Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 21, 1888, Page 1

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE EIGHTEENTH YEAR. as a marked sensation report of the Delegates and Visitors Swoltering 'I‘:‘;':if‘“ gl reached A PATIENT, PERSPIR ING CROWD, | Iiinor said seat egation, In a Torrid Heat. The Convention Hffects Its Per- Rules and Oredentials Committees | of husiness and roport the list of the national Make Their Reporta. VIRGINIA'S CONTEST SETTLED: It Required a Day and Night Session WISE GETS AWAY WITH MAHONE. The General's Delegates-at-Large Seats His District Dele- gates—Proceedings. The Sccond Day's Proceedings. CoxveNTION HALL, Cinicaco, June 20.— (Special Telegram to Tue Brel—Two hun- dred thousands visitors who arescanning the heavens to-night sce in the sickle in the con stellation of Leo, the sign of political condi- tions. . At this writing that glittering inter rogation point is no more prominent than the utter inubility of the best republican astrolo gers to predict the outcome of the balloting which will begin to-morrow. Its external silence is no more imprentrable than that of the men who are supposcd to control the des- tinies of the present convention. Its distance seems no greater than the materializing into solid votes of several of the “booms” which fill the hotels with cheers and the strects with torches, transparencies and brass bands. A large proportion of the dolegates have now been in Chicago five days, but there scems to be no greater crystallizing of sentiment on any on candidate than ther was on Sunday night, when New York's del egation—seventy-two strong—filed into the Che air has been filled with rumors of swaps and trades. The henchmen- of Gresham and Alzer, of Shermun and Alli- son, of Harrison und Blaine, samed themselves hoarse and shattered of nerves with their cheeriug, but to-night TUE SITUATION REMAINS PRACTICALLY UN- CHANGED, There will be an carly break from Gresham. Where will the 200 odd votes go claimed by the judze's supporters? The Al- ger lumber boom has already jammed and will break into ftagments, but who will cap- ture the floating logs? These are questions cight different answers, The honest reply is that no one knows, and the most experienced and best political prophets do not hesitate to say s0. The heat and hurry, the jostling crowds, tho noise and confusion in the strects here states of Towa, Tllinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana have alone poured 150,000 visi- tors into Chicago, most of whom wander | oxeited aimlessly around in the hotels, clog the pass age ways und block the streets in the vicin- hall. The crowd shines by comparison with that at St. Louis, but it is too large to be good-natured and too warm to be per- this morning in the great auditorium, where not a breath of air eutcred to stir the streamers or move the banner decorations. By 1 0'clock every seat was fitled, and 10,000 faces encireled in an ever-moving mass of lifeand color were turned towards the desk from behind which Chairman Estee poun hopes for A BUSINESS SESSION AND QUICK WOTK, The waves of heat roll and brealk, and the | some v moying fans and handierchiefs mopping | majority report proposed heads become the most prominent features | Ho closed 1t is even ‘too hot for general enthusia short cheers as they rise to address Chicago offering was the®most clegant ever prescuted, it brought out no greater che than the homely woodeén mallet made from | tne the desk of Grant, the Galena tanner, major THE MORNING SESSION wound up with a dull and quite unnecessary | g roll debate over the adoption of asiugle ru - | seconded ported from the committeo on rules, Senator | height Hoar's shrill voice demanded a better de- | men proposed to make the vote a test of their fining of the position of the alternates and a | streugth. recommittal of rule 10 for that purpose. | and For three-quarters of amhour various dele- | strength. gates who yearned to get their names in | wan follow print made motions and counter motions. | The announcement of a divided del The problem was solved by General Sewell’s | Ohio was greeted with eheers and announced, showed unanimous vote showed the convention that | seating the Mahone and Sherman del that was exactly what should have been | and 512 for the Wise delegation, motion to adopt the entire veport, when a done, forty-five minutes previously. EVENING SESSION. The great wuditorium blazed with 5,000 8 when the band stopped its twenty-fith rendition of and the convention camp to order. Previ- ous to the report of the comwmittee on cred- been forwarded to him resolutions referring call for th tee on resolntions. that the firet ure of a hitherto @R of the Wi on permanent organization 1, it was believed, SHERMAN STRENGTIL 18 spoiled by the an that the committee was not yet 5ud not be for b ere loud calls for spe A motioy for adjournment, But the sensa manent Organization. nouncem read, ESTEE ELECTED THE CHAIRMAN. | \'" which wa pre motion te pass the or til S o'clock to-n of Pennsylvania opposed this, and | Eotten together, and this would son withdréw his motion and moved | difficulty in the case, d to permanent organization, which The discussion then drageed some time and_the members of the conven- \ker, of Ohio, chairman of | tion were getting more and more confused ns on’ Dbermanent organiza- | 10 What the language of the ‘“altcrnate’ vead the unanimous re. | really meant, when General Sewell of New committee, Whon he | Jersey cut the gordian knot with a motion Betoo of California was | 10 adopt the report of the .