Mr. ALEXANDER, of Alabama. I desire to vote no.

The PRESIDENT-Does the gentleman from Alabama desire that his vote should be received in the negative?

Mr. ALEXAnder. Yes, sir.

The PRESIDENT. It will be so recorded.

Mr. ALEXANDER. I desire to explain, sir.
The PRESIDENT. No explanation is in order.

On the call of the State of Kentucky:

Mr. WHITE, of Kentucky. Under instructions from the convention of the State of Kentucky, Kentucky casts twenty-four votes aye.

Mr. HAMILTON, of Kentucky. I protest against the vote given by the Chairman of the delegation. There are four members of the delegation who desire to vote "No."

Mr. WHITE. I wish to state

Mr HAMILTON. You can not deprive us of our votes.

Mr. HUBBARD, of Kentucky. Mr. President

The PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Kentucky is out of order. Does the gentleman from Kentucky desire that his vote may be changed from the affirmative to the negative?

Mr. HUBBARD. He does, sir-four of us. There are four "stalwarts" from Kentucky.

The PRESIDENT. The vote of the gentleman from Kentucky will be recorded in the negative.

Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. President

Mr. HUBBARD. I have the floor.

The PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Kentucky has not the floor for any purpose except to declare his vote. If any other gentleman from Kentucky desires to claim the same privilege he will be recog

nized.

Mr. HAMILTON. Mr. President

The PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Kentucky is out of order. No business. is now in order except the calling of the roll. Any other questions may be settled by the Convention as it pleases when the roll-call is over.

Mr. CONKLING. That is right.

The PRESIDENT. The Chair will permit no delegate to interrupt the roll-call, except when an individual delegate rises and claims that his vote has been improperly reported by the chairman of his delegation, and it will be recorded by the Secretary. Does any other delegate from Kentucky rise for that purpose?

Mr. WHITE, of Kentucky. Kentucky votes twenty yea; four nay. The PRESIDENT. The Chairman of the Kentucky delegation now announces that there are four dissenting voters. They will be so recorded.

On the call of the State of Michigan:

Mr. Joy, of Michigan. One of the Michigan delegation is upon the Committee on Credentials. Have we a right to cast his vote in his absence, knowing how he will vote?

The PRESIDENT. The Chair thinks not, The Secretary will proceed with the roll.

On the announcement of the vote of the State of New York:

Mr. ROBERTSON, of New York. I think the chairman of the delegation has made a mistake of one. There are only sixty-nine delegates present, and the vote should be forty-six ayes and twentythree noes.

Mr. CONKLING. I have in my hand, having taken some care to to make the canvass, a list on this vote of the delegates from New York, and my information is that every seat is full, either in the person of the delegate or his alternate. So that the vote, as shown and stated, is forty-seven one way, and twenty-three the other way. The PRESIDENT. The Chair inust accept the statement of the chairman of the delegation unless an individual delegate rises and states that his vote is wrongly recorded. At the close of the roll-call, if any question arises, it will be settled by the Convention.

The vote was announced as above recorded.

The PRESIDENT. The substitute is rejected. The question recurs on the original resolution.

Mr. BRANDAGEE, of Connecticut.

Mr. President: I desire to make a motion which I believe to be in the interest of order, of harmony, and of peace. Many of the delegates who voted upon the proposition, or amendment, which has just been rejected, and notably the delegation from Connecticut, of which I am a member, voted No upon that question because they did not believe that the Committee on Credentials should be forced to make a report in installments while we supposed it would be necessary for them to be upon the floor of the Convention to sustain and explain their report. It, therefore, was not in the interest of expediting the business of the Convention that the Committee on Credentials should be made to come into the Convention and make their report.

We voted against it on that ground, but now, sir, I do believe that it was a fair understanding, if not an agreement, in the Committee on Rules and Order of Business, that the Committee should not report until after the report of the Committee on Credentials had been acted on. But nothing will be gained here by an attempt to crowd anything through. I have listened with interest and delight to the champions and the giants who have engaged in the preliminary skirmishes here. I am no champion, and I have no "boom," sir, to engineer through this Convention. We have no candidate in Connecticut that we are attempting to put upon the Convention, but we are waiting for the hour when the clock shall strike, and the Convention shall name its man; and that man, we believe, will be elected if wisdom and harmony, and courtesy prevail here-and not otherwise. Now, sir, at this stage of the Convention, when it seems to me we cannot expedite any further business here this evening, and understanding from my colleague on the Committee on Credentials that that Committee cannot report before to-morrow morning, I move to lay the present resolution on the table, in order that the Convention may adjourn. Let us dispose of this question and come in to-morrow prepared to settle of whom the Convention consists, and then to nominate the candidate on whom we may write the words victory in November.

The PRESIDENT. The gentleman from Connecticut [Mr. Brandagee] moves to lay the resolution on the table.

The motion was agreed to.

ADJOURNMENT.

Mr. METCALF, of Illinois. I now move that this Convention adjourn until ten o'clock to-morrow morning.

The motion was agreed to.

So the Convention, at seven o'clock and thirty minutes p. m., adjourned to to-morrow morning at ten o'clock.

THIRD DAY-FRIDAY, June 4, 1880-10 A. M.

Pursuant to adjournment, the Convention met.

The PRESIDENT. Prayer will be offered by Rev. Mr. Little, of Chicago.

Rev. Mr. Little offered the following

PRAYER:

Let us unite in prayer. Almighty God and Everlasting Father, we recognize Thee as the author of all life, of all light, of all power. Accept, we entreat Thee, the hearty confession of all our sins, the hearty acknowledgement of Thy mercies. Vouchsafe unto this Convention, we beseech Thee, Almighty God, