Morning journal and courier., 1881-07-12
NEW YORK.

The Albany DeadIock-NIanifsstos from Both Republican Factions-Conkling Still Tn the Fight.
 ALBANY, July 1.-The deadlock was not
 broken by to day's balloting in joint conven- I tion, one vote being taken which showed
 that the factions were still solid in support ing their respective candidates. On the bal lot for Conkling's place Lapham had 60 votes, Potter AS, Conkling 2s, Fish and Cornell each l. On the Platt ballot Miller boiled 61
 votes, the highest number yet reached by one
 man, Herman 4s, Wheeler IS, there being
 eleven scattering votes. After this ballot the convention adjourned.
 The informal conference of stalwarts to- day instructed special committee of five to issue memorial to the caucus committee of the Senate and Assembly stating the reasons why the stalwarts insisted upon full and
 regular caucus. The memorial states the ex-
 act position assumed by the stalwarts namely
 that the election of Messrs Lapham and Mil
 Ter to the Senatorships would create two Re-
 publican vacancies in the House of Represen-
 tatives, thus giving the Democrats major
 ity, or at the very best affording the Demo-
 cratic clerk of the House an opportunity to insure the organization of the House by his
 party friends through the simple method of
 refusing to recognize any successors to Lap
 ham and Miller who may be chosen by an
 election between this and the 9th of Novem-
 Der, the first day upon which an election can
 be held. The memorial is brief, cites and memorializes the laws equitable to the case in point and urges the caucus committees to unite upon call for a general Republican caucus, promising to abide by the result. Senator Mccarthy, the half breed chairman of the caucus committee, issued reply stat ing that the conference caucus at which Messrs. Lapham and Miller were nominated for Senators called over the signature of sixty-fve Republican members of the Legis- lature and was attended by sixty-eight mem-
 bers and no formal complaint had been made of lrregularity. Furthermore that sixty eight members composed two-thirds of the Republicans in the Legislature and to call another caucus would develop complications heretofore avoided, and hence 1t was deemed undesirable to open question decided by so large majority. This defines exactly the position assumed by the two factions It is an open question as to which will win. Rumors are current tonight that Mr. Conk- ling has withdrawn from the contest They cannot be traced to reliable source Conk- ling's friends deny he has issued any letter of withdrawal and that no concessions will be made.
 In regard to the rumor that Conkling had withdrawn from the Senatorial race, Senator Strahan, who was with Conkling in New York Sunday, states that Conkling was never frmer in nhisdetermination to stand his ground than now.
 NEW YORK, July I1.-Congressman Crow ley, who has been favored candidate of Vice President Arthur for the place in the United States Senate vacated by Mir. Platt, was in this city this morning in consultation with Senator Conkling. Crowley was defeat ed by Platt last winter. The action of the Garfield men in holding 8 caucus last Friday has left Crowley without any votes, and he has now forsaken the Albany battlefield s'It is hard to tell how the contest may end, /" he said to reporter. ''Conkling will not withdraw unless another caucus is called and I think it doubtful if that is secured. It takes eighty votes in full house to elect. Miller had sixty weight votes on Saturday, owing to the absence of few Democrats and the defec- tion of a few votes from Conkling. Mil Ter and Lapham may be elected. They feel confident of it, according to their own talk. Under the circumstances an ad- journment or election will be reached soon. I don't think that either Conkling or Arthur will return to Albany this session, even should the President be pronounced out of danger" ''Is there any danger of the Re- publicans losing the Speakership of the next House of Representatives ?'' Ut is an un- certain question. The Republicans have only one majority in the House, counting Mir. Morton, who has been appointed Minis l ter to France. He is offset by vacancy from this city in the Ninth district. The 1 law of this State says that the board of State l canvassers shall meet on the third Tuesday l of December. Congress meets on the 1st of l December, therefore if Miller and Lapham l are elected there will be three Republican l votes lost in the organization of the House. | There are, think, nine Greenback members, 1 and it is uncertain how they will vote, there | fore the question of the Speakership is a l very uncertain one. Then, too, under the | present state of party feeling it is not inn ] probable that MT. Morton's district may be | lost while others might be uncertain.