During the ballot: On the announcement of the vote of the State of New York. Mr. SHARPE, of New York. I question the correctness of the statement of the vote of New York. The PRESIDENT. The roll of the State of New York 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: DELEGATES-AT-LARGE. Roscoe Conkling... Alonzo B. Cornell (by his alternate, Jacob Hoysradt), Ulysses S. Grant Chester A. Arthur.. James D. Warren..... .Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Eighteenth District...... William W. Rockwell....... 66 Nineteenth District.. 66 66 Twentieth District. Twenty-first District.. .Oliver Abell, Jr................ .Wells S. Dickinson. .Henry R. James.... ...Webster Wagner.. ..George West...... .Ferris Jacobs, Jr...... .....David Wilber.... Twenty-second District...John P. Douglass... Sidney Sylvester (by Twenty-third District..... Edward H. Shelley. 66 Twenty-fifth District...... Dennis McCarthy. ...James J. Belden.. William B. Woodin (by his alternate, Leander Fitts.) ......John B. Murray... Twenty-seventh District... Francis O. Mason... 66 66 Twenty-ninth District....... Chester S. Cole....... .Ulysses S. Grant .....Charles J. Langdon.. Ulysses S. Grant Thirtieth District.. Edward A. Frost.. Ulysses S. Grant ...John E. Pound. Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Grant 66 ...George N. Hicks.... Twenty-eighth District...... Thomas C. Platt.... ...Orlow W. Chapman... Thirty-first District......... George G. Hoskins.. 66 ...James G. Blaine ..James G. Blaine I rise to inquire of the Chair whether there is any absentee in the delegation. If so, who it is. The PRESIDENT. The Chair is informed by the Secretary that every delegate from New York has responded in person, or an alternate has responded after the delegate's name was called and he failed to answer. Mr. CONKLING. May I inquire who responded for Mr. Learned? Mr. LEARNED. I did myself. Mr. CONKLING. That is all right. My colleague was absent when the roll-call began, and I only wanted to know whether his name had been called and was responded to. The vote of the State of New York was then announced as above recorded. The result of the eighteenth ballot was announced as above recorded. The PRESIDENT. No candidate has received a majority of the votes cast. RECESS. Mr. Chandler, of Mississippi. [The hour being 3:35, p. m.] I move that the Convention now take a recess until seven o'clock this evening. The motion was agreed to. So the Convention, at three o'clock and thirty-five minutes, p. m., took a recess until seven o'clock this evening. After recess. The PRESIDENT. [The hour being 7, p. m.] The Convention will come to order. Another ballot will be taken. The Clerk will call the roll. NINETEENTH BALLOT. The roll of States was again called, and resulted: Total number of votes cast, 755. choice, 378.] Of which [Necessary to a Ulysses S. Grant received 305; James G. Blaine, 279; John Sherman, 96; George F. Edmunds, 31; Elihu B. Washburne, 32; William Windom, 10; James A. Garfield, 1; John F. Hartranft, of Pennsylvania, 1-as follows: The PRESIDENT. No person having received a majority of the votes cast, another ballot will be taken. The Clerk will call the roll. TWENTIETH BALLOT. The roll of States was again called, and resulted: Total number of votes cast, 755. [Necessary to a choice, 378.] Of which Ulysses S. Grant received 308; James G. Blaine, 276; John Sherman, 93; George F. Edmunds, 31; Elihu B. Washburne, 35; William Windom, 10; James A. Garfield, 1; John F. Hartranft, 1-as follows: |