The gentleman from Maine moves that the Convention now proceed, under the rules, to ballot for a candidate for President. The motion was agreed to. The PRESIDENT. The Chair directs the Clerk to read, for the information of the Convention, that portion of the rules which relates to the manner of proceeding. The Secretary read as follows: "Rule 8. In the record of the vote by States, the vote of each State, Territory and the District of Columbia shall be announced by the chairman, and in case the votes of any State, Territory or the District of Columbia shall be divided, the chairman shall announce the number of votes cast for any candidate, or for or against any proposition; but if exception is taken by any delegate to the correctness of such announcement by the chairman of his delegation, the President of the Convention shall direct the roll of members of such delegation to be called, and the result shall be recorded in accordance with the votes individually given." Mr. CROUNSE, of Nebraska. Mr. President The PRESIDENT. No business is in order but a call of the roll of States, under the rule. Mr. CROUNSE. There is another rule-one in regard to changing a vote. The PRESIDENT. The gentleman is correct. The Secretary will read the rule. The Secretary read as follows: "Rule 7. In making the nomination for President and VicePresident, in no case shall the calling of the roll be dispensed with. When it shall appear that any candidate shall have received a majority of the votes cast, the President of the Convention shall announce the question to be, Shall the nomination of the candidate be made unanimous? But if no candidate shall have received a majority of the votes, the Chair shall direct the vote to be again taken, which shall be repeated until some candidate shall have received a majority of the votes cast; and when any State has announced its vote it shall so stand until the ballot is announced, unless in case of numerical error." The PRESIDENT. The Clerk will call the roll, and the chairmen of the respective States, as they are called, will announce the votes of their delegates. FIRST BALLOT. The roll of States was then called, and resulted: Total number of votes cast, 755. [Necessary to a choice, 378.] Of which Ulysses S. Grant received 304; James G. Blaine, 284; John Sherman, 93; George F. Edmunds, 34; Elihu B. Washburne, 30; William Windom, 10-as follows: During the ballot: On the call of the State of New York. Mr. CONKLING, of New York. Mr. President: The better way in the case of New York is to call the roll of individual delegates, for a reason which I will state if need be, within the spirit of the rule; but if there be no objection, the roll of individuals may be called. The PRESIDENT. No objection is made. Under the rule, the vote of the State must be announced by the chairman, unless some question be raised by a delegate as to the correctness of the announcement, in which case the roll of the State must be called. The Chair will treat the failure of the chairman of the delegation to announce the vote of his State on the call as a question within the meaning of the rule. Mr. CONKLING. If the Chair will allow me, I will state frankly that the chairman of the delegation is instructed how to cast the vote, but it is understood that there are members of the delegation who prefer to vote each for himself; therefore the chairman prefers to withhold the announcement and allow the roll of names to be called. The PRESIDENT. The Chair, no objection being made, will treat such refusal to announce the vote by the chairman of the delegation under the rule as requiring the roll of the State to be called. The roll will be called. A DELEGATE from New York. There are two delegates absent from this delegation, and two alternates present. Is it necessary to substitute them now? The PRESIDENT. When the name of a delegate shall be called, if he does not respond, the name of his alternate will be called. The roll of the delegation from the State of New York was then called, the delegates, as their names were called, responding respectively as follows: Roscoe Conkling........ DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. Alonzo B. Cornell (by Jacob Hoysradt, his alternate), Ulysses S. Grant Chester A. Arthur... DISTRICTS. .Ulysses S. Grant .Ulysses S. Grant .Ulysses S. Grant .James G. Blaine ...James G. Blaine .Ulysses S. Grant .Frederick A. Schroeder.........Ulysses S. Grant ...John Birdsall....... .Simeon S. Hawkins...... ....James Jourdan... .Amos F. Learned.. ....Albert Daggett........ John Sherman ..Jacob Worth... .Ulysses S. Grant .Benjamin F. Tracy.. Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant ....Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Edwards Pierrepont... Ulysses S. Grant .Ulysses S. Grant Ninth District... Tenth District. 66 66 Eleventh District........ 66 66 .... Twelfth District..... 66 66 Thirteenth District.. 66 ....James R. Davis........ Thomas Murphy.. William H. Robertson... ...John B. Dutcher....... .Moses D. Stivers... ..........Blake G. Wales.. Fifteenth District...........George H. Sharpe... Seventeenth District........John M. Francis.. Twenty-first District.. ....Ferris Jacobs, Jr......... Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant ..James G. Blaine ...John Sherman James G. Blaine .James G. Blaine James G. Blaine ..James G. Blaine Ulysses S. Grant ..James G. Blaine Sidney Sylvester (by ..James G. Blaine Twenty-third District.....Edward H. Shelley.... ..William H. Comstock.. ..Charles L. Kennedy.. Twenty-fifth District...... Dennis McCarthy.. 66 Twenty-sixth District.. { .James J. Belden.. William B. Woodin (by Leander Fitts, his alternate.) ........John B. Murray... Twenty-seventh District... Francis O. Mason...... 66 66 66 Twenty-eighth District......Thomas C. Platt...... 66 Twenty-ninth District. Thirtieth District.. Thirty-first District.. 66 ..Henry A. Bruner..... Thirty-second District.. 66 Thirty-third District......Norman M. Allen. 66 The vote of the State of New York was then announced as above recorded. ...George N. Hicks......... .Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant ....O. W. Chapman. Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant .....Charles J. Langdon......... Ulysses S. Grant .Edward A. Frost.. Ulysses S. Grant ...... .Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant ..James G. Blaine .James G. Blaine On the call of the State of West Virginia. Mr. CAMPBELL, of West Virginia. Before announcing the vote of West Virginia, I desire to make a statement. action The PRESIDENT. It is not in order. Until the adverse Mr. CAMPBELL. I am explaining the vote I am about to cast. I suppose this is a question of privilege, inasmuch as it affects the vote of this delegation. The PRESIDENT. No question of privilege can be raised or entertained except by unanimous consent. Mr. CONKLING. Let us have the regular order. The PRESIDENT. The regular order is called for. The Chairman will announce the vote of his State. Mr. CAMPBELL. In that case I will cast the vote--eight votes for James G. Blaine; one for Ulysses S. Grant. Mr. BUTTERWORTH, of Ohio. Mr. President The PRESIDENT. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? The PRESIDENT. The gentleman is out of order. The rule per- · mits any delegate from a State to challenge the correctness of the announcement by the Chairman. Mr. BUTTERWORTH. Then I rise to a question of privilege. The PRESIDENT. The gentleman will state his question of privilege. Mr. BUTTERWORTH. That the gentleman who rose in his place on the right [Mr. Campbell, of West Virginia] desired to present to this Convention a proxy, as was presented from another State a moment ago, authorizing a vote, as I understand, to be cast in a certain way, and to submit that to the Convention. I think that is a question of the highest privilege that can come before this Convention. The PRESIDENT. The Chair overrules the question of privilege. The Chair will state that, under the rule, nothing is in order but the announcement of the vote by the chairman of the delegation, or a question, afterward, of the correctness of that announcement by any delegate to the Convention. If, at the close of the roll-call, any member rises to a question of order in regard to the correctness of the final announcement by the Chair, at that time the question of order will be entertained, and may be settled by the Convention. Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President The PRESIDENT. For what purpose does the gentleman rise? The PRESIDENT. The explanation is out of order. Does the gentleman rise to question the correctness of the announcement which has been made? Mr. CAMPBELL. A member here understood the gentleman from New York to make an explanation in regard to the vote of that State, and I want to make a similar one in regard to the vote of this State. The PRESIDENT. The gentleman is out of order. The Clerk will proceed with the call of the roll. The call then proceeded in order to the close, when the result of the ballot was announced as above recorded. The PRESIDENT. No person having received a majority of the votes cast, another ballot will be taken. The Clerk will call the roll. |