Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1880 — NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.

The National Republican Convention met in the Exposition Building, at Chicago, on Wednesday, June 2, and was called to order by Don Cameron, Chairman of the National Committee, Upon whose motion George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts; was made Temporary Chairman. John H. Roberts, of Illinois, and C. L. Magee; of Pennsylvania, were appointed Temporary Secretaries, after which the Committees on Credentials, Resolutions, Permanent Organization, and Rules and Order of Business, consisting of one delegate from each State and Territory, were announced. The roll of the States and Territories was then called for the presentation of credentials and for notice of contest. Contests were announced in Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Utah. The convention then adjourned until Thursday morning, June 3. SECOND DAY H PROCEEDINGS. At 11:45 Chairman Hoar called the convention to order. The gavel which he used was made from -a piece of Lincoln's house at Springfield. The noise was increased ten-fold by the rush of the delegates and the audience to take their seats. The invocation was offered by Rev. F. A. Noble, D. D., who asked the divine blessing on the day’s work of the convention. The Chairman announced that he awaited the pleasure of the convention. Mr. Conkling, of New York, asked whether the Committee on Credentials was ready to report. The chair announced that be understood the committee was not likely to be ready to report for several hours, probably not before 4 o’clock. Mr. Conkling said it was essential that it should be known who were and who were not members before proceeding to business. He therefore moved that the convention adjourn until 6 o’clock this evening. After some time had been consumed in discussing the motion, it was put and lost. The convention then proceeded to the election of permanent officers, which resulted in the choice by acclamation of the temporary officers, including George F. Hoar, of Massachusetts, for Chairman. A motion was then made and carried that the convention adjourn until 5 o'clock p. in. The convention reassembled at 5:25 o’clock. Gen. Henderson, of lowa, said that he understood that the Committee on Credentials was not ready to report, and, in order to expedite the business of the convention, he moved that the report of tho Committee on Rules be received at this time. Gen. Logan, of Illinois, said that he did not rise to make any captious objection to tho motion. But, in the name of justice he desired to enter a protes' against the adoption of the motion. The report of the Committee on Credentials should be made and passed upon before the Committee on Rules and Order of Business reported. There were some things in the report of the Committee on Credentials which he entered a solemn protest against. The report of the Committee on Credentials would hold that a State had no right to name its own delegates to.a National Convention. In the name of unity, and the success of the grand old Republican party, he demanded fair play. Fair play he was sure would be shown to the delegation from Illinois. Gen. Henderson said he was glad to hear the sentiments uttered by Logan. There was no gentleman in the country from whom he would more gladly hear the announcement of a desire for fair play. Mr, Boutwell proceeded to speak upon the rule limiting the speaking to five minutes. Hon. Benjamin Harrison, of Indiana, said tliat he had listened to much acrimonious debate, caused by a report that the Committee on Rules intended to bring in a five-minute rule. He would say that, while he disagreed with the Senator from Illinois on some points made in his remarks, still ho was with him on tho question of this five-minute rule.

Gen. Sharp, of New York, moved, as a substitute to the motion of Gen. Henderson, that the Committee on Credentials be now directed to report. Gen. Garfield, of Ohio, said there was no foundation for any charge of bad faith against the Committee on Rules. The Committee on Rules agreed not to bring forward of its own motion its report until after the report of the Committee on Credentials. But it was understood that the convention could do so if it thought best. He thought it very proper for the convention to take up the report of the Committee on Rules first. Senator Conkling thought that upon an important subject like this every delegate should vote. He urged the importance of the convention discovering who composed it. He was in favor of the adoption of tne amendment offered by his colleague. After some further discussion a vote was taken on the substitute of Gen. Sharp that the Committee on Credentials be instructed to report. Intense interest was manifested in the vote, which resulted as follows: Ayes, 318: noes, 406. So the substitute was rejected. The result was received with loud applause. When the State of Kentucky was called the Chairman arose and said that/acting under instructions from the State Convention, he would cast twenty-four votes solid “aye.” Instantly four men were standing upon their chairs in the center of the delegation and shouting loudly to attract the attention of the chair. Finally, amid confusion, one of the delegates said that there were four stalwarts in Kentucky, and that every one of them desired to vote nay upon the question before the house. He said that no State Convention could muzzle his intelligence, or the intelligence of his colleagues. A motion to adjourn until Friday, June 4, at 10 o’clock, was then made and carried. fFliird Day. Ch lirman Hoar called the convention to order at precisely 10:48 a. m. After prayer by Rev. Dr. Little, Senator Conkling opened the ball by presenting a resoluiion reciting that no one should hold a seat in the convention unless he intended to support the nominee. A squeaky female voice back of the stage moved to amend by giving the ballot to women. Of course the interruption was unheeded. Eugene Hale, of Maine, jumped up and promised that his side would work night and day for the candidate. The resolution was adopted on a viva-voce vote, but to emphasize it a gentleman demanded a call of the States. The call proceeded uninterruptedly, all of the delegates voting aye, until West Virginia being reached, three votes were cast in the negative, amid a perfect storm of hisses, and when the vote was announced 716 for and 3 against the resolution, Conkling offered another, setting forth that the three who voted in the negative had forfeited their votes and their seats in the convention. This motion was cheered. The three delegates were S. P. McCormick, W. J. Burly, and A. W. Campbell, editor of the Wheeling Intelligencer. Campbell said he had voted the Republican ticket from his youth up, and when only thirty-nine votes were cast in his State for Abraham Lincoln. He carried his sovereignty under his hat, and would never bind himself not to exercise his right to think for himself. One of his colleagues, who voted in the affirmative, testified to the bravery with which Campbell had upheld the Republican standard. Brandagee, of Connecticut, spoke in favor of free speech. McCormick, one of the three, stated that he had not voted against the resolution because he did not intend to vote for the candidate, because he did intend to vote for him, but as a matter of principle, and then he went savagely for Conkling, saying that he had served two years in the war, and in 1876 had made over 100 speeches for the Presidential nominee, whereas the gentleman from New York had made only one, and it was notorious that-the gentleman from New York never gave a hearty support to the Republican party unless he wanted something from it for himself. Young, of Tennessee, a colored delegate, said something about the lack of grit in Southern delegates. Campbell remarked that he thought he had as much grit as any man who wore a conscience in his breast. Garfield got up, and, after the prolonged applause had ceased, he defended the right of the Virginians to vote no if they thought the motion inopportune. The gentlemen had stated that they intended to vote for the nominee, and that was all that should be asked of them. An allusion by the Ohio orator to the right of delegates to represent their constituents was cheered. He suggested that the gentleman from New York withdraw the resolution. Mr. Conkling did so amid cheers and hisses. The chair announced that he would clear the galleries from which hisses came. He was very properly indignant, and denounced the hissing as an outrage. The report of the Committee on Rules was read, also a minority report. The consideration of the report was postponed until after the Credentials Committee reported, which the chair announced would be in half an hour. At the expiration of the half-hour the chair called the convention to order, it being now 1 o’clock. He immediately introduced Hon. Omar D. Conger, Chairman of the Committee on Credentials, who on behalf of the committee

apologized for delay in deciding cases before them. He represented the difficulties under which they labored. They had been almost continuously and laboriously in session for over two days. The committee had considered all cases with candor and fairness, and without dispute, except on the merits of the various questions. The committee report a roll of members. In the Louisiana contest, they recommend the admission of the Warmoth delegation and the exclusion of the Beattie delegation. The report discusses the organization of the convention of the State of Louisiana; They find that the bolt was without cause; They recommend the admission of James T, Rapier in the Fourth Congressional district of Alabama. This case is also traversed. They also advise that Smith and Warner ; who were duly elected by the District Convention, should be admitted in place of Arthur Brigam and R. A. Mosely, of the Seventh Alabama. In the Illinois case the committee recommend the following changes : In nine Congressional districts the contestants are admitted in place of sitting members. The Second Congressional district (West Side, Chicago) remains unchanged. The districts in which changes are made in Illinois : First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Tenth, 'Thirteenth and Seventeenth. The committee report in favor of retaining the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. In Kansas four district delegates are reported in place of sitting members. In Pennsylvania Ninth and Nineteenth districts, sitting members are recommended as entitled to hold their seats.

