The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1880-06-05

nRup lEhlH does not ArUrognte tue unit
rule.) The minority considers the
mnj njoriiy In this question, as tending 10
delay and a. casting reflection on the
Chairman OF the Committee.
There being no other business before
the convention, the chair asked Mr..
Sewall, Of New Jersey, TO notify the Com.
mittee on Credentials that the Convention
was awaiting their report.
The chair Hoar) announced that he
had had communication from the Com.
mittee on Credentials that they would be
ready TO report In thirty minutes.
At the expiration Of thirty minutes,
Mr.. Conger, chairman Of the Committee
on Credentials, appeared and reported as
follows:
In the Louisiana contest they recon.
mend the admission Of the Yarmouth
delegation and the exclusion OF the Beat
tie 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 Jas.
7. Rapier in the Fourth Congressional
District OF Alabama. This case
Is also tTAversed. They also Ad.
wise that Smith & Warner who were
duly elected by the District Convention
should be admitted In place Of Arthur
Brigham and A. Il. Masely, j., oi the
Seventh Alabama District.
In the Illinois case the convention re-.
commendS the following changes in nine
Congressional districts: The contestants
are admitted In place OF those sitting
members In the Second Congressional
District. West side OF Chicago remains
unchanged.
The districts in which changes are TO be
made In Illinois are: Fint, Third, Fourth,
Filth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, Thirteenth,
Seventeenth. The committee report Is In
favor Of retaining the four delegates NJ
large from illinois.
In Kansas four district delegates are re-
ported in place Of the sitting members.
In Pennsylvania, the Ninth and Nine
teenth districts, the sitting members are
recommended as entitled 10 hold their
seats.
In West Virginia the sitting members
are entitled TO their seats In the con.
tested cases.
The committee reheArses the call Of the
National Committee as for their action on
all contested cases [Applause greeted the
paragraph where allusion Is made 10 the
Congressional dlstriCIsl Of representation,
and reter 10 previous calls 10 sustain their
position and 10 show the Justice Of their
decision-the calls Of 1856, 1850, 1854 and
all Others down 10 the present dale.
In the Utah case the Committee fayors
the retaining Of the sitting members as
being In accord with their principles.
Applause.
Mr.. Coiger, said Mr., Clayton, Arkansas,
would present the minority report ol the
Committee on Credentials. TINS report
differs from the majority on the applica.
ton ol the principle Of the district repre-.
sentation. They find there Is vacancy
In the Alabama delegation In the district
from which the majority report. Mr..
Rapier Is entitled 10 seat. They find
that Warner and Smith are not entitled 10
seats from the Seventh district, and that
Brigham and Mosely are.
10 the Illinois case the minority find
that sweeping and positive charges oil
fraud, ETC., have been made by the side In
favor OF the majority report, and that
there was no basis whatever for such
charges, no evidence OF fraud was pro-
dueed, but on the contrary there Is weight
OF evidence on the other side, 10 show
that there was great amount OF fraud on
the side oi the contestants. This was
freely admitted by the friends Of the con.
testants before the convention. They
first take up county primary election aud
the convention and make it polut that
the Grant chairman Of that convention
Just before leaving, that Is when the al.
legged bolt occurred, had adjourned the
convention.
This point had not previously been
made by the friends Of the Palmer House
delegation. The committee Justify the bolt
chiefly on this ground. They then allude
10 the action Of the State Convention in 10.
struggling the delegates 10 vote for Grant,
and claim that the State Convention was
competent 10 30 instruct. This argument
Ia strong lor such right In the conyenton
as against district instructions.
Tue Utah case Is discussed more briefly,
but the conclusion Is reached In favor OF
the contestants. The West Virginia case
Is considered with the same result. The
reports are differently signed Some Of
the minority did not sign the report. In
each case their conclusions are that the
regularly elected aud citing members
should retAln the IL seats. ''"t at
Nj. C6nger then presented acorectpd
rollot the fnembers.
NJ. OpsaG4, al Pennsylvania, moved
thai the majority report should be divid-
ed into five general divisions, and that
Ihe convention now consider Alabama.
Mr.. Conger said the committee h:;5,
divided the report into ail:.55en parts.
! "i' .a LA moved that those cases upon
which all the members Of the convention
agreed, sh0Ela be passed upon by accla'
nation, while there should be discussion
only upon four points, the Alabama
cases, the Illinois cases, the West Vir
ginia seats and the Utah case.
There was some discussion as 10 the roll
Of members which Mr.. Conger presented
and that gentleman proceeded TO enum
.erate all those heretofore contested cases
which the committee without division re-
ported unanimously to be agreed on. The
only disputed points was as TO the delegates
from the Alabama districts, from the nine
Illinois districts, the West Virginia dis
trict and Utah, were the only points to be
considered by the convention.
Mr.. Logan raised an objection 10 the
assertion in the majority report that the
Illinois delegates at large were contested,
He considered It a reflection on the dele
CATION, and now learned for the ilrst time
that there had been any contest for seats,
As a representative Of o great State he was
entitled TO fair treatment at the hands oi
) this convention. Applause In the
. course Of his speech Senator Logan men
toned the name OF General Grant as au
Illinois soldier, WHICH was greeted by
loud applause and cheers.
Mr.. Cessna moved TO amend his motion
by making six divisions instead Of five
: the change being made In order 10 bring
. the Kansas case before the convention
as the minority report made no recon-
mendation.
, Mr. Sharp, OF New York, moved 10
strike out the reference in the majority re-
port 70 the delegates at large from Illinois
Mr.. Conger said that Mr. Logan had
either misunderstood or had NOT heard
him on that point. He regretted that the
Senator had suspected that be would
/ throw dlscredit upon him. In his report
he referred In most complimentary term
10 Gen. Logan as q soldier, legislator aud
man. NJ; Conger INDUCED IN som,
lively salllee ~ tue expense oi Gienera
, Logan, which met with hearty Apprecla
! ton from the galleries.
Mr.. Logan asked why the contest wa,
made mention Of against the delegates Al
, large In Illinois, and no mention wal
made Of any other contest as TO the dele
gates at large. CesspR-lecause the
seats Of no other delegates at large weTt
, contested. The committee decided, how
eyer, that the delegates at large from I'LL
nois were as much entitled 70 seats as any
other delegates ~ large. Mr.. Logan sthl
complained that Il was an injustice TO hir
and his associates. He declared that be
was not excited, hut that on the contrary
he was Is cool a. ever he had been.
Mr.. ShArp'a motion was Withdrawn