credentials committee, and so moved, as it had been left off.

Upon this Senator Conkling took the floor, and in the midst of applause indicated with a flourish that if the fight had opened he was ready for it. He objected to Utah, as he understood it was a part of the agreement for the preliminary organization that it should not be called. He made a point of order against it, and when that was overruled he asked if it would be in order to put in Louisiana.

Mr. Frye here interrupted, explaining that he had the authority of the secretary of the National Committee for saying that Utah had been left off by mistake; and he did not suppose a Republican convention would refuse to correct a mistake. Utah thereupon secured its representation.

The roll of States was called for notices of contests, of which there were a good many, and an adjournment until Thursday morning at eleven was carried on motion of Senator Conkling.

The adjournment was necessary in order to give the various committees an opportunity to get to work and complete their reports. The committees-now historical-were

composed

as

John W. Sharp...............S. M. Clark.

.S. S. Benedict...

.Morris C. Hutchins.......

.J. M. Cordell.
William Chambers.
..John B. Mead.
.W. R. Watkins.
..A. C. Moorc.
..A. J. Turner.
.........J. S. Vosburg.
.C. T. McCoy.
..John F. Cook.

Nevada .....
New Hampshire..

New Jersey.
New York...

North Carolina
Ohio........
Oregon......
Pennsylvania.....
Rhode Island...
South Carolina..
Tennessee...

Texas.......

Vermont

Virginia.....

...Thomas L. Minor............ Thomas II. Brents, .......................W. A. Carter.........

Credentials.

Isaac Ileyman...........................

Powell Clayton...

Creed IIaymond.

George T. Clark......

..None.

Resolutions.

.Wm. Youngblood.

.II. S. Holland.

.D. S. Payne.

Amos Steck.

..D. Sinclair.

.Charles W. Clark.

.R. T. Van IIorne.
.J. W. Dawes,
.T. D. Edwards.
..Charles IIolman.
William W. Phelps.
........ Edwards Pierrepont.

Harrison E, Haven.....
.N. W. Passenger.
M. D. Foley.
.Wm. E. Chand!er.....
Chellian Robbins
..Benjamin F. Tracey

.George W. Price, Jr.
Warren M. Bateman........
John II. Mitchell...
John Cessna.
John P. Sanborn

William N. Tast........
...J. M. Thornburg.

Webster Flannagan
..John W. Stewart.

James A. Harris.
Rodney M. Stimson.
.II. W. Scott.

W. B. Rogers.
Charles II. IIandley.
..D. D. McCall.
Horace II. Harrison.
J. G. Tracy.
George G. Benedict.

.C. C. Tompkins............. James D. Brady.

West Virginia...................... J. M. Hagan...

C. D. Hubbard.

E

CHAPTER XXVIII.

THE SECOND DAY'S FIGHTING,

XPOSITION HALL, as the convention began assembling on Thursday morning, presented much the same appearance that it did the day before. The attendance was, however, much larger, and the anti-third-term people had made arrangements during the previous evening to secure a greater representation in the spectators' seats, and a better location for their sympathizers.

The delegates, as the hour of eleven approached, straggled slowly in. Many of them came fatigued from committee work, and other matters not official but incidental to a gathering of the kind. By the hour for assembling, every seat was occupied in the galleries, and the floor was unusually animated. There was a great deal of running round among the delegates and their friends, but the only outburst before the call to order was on the first day, when Conkling came down the aisle at a a quarter to twelve. He was euthusiastically cheered, and moved slowly to his seat, his tall figure rising above those who stood aside to let him pass. He was the lion of the hour and the