In West Virginia the sitting members are entitled to their seats in contested cases. The committee rehearses the call of the National Committee as a basis for its action on all contested cases, and refers to previous calls to sustain their position and to show the justice of their decision. The calls of 1856, '6O, ’64 and all others down to the present date were the same in this ■ respect as the calls of this year, and all were adopted with a purpose to remove doubts and make district representation a principle that could not be controverted or disputed. The committee also say that the State conventions, too, have in almost every case decided that Congressional districts should have representation in the National Convention as they have elected them. The rights of representatives so elected have ever been regarded as sacred, and should not now be invaded for the first time in the history of the party by this convention. The committee declares the purpose of the convention is to select the candidate most Itkely to be elected, and the nearer we get to the true feeling of the people, the wiser and safer will be that selection. If State conventions may select delegates to a national convention who do not represent the feeling of the people, then those State conventions might as well select all the delegates from a single district in the State. This overriding of the will of the people cannot be too severely censured. In tho Utah case the committee favors retaining the sitting members as being in accord with these principles. Mr. Clayton, of Arkansas, presented a minority report, which was read by the Secretary. The minority report differed from the majority mainly on the part of district representation, setting forth that, if the committee should adopt that method of selecting delegates, it would violate one of the best-established customs of the Republican party. Mr. Conger moved that the report be so divided that each State shall be considered separately. Mr. Conger presented a corrected roll of the convention, according to the report, and moved to take up the Louisiana case first. Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, submitted a proposition that all of the report upon which the committee had agreed be adopted, and then proceed to take up the four propositions upon which the committee had not agreed—those of West Virginia, Alabama, Illinois and Utah.

Gen. Logan arose and asked Mr. Conger if there was any contest over the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. Mr. Conger said there was not. Gen. Logan asked if there was any particular reason, then, why this conscientious majority of the Committee on Credentials had found it necessary to, consider the Illinois delegates-at-large at all He asked for fair play and decent treatment on the floor. “There is no contest in Illinois,” said Gen. Logan, “and no committee has any light to question my title to a seat in this convention.” Gen. Logan asserted that any pretense of a contest in Illinois was false, and altogether unwarranted. Mr. Sharpe, of New \ ork, moved to amend Mr. Cessna’s motion by striking out all reference to the four delegates-at-large from Illinois. Mr. Conger replied to Gen. Logan in a warm speech. He regretted that Gen. Logan or any one else should feel that the Committee on Credentials was disposed to do them an injustice. After a long and heated discussion, participated in principally by Conkling and Logan on the one side, and Haymond, of California, and Conger, of . Michigan, on the other, the motion of Gen. Sharpe was adopted, with only a few dissentient votes. That portion of the report of th<s Credentials Committee concerning which there was no disagreement was then adopted without opposition. That part of the report relating to the State of Alabama, was next taken up and discussed until 4:20 p. m., when, on motion of Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, the convention took a recess until 7 o'clock. The convention reassembled at 7:35 p. m. and t >ok up the Alabama case, and, on motion of Gen. Harrison, of Indiana, forty minutes’ times was allotted to the discussion of the case —twenty minutes to the friends of the majority and twenty .minutes to the advocates of the minority report. Mr. Turner, of Alabama, and Gen. B. F. Tracy, of New York, then proceeded to state the case of the minority of the committee, while Mr. Parsons, of Alabama, and Gen. Bateman, of Ohio, made a plea for the majority report. The motion to substitute the minority for the majority report was then put and lost by a vote of 306 yeas to 449 nays, The convention then proceeded to the consideration of the case of Illinois, and two hours’ time was allotted, by vote of the convention, to its discussion—one hour to each side. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, and Mr. Anthony (one of the contesting delegates), of Illinois, then proceeded to make the plea for the majority report, while Gen. Baum and Emory A. Storrs, of Illinois, presented the case of the minority.

