Show BY TELEGRAPH peb PER WESTERN UNION telegraph line LINZ A AMERICAN 11 E R 10 A N 4 among the tho spectators in the orcut platform is queen victorias victorians youngest son prince leopold id accompanied by his friends H collins esi esti 10 B hou H york and col of 0 f england the rhe princess i 1 at the grand pacific with her suit but too wearied to visit the tile convention this morning conkling rose to ofner offer a resolution and hoped there would be no object tion to it if there should be any objection he should ask the roll to bo ba called resolved zie lie solved As the sense of this convention that every member of it is bound in honor lionor to support its 10 nominee whoever that nominee may be and that no man should hold his seat here who is not ready bo to agree LAp applause hale of maine said they were unable to hear the resolution in his neighborhood and called for its reading again and it was so read hale said lie he supposed that a republican re publican convention did not need a to be instructed ted that its first duty after naming the candidate cand caud mate wate was to proceed to elect him over the demo demora democratic ratia natia tic tie candidate applause they all had there preferences and were ardent with expression and urgency of their preferences but he had yet failed to hear in the busy and exciting contests in which they had been engaged for the last week any expression on the tile part ot of any delegates to the convention whoever they might be for a dissent as to the final determination of the convention when deliverance was had from all the labor of the convention he lie had no doubt that they should all be found hand in hand shoulder to shoulder in einarc arching hing on to the election of their candidate cheers if the candidate of the gentleman from new york were nominated nomina ed he h e hale and his hig friends would w id work by night and by day to elect and in turn they thes should expect if they nominated their candidate he conkling would work night and day to elect him cheers the chair put tile the question first vice voce and there were apparently half a dozen noes the call of states was then ordered by an overwhelming vote maine voted unanimously aye applause new york 70 ayes pennsylvania 58 ayes only one delegate gato gate ate being present from south carolina cast his single vote aye west virginia cast five votes aye and three no hisses kisses three absent ayes noes 3 so the resolution was adopted conkling said he wanted to ofner offer another resolution which he would reduce to writing in a moment as follows resolved that the dele delegates gates who have voted that they will not abide the action of the convention do not deserve to have and have forfeited their votes in this convention subdued applause aud and hisses campbell of west virginia said there were three delegates from his state good and true republicans who had cast these negative votes if it had come to this that a delegate could not come here to express his I 1 free opinion he for one was ready to withdraw he had been a republican can editor in virginia 25 years who had imbibed his political faith from the lips of wm henry seward in new york and he would never consent in advance to agree to ever everything y a convention might do he L intended always intended inte ded to carry his own sovereignty under his own hat bat hale of west virginia who voted aye defended the right of his colleague to vote as lie saw fit ap plau plaus s o e to utter his own sentiments as an individual delegate mccormick of west virginia avowed himself one of the three dis senters is not because he did not expect peet to support the nominee of this convention fer far he did intend to do that no matter who ho he should be he was as good a republican as the gentleman from new rew york and where tile the latter made only one speech for the nominee of the last national republican Convention he mccormick made a hundred great applause and ehe che cheers eis he opposed the resolution only bemuse because be muse it declared that men nien are unfit to sit frit in the convention if they differ from other members of it I 1 raymond of the three diss dissenting I 1 votes totes declared their expectation to support the nominee but they voted no because they thought that this was not the time to adopt such a resolution ol are they t to ba b ased for that reason applause and cries of no no that is the question we are responsible for our actions to our cons constituents titu en asand and nott flot to this convention great applause there never was and never will be a convention which did or can bind my vote on any question if the resolution was adopted tile tiie convention must purge itself at the close of every vote and determine how many shall go out at the close lie ho urged conkling to withdraw his resolution ol pixley of california moved to lay tye tile resolution on the table applause conklin conkling demanded the call of the roll hisses hisses long and furious call of the roll was wag ordered conkling inquired of the chair whether the three gentlemen from west virginia did say they would vote for the nominee of this convention the chair said it was not his province to answer the question conkling said he would not press his resolution alid the ques quei question tion was answered in the affirmative and finally he withdrew the resolution as lie he said there seemed to be some doubts applause and hisses the chairman of the credentials committee not being in the tile house oil on motion of sewell the tile committee on rules was ordered to report with the understanding that no action should be taken until after the report of the committee on credentials had been received and acted upon rhe chair called senator bruce of mississippi one of the tile vice dents temporarily to the chair who was received with applause the tile rules were read by the secretary the one which forbids any unit rule was read with applause garfield said he lie did not understand that the rules were now up tor discussion but only for information the only changes from the rules of 1876 were verbal merely or r effected their rearrangement in in more convenient order ordet except that the committee had added to what was now ri numbered as rule 8 a provision clearly and explicitly embo ambo ying in the uniform precedent precede ht of all previous republican conventions as to the manner of taking the vote of slates spates that are divided hoar resu resumed med the chair sharp of new York presented the minority report of the committee on rules signed by the delegates on that committee from alabama arkansas florida kentucky mississippi missouri new york tennessee virginia illinois and colorado recommending the adoption of rule 8 being rule 6 of the convention of 1876 in in the same language as in 1876 as follows in the record of votes by states the vote of each state territory or the district of columbia shall be announced by the chairman and in case the votes of any state territory or 0 r the district of columbia shall bedi bedl be divided the chairman shall announce the number of offo vates tes cast for any candidate or for or a against any proposition the minority express the belief that the addition made by the majority of the committee is unwise that it tends to invite discussion which mi might oil all t not be otherwise forced ed upon the convention that for tile tiie protection of the tile rights of individual members it is unnecessary and that it gratuitously and in advance casts an imputation on the chairmen of the respective doie dole delegations lations oat gat ions conger of MI michigan bigan Algan presented the committees report apologizing for the length of time they had been compelled to detain the convention and explaining the necessity in louig Louii louisiana iana lana the committee recommended the admission of the warmouth mou th delegation and excluding the beattie delegation the committee reports that the beattie bolt was without adequate cause in alabama they recommended recommenced the admission of rapier rapiel bellavin bel bei believing ievin levin the state convention had no right right to override or ignore his selection by his district because bebau of his failure to accept the condition that he should obey the instructions that the state delegation dele 0 mation should vote as a unit for grant gran t in the smith and warner in alabama tile tiie facts were substantially the same as in the tile case of rapier pier they were duly chosen by their their respective districts and the state convention undertook to revoke their appointment because they failed to accept tile the unit rule the committee recommended their admission in illinois the committee recommend the admission of contestants contestant 0 to the eats seats of sitting members from the first third fourth fifth sixth ninth tenth thirteenth and an J seventeenth congressional districts tile the committee also report against the contestants in the second illinois district and do not sustain the objections to the four delegates at large in the same state they further report in favor of the sitting witting men from the ninth and nineteenth districts of pennsylvania and the third district of west virginia the committee suggests that the final decision of maby mazy many of theia con tests depends upon the adolee adoption b by the convention of the principle of or theon gressional district representation this the committee hold to be sound tap LAp applause the report cites J D camerons support orlof of the tiie right of individual district reg ret representation liesen at the convention of 1876 under precisely similar circumstances and a similar call for the national Conven convention tiou they cite the form of call of convention in 1858 as evidence that it was the purpose of the republican party to establish the principle of district representation this chis was sustained also by all precedents in the tiie party down to date in no case has fair action of a district in selecting its representatives been overruled or changed by any state or national convention applause the committee does no not believe that this right of congressional district representation scald now be invaded for the first time by the action of a national convention Convent loh lon if a state convention can by IT a bare majority override the will of the tile people fairly espre expressed sed in the selection of district delegates it might as well appoint at once all delec deler delegate the nominations made through such representation were not likely to be ratified by the people it was the