« appointed for permanent chairman of the | Whole, which “motion was unanimously convention, cheering broke forth. Governor | agreed to. \ker procecded to read the list of vico | Xhe chair called for the report of the com- s us sclocted by the various state | mittee on credentials as the next order of committee wasalso lost, slon Fred nized passi roundly. ng the discus- his wife were recog- to the platform and cheered he restlossness of the BTN was finally appeased by a speech fr Bradley of Kentucky. florid southern Governor ol Judge Bradley is a stumnp speaked. to Do It. name, which was now taken up by the gal- leries, swelled into a whirlwind of shouts, which the Ohio governor His specch was filled with telling hits, terization of what the republican e would be s opposed by inference not, caught the audience stated that M. M not ignore, his chara cundi to what Clevelad is Seated, But His Young Antagonist | ¢ report was adopted withont dissent G ; and the chair appointed Governor Foraker | taken until 8 o'clock to night, shouted Foraker, with a_quici jerk of his body and a sweep of his arm. have some social standing and be rec A yell of applause fol- appeared and wa into good & lowed the hit, When Foraker had concluded and the audi- ence was calling for Ingersoll THE COMMITTER ON CRE TEL'S SPRECH, Cali‘orntan Confin's Himself to a Ten-Minute Talk. June 20.—When the applause had ided Chairman Estee spoke as folloy Hepburn reported nincteen cases of contest, all but one from the south, for and there wa But no one cs ntested cases, the committe assembled from bodies of the American veof i« wd vice president” from the long | has been ar t. list of illustrious names v to you for your suy a mistake inyour . . platform voicing the prin- | cecdings. 1t is regarded 1y except the Virginia ¢ s deep silence : arument ¥ecornizing the Wise district dele- us the only district delegates chosen in with the callof the national com gates s of the rept sier of solution, for the leading features of | to the programme that platform, if 1 may be permitted to sug rest, have all been discussed and adopted by ie_democrats are for {rce Ibiicans are for protection | face of his two letters of declination. American labor and Am- | Color as Bayne of erican products agalust the competition of | \who was chairman of the committeeon rules, Jor and foreign products. This will form a conspicuous. place in your platform ) ; o br Proe trado! von atop the | man, said after the convention adjourned to- any article at home and thus | duy, that the action oy oo e is provision to be the rules was one of the wisest and most was loudest It was apparent that he specta thordughly disgusted with were cheered, but the applav § for Wiso. 3 ut least wer the Mahone methods, by men of Virginia who would natu with the republ driven f by Russ ment for Mahon issuo waiting. Amid the motions for division of Senator Riddle- 1of North C: ration which madc production of the convention had 1ses and the price will be S, has been, under the den portant actions taken ion, that the. combined . exports | Dossibky hasty Blaine movement out of the ’ the country have been less | Question and’adds strength to the friends of like period in'ten years imme- | Blamne, who do not Dreceding, whilo © the ex. | unless the convention cannot, after an honest comn over Imports have inereased, | @nd sincere and long confinued effort, decide port berger As und imports of than for an his name was called, half the o rose to cateh a ghmpse of the man who been Riddleberger but he sailed in on an until shut off by a point of order Wall of Nebraska, was a8 usual far from sober, rginia, Ohio and arena through their s i & o flew to which the friends of cight candidates give | e cers and the spar > k be one foot of American soil where the c v bumblest man cannow go in €afety and cast | be proceeded with, A Among the gentlemen on the platform this i Smith, late journal clerk was over the ninth distri , but all felt that the point at t of Malone and 0 number of Sherman dele- Aepburn of Iowa made a majority report and was tent speech by But the music began sell in behall who wound : his ballot for whom he pleases and have that | 4 itle Virgin counted. President Cleve- | evening was Harry was the victory with at strong plea for the seconds are said to be without parallel. The five | wober of New York. one of his | disregarded the soul and spirit of the tution which separates the executive, legis- | fortably rowded judicinl departments of the | in the hall was He has done this by vetoing | ing of thousand b Al other prosidents | the effect of causing a br He has thus taken | The scerctary then read a telegram re- ate central com- with the speech of Judge Ru of the Mahone delegates, harangue by a colloquy with Chauncey each shook their fingers ity of the great hostelries and convention | ¢pe trom Washington down from the people the power to make their own | ceived from therepublican e in 19 oy hands the daties | mittee of California, sending grecting to the lewtslative and the responsibilities of | convention and returning grateful thanks M cowaHl - | for the honor bestowed on the Pacific coast by the selection of M. M. E gavel, The audienc with the debate. fectly patient. It fanned itsclf and perspired | gud Houck of T tive oflicer. n policy of the de Bingham of Pennsylvania, oratory. ame evident that the decision of the, convention, would not be on the line sidentiul candidate, but would answer 10 the question whether the conven- tion to be i usages or his big gavel. Every delegate and spectator | gy, any | Hoarse frof WISE MOUNTED to disenfranchise lause, followed by and the cheering, while always spontancous | The and hearty, 1s not protracted. Chuivman | the long protracted wra Estee gets several rounds of applauss, once | convention itself. ¢ when he refers to Blaine and again when, | question trom the with excellent good sense, he closes a speech | were seconded by of less than two minutes in length, Ex-Gov- | Massaclhusetts, ernor Foster and Ben Butterworth of Ohio, | had Benator Hoar of Massachusotts, Jim | leave the bi Husted, “The Bald Eagle "of West- | resented. chester” and ex-senator of New Jersey, | clared ¢ are also recognized with friendly but | upon a rising vote. Aumid great confusion motions were mads the chair, but the convention and spoctators | to