St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-21
A CHART TO STEER BY.
The Committee on Rules Renders
an Accounting of Its Trust.


Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, June 20.-The chairman of
the committee on rules, Mr.. Bayne, of
Pennsylvania, addressed the chair, and
in response to loud cries of platform"
came forward amid great applause and
presented the report of the committee
ON rules as follows:
Rule l. This convention shall consist of
q number of delegates from each state equal
to double the number of its senators and
from the territory of Dakota, six from Wash
ington territory, two from each one of the
remaining territories and two from the Dis
trict of Columbia
Rule g The rules of the house of repre-
sentatves shall be the rules as far as they
are applicable and not inconsistent with the
following. rules:
Rule g. When the previous question shall
be demanded by majority of the delegates
of any state and the demand seconded by two
or more states, and the call sustained by
majority of the convention, the question
shall then be proceeded with and disposed of
according to the rules of the house of repre-
sentatives in similar cases.
Rule 4. Upon all subjects before the con-
vention the states shall be called in alpha
betical order, and next the territories and
next the District of Columbia.
Rule 5. The report of the committee on
credentials shall be disposed of before the
report of the committee on resolutions is
acted upon, and the report of the committee
on resolutions shall be disposed of before the
convention proceeds to the nomination of
candidates for president and vice president.
Rule 6. When majority of the delegates
of any two states shall demand that vote be
recorded, the same shall be taken by states,
territories and the District of Columbia, the
secretary calling the roll of the states and
territories and the District of Columbia in
the order hereinbefore stated.
Rule z. In making the nominations for
president and vice president, in no case
shall the calling be dispensed with. When
it appears at the close of any roll call that
any candidate has received a majority of all
tied, the president of the convention shall
announce the question to be: ''Shall the
nomination Gf the candidate) be made unan-
imousr' But if no candidate shall nave re-
ceived such majority, the chair shall direct
q vote to be taken again, which shall be re-
peated until some candidate shall have made
a majority of the votes, and when any state
has announced its vote it shall so stand un-
less in case of clerical error.
Rule 8. In the record of the vote by
states. the vote of each state, territory and
the District of Columbia shall be announced
by the chairman, and in case the vote of any
state, territory or the District of Columbia
shall be divided, the chairman shall an
nounce the number of votes cast for any can
didate, or for or against any proposition, but
if exception be taken by any delegate to the
correctness of such announcement by the
chairman Of his delegation, the president of
the convention shall direct the roll of the
members of such delegation to be called, and
the result shsll be recorded in accordance
with the votes individually given.
Rule 9. No member shall speak more than
once upon the same question, and not longer
that five minutes. unless by leave of the con-
vention, except in the presentation of the
names of candidates.
Rule 10. The Republican national COM
mittee shall be appointed, to consist Of one
member from each state, territory and the
District of Columbia. The roll shall be
called, and the delegation from each state
territory and the District of Columbia shall
name, through its chairman, person who
shall act as member of such committee.
Such committee shall issue the call for the
meeting of the national convention six
months, at least, before the time fixed for
said meeting, and each congressional district
in the United States shall elect its delegates
to the national convention in the same way
as the nomination for a member Of congress
is made in said district; and in the territories
the delegates to the convention shall be
selected in the same way as the nomination
of delegates to congress is made: and said
national committee shall prescribe the mode
for selecting the delegates for the District Of
Columbia. An alternate delegate for each
delegate to the national convention, to act in
the absence OF the delegate, shall be elected
in the same manner and at the same time as
the delegates elected. Delegates at large for
each state and their alternates shall be elect
ed by state conventions in their respective
states.
Rule IL. The Republican national COM
mittee is authorized and empowered to select
an executive committee, to consist Of nine
members. who may or may not be members
of the national committee.
Rule II. All resolutions relating to the
platform shall be referred to the committee
on resolutions without debate.
Rule 13. No persons except members of
the several delegations and officers of the
convention shall be admitted to the section
of the hall apportiened to delegates.
Rule a.. The convention shall proceed in
the following order of business: First, re-
port of the committee on credentials: second.
report of the committee OH resolutions; third,
naming of members of the national commit
tees; fourth, presentation of candidates for
president: fifth, balloting; sixth. presenta-
ton of candidates for vice president; sew
epth, balloting.