The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-18

peClS or aulllI tnut the outlook Is not encouraging All the New Workers are agreed that they will not present the governors name unless they are Cef- tain of his success.
 MT, Lauterbach figures that, after the silver men bolt the convention to- morrow, the number of delegates run ming will be SS4, of which 443 are nee cssary to a choice. If the figures pre- sented by Governor Morton's friends are correct he will win by bare ma jority, if MT Lauterbach's estimate $ realized.
 St Louis, June 1L-Thcre was the usual delay in calling the convention to order for the afternoon session, but the waiting time was pleasantly Whiled away by strains of music. There was great pressure in all parts of the inn mense hall, the galleries were packed and there, as well as on the floor palm leaf fans were in ceaseless agitation. The heat was very oppressive.
 It was 2:45 when Chairman Thurston's hammer knocked for order and an- nounced that the afternoon session would be opened with prayer by Bishop Arnett of Wilberforce college, Ohio. Ilt b4SllOp lIlNphtu DItSSlnGS on the convention and on the country and gave thanks for an assemblage representing the culture the wealth and the refine ment of more than forty centuries. He gave thanks that God had given to the country Lincoln, who broke the fet- ters from the limbs of more than four and half million people. He prayed that the victory to be gained in the future through the work of the con Vention might rebound to the blessing of every section and that protection and liberty and civil and political rights might be secured to every man, woman and child from the lakes of the north to the gulf of the south.
 MT. Madden of Chicago was recog- nized by the chair and presented a gavel made from portion of the house in which Lincoln once lived.
 The chairman expressed the hope that the inspiration of the immortal Lin- coin might fire the hearts of the con vention.
 Judge Denny of Kentucky presented a second gavel made from the wood which formed part of the homestead of Henry Clay, the father of protection.
 Temporary Chairman Fairbanks re- sponded expressing his qualification that the state of Henry Clay had en- tered the republican fold and trusted it would be found true to the standard bearer to the standard bearer of this great convention in November next
 MT. Terrence of Minnesota then pre- sented in the name of that state to the chairman the table which stood in the front of the presiding officer in 1892. In accepting the table the chairman sent back word to the boys of Minne- sota that, even as the fathers of the republic handed the union down so would the republican party of to-day hand down the government and repub- lican institutions with all rights and privileges and opportunities for the boys to come. (Cheers).
 The report of the committee on Cre- dentials was then presented by it's chairman, MT. Fort of New Jersey. The report was in favor of seating the Hig gins delegates from Delaware and the delegates at large and delegates from Texas on the list headed by John Grant. The rest of the report recommended that the roll of delegates and alternates of the convention from the several states and territories prepared by the national committee for the temporary organization be approved as the per manent roll of the convention.
 MT. Hepburn of Iowa presented the minority report from the committee on credentials as follows:
 "The undersigned members of your committee on credentials dissent from the report of the majority in this:
 "Q) We are unwilling to accept the roll of delegates as made up by the na- tional committee. The national com mittee did not attempt to consider the merits of the cases of any of the lo0 odd contestants, only the regularity of credentials presented being passed up- on. So that none of these contestants, except those from Delaware and those of the state at large from Texas had hearing on the facts involved by any competent tribunal, and in those two eases no part of the evidence was read or considered by the committee. The committee has consistently voted down propositions to investigate the cases from Texas other than those from the state at large; those from California. from Louisiana, from Alabama and those from the Twelfth district of Mis- souri. We deem it a most dangerous precedent to permit the national com mittee to pass final judgment on the election and qualifications of members of the national convention. This dan gerOus air of power ought not to be submitted to any body of men, but should be retained in the hands of the convention alone. We recommend that the delegation from Delaware, headed by J. Edward Addicks, be seated; that the delegation from the state of Texas, headed by N. w Cuney, be seated, and that all other cases of contest be re- committed to the committee on creden- tials with instructions to hear and re- port upon the same. In the cOnsidera- ton of the contested cases before the national committee it was distinctly and repeatedly stated that the action of the committee was only prima facie and that the contestants would have an opportunity to be heard upon the merits before the committee on creden- tials. with their testimony"
 The minority report was signed by w P. Hepburn of Iowa, c. $. Biackatt of Maryland, Forest Goodwin of Maine and sixteen others.
 MT. Fort, chairman of the credentials committee, moved the nrevious ques- ton on the adoption of the report. This