The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-10-07


Of the committee en- contesta6
seats. When that rarcrt IL recsiyea
and acted upon, and when ell mem hsrs
of this convention shall have been duiy
seated. thea the committee upeh srfan-
ization will make its report and tEen nv
duties ss temporary ekairmsn will close.
/ have no other duty now to transact and
there 10 nothing else for this convention
to do, save wait the report of the commit.
tee on contested seats, which will be ready
in Q very few minutes. -
At 8l6 the convention WAS called TO
order.
The chair: The frat business is the
report Of the commitoee upon contested
seats. Is that committee ready?
Woo6in- Yes. Mr.. Chairman and
gentlemen of the convention; The com
nitsee on credentials have given patient
bearing to all parties who appeared before
them claiming seats in this convention ia
ell contested cases, and IS our work pre-
ceeded it Was committed to the care Of
our friend Blss to record the result of our
deliberations, and we have been looking
at it upside down, (lsughter) md down
specimen Of hand writing that ever saw
in nay life, Geud laughterJ and confess
that while remember all that was done,
| could not read one single word llsuEh-
ter). / am going to send it TO him to
read. (keneWed Laughter).
Bllss-The convention will pardon me
does not understand hew TO turn anything
upside down. (Lsughter) frr
The report was then read and by il
A @f L..
0. posed the CoAklinE people, was given
set in the convention. Others OF his
side from Brooklin we're also awarded
seats. The passage IN the report upon
0neita District is as follows: In the First
Distriet Of Oneida, your conmittee
report, by q vote of IL to 4, that
tbs sitting delegates are not entitled To
their seats, but that the following per-
soma are entitled to their seats: Samuel
8. L0Wsry, Samuel r. Campbell, s. A. 4
Mihsrd, N. K Pierce. In the Second
District Of Oneida your COMMITTEES re-
nort that the sitting members announced
that they made ne further claim to their
seats, and that the following named per-
sons are entitled to the seats: Samuel
Campbell, N. II. Cody, VIM. J Clark,
Samuel 81. Fox In the Third District
OF ONEIDA, your committee report, ty
vote VI IL to 2, that the sitting mem hsrs
are entitled to their seats By vpte II
10 to l, the del CATION, headed by ex-
Senator Slsde, and known ss the anti
Conklirg, we're awarded seats from o.
wego. The sitting delegates, contest nts
from the Fifteenth District, New York
City, were bosh d clared not entitled to
their seats. These contestants are leaders
Of the anti-machine. The report closed
az follows: Your committee vote
to recommend this convention 10 give |
power 10 the state committee to reorganize
all or any OF the districts in the city Of !
New 70 k. The motion being made to |
adopt the report there was division on I
the question Of go much as relates to the |
resolution and to the recommend ton st !
he close. The resolution met with !
stormy eppos tion and the motion to lay |
he resoiuti Cd the table was passed,
ives 2,2, noes III. New York and
Br oklyn opposed the reorganization and
canned their vote in the presidential cleo
ion made reorganization unr ecesssry
Z, Gorge VIM. Curtis said: l desire to
uhmit q resolution TO be left with the
committee on resolutions, for their con-
liberation. Z will read it. 1t is as fol-
ows: The party, responding to the
trengly expressed conviction Of the
.untry, that the great crime of assassin
Ition was due to the spirit of iactiea in
luenced by the greed OF place. and rec
gaiZed in TIE practices known as the
polls eystem, q growing and powerful
Incentive to revolutionary distur bsDce,
n accordance with the declaration of he
at national convention, and to rear
most fitting and enduring monument 10
be memory of President Garfield, We
olemnly pledge to President Arthur our
earnest support in every endeavor to full
Ill the purpose announced by bis prede-
lessor In his inaugural address Of ssking
Congress 10 Cooperate with the executive
n remedyinR, by laws. the abuses Of ap-
continents aud removals in the civil
eTvice.
The chairman: The resolution will 90
10 the committee on resolutions.
Me reg A. Livings on offered the fol-
owirg preamble and resolutio g, and
hey were referred to the committee on
rese 'u,inuE:
Whereas, the repu blicsn party,
through 3 series Of national and state
plstfurms, as well as President's messages,
Is irreV csbly committed to the prln-
siplps true civil service reform, and
Whereas, q reformed civil service is
by the removal ofcompetent,
officers before the expiration
Of the legal tenure Of their office, if such
removal be allowed to give the place, as
4 d, for partisan services, aud
Whereas, the term for which E.R.
NJ crit was appointed for collector of the
port of New York, has not yet expired,
therefore
RESOLVED, that true civil service refo m,
demands that E. A. Merritt should be
again placed in charge Of the collectorist
pfice, and there retained unit the ex-
eiratinn of such term, unless sooner re-
moved for csrse. cloud applause and
some hisses.)
A female suffrage resolution was
offered by ex-senator Hustled, but no
action was taken on it.
here occurring at this point break
in the report, a portion of the proceedings
svid ntly having failed to reach US. The
FIRST portion of the resolutions il missing,
Is we'll as the account of the permanent
Of the convention. -EDsl
Second, That we have every confidence
in the ability, integrity and patriotism
Of Chester A. Arthur, President of the
I'm ted States. That his lifelong record
was IA earnest Of his fidelity and deyo-
ton to the cause and principles of the
ropu hlioau Marty and heiAvi % no mill |