reconsider and to lu alike break in with laughter and applause | table. when the name of the immortal Plannizan of | dozen delega Texas is announced. It was a popular trib- | shouting for ute to the discove of the democratic sam- | pul pleof vivil servi eform. Flaunigan knew | all-night session what he was there for and joined in the | motion to reconsider was laid aughter, and Tho gavel presentations did not awaken | ond district, much responsive enthusiasm. They are inev- | pattled, the convention excited itably convention chestuuts, and though the | leries Warner Miller of out the tangle by stating the question to be substitution of the minority report for the Put and dec! THURSTON DEMANDED ON BEHALY OF NEDRASKA all of states on the question, and was Excitement s secn that the ud calls of “Questiol n to show impatience over rose for the provious issouri delegation, which numerous statos, led by Mr. Wise's earncst speech 1 convention hesitated to district of Virginia unrep- The Mahone de ted by an overwhelmmg majority proval of our own consciences, the approval Auwerican people and, above all, the lof Him who controls both men and on. resolutions A RECISS TAKEN. platform and pr gavel, which ognition and questioning th nes of the chalr, and no resuit, gle began afrosh over the See- I'he chairman was thorou New York, st Bayne, of the committce on votes “aye," hich adopts the rules of the house of ropro 4 Some slight modifications, | While the band was playing Colonel Fred makes the following order of business: = | Grant and his wife, accompanied by Mrs. 2 on credentials, JLs v Palmer, enteved the convention, and walking through one of the del Nubiins the bandidutes for precidont, | tepped upon the plattorm and took a seat in the rear of the stand o ntation of cundidates for yice | convention at once and cheered the distinguished visitors, The chairman again called upon mittee on credentials and again ritory six vot nd the | response. He then called upon the commit- othier territories and the istrict of Columbia | tee on resolutions, but Mr. Harris the ruls recommended ure | Curoling, stated that the committee was not substantially similar to those adopted by the | ready to report and would not be before to- nal convention, The most essen WOrrow, e 18 that it is recommended th committee, consisting of As the call proceeded the Sher- showed their disappointment. et Report of the committe on resolutions, Numing the national committe The result, us Adding the nineteen votes of Ohio, Sherman's st Shortly after 3 the couvention, on motion | counted up 200, of Horr of Michigan, took a recess to await | report on all the other distrie the report of the comumittee on credentials, tion adjourned until 10 o'clock to-mor AN ALLISON COMBIN important couference electric lights this evening, which brought | evening at which representat out in all their elaboration the brilliant | state delegations were presen: decorations and made the faces of the 10,000 | of Willinm B. Allison. delegatos and spectators visible in every part | was agreed upon i the convention by which of the hall, The report of the throwing-outof | upon the Mahone delegates by the committee on | the states should be thrown to Allison. credentials gave promise of some exciting | Allison scenes and fervid oratory which doubtless | the greatest confidence that their increased the attendance despito the torrid | mot heat. It was nearly twenty-five minutes past | Allison and Phelps. THE DAY SESSION, MARCH J The First Work to I After adoptin he report also gives Dakota ten votes and the conven us held this ves of fourteen in the interest A ylan of campalgn imittee to conduet the affairs of the party. | tec r of Mussachusetts moy feated. the report of the comumittee on rales by ed, except the rule referring 1o the el to do, commeneed to of alternates, and that that portion be re- | and in response to the séuted W. O. Bradley of Kentucky. thanking the couvention for the smittee by p limita- | ferred upon him by the L ballot the votes of privately to-night with Buttelwoith of Ohlo moved to amend the report of the cc tion of time on be defeated, and thut the ticket wi ect the PFermas nent Organization, Cuicaco, June . entials, @ resolution of condolence with Ger- | called to order at wany over the loss of her two ewmperars, and | ton. & resolution deploviug the lpss of Graut, | Wayue, iling were pasted. | pruyér Chairman Thurston said there bad ey, 08 to the 4 by Ohairmaa Thurs: | PEACEE R o g0y presented & substitute for the rule reported by the commitiee re- lating Lo thie election of alternates, which ho moved to adopt, aud Chairigan Bayne of mu] OMAHA. THURSDAY MORN NG, JUNE 21, 1888, rules, but the chal said this (the rule under discussion) forred back to the committee. committee on rules said that he hoped the 10 the formation of the platform, which the | substitute would be adopted, and seconded chair said would be referred to the commit- | Senator Hoar's motion. The substitute was as follotws: Iternate delegates for each del 1t at permanent organization be | trict delegation, to consist of the same num- called upon to make a report, but a protest | ber as their principals, to actin the absence o YAFE; 6 NofH Care) at | of deleates, shall be dlected. from Harris, of North Carolina, that | ®yo o ona® of Caliornias objected to this proposition and desired to have the eliould not report until the committee on cre- | referred to the chairmon of the committee on s should be heard from tated that he was informed that [ Jolinson of Kentucky m ttee on credentials would not be until 8 o'clock this evening. Bayhe n of Totva said that asthe conven- | feathers about nothing. ruled this out of order, oved that should be re- all_much fuss and Senator Hoar's hing under the circum- | proposition should be accepted. business. Horr of Michigan mov stances except to organize, unless it should | ., Husted of New York supported Senator be proposed to o on with the nominating | HOArs substitute, and said that it was what speeches, ho would move to take a recess uns | €verybody wanted, { it e be diffeult for the committee on rules to be avoid all He thought that it would euch dis- question along for committee as a rule 10 d_that a recess be which was and George 13, | agrecd to, and at 2:10 o'clock the convention Sloan of New York n committee to e ' adjourned. Mr. Bstee to the platform. When Mr, B s introduced by the cha nan of the convention, he was applauded cnthusiastic: Business Transacted, the Convention: This con- no Resolutions of Sympathy the First Cr1caGo, June 20.—The uppermost thought in the mind of the convention as it began to to re-assemble this evening, was the supreme importance of the action taken thi in accepting the report of the committee on rules, which includes a rule that of votes can be made after the vote of a state afternoon change inate candidates for | has been properly cast until after the ballot, This vir stampede, and favors very dec liberative character of the convention’s pro- a very decided ally stops any lealy the de- plicuns of tne nation is still | victory for the influences which are opposed and who has al s been of those managers who claim to bo the friends of Mr. Blaine and are yet secking to nominate him in the Pennsylvania, a sincere Blaino of the committee in al- meorporated in so far. It render: desire his nomination OF T onite cannot but | between the other candidates. wn almost universal practicd in the demo- [ Some expectation was ; Staios of the solid sonth o disvegnrd | ©f those who eame to the hall this cvening of the electoral franchise. | thata Im}'ml might be taken befors very helplessness of the people who ave | ment. No one who anchised appoals 1 the strongest | ton had any idea that the proceedings would etion - for when. the batlot | £0 8o far under the rules adoted this after- x is once made to tell a licor when it s | noons that the credential wnd voiceless our hbertics are in T S i tform adopted before any further business en the nomination of candidates—could report and its work be indulged in by many adjourn- understands the situa- committee must poscd of and the %8 the country's rroat re. | Of the house of representatives, who has been ves the universal con- | chairman cign people and humiliates our | . Chairman Estee w nado by the president that ot rid of the surplus in the treasur announced limit of time for speakmg was five minutes called to sentation of was was vet he has rewarded more | requested by Chairman Estee to assist him in for political reasons than any | consiruing the rather) complicated mode of locossors, As o vonstitutional | rules which govern the lower branch of the W telis the people he is a | national legislature. g ructionist, buv yet he has boldiy | At H:42 the convention i consty. | to order. The auditorium called uncom and the atmosphere stifling. The of fans did ath of air to stir, wool | and that all speakers would be wrm products must go upon the | order on time, except in the pr en ansyrered by the people of | candidates for the presidency, and so would Trae. we arotold by tho nresident | the convention hereafter be called to order surplus in the treasury, but | o8 time, Bo # surpius if our debts | Mr. Wellington of Maryland, were paid; there would not be asurplus if | resolution tender protected with fortifications | Tican party of the United § 1; there would not be a surplus it reconstructed, if our Ll Lol naata | smbny: fo constructed and. there | . Mr. Wellington 1not bea surplus if the pension bills | Jution thut the ed by the prosident had become laws, In | nation. The Germans have advanced to the conclusion, the issues presented to the people tion its sympathy in this ement and sorrow caused by the death o} of Ger harbors were improved; there | Of her ruler, Emperor Frederick first in civilization and culture, and not Of men but of principles. | the late war was the steadfust friend ition is looking on with breath- [ union. Ithas furnished America with sowme loss interest to sec what we do. May we so [ 0 its best & J things . we will have the ap Mr, Harris of North Carolina, at the following resolution be substituted, by the commit- as an_expression to be sd, 1ot as a part of, but along with the \izens and statesmen, ——— platform to be adopted to-morrow: Wetender to the C Chicago, advanced to tho | "Opre, 5% Jormany 90.—At the conclusion of |.united nation, and that of the other great tee's speceh, which was well received, | man, his liberal-minacd, A3 r ‘mian people our heart = elt sympathy in the double loss they have Awalting the Credentials Report the | recenily custuined in (e doco Convention Adjourns, under whose reig Ciicaco. June substitute was accepted ented a beautiful silyer | adopted by a rising vote, Las alrcady been described, [ Mr. Dixon (coloved) of Mar which ne said he had been instructed to pre- to the convention on behalf of the citi ns of Chicago. les A. Works of 11lmois, also presented to the convention a gavel which he said was a plain tool and made neitlier of siver or gold; connected with a great name in crican history. Itis made from a piece wood from a desk in the tannery at Gale na, which was left by U. 8. Grant when he i the tield to fight for his country. ( ion of General Grant's uame was 1 with great outburs \cers, which I moment arimest a rising vote, tion ceeded to 1 0ty | 1o peady to report, Logan, ex-President Speeches Listened to Waiting For (b Credentials Keport. Crricaco, June 20.