that the nomination of Grant
was secure. Mr., Conkling said there was no
use in concealing or perverting the facts. 1t
was time now to look tho matter squarely in
the face No more than 800 votes were AS.
sured for Grant on the first ballot They
need not count on more, unless they secured
them hereafter. But however that might be,
If they held through the second and third TO
the tenth ballot, they would eventually worry
out their opponents and win. They would
neither offer nor accept compromise.
Breaks would come from the other candidates
and then they would gain converts.
A committee of one from each State rep
resented at the caucus was appointed to visit
the various State delegates and report prog.
ress this morning. AT this point of the pro.
ceedings the reporter was summarily removed
from the meeting.
HALE TOO MUCH FOR CoNKLING.
Mr.. Conkling moved that the convention
adjourn or take recess until p. m.
Mr.. Hale made the point of order that The
motion was debatable.
The Chair sustained Mr.. Hale and TIT
point is now being debated. Mr.. Hale in BIZ
il y, ,sse os suspended animation until the
fol- Woi Mr.. Hale, claiming IL would faclli
tale The business Of the convention to take
recess, and said il was not in order t,
had reported. The motion to take reces
was lost.
COUNSEL FOR CONTESTANTS IN THE CON
vENTIoN.
Mr.. Jay, of Michigan, offered n resolution
thet contestants from the State of Illinois b,
be heard in the convention by counsel.
motion to lay it on the table was lost, ant
the ayes and noes on jays motion ordered
jay subsequently withdrew the resolution.
l.. has been arranged for Colonel Bot
lngersoll TO present the claims for the Iii
nois contestants in the convention.
THE coMMIrrEE ON PERMANENT oRGANIzA
TION
reported tn name of George f. Hoar fol
President.
Mr. Frye, of Maine, moved that the Com
mittee on Rules and Order of Business b
requested to report.
Mr. Sharp, of New York, said as it was tn
intention to have n majority and minority re
port. he asked that it be delayed till the Com
mttee on Credentials had reported.
Mr.. Garfield said under the agreement the
would not render n report until the Commit
tee on Credentials had reported unles
ordered by the convention.
A, lilo p. m. Mr.. Frye, of Maine, moveC
that theconvention take recess till o'clocl;
Adopted.
The Committee on Credentials is still il
| session, and it is said cannot report for som'
time
CoNTgsTING ILLINOIS DELEGATES ADMITTED
s p. m. The Committee on Credential
has voted to admit sixteen contesting dele
gates from the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth
Sixth Ninth, Tenth and Twelfth Congress
sional districts of Illinois, aud passed con
tests IN the Second and Thirteenth districts
to allow General Raum to produce furthe
facts concerning them. The committee mex
considered contests in the Second and Thirt
KANSAS DISTRICTS,