duty of the convention to disapprove most emphatically cal eal lyall isali all ali attempts to overrule the the high moral customs of the party applause the committee commit tee teo sustain the sitting delegation from utah as regularly and fairly chosen conger handed in the corrected list of members of the convention as reported by his committee he then moved that the convention proceed to consider the louisiana case cessna moved to adopt all the tile report on which the committee had agreed and then proceed to separate parate Ee consideration of the disputed issues involving the contests in alabama illinois wea west we A virginia and utah logan inquired how it happened that there tile re yas vas was any report ag as to the four delegations at large largo from the state of illinois it was the first time that he had heard of the right to their seats being questioned conger replied that the petitions against the right of the four delegates at large had been presented to the convention and referred to the committee and it was necessary for the committee to notice the subject in tile the report logan indignantly protested against his right to a seat being called in question and complained of the treatment which he and many who had bad led the arms of the nation to victory had received cheers for grant A kansas ivinskas delegate objected to the inclusion kofl of cansas in the list of undisputed questions cessna mod modified fled fied his motion soa to give separate action on the t rim itan sas case sharpe of new york moved to amend the pending motion so as to strike from the majority report so machof it as relates to the illinois delegates at large applause logan asked why distinction had bad been made as to the four delegates at lame large between the state of illinois and other states cessna of pennsylvania member of the committee said sald sa id the reason was that objections had been made to the tile four delegates at large from illinois and none to those from any other state conger having accepted cesenas Cess nas nals amendment the convention adopted it without objection the question was then on sharpes moton motion but the chair ruled that it was out of order conkling argued as a point in order that the committees report re t being before the house shar sharpes motion to amend was in order the chair modified his ruling and admitted sharpes sharpens motion haywood of california pointed out that if sharpes motion should prevail it will leave the seats of the illinois delegates contested while the tiie committee proposed to put their title beyond question or dispute in history he never in his long experience knew of any man to object to anani mom judgment in his own fator applause the gent gentleman leman lemau loag clogan n had seemed to think that bie ble uie tie report of this committee had insulted the stace of illinois his reely ply to that was that the citizen of illinois was too apt to confound himself with the state of illinois loud laughter and cheers half tile the audience rising and shouting it had been stated in the papers presented that at the springfield convention it was hard to tell whether who therit it was the state of illinois or john A logan that had held that convention wen ren pen ewed laughter and applause logan logon declared that he could co i uld not be afu aff affected acted in the slightest degree by the cuts of the gentleman from the golden shore bhore sll all ores of california picked up in m the slums and sloughs of chicago applause the insinuation he logan confounded himself with the state of illinois applause logan proceeded at length to explain and defend his action in the springfield convention being fre vue utis interrupted by applause ho declared that the charges and in ue idies aimed at him had come fro TO those who sought to but could mott make them good the crime aga agn aganet ast him was that certain newspapers could not write him down could not count him out could not destroy his liis republicanism he defied the men who undertook to assail him and was ready to meet them i ny where haywood denied that he had made a ly attack on logan if he had referred to anything known in the plums of chicago he haywood knew nothing about it neither logan nor any other man no matter how much covered with military or civil honors should stand here and put words in his mouth that he never uttered ut the remark about the gentleman confounding himself with the state of illinois Illi nois was not original with him Haywood but was a quotation from the papers presented to the com corn cittee however the gentleman almost convinced him that tsat the remark was a correct one 1 aughter laughter and applause cessna then moved the adoption of so much of the committees report as had been designated undisputed agreed to the alabama case ewe was then taken up Clayton of arkansas moved to substitute the minority for the ina bority report in this part of it bruce of or mississippi moved a recess until 7 pm agreed to at the convention at sla ela 20 la ia 15 am adjourned until 11 am CHICAGO 4 judge hoar took his chair at precisely seven but not more than 50 delegates were in their seats at the convention was nearly full the entry of garfield and conkling was the occasion for the usual greeting from the galleries five minutes later |