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The Chair-Tho gentleman is ont Of order.
| The chair must require the gentlemen To take
| their seats. The convention will settle these
questions as 1t pleases at the cl DE of the roll
| call.
Mr.. Conkling That's right.
The Chair-The chair will permit no delegate
to interrupt the roll call except when an indi-
yidual delegate rises and claims that his vote
has been improperly reported by the chairman
| Of his delegation that will be recorded by tho
secretary. lApplause.l Does any other dele
gate from Kentucky rise for that purpose2
Mr.. Hamilton-With the permission Of the
chair, ! will give the names OF the four dissent
ing delegates"
| Mr.. White-We agree to that.
The Chair-Ihat il all right. CHEERS
The four dissenting delegates stood up ON
their seats, with their arms around each other,
and they were saluted with hurricane of cheers
and yells. ICrics Of "order the chair rapping
vigorously with his gavel.l
The Chair-The chairman of the Kentucky
delegation now announces that there are four
dissenting voters, they will be 80 recorded.
Mr.. Joy, Of Michigan-One of the Michigan
delegates il upon the committee on credentials.
Haven't We the right TO cast his vote in his alb
sence; We know how lac would vote.
The Chair-The secretary will proceed with
the roll, New York goes OH record.
Senator Conkling-I am instructed by the
delegation from New York to cast AZ votes aye
and % no.
delegate from New York; think the sena-
tor has made one mistake, there are only 60 de-
legates present There are 4G ayes and 20 noes,
Mr.. Tracy il absent.
Mr.. Conkling-I have in my hand, having
taken some care TO make a canvass, a list of
this vote Of the delegation from New York, and
my information is that every seat is full, either
in the person Of delegate or his alternate, 10
that the votes Us shown by this canvass is AZ
ono way and 20 another. [CheeS.l
| The Chairman-Thc chair must accept the
| statement OF the chairman of the delegation
unless any individual delegate rises and states
that his vote is wrongly recorded. At the close
Of the roll-call, if any man rises it will be set
tied by the convention. The secretary then
proceeded with the call of the next vote. When
the roll was finished, Mr.. Joy, of Michigan,
said: Before the vote is announced.
| The Chair-Onc of the secretaries Of the con-
ventiOn desires to inquire Of the chairman of
the Pennsylvania delegation whether his vote
has been counted in the report.
Mr.. McGee, of Pennsylvania sir.
| Mr.. Joy, of Michigan wish TO correct the
vote of the state of Michigan.
MIR. Weaver, of PENNSYLVANIA members
OF the Pennsylvania delegation who have just ar
rived, wish to record their votes faye"
Mr.. Joy, of Michigan-The state Of Michi-
gan is to be corrected to q noes and aye
The CHARIOT Pennsylvania. 81 aye, % no.
| The clerk will announce the vote on the adop-
ton Of the substitute.
The secretary announced the vote as follows:
Ayes 31S, noes 40G. Great and prolonged cheer
ing followed the announcement and it took
some time for the chair to again bring the COLI
vcntion to order.
On motion Of Mr.. Brundage, of Connecticut,
the pending motion was laid on the table.
| The convention then adjourned.
Third Day.
CHICAGO, June At 1Oi5 the president
| raped the convention to order.
| Prayer by Rev. Arthur Little.
Conkling offered resolution which he hoped
would be unanimously adopted, otherwise lie
would call for division. 1t was as follows:
Resotred, As the sense of this convention, that
every member Of it bound in honor to support its
nominee, whoever that nominee may be, and that no
man should hold a seat here who is not ready to 30
| agree.
The vote being taken, one or two negatives
were heard and Conkling suggested that the
call Of states be made i'll order to discover what
delegates in Republican convention refused to
vote for this resolution.
At the conclusion, when there had been no
negative votes except three in West Virginia,
Conkling's motion was declared adopted by
vote of ZIG ayes to 3 nays. Conkng then Of
fered resolution orally as follows:
Resotred, That the delegates who this roll cal,
have voted "no this resolution do not deserve 10
have, and have forfeited their votes in this conven
ton.
