American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-19
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

| 1HE Convention reaSsembled on the
morning of the 4th, pursuant to adjournment
and was called to order little before clever
o'clock Rev DIR. Little, of Chicago, offeret
| prayer.
Mr.. Sewell, OF New Jersey, moved that the
Committee on Credentials be instructed t.
make their report, and the motion unani
| mously prevailed.
The Committee ON Credentials not being in
| the hail. Mr.. Sewell moved the Committee or
Rules and Order of Business be instructed tc
| report. with the understanding that no action
De taken on their report until after the report
OF the Committee on Credentials. and the
| Convention so ordered Mr. Garfield. the
Chairman OF the Committee, then submitted
the following rules:
| Rule l. The Convention shall consist of q
| number Of delegates from each State equal tC
| double the number OF its Senators and Repre-
sentativcs in Congress, and two delegates from
eaeh territory and two from the District OF
.. The rules of the House of Represents
tives shall be the rules of this Conye ntion SO
far as they are applicable and not inconsist-
| ent with the following rules:
snanded by a m'uority of the delegates. from
any State. ard the demand seconded by two OF
majority of the Convention, the question shall
then be proceeded with and disposed of ac
cordng TO the rulcs OF the House of Repro
sentatlVes in similar cases.
4. Upon all subjects before the Convention
the States shall be called in alphabetical order,
ana next the Territories and District OF
|
shall be disposed of before the report of the
/ Committee on Resolutions is acted upon; and
the report of the Committee on Resolutions
t shall be disposed of before the Convention
| proceeds to the nomination of candidates for
| President and ice-Presdent.
q. When a majority of the delegates of any
two stat e5 Shall demand that a vote be record
| ed, the same shall be taken by States, Terri
| tories and the District of Columbia, the Score
| tary calling the roll of the States and Terri
| tories and the District of Columbia in the or
| der heretofore stated II
e. In making the nomination for President
and Nice-Presidcnt. i'll no case shall the cali
shsn Of the roll be dispensed VIII a When 1t
eeived majority of the votes cast the Presi-
question TIC be- Sba the snl o the
can1idaIe pc made unanimous! But II no
can r, snail t have received majority OF
again taken which shall be repeated until
some candidate shall have received a ma ior-
1fy OF the votes east; and where any State has
announced its vote 1t shall so stand until the
ballot Il announced, unless in case of numer-
s. In the record of the votes by States, the
Vote of each State, Territory and the District
+ of Columbia shall be announced by the Chair
man; and in case the votes of any State, Terri
tory or the District of Columbia shall be
divided the Chairman shall announce the
number of votes cast for any candidate or for
or against any propositions; but, if exception
such announc ment by the Chairman of his
deles alton. the President of the Convention
shalt dire ct the roll OF members of such dele
CATION 10 be called and the result reco ded in
accordance with the votes individually given
g No member shall speak mo tnan once
upon the 'sune cue q rn., nor ienger than five
minutes nm ess by cave of thcConventIon
e1eept dha dsIie9aes Pre- en,ng the name Of
presen ing tue mime # such candidate.
IL. A National Republican COMMITTEE shall
be appointed. TO consist of one member from
each State, Territory and District represented
in this Convention. The roll shall be called,
and the delegation from each State Territory
and District shall name, through their Chair
man, person to act AS member Of such Com
IL. All reso -utions relating to the platform
shall be referred to the Committee on Resolu-
The minority of the COMMITTEES submitted
report recommending the adoption of the
following as a substitute for Rule s:
of each State, Territory and the District of
Columbia shall be announced by the Chairman;
the District of Columbia shall be divided, the
Chairman shall announce the number Of votes
cast Tor any candidate or for or against any
According to the understanding no action
was takenon the reports at that Time, and the
Convention awaited the appearance of the
Committee on Credentials.
After delay of about an hour the report
OF the majority was presented by Mr. Con-
ger, of Michigan. recommending the admls-
sion of the Warmoth delegation from Louis
1ana and the exclusion of the Beattfe dele
CATION the admission of James l. Rapier as
delegate from the Fourth Alabama District;
Warner as delegates fro IN the Seventh Ala
bama District. in place of the sitting MEM
ters; the admission of the contrasting dele
gates from the First, Third, Fourth Fifth,
teenth Illinois Districts and the retention of
the sitting delegates from the Second Illinois
District: the retention Of the four delegates
at-large from Illinois :the admission of the con-
testing delegates from the Second and Third
Kansas Districts, the retention OF the sit
ting members from the Ninth and Nineteenth
Pennsylvania Districts; the retention of the
sitting members from the Third West V1r-
ginia District and the retention of the sitting
delegates from Utah. Mr. Clayton, of Ar
kansas, presented a minority report opposing
the admission of Mr. Rapier as delegate from
the Third Alabama District, and Messrs.
Smith and Warner as delegates from the
the sitting delegates from the Illinois Dis
tricts and generally opposing the conclusions
OF the majority Mr.. Conger proposed that
the consideration of the reports be taken up
In the order indicated in the majority report.
Mr. Cessna thought it would be better
to adopt those those parts OF the report
ana w so moHed ie These Were the ei %oa
isiana cases: the question of delegates-at-
large from Illinois, the Second District of
Illinois, the Ninth and Nineteenth Districts
Sharpe moved to amend by striking from the
majority report so much as referred to the
delegates-at-large from Illinois, and the Con-
vention so voted. The motion to adopt SO
much OF the majority report as the Commit
tee unanimously approved was then carried.
The Alabama cases were then taken up. Mr..
the report of the minority for that of the
majority.
At this time, on motion of Mr.. Bruce of Mis-
sissippi, the Convention took recess until
At 80 o'clock the Convention reassembled
and entered upon the further consideration of
the Alabama case. Mr.. Harrison, of Indi sna,
moved that forty minutes be devoted to the
discussion of the case, and it was SO ordered:
The question then recurring on the motion OF
Mr.. Clayton to substitute the minority report
debate
which Messrs. Turner. of Alabama, Hill, of
Mississippi, Tracy, of New York, Bateman, of
Ohio, C6nger, Farr, of Michigan, Hicks, Of
Florida, Boutwell,, Dorsey. of Arkansas, and
others participated, and at the conclusion the
roll called with the following result:
Yeas, BOG; nays, 449; SO the motion to substi-
tute was defeated. The report of the ma
jority in the Alabama cases was then adopted
The Illinois cases were then taken up. Mr..
Quarles, of Wisconsin, offered q resolution
limiting the debate on the question to one
hour. Mr.. Boutwell, moved as substitute
that all the cases of contested seats be de-
cided by adopting the usage of each State as
that usage has existed heretofore, and that
in each State in which the uniform usage has
been to elect delegates to Republican Nation
al Conventions by State Conventions, that
usage shall be deemed binding, and the same
shall be true in respect tO delegates sent by
Congressional District Conventions in States
where that has been the usage. The Chair |
ruled that Mr.. Boutwelfs resolution wa,
out oil order as not being germane TO the
! ending resolution Messrs. Boutwell,, Logan,
Conkling, PiXley and others spoke, and final
ly the resolution was amended SO as to give
two hours and then adopted. The motion to
substitute the minority report for the maiori- |
ty report was made and discussed by Messrs.
Raum, Anthony, Storrs and others. Before |
the discussion was ended, a motion to ad-
journ was made and voted down by yeas,
103; nays. 653. The motion to substitute the
for the majority report was then
defeated by the following Vote: Yeas, 3l3: