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SECOND DAYS SESSION OF THE ILLINOIS RE.
PUBLICAN CONVENTION.

SECOND DAY SESSION OF THE ILLINOIS pr,
PUBLICAN CONVENTION.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 20. For the first
time In the history of Illinois the state con.
vention of leading political party is ex.
ceeding its usual time consumed in lis de.
alterations, and is holding two and prob.
ABLY three days session. There is much
to DO yet; in fact, nothing has been accom-.
pIIshed, practically up to this time, II am,
Inc delegates are getting tired of this
'hlng, however, and are manifesting impa.
uence to get away. Promptly at o'clock
the hall was crowded, every delegate being
IN ms place and anxious to proceed to bua-
ness The chairman, knowing that the
committee on Credentials was not ready to
report, was slow in assuming the gavel
which he did not do until twenty-five min.
utes after nine o'clock.
THE FIRST BUSINESS
Was to receive partial report of the COM
mittee on credentials in relation to Greene
county as reported yesterday. Several at
tempts were made to take recess until
about noon as the convention could do
nothing until the committee on credentials
reported, but all failed. Finally DR..
Joseph Robbins Of Adams, anti-Graut, OBJ
tanned the floor and with much feeling
SAID the convention had waited long
enough tor the committee on credentials to
settle the contested cases and il was now
time to act. He therefore offered the fol-
lowing resolution:
Resolved, that the committee on creden.
tails are instructed not to consider the
claims OF any contesting delegates who
| DOTTED from any convention which met in
the manner at the place aud at the time
designated by the proper authorities to call
| the same.
The resolution was received with the
widest demonstration Of approval by the
anti-Grant men, and others not knowing
what they were cheering.
A motion to table was made and re-
ceived with loud demonstrations of APPROX.
al by the Grant folks, The question was
put after great confusion, many delegates
being on the floor at the same time, yelling
and gesticulating wildly at the chairman,
and Mr. Robbins was promptly snuffed out.
The motion to table was carried 10y vote
Of Bal tor, and Psi against. On the an
nouncement of the vote the Grant people
went into Mysteries Of delight as this was
AsQUARE TEST VOTE,
Whether Grant or his opponents had the
most votes in the convention. The Grant
followers seemed crazed at this square dec
laration in their favor, while the ants were
equally detected. Nothing could be heard
for several moments, when the chairman
announced that the motion to take recess
until II o'clock was carried.
Nothing further was done by the con
vention until . p. H., when the hall was
soon filled with delegates, who occupied
two OF three hours time trying to keep
cool, interspersed with some good and some
weak attempts at wit. Near 4 o'clock it
was understood that the committee on
credentials would soon report, when John
Logan, with an effected senatorial dignity
and spirit of Cancellation, offered the resolu-
ton limiting the remarks by the two repre-
sentatyes Of Chicago contestants to thirty
minutes to a side and wiping out all par.
lmentary presidents and practice, by shut,
ting off all motions to adjourn, etc, thus
further tying up the anti-Grant minority
and depriving it of those rights which are
always conceded to minonties.
THIS HTGHHANDED OUTRAGE
Of the boss was vigorously resisted by
few determined anti .Grant men, but their
resistance did not last long, as the previous
question gag was applied. Logans reso,u.
ton was adopted and the screws were given
another turn on the dying ants. During
this combat, amid great confusion the par
liamentary question of depriving minorities
Of the night to move to adjourn motion
which is always in order, was raised on a
question of privilege by Frank Crosby, of
Kane. Chairman Raum ruled him out of
order, when Crosby angrily retorted, ask
ING II the chair was running the convention
by brute torce or his personal caprice This
made the excitement greater than ever, and
open revolt seemed imminent. Finally
COMPARATIVE ORDER
Was restored when the committee on Gre
dcntials at last appeared and was greeted |
with prolonged cheers by the nearly swell
tering, ill-humored delegates, 1t was now
nearly four o'clock. Mr. Ellsworth, chair
man Of the committee on credentials, pre-
'entcd report No /, signed by himself,
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