This called forth an animated debate in which
considerable bad feeling was manifested. Fin
ally Conkling said he would not do injustice to
any delegate and although, he didn't under
stand that the delegates would support the
| nominee he would withdraw his resolution. 1t
was withdrawn and there WIS loud applause
! thcreat.
Sewell On. J.) moved that the report of the
committee on credentials be made. Agreed to
by unanimous vote.
The chair said for the purpose of accommo-
dating the citizens the committee on arrange
ments have given them 10000 seats. 1t was
| evidently improper to express appreciation or
disapprobation from the galleries, and he had
ordered the galleries cleared if any such dis
turbance occurred again.
The chairman called upon the committee on
credentials to report. II was announced that
| they were not yet ready.
Sewell. On. j. moved that the report of the
committee on rules be read. II was suggested
that no action be taken on the rules until after
the committee OH credentials had reported.
| This amendment was accepted and the commit
tee Oh rules was ordered to report.
The chair desired Hon. b. X. Bruce (Kcn-
! tucky,) to assume the chair for few moments,
and cheers greeted the appearance OF Senator
Bruce on the platform.
| Senator Garfield, chairman of the committee
on rules, reported the rules already published,
which are the same as those used in Cincinnati,
with the exceptions noted in previous dispatch
es. Garfield explained that but two classes of
/
| first, verbal changes in the order of the rules
second, the only substantial change was that i'll
| the eighth rule, where the committee had en-
bodied the plain and undisputed precedent and
rule of previous Republican conventions into
clear stHtement. CIhis is the clause abrogating
! the unit rule.) The minority report from menu
bCrs of several states recommended the retention
| of rule 3 as used at Cincinnati. CIhis does not
abrogate the unit rule) The minority consider
the majority report on this question as tending
to delay and as casting reflection on the chair
man of the committee.
There being no other business before the con-
vcntion, the chair asked Sewell On. j. to notify
the committee on credentials that the conycn-
ton was awaiting their report.
At the expiration of half an hour the chair
man called the convention to order, it being now
one O'Clock. He immediately introduced Hon.
| Omar ID. Conger, chairman of the committee Oh
credentials, who on behalf of the committee
apologizcd for the delay in deciding the cases
before them. lie represented the difficulties
under which they labOred. They had been al
most continuously and hboriously in session
| for over two days. The committee had consid-
cred all the cases with candor and fairness, and
without dispute except on the merits of the
various questions. The committee report roll
of members. In the Louisiana contest
they recommend the admission of the War;
mouth delegation and the exclusion 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 III the Fourth congressional
district of Alabama. This case is $50 traversed.
| They also advise that Smith and Warner, who
were duly elected, be admitted i'll place of
Arthur Brigham and II. A. Moscly, Jr.. Of the
| Seventh district of Alabama. In the Illinois
case the committee recommend the following
changes: In nine congressional districts the
contestants are admitted in place Of the sitting
members. In the Second congressional district
(West Side, ChicagO) the delegation remains
unchanged.
The districts in which changes are made in
Illinois are the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth,
Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Seven
teenth. The committee report in favor of re-
tanning the four delegates at large from Illinois.
In Kalsas four district delegates are reported
| in place of the sitting members. In Pennsyl-
vania the Ninth and Nineteenth districts sitting
members are recommended as entitled to hold
their seats. In West Virginia the sitting
members are entitled to their seats, in the
contested case. The committee releases
the call of the national committee as the
basis for their action on all contested cases, and
refer to previous calls to sustain their position
and to show the justice of their decision. The
calls of 1856, 1860, 1864 and all others down to
the present date were the same in this respect
as the call of this year, and all were adopted
with purpose to remove doubts and make dis
trict representation principle that could not
be controverted or disputed.
The committee also say the state conventions,
too, have in almost every case decided that con-
gressional districts should have representation
in the national convention as they have elected
| them. The rights of representatives 30 elected
have ever been regarded as sacred and should
not now be invaded for the first time in the his