—The chair asked for the report of the committee on credentials, being the regular order of business, sneral Henderson of lowa announced that Chairigan Hepburn, of that committec, was not present and the secretary of ery procece Mr., Bayne then suggested that the roll of states should be eulicd for the p be chosen by the national | selecting members of the natios Then the conven speach should address the having nothing else 1 upon_ *Bradle, call the chairman pre- wotion, after some debat- | republicans were here, to accept cated by a Lieavy vote. lenge from St A discussion then ensued and was pe not here to Bayae, Boutelle and Fil- | ardly sacrificos iuer in which alternates | but for the purpose of ac should be entitled to vote in the absence of | sponsibility, and proying themselyes equal to every emergency in the country’s That fact has been written in le all over this country, not the subject of the pett chased with its own bounty Louis that suggested ase of the man I peace-loving and and was yland offered a resolution of respect to the memory of Grant, Arthur avd the late Senator Conkling, which was also adopted by gation aisles ssigned to them. The ognized Colonel Girant the com- received no commit , but his wotion to this effect was d honor cou. request onyent he said the the chal- They make uny of their principles, cpting eve flutter- not have tee as permancnt 1s the offered a L on behalf of the ates, to the G hour of he pub- id in support of his reso- 'man nation is a during of the come an the conven- ; Kill time by announcing e chair accepted the tokens in a neat | telegrams received for delegares, ufter which the band in tho ga time until the credentials ed to kill committee would North pose of After that b were cow- history. ters of gold This is @ nation and stales it bas pur- The . republi ans were here to say that the course of ig- norance should bo swept from the land [Applause.] They were here to say that every man, black or white, should be secure in his rights and to protest against the cowardice of the south which trampled upon the voter. They wanted to put the democratio party out of power. It was a delusion and a snare, a sham and a deception, 1ts only his- was obstinate resistance to the grand measures inaugurated by the republican party. [Applause.| Kentucky in November would clasp hands with_Ohio, Indiana_and Illinois. [Applause.| The democratic party has never been able to originate a system to collect revenue, and now they are not able o maugurate a schemo to get rid of tho surplus which is increas- | ing in the treasury, Who shall be our leader?! [Cries of “Blande, Blame,"” mingled with hisses], It matters not whether it be the plumed knightof Maine or the other distinguished gentlemen. —[Applause]. The republican party will win this fight. FORAKE Ohio's Governor Wakes the Echoes With a Magnificent Address. Ciicaco, June 20.—Mr. Hallowell, of Kansas, amid the most enthusiastic outburst of cnthusiasm that has yet been seen in the convention, moved that Governor Foraker of Ohio be asked to address the convention. The motion was agreed to and Governor Foraker was introduced and was received with a volley of cheers. He said he would not be insensible to the compliment which had been paid if he could, and he would not if he could, and while he thanked the convention for the honor conferred upon him, he sald that he would greatly have preferred if he had not been called upon. The question had been asked: “What are we here for!” |Laughter.] The republicans were here to formulate repub- lican principles; they were here to nominate the next president of the United States, [Ap- plause.] The first was casy to do. Every schoolboy knew what the ¢ rations of the convention would be. Every democrat as well as republican knew what the attitnde of the republican party was with respect to the questions which concerned the Ameri can people. Republicanism is sincerity, and sincerity mever . cquivocates. We believe in @ free ballot and a fair count, and we will not hesitate to say so in all the "thunder we can put in the plat- form, We beliove in a protective tariff, and that the present demoeratic administration is a fraud and a pretense. We want and we are determined to have one. lieve that Cleveland’s free trade message is fraught with danger. Wo want to take care 1 labor, American homes and u industrics, and wo will say so. Then we will nominate our candidate. 1don’t kiow who he will be. &) yoieo in the gallery, “Gresham,” and chuors. DGovernor Foraker continued: I don't Know what his name is. [A voice, “Foraker;” cheers.] ButTcan say he will be a gentle- man [continued cheers]. That was saying a great deal in view of recont experience. Here brokg in Henderson of Towa with the declaration that the nee would not go fishing on Decoration D) Continuing Foraker said that_the nominee would be & man of good moral eharacter and would have a_ social staading in the com- munity. He would not only be aman to cherish patriotic recoliections, but would have a record as a_ republican that would he without spot or blemish. He would take the republican standard in his hand and carry it to vietory in the name of republicanism without explunation or upology to anybody, and_when onee eleeted it would be his high cst business to give the country a republican iministration. |Applause.] He would not do it by false pretenses. He would go straight at the mark. in conclusion he said: *“We can cateh up the glorious re ncs from Oregon nd carry it sweeping over the whole coun- try with a magnificent triumph, which will knock Grover Cleveland and Old Cinada into “finnocuous desuetude.” [Loud and continued applause and cheers.] CRED The Contest Over Virginia and Then Adjournment Cucaco, June 20.