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having sent in their rolls, will please hand
then over TO the Committee on Credentials.
j. 4. RobertSon-I move that recess OF
thirty mlEuLes be taken. Carried.
DR.. Spcer-I move for the safety OF the
crowd, thnt the room be better ventilated.
II. w. Buwie-Lvt us sweat IL out.
Tie committee retired to the jury room.
The Chair-It will greatly condnce to the
comfort OF the Convention and facilitate the
transaction of business II persons who are not
delegates Will vacate the first tour seats, 50
that they may be occupied by delegates.
Under the new rules the individual dele
gales vote and the constitutional vote" is
done away with. Members OF the conren.
lion should sit together. Delegates Will
please orcnpy the seats that have just been
made vacant.
on CREDENrIALS--MAJoRIT REPORT.
After an absence of an hour and a quarter,
the Chairman ON Credentials, reported as fol.
lows:
The Committee on Credentials beg 20 make
thAiOllowiIg report, viz:
That the delegates elected and regularly
certified To from the several Democratic clubs
o! the county, save the ronteSiing clubs from
Troy, be seated us members OF this conven-
ton.
AS to the contest in the matter Of the Troy
clubs your committee would recommend That
the delegates representing the Horton club be
seated. j. B. Holloway, Chairman.
THE MINORITY REPORT.
The following is the minority report from
the committee on credentials:
That luasmuch as neither of the clubs
claiming TO be the Democratic club of Troy
were organ niZed In conformity To the Constltu-
tinn of The party, we recommend that neither
uf the dclrgl, ions claiiulns TO represent the
said club br allowed seats in this convention,
and that this cluh direct the Troy club To re-
organize as required hy the Constitution of
the party on the 2lSt May, 1872. al o,clork p.
~. l.. w. Perrin.
T.. w. Perrin moved the minority report as
n substitute for the majority report, ana made
the following explanation:
IN SUPPORT OF MINORITY REPORT.
The Troy club met on the day appointed by
the Stale Executive Committee. and Sas CT IT.
ed To order by the President OF the od club,
and the roll was called. Ninety-threc old
members answered To their names. Appilca-
tion was made by II number or members ol
the club, some OF whom dad not live wlhh
the township. The Chair ruled that no new
members could he admitted until alter the lt'-
organization was complete. From tIls ruling
al appeal was taken, and the CLUB Sustained
the decision OF The Chair.
The club proceeded 10 elect its officers, per-
ntling only old members TO vote. lnnnedi-
atcly after election of officers the roll was
opened for the enrolment OF new members.
The applicants refused TO enrol their names
unless tile club would undo It's election or OIL
ticerS and allow them to participate III the
election. This the club refused and proceed
ru TO Inc election of Delegates 10 The County
Convention and adjourned. Only iurly-seVen
old members voted in the election of dele
gales. Some OF the members O; Tie Old cluo
and the new applicants for membership theu
opened Il roll. elected officers ana Delegates.
From this statement IL will he seen that all
the fUrmaliieS required by the Constitution
were not strictly complied with, and II may
be that the ruling of the Chair as to the hd-
mission OF new members was error, but clear
ly the errors OF the first attempt to re-oisan'