Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-02-24

term III a CITY nOttu LOT uOb NtuAhei AZ ou''i7
mer. And it looks good dead like the mem
bers had decided upon St. Louis before they
met as the first business proposed was mo-
ton by Scott to reconsider the vote by which
July had been decided upon The motion,
however was lost-23 to -,
A ballot for location was then taken, and
resulted as follows; San Francisco, II; Chi
cago, 49, st. Louis, l3 New York, /.
Ten minutes recess followed, and upon
coming to order again the second ballot was
begun, but before it was announced "A
stampede was started by Walsh, of Georgia,
who had voted steadily for San Francisco
He arose and said that he was satisfied that
his favorte location could not be selected, and
would therefore change his vote to st. Louis
Changes took place rapidly from this to the
end, and when the voting ceased and the re-
suit was announced it was found that st.
Louis had got there" unanimously, Cloudy,
of Illinois, making the motion for unamin-
ity.
Then Scott renewed his motion to recon
sder the vote on time, and it was agreed to
and June 8 substituted therefor on motion
of Mcdonald, of Indiana,
The adoption of the official call was the
next subject Of consideration and resulted
in the following being issued:
The national Democratic committee, hav-
ing met in the city OF Washington on tie
22i of February, 1855, has appointed Tues
day, the 9th day of June next, at noon, as
the time, and chosen the city Of ST. Louis as
tue place, for holding the national Demo-
cratic convention.
Each state is entitled to a representation
therein equal to double the number of its
senators and rspres entatives in the congress
of the United States, aud each territory
and tho nistrict of Columbia shall haVa two
delegates.
All Democratic and conservative
citizens Of the Uniiel States, irres.
speclive of past political associations
and DIFF .rences, who can unite with us
in the effort for pure, economical and con-
stitutional government, are cordially invited
to join in sending delegates to the conven-
ton.
tSignedl WILLIAM H. BARNUM Chairman.
FREDERICK o. PRINCE, Secretary.
Democrats in Washington generally ex-
press satisfaction over the work of the com
mttee, both with respect to the time and
place of meeting of the national conven
tion. Ex-senator Mcdonald a member of
the committee who voted for st. Louis all
along, says the place and date are the wisest
that could have been chosen. He had not
discovered any unfriendliness for the admin
istration in the committee, nor did he believe
any existed
Senator German expressed himself we'll
satisfied with the work of the committee. As
to the date he said it was the result of ma
ture elaboration. He adhered to his opin-
ion that an early convention was not the
best, but, of course, acquiesced in the judg-
ment of the committee.
A meeting of the members of the Damo-
cratic congressional campaign committee was
called to meet at the capitol at night to select
an executive committee for that body Con-
gresham Jones, of Alabama, presided. There
was not a very full attendance Of members,
and the chairman was instructed to appoint
ten members on the part of the house to CO.
operate with Senators kenna, Hearst, and
Jones, Of Arkansas, on the part of the senate,
and compose the executive committee. The
meeting then adjourned to meet next Mon
day, when Chairman Jones will report the
members selected.