—Mr. Fuller of Carolina moved that Colonel Robert G, In- gersoll be asked to make an address, but the committee on credentials being ready to re port, the regular order was procceded with The chairman of the credentials committee then advanced to the platform and made his report. The report, among other recommen- dations, favored the admission of the Wise district delegates from Virgiata und the four Muhone delegates-at Mr. Russell of North Carolina, from the credentials committee, presented a minority report, “which dissents from the majority report in favor of the admission of the Wise delegates from the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Seventn, Eighth und ‘Tenth districts, who, it is claimed, were clected by pretended conventions ‘never called by the state committee. The report also favors the admission of the Mahone del- cgates from the Second, Fifth, Sixth, Sev. enth, Eighth and Tenth districts, The majority report was adopted, except so much thercof as relates ts the Virginia con- tests, enntor Riddleberger of Virginia then took the stand to present, as he said, the truth of the question. He came here, he said, without a vote being 15t inst him by a republican in the Seventh congressional district, seat had never been contested thes was asked to sit down quietly and listen to gentleman from North Caroling mal minority report. He was entitied to a s on the floor. If ho was not entitled to a scat, who wast [Laughter.] At this polut Mr. Wall of Nebraska broke in” with a poiut of order, that Riddlcherger was out of order, The question now pendiug related to the delegates-at-large, The chair sustained the point of order and Mr. Riddleberger left the platform with the inquiry as 10 whether there would be a time when he could protest against the partisan- ship which allowed men to walk people in bere to vote for their special candidate. “Phat part of the credentinls committee's ro port upon the admission of the Virginia dele- gates-at-large was adopted. The questyu then being upon the adoption of that portion of the reportof the creden tials committee relating to the admission of distriet delegates from Virginia, Mr. Wood of Virgluia, spoke in favor of the minority report, with special reference to the Ninth district de tes, He suid that he and his e > were properly and legally elected by u couvention which Was regularly called by the state committee, and the coniestants were elected by three men who held a pre- tended convention in a private office of one of the delegates who was there chosen. He (Woods) had been elected by a comvention composed of delegates from eve islative district in the congressional district, and it was unjust to throw him and his col out of the national convention, General Gibson of Olio expressed himself as one of thoze whoinsisted that the mag- nificent republican Ninth district of Virgini 1 be represented i the convention. He movod that both sols of delogntes imitted, each delegate to have halif a vote, Mr. Wise of Virginia seconded the motion Mr. Hepburn of lowa protested against the motion s being dangerous in its effect. 1t would put it in the power of a few men to play the miserable furce of holding a so-called convention called by no one in authority, representing uo one and composed of three wen, and by that kind of fraud, r the pretense of a compromise, these men could lieel their way into the convention prepared 10 offer that kind of premium for this sort of trickery. [Applause and cries of *No no.”| Mr. Stevenson of Minnesots moved that the minority report, so far as it referred to the admission of My. Wood and bis colleague, be adopte ‘Phechalr esplained that the winovity se- port did not ask_for the admission of any | delegates from the Ninth district, but merely dissented from the majority report. | . Mr. Stevenson then said that he would move Mr. Wood and his colleague be ad | mitted to the convention as the prope | elected delegates from the Ninth district. Mr. Webber of New York objected.” He said that if this resolution was adopted, to be consistent, the convention must admit all who are declared by the wmujority report not | entitled to seats. Mr. Russell of North Carolina opposed G cral Gibson's motion and called attention to the fact that the majority report did not_re ommend the seating of the anti-Mahone dele wrates for tho Ninth district, as it has boen done in the case of the other district dele- gates. This was because the two anti-Ma- hone delegates from that district represented a constituency of three men—one besides themselves —assembled in some highly re spectable grog shops in Virginia, Was the convention going to allow a parcel of revolu tionists, us they called themselves, to ride roun shod over the regular ¢ zation of the party in a great state. : He was procecding to argue against the seating of men elected in o convention not assembled at tho call of any constituted au- thority, when he was interrupted by Mr. Fil- ley of Missouri with the question whether thare was 4 congressional committee in the Ninth district! Mr. Russell replied that if there was it v under the party organization und constitu- tion. No congressional district convention would be held, except by order of the state convention. Mr, Filley—Was that the usual plan? M Russcll—Usual — and universal, [Laughter Mr. Filley—Was there any other congre sional call in the statet Mr. Russell—In most of the districts there never was until the convention had as- sembled at Petersburg under the regular state call, Mr. Filley—How are congressional dis- trict conventions held? Mr. Russell—By district conventions as- mbled where they please. Mr. Filley—Called by whom? Mr. Russell—By the state committee. Mr. Filley—Always? Mr. RRussell—Generally. [Laughter. | QOGeneral Bingham of Pennsylyvania ad dressed the convention upon the Ninth district case. He declared that if the major- ity of the committec on credentials conceded the election of Mr, Wood and his colleagues, it wave up all its claim that theother Mahone district delegates were not properly elected and their opponents entitled to seats, He claimed that the clection of ‘the contestauts of Mr, Wood and his colleagucs was so palpable a fraud that the minority of the mmittee did not dare to recor end that should be seated even under the claim of the technical regularity of the Wood cos vention, and if_the convention voted to sy Mr. Wood it will vote down the majority re vorta 5 Mr. Rector of Texas, spoke in favor of tho majority report, and Mr, Spaulding of Michi 1, favored the admission of the Wood dele 'Mr. Stevenson of Minnesota, thought that there