The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-06-05
CHICAGO CONVENTION.


ded the louisiana case among the
disputed ?
Cessna replied in the Affirmative.
Oonger then said 1 have no oblec-
tons.
Conkling called for an enumera-
ton of the questions which would
fall within the list OF undisputed cases.
CoDser said that this list would
embrace the cases OF Louisiana, the
Second District OF Illinois, the Illinois
delegation at large, the Second and
Fourth of Kansas, the Ninth and
Nineteenth of Pennsylvania.
Logan inquired how it happened
that there was any report SO to the
four delegates at Large from the state
of Illinois. 1t was the first time that
he had heard Of the righ. to their
seats being questioned.
Conger replied that petitions
against toe right of the fOur delegates
at large had been presented to the
convention and referred to the COM
mittee, and hence 1t was necessary
for the committee to notice the sub
jeot in the report.
Logan indignantly protested against
bis right to seat being called IL
question, and complained Of the
treatment which he and many who
had led the arms OF the nation to
victory had received. (Cheers for
Grant,
A Kansas delegate objected 10 the
inclusion OF Kansas 10 the list o. IN
disputed questions.
Cessna modified his motion SO as
10 give separate action on the Kansas
case.
Sharpe. of New York, moYed 10
amend the pending motion 80 as to
strike frons the majority report so
much it as relates to Illinois delegates
at large. Applause
Logan asked why d distinction had
been made, as to the four delegates at
large, between the state of Illinois
and other states.
Cessna, of Pennsylvania, a mem
Der of the committee, said the reason
was that objections had been made
to the four delegates at large nom
Illinois, and none to those of any
other state.
Conger having accepted Cessna g
amendment, the convention adopted
it with without objection.
The question then stoOd on Sharpe s
motion, but the chair ruled that II
wac out OF order.
ConkliDg argued. as q point Of
order, that the committees report
belonging to the house, Sharpe's RIO
ton to amend was in order.
The chair modified his ruling and
admitted Sharpe's motion.
Raymond, of California, pointed
out that if Shapes motion sholld
prevail it will leave the seats of Hi
nois delegates contested, while the
committee proposed TO put their title
beyond question or dispute in history.
He never, in his long experience,
knew of any man to object to a
unanimous judgment in his own
favor. [Applause.) The gentleman
| (Logan) had seemed to think that
the report of this committee had in
suited the Slate Of Illinois. His reply
to that was that the citizen
of Illinois was too apt to con-
found himself with the State
of Illinois. loud laughter and
cheers, half the audience rising and
shouting.) 1t had been stated in the
papers presented that, at the Spring
field convention it was bard to tell
whether it was the State OF Illinois OF
John A. Logan. that had held that
convention. (ReVeWed laughter and
applause.)
Logan declared that he could not
be affected in the slightest degree by
the insults of the gentlemen from the
golden shores of California, picked up
IN the slums and sloughs of Chicago,
| (applause,) or by the insinualion
that he (Lsgan) coniounded himself
with the state OF Illinois. Applause.
Logan proceeded at length to explain
and defend his action in the Spring
field convention, being frequently
interrupted by applause. He de-
clared that the charges and inu-
endoes aimed at him had come from
those who sought to, but could not
injure him. The crime against him
was that certain newspapers could
not write him down, could not count
him out, could not destroy his repub-
licanism. (CheeTs.) He defed the
men who undertook to sssail him,
and was ready 10 meet them any
where.
Raymond denied that ne had made
any attack on Logan. II he had e
ferred TO anything known in the
slums of Chicago he (Haymond)
knew nothing about it. Neither
Logan nor any other man, no matter
how much covered with military or
civic honors, should stand here and
put words in his month, that be
never uttered. The remark about
the gentIeman's confounding himself
with the state of Illinois was not
original with him (Haymond, bat
was @ quotation from the papers pre-
scented to the committee. However,
the gentleman almost convinced him
that the remark was a correct one.
Laughter and applRuse.)
The Alabama case was then taken
up. Clayton, Of Arkansas, moved to
substitute the minority 5or the ma
iority report in this par! OF it,
Bruce, OF Mississippi, moved re.
| cesE until z nm Agreed 20 st 90