At the close of the two hours Chairman Hoar shut off debate, and Mr. Cessna, of Pennsylvania, called for a division of the question—the first part, to embrace the First Congressional district of Illinois, the second division to embrace the other districts in dispute, reserving the right, if occasion should require, to make a further subdivision of the second division. Senator Clayton, of Arkansas, offered a substitute to the effect that the report of the minority of the, Committee on Credentials, so far as the same relates to the First district of Illinois, be substituted for that part of the report of the majority of said committee which relates to that district. The substitute was 105t—353 yeas to 387 nays. That portion of the majority report relating to the First District of Illinois was then adopted by 384 yeas to 356 nays. The remainder of the majority report relating to the State of Illinois was adopted by about the same vote, and the convention, at 2:20 a. in., adjourned until 11 o’clock a. m., Saturday, June 5. Fourth Day. President Hoar called the convention to order at 11:45 a.m., and the proceedings were opened with a prayer by Rev. J. R. Paxton, of Washington citv. Ex-Gov. Boutwell, of Massachusetts, offered the following resolution : That the National Executive Committee be, and it is hereby, instructed to present a method or methods for the election of delegates to the National Convention to be held in 1884, to announce the same to the country, and to issue the call for the convention in conformity therewith. Objection being made to the resolution, the chair ruled that the special order, namely, the consideration of the majority report on credentials, was the only thing before the convention. The chair having decided that the report of the Committee on Credentials was in order, the contest in the State of Kansas was first in order. Mr. Conger, Chairman of the committee, opened the debate on the question of admitting the contesting delegates from the Second ana Third districts of Kansas. The report favored their admission, and Mr. Conger explained the report. The convention, by 476 yeas to 184 nays, voted to admit the contesting delegates from the Second and Third districts. The next question was upon so much of the majority report as relates to West Virginia. Mr. Conger, on behalf of the Credentials Committee, reported that the contest there was in the Third district. The committee recommended that the sitting members be allowed to retain their seats. The claimants contested on the ground that they had been elected in a district convention, but the committee found that this was not proven. Some of the delegates met the even? mg after the State Convention, but the commit?

tee were of the opinion that there was not a majority of tha district at such meeting. This was the’only point before the convention. A delegate from Arkansas moved that so much of the report of the minority as relates to the contest in West Virginia be substituted for the majority report. After considerable debate, the motion to adopt the minority report was adopted by a vote of 417 yeas to 330 nays. The case of Utah was next in order, and was settled by the adoption of the minority report seating the contestants by a vote of 426 yeas to 312 nays. The report of the Committee on Credentials, as amended,.was then adopted as a whole. The report of the Committee on Rules was then presented and adopted. Gen. Garfield then moved that the Committee on Resolutions be ordered to report.. The motion was carried unanimously, and Hon. Edwards Pierrpont, of New York, presented the report. The resolutions were as follows:

The Republican party, In National Convention assembled, at the end of twenty years since the Federal Government was first committed to its charge, submits to the people of the United States this brief report of its administration: It suppressed a rebellion which had armed narly 1,000,000 of men to subvert the national authority ; it reconstructed the Union of States with freedom instead of slavery as its corner-stone; it transformed 4,000,000 human beings from the likeness os things to the rank of citizens; it relieved Congress from the infamous work of hunting fugitive slaves, and charged it to see that slavery does not exist; it has raised the value of our paper currency from 38 per cent, to the par of gold ; it has restored, upon a solid basis, payment in coin of all national obligations, and has given us a currency absolutely good and equal in every part of our extended country ; it has lifted the credit of the nation from the point where 6-per-cent. bonds sold at 86, to that where 4-per-cent. bonds are eagerly sought at a premium. Ruder its administration railways have increased from 31,000 miles in 1860 to more than 82,000 miles in 1879. Our foreign trade increased from $700,000,000 to $1,150,000,000 in the same time, and our exports, which were $20,000,000 less than our imports in 1860, were $265,000,000 more than our imports in 1879. Without resorting to loans, it has, since the war closed, defrayed the ordinary expenses of Government, besides the accruing interest on the pub'ic debt, and has disbursed annually more than $30,000,000 for soldiers’ and sailors’ pensions. It has paid $880,000,000 of the public debt, and, by refunding the balance at lower rates, has reduced the annual interest charge from nearly $150,000,000 to less than $89,000,000. All the industries of the country have revived, labor is in demand, wages have increased, and throughout the entire country there is evidence of a coming prosperity greater than we have ever enjoyed. Upon this record the Republican party asks for the continued confidence and support of the people, and this Convention submits to their approval the following statement of tlm principles and purposes which will continue to guide and inspire its efforts : 1. We affirm that the work of the Republican party for the last twenty years has been such as to commend it to the favor of the nation; that the fruits of the costly victories which we have achieved through immense difficulties should be preserved; that the peace regained should be cherished; that the Union should be perpetuated, and that the liberty be transmitted undiminished to other generations; that the order established and the credit acquired should never be impaired; that the pensions promised should be paid; that the debt so much reduced should be extinguished by the full payment of every dollar thereof; that the reviving industries should be further promoted, and that the commerce, already increasing, should be steadily encouraged.

2. The constitution of the United States is a supreme law and not a mere contract. Out of confederated States it made a sovereign nation. Some powers are denied to the nation, while others are denied to the States, but the boundary between the powers delegated and those reserved is to be determined by the national and not ky the State tribunal. 3. The work of popular education is one left to the care of the several States, but it is the duty of the National Government to aid that work to the extent of its constitutional ability. The intelligence of the nation is but the aggregate of the intelligence in the several States, and that the destiny of the nation must be guided, not by the genius of any one State, but by the average genius of all. 4. The constitution wisely forbids Congress to make any law respecting the establishment of religion, but it is id e to hope that the nation can be protected against the influence of secret sectarianism, while each State is exposed to its domination. We, therefore, recommend that the constitution be so amended as to lay the same prohibition upon the Legislature of each State, and to forbid the appropriation of public funds to the support of sectarian schools. 5. We reaffirm the belief avowed in 1876 that the duties levied for the purpose of revenue should so discriminate as to favor American labor; that no further grants of the public domain should be made to any railway or other corporation; that, slavery having perished in the States, its twin barbarity, polygamy, must die in the Territories; that everywhere the protection accorded to a citizen of American birth must be secured to citizens by American adoption. That we deem it the duty of Congress to develop and improve our sea coast and harbors, but insist that further subsidies to private persons or corporations must cease; that the obligations of the republic to the men who preserved its integrity in the day of battle are undiminished by thff lapse of fifteen years since their final victory. To do them honor is and shall forever be the grateful privilege and sacred duty of the American people. 6. Since the authority to regulate immigration and intercourse between the United States and foreign nations rests with the Congress of the United States and the treaty-making power, the Republican party, regarding unrestricted immigration of Chinese as a matter of grave concernment, under the exercise of both these powers, would limit and restrict that immigration by the enactment of such just, humane and reasonable laws and treaties as will produce that result. 7. That the purity and patriotism which characterized the earlier oareer of Rutherford B. Hayes m peace and war, and which guided the thoughts of our immediate predecessors to him for a Presidential candidate, have continued to inspire him in his career as Chief Executive; and that history will accord to his administration the honors which are due to an efficient, just and courteous discharge of. the public business, and will honor his vetoes interposed between the people and attempted partisan laws.

8. We charge upon the Democratic party the habitual sacrifice of patriotism and justice to a supreme and insatiable lust for office and patronage; that, to obtain possession of the National Government and the control of place, they have obstructed all efforts to promote the purity and to conserve the freedom of the suffrage, and have devised fraudulent ballots, and invented fraudulent certification of returns; have labored to unseat lawfully-elected members of Congress to secure at all hazards the vote of a majority of States in the House of Representatives; have endeavored to occupy by force and fraud the places of trust given to others by the people of Maine, rescued by the courage and action of Maine’s patriotic sons; have, by methods vicious in principle and tyrannical in practice, attached partisan legislation to appropriation bills upon whose passage the very movement of the Government depended; have crushed the rights of the individual; have advocated the principles and sought the favor of the Rebellion against the nation, and have endeavored to obliterate the sacred memories and to overcome its inestimably valuable results of nationality, personal freedom, and individual equality. The equal, and steady, and complete enforcement of the laws, and the protection of all our citizens in the enjoyment of all privileges and immunity guaranteed by the constitution, are the first duties of the nation. The dangers of a “ solid South ” can only be averted by a faithful performance of every promise which the nation has made to the citizen. The execution of the laws, and the punishment of all those who violate them, are the only safe methods by which an enduring peace can be secured and genuine prosperity established throughout the South. Whatever promises the nation makes the nation must perform. A nation cannot with safety re'egate this duty to the States. The “ solid South ” must be divided by the peaceful agencies of the ballot, and all honest opinions must there find free expression. To this end the honest voter must be protected against terrorism, violence or fraud. And we affirm it to tie the duty and the purpose of the Republican party to use all legitimate means to restore all the States of this Union to the most perfect harmony which may be possible, and we submit to the practical, sensible people of these United States to say whether it would not be dangerous to the dearest interests of our country at this time to surrender the administration of the National Government to a party which seeks to overthrow the existing policy under which we are so prosperous, and thus bring distrust and confusion where there is now order, confidence and hope. Mr. Barker, of Massachusetts, offered the following amendment to the resolutions, which, after some discussion, was put to a vote and declared adopted: The Republican party, adhering to the principles affirmed by its last National Convention of respect for the constitutional rules governing appointments to office, adopts the declaration of President Hayes that the reform of the sivil cervice should Ik- thorough, radical and complete. To this end it demands the co-operation of the Legislative with the Executive departments of the Government, and that Congresi shall so legislate that fitness, ascertained by proper practical tests, shall admit to the public service. Mr. Hale, of Maine—l move that the roll of States be called, that the announcement maybe made of the members of the National Committee, as selected by the States and Territories and the District of Columbia. The motion was put and unanimously carried. The roll was called, with the following result : Alabama—Paul Strobach. Arkansas—S. W. Dorsey. California—Horace Davis. Colorado —John L. Routt. Connecticut—Marshall Jewell. Delaware—Chris Febiger. Florida—William W. Hicks. Georgia—James D. Deveaux. Illinois—John A. Logan. Indiana—John C. New. lowa—John S. Runnels. Kansas—John A. Martin. Kentucky—W. O. Bradley. Louisiana—Henry C. Warmoth. Maine—William P. Frye.

Maryland—James A Gary. Massachusetts—John M. Forbes. Michigan—Junies H. Stone. Minnesota—E. M. Sabin. Mississippi—George C. McKee. Missouri—Chauncey I. Filley. Nebraska—James W. Dawes. Nevada—John W. Mackey. . New Hampshire—W. E. Chandler. ! New Jersey—George A. Halsey. New York—Thomae C. Platt North Carolina—W. P. Canady. Ohio—W. C. Cooper. Oregon—D. C. Ireland. Pennsylvania—J. Don Cameron. /, Rhode Island—William A. Pierco. South Carolina—Samuel Lee. / Tennessee—William Rule. Texas—■ -—— Vermont—George W. Hooker. Virginia—Samuel L. Jones. West Virginia—John W. Mason. Wisconsin—Elihu Enos. Arizona—R. C. McCormick. Dakota . District of Columbia . Idaho—George L. Shoup. Montana—Alex. H. Beattie. New Mexico—Stephen B. Elkin. Utah—C. W. Bennett Washington—Thomas T. Miner Wyoming—James L. Cary. Dakota being unable to agree upon a name, the National Committee was authorized by resolution to fill the vacancy. Texas and the District of Columbia were given further time to select members of the National Committee. The following resolution, offered by Mr. Drake, of Minnesota, was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That, in case of the death or resignation of any member of the National Central Committee, the vacancy may be fl'led by appointment made by the State Central Committee of the proper State, or Territory, or District. Mr. Hale, of Maine, next took the floor, and moved that the roll of States be called in alphabetical order, and that, whenever any State shall bo reached from which a nomination is to bo made for a candidate for President, the nomination be made under the rules adopted by this convention. The Chairman—The Clerk will read the rule on the subject of balloting for nominations for President. The Secretary read rule 9, as follows : No member shall speak more than once upon the same question, nor longer than five minutes, unless by leave of the convention, except that the delegate presenting the name of a candidate shall be allowed ten minutes in presenting the name of such candidate. The motion of Mr. Hale was adopted. Nominations for President being next in order, Mr. James F. Joy, of Michigan, when the name of that State was reached in the roll, arose and nominated James G. Blaine, of Maine. Messrs. Pixley, of California, and Frye, of Maine, seconded the nomination. Mr. Drake, of Minnesota, nominated William Windom, of Minnesota. Roscoe Conkling named Ulysses 8. Grant, the nomination being seconded by Mr. Bradley, of Kentucky. Gen. Garfield nominated John Sherman, of Ohio, seconded by F. C. Winckler, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Hill, of South Carolina. Fred. Billings, of Vermont, named George F. Edmunds, of Vermont; John E. Sanborn, of Massachusetts, seconding the nomination. J. B. Cassody, of Wisconsin, and Mr. Brandagee, of Connecticut, nominated E. B. Washburne, of Illinois. Without taking a ballot, the convention, at 11:45 p. m„ adjourned until 10 o’clock a. in. Monday, June 7.