Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1892-06-16

national committee considered this carefully
for days when they were not beset by a great
national convention and with the great inter
ests which come into the convention-when the
question OF the position of these different men
upon the probable candidates before this
convention was not considered-that COM
mittee, repeat, by vote of 20 to II, gave
the seats to the four delegates at large in Ala
bama: simply submit, not taking the matter
out OF the hands OF the committee at all, that
Wien that committee come here with one bare
majority, and insist that their report must be
taken because it Is the report OF the majority,
without single reason eiven,I put over against
that claim the proposition that the national
committee by majority OF seven gave these
men their seats.
Mr.. President, I have little more to say upon
minority report must carry conv!ction to every
man who hears it unless it is impeached. 1t
states state the facts concisely. 1 will not repeat
them. You have heard it read. 1t states them
conclsely, and up to this minute no man has
risen here to deny it. The gentleman from
Illinois did undertake. to make different
dent, and I submit, sir. that the ninori-
ty report gwen here until it ls met and i'm
peached by carefully prepared document
which will give us different state of facts-and
submit that they cannot be given, because
they have not. sir-that this convention will be
perpetrating a great outrage ii it overturns the
Judgment OF the national committee. wish to
make a parliamentary proposition. a parlla-
tary question: I intended to have raised it be-
lore AS understand it, the chairman OF the
committee on credentials moved to adopt the
entire report as it was Upon this demand a
division, sir; Upon that demand we come first
to the Alabama Ala case, and upon that MIR. Fiey
has moved a substitute. This hold to be
Gen. Coggswell-Mr. President When repre-
sentlng q ma ority of this COMMITTEE came to
this hall and reported that less than thirty
minutes before the committee had finished it's
nearing OF twenty-four cases, and that no time
time had been allowed for written and elabor-
n peasre ind then awaited the
the committee by it's chairman should
submit a verbal statement of the doingS of the
committee; and when the president OF this con-
ventlon asked you gentlemen If there objec-
tlOn to my saying verbally what we had done,
and the gentleman from New York sat down in
his seat now. say he should be done now, and
not arragn the committee for not making an
elaborate report. / ask but fair play.
Mr.. Miler-Wi you permit me question?
me Chairman-Do you yield. general?
Gen. CoggsWell-l do not. Now gentlemen OF
the convention the report 1 stated to you to-
night was ecapitulated before the full commit
tee a few minutes before it adjournment, and
that report was agreed to, excepting that notice
was given that there might be minority report,
anu ana tna5 mas "a appeared in the shape OF l6
ea 10 aa TINS is Sn s OF 3d.
ton has been made upon the work of the ma
tlonal committee. I indorse that commend
ton; and your committee out Of twenty-four
only seven. less than one-third. And in it's de-
alterations it tried to discover the merits Of
a.,
every one the committee believe they have re-
ported to you as nearly as they could who were
fairly, honestly and properly chosen to repre-
sent the Republican party in this convention. I
therefore now move>you. Mr.. President,
THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.
Senator Quay was received with applause
and said:
desire the chair to state the purpose and ef-
feet OF the operation OF the previous question.
The Chairman-The inquiry propounded by
the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr.. Quay, is
as to the effect OF this demand for the previous
question. If the previous question should b.
sustained, the chair would hold that it would
be applicable not only to the majority. but to
the two minority reports.
Senator Quay-Tnen. Mr.. Chairman, I beg to
Inquire II the minority report is sustained. what
Is the effect upon that portion OF the report
upon which we are not voting-the effect of the
previous question upon it.
Senator Quay-We intend to move to strike
out other portions of the report
The Chairman-I understand that a demand
was made by the gentleman from New York for
a division upon all the contested cases raised by
the minority report. So that if the previous
question should be ordered a vote would have
Senator Quay-Yes, Mr.. Chairman, but the
point is this: There are portions OF the report
OF the COMMITTEES on credentials which we pro-
pose to contest, upon which we have filed no
further written report than they have. We i'll
tend to strike out and insert and amend the re-
port so far as that is concerned. We are calling
Tor a division OF tie question on the entire re-
port.
Mr.. Miller New York;: That would ask for a
separate vote upon every portion OF the report,
upon each particular case. Of course. when that
case came up, the minority would be ell tiled to
move to substitute another report for the ma
lority report on that particular case.
VOTE ON THE MAJORITY REPORT.
Inc following is the vote in detail on the
motion to adopt the majority report on
delegates ut large from Alabama: