The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-06-01
TlEL.EGR..As.P.HIC. j.
tIeEeoraphed tothe Rock Isscnd Are3s I
To-Dav's Dispatches.
THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL
CONVENTION.
INDICATIONS Or a row I'M THE
COMITTEE,
Cameron to be Deposed, Unless he
Ceases to Uphold the Unit Rule.

CHICAGO, June 1.-The excitement
which seemed to prevail in the city last
night is exceeded by the excitement Of to-
day. There are more people in the city
and the new arrivals entered at once into
the contest as partisans of one or the
other of the candidate. 1t having been
announced that at eleven O'Clock an
adjourned meeting of the national com.
mittee would be held and that then q
further refusal of Mr.. Cameron to enter.
tain the anti unit rule resolution. would
result iu his immediate decapitation, the
rush was for the vicinity of the com mittee
rooms. where the question at issue is now
being wildly discussed. There are two
mittee.. one led by ex-senator Chafee,
| is for the removal of Gamer
on and the radical change of
| all committees, the other is held
by such men as Gov Jewell, of Conn.,,
who will only consent to the removal of
Cameron upon -the refusal of Senator
Conkling and other Grant leaders to prom
ise not to seek to enforce the unit rule in
the preliminary organization, If that
pledge were given, then Mr.. Cameron and
Secretary keogh were to be left undis-
turbed, if refused then the conservative
men would vote with the radical men for
the removal. The majority are deter
mined to get view of the roll of mem
bers, and see that the claimants for seats
are not adverse to the interests of the
opposing candidates. AS they are now in
possession of the hall, they feel able to
command the situation.
LATER.-A committee of conference has
been appointed on deposing Cameron, and a
recess of the national committee has
been taken, 1t is reported that Conkling,
Logan and Cameron, members of the
committee. have conceded everything the
anti-Grant men demanded. Chandler had
been selected by the opposition to take
Cameron's place. Ii now remains to be
made by the three senators,
The conference committee having con-
siderable business before it as to seats and
other matters, the National committee
adjourned until 2 P. M. Thirty members
of the committee say that, in the meeting
proper. no vote, not even one that may be
considered as indicating any relative
strength has yet been taken,
The Union Veterans met at Haverly' 8
Theatre this morning in the interest of
the candidacy of General Grant. There
was large gathering and numerous emil
nent military leaders including General
Horace Porter, Gen. Stewart, l.. Wood
ford. Corporal Tanner, Col. Weitzell and
Gen. Hickenlooper.
General Stewart L. Woodford was
made chairman and several rousipg
ing speeches were made. Lieut. General
Sheridan was loudly called for. but only
bowed and made no speech. Resolutions
were adopted declaring in favor of the
principles of the Republican party, de-
manding equal rights, protection of Re
publicans in the isouth, aud that General
Grant was the choice of the meeting for
the presidency The latter resolution me;
strong opposition. Boutelle, of Maine,
Congressman Burroughs andothers oppos-
ing it as uuwise, and tending TO divide
the Republican party. The vote was
close, but the chairman decided it car
ried.
1t having been announced that Massa-
chGsetts would cast twenty votes on the
first ballot for Sherman, that being the
EdOunds strength, Judge Hoar was seen
az TO the correctness of the statement.
He said they would give their first vote to
Edmunds as Instructed, and after that TO
Sherman, The Blaine vote in the Ohio
delegation number nine, and Mack of the
Sandusky Register says they will vote on
the first ballot for BlRpe