had been only one convention of the Ninth district, nnd that was the one held at Petersburg, outside of the Ninth_ district. The convention of three was a fraud Fessenden moved to reconsider the vote by which the Wood delegates were seated. Butterworth moved to lay the resolution on the tebie. On the mere technical plea that the district convention was not held within the bounds of the district it was neither just nor right. John 8. Wise then took the floor and was grected with applause. He said that when the gentleman from North Carolina (Ltus- sell) spoke of the gentleman who made contest as one who probuably went to a g shop, he did not confine himself to the fucts of the case. Pendleton, who made the rival contest, was the peer of the gentleman from North Carolina, or any other gentleman hero, and his mecting was not held in a grog shop, but in a reputable place where every conven: tion had been Leld for years. He did not come here to be called a trick- ster and the habitue a grog shop. He (Wise) 1 scconded the motion to admit both dele se 4s a true re- 1 from Virginia, recognizing the Ninth strict s the baaner district of Virginia r publicanism, loving its people, whother they camie here under the banner of Mahone or Wise, it grieved him to sce her unrepre sented in the convention. [Applause|. Mr. Hess of Missouri arose to move the previous question, but the chair declined to veeognize him and Mr. Moore of West ginia_ addressed the convention upon the Ninth district dispt He thought that the convention was in danger if it admitted any of the Ninth distriet delegates, 1t would be setting a dangerous precec Me Allen of Virginia foltowed in f the minorty committee’s report. clared that” if the majority report adopted his place s a delegate-at-large from Virginia_would be valucless to him, because it would declare that there was i taint of wregularity about his own convention, H went into the details of the entire Virginia contest and said that there could be no pos sible doubt of the regu ar clection of all of the Muhone delegates Hess call for the previous question then recosnized and under weall the con u adopted the motion to scat the Wood o5 by an overwhelming vote, question being upon tho adoption of ainder of the majority report of the Is committeo, Mr. Keader of Penn sylyania demanded a ddvision of the question, d that cachi seperate case in dispute should be voted upon by itself. This was Mr, Fess 3 1 to re consider_the vote by which the convention d admitted the Wood delegation from the nth district Mr. Butterworth of Ohio, moved to lay the motion upon tho table, and after u purliumen- tary wrangle, thé question was put and But terworth's mosion prevailod—242 to 174 The question then recurred upon the ad mission of the delegates from the Sceond dis. trict of Virginia, “Ihe wajority report on the Second ginia district was adopsed, The majority report seats the Wise dele pates and the minority report, which the Mahonc delogates, w stitute, and a call of states was adoption of the substit A laugh went through the assembly when on Ohio being ealled Governor Foraker se and stated there were only thirty cight ates present and that nineteen of them voted “yea' and nineteen “nay,” ‘The niinorty report was rejeited—yeas v 21 10 announcement of the vote was ceived with applau The majority report was then adopted whole and applicable to all the Virgin tyicts, aud then the convention at ajourned until to-morrow ut 10 o'clock, THE FIRST BALLOT. body Anxious to See How It Will tesult—Harrison's Strength, Cricao, June Everybody is waiting for the first ballot. Before a ballot has been taken there will be no material changes of position. Depew's friends are not doing much by him. He will be voted for probubly not wore than two or three ballots, The climux is to come when New York breaks up, und on New York's choice after Depew the nomination may depend. It will be mpossible to unite New York on another candidate. About balf the delegation is likely to go to Harrs son. Hiscock favors Harrison and Platt is about to give up Alger and join Hiscock Phelps of New Jersey, and Eliins are in the Harrison combination. Warner Miller is still inclined to Sherman. While no'absolute pledges have been made, New Jerscy, Indi ana and parts of New Eugluud are for Har. vison and, he will show up strougly after the complimentary ballots are finished. A large number of organized laboringmen from Indiana are here favoring Gresham. Some of the strongest influences in the coun- wry are at work for Harrison, and it is con- workers in the field. The Harrison cuw- paigners made their first mistake this morn ing wheu they called the Indiana delegation together and ‘attempted to puss 8 resolution 10 the effect that Indiaua should vote solidly for Harrison until the wajority indicated a céded that he bas the best corps of political | wish to change. The resolution was received with much disfavor. Some of the Grosham men present declared they would not ba bound by the resolution if passed, The resos lution was withdrawn his action hag made it apparent that Ind o is not solid™fon Harrison and the moral victory is with the opposition. A compromise has now beon are ranged by which California will not put Blaine in nomination, but some of her deles gates, lod by Haymond and De Young, will vote for him from the start, THE VIRGINIA CONTEST. Wise Defeats Mahone in the Fight for the Scats, Cnicaco, June 20.—The credential come mittee met in session at § o'clock and res sumed consideration of the Virginia contests After hearing briefly and without decision the claims of the delegates-at-larges the committee took up numerically eight cons tested election districts, The irst and Fourth districts at noon presented their re- spective claims no vote boing taken, EXx-Congressman Brady and J. S, Wise presented the case for the latter, arguing that the Wise district delegates were elected in separate district conventions in conform- ity with the rulesof tho party; that Mahono in his call for the state convention to be held at Petersburg intentionally violated the law of the republican ty as to such olection, W. E. Craig and W. C. Elam claimed for Mahoune that there was doubt as to the call of the national committee, and therefore the te committee had authority to indicate tho place where state conventions should ba held, and that in this instance it was a_mere technical violation of the call of the national committee. At 10'clock the committee went into_ex- ecutive session, ho doors were closed to the contestants and Wise and Mahone ree tired. By a vote of 25 to 13 the first contest (Sccond aistrict) was disposed of in f{avor of Wise, 'Phe third, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, nifith and tenth were disposed of to the > effect. Tho committee voted to seat the Mahone delegates at large, and upon reconsideration of the Ninth district raled ity out entirely, loaving the de! ion—\Vise 14 Mahone 8. Wise declined to express an opinion_ as to the probability of a minority report. Brady, however stated that he expected the Mahona men to make a fight, He suid: “We supe pose Malione will be backed by the Sherman wen, for whom he would have thrown our entire delegation on the unit rule.” After a brief recess the committee rease sembled and took up the case of the district of Columbia. While this coutest hinees upon charges and countercharges of irregularity at the district eonvention, it became plain that the scating of these two delegates will ins volye a hurd fight in the convention, and probably the first trial of strength between Bliine and Sherman forces. It is probable that whatever the committee's de- aminority report may be presented in . Without reaching a voteat 6 p. m., s {0 be uble to report to the conven tion this evening, the _contests in Lonisina, Georgia, N Minnesota gnd Massas chusetts were reforred to a sub-committoa with instructions to report without delay. BLAINE BEARD FROM. Nothing Can Be Relied on Unless igned By Himself Yonk, dune 21.—The Tribunc of this morning has the following: Loxpoy, June 20.—Blame asks me to say that all rulmors i the United States pretend- ing o give letters or s from him or uy of s party touching political topics of any kind may be promptly discredited unloss signed by Mr. Blaine llimself. He has sent nothing whatever on the presidential ques- tion except his Florence and Paris letters, und has fiad no correspondence of any kind with uny gentleman named in connectior with the republican nomination. Blaine is on the borders of Scotland, pursuig his coaclimg tour, LONDON, June 20.—James G. Blaine, in_an interview at N ustle to-duy declined to stato whether or not hé would ace cept the nomination forthe presidency. BLAINE THUSIASTS, California Divided on the Proper Course to Pursuc, Ciicaao, June 20.—The California dele- es have received a good many despatches n the country urging thom to stand by their colors, The effeet is to intensify tho excitement w that delegation, which is di- vided us to policy. The chairman and tho younzer members are anxions to put Blamne in_nomination, but the umjority, in com pli with a request from the friends of Bl tvise waiting until the announced cund tes have had a chanee, and this after- noon the Kentucky delegation sent to the Californiu headauarters @ luvge stecl portrais of Honry Clay, addressed to Creed Haymond, chairman HE LIKES DI PoW. A New York Merchant Gives Chauncey A send OfF. Cmeaco, June 20.—The following telegram has been received from Charles S, Swmith, president of the New York chamber of com- merc New Yok, June 20.—To A. R. W 150., Delegate National Republican Convens tion: Depew as president of the United States would be in an absolutely impartial position and the best mun in the country to assist in adjusting the various relations of the railroads to the public. The knowledgo cquired in his present position would be of Wt advantage and the people would have their rights protected. No railroad attorney conld make black look white to Depew. The grangers ought to advoeate him because of his expericne ClanLes 8. Sy, THE LAST VOTE, It showed Sherm n's Strength to Be 200 Votes, Cineaco, dune 20.~The fivst night session of the republican nationsl convention, ended shortly before midnteit to-night, brought out the fivst approximate test of the strength of any candidate on a roll call, It showed that John Sherman could muster at least 260 votes, The roll callwas on the Virginia con- test und a vote for the Mahone men was tuken to mean a_ vote for Sherman, Ohio tried to diszuise the fact that a test vote was being taken und divided her vote evenly, Counting Ohio solid for Sherman, however, his aggregate on the roll call wotld be 260 votcs, A Disastrous Mexican Flood, BostoN, June20.—A telegram to the Mex- ican Central railroad company reads: MExICO, June Flood at Silas on the line of the Mexican Central; oyer thre dred houses filled; many lives lost; wr ous freshots on witys between' Que nd Leon: two forty-foot spins washed oug near Trapmato; brauch from Silus to Guay- janto washed out in two places; high water on brauch to Guadajara; weather —still threatening and prospects of immediate re- sumption of through business not prowisin everything possible being dot -~ Memorial Services Ordered, Bekiiy, June 20.—Emperor William has ordered memorial services to be held throughout Germany on Suuday next. An eloquent address, eulogizing the many vir- tues of Bmperor Frederick, concluding “with a prayer for the present emperor, will bo read in every chur "he emperor has ap- pointed as aides G al Hahagke, Versen and Bissing. Arrested For a Big Robbery, Suxsuky, Pa., June Pinkerton's de- tective force have arrested Express Messen- ger Huber for stealing 20,000 from the Adumts Express cowpany August 20, 185, The money wys found last uight in Huber's bouse, 11,000 missitg, Huber was anold employe of the compapy and was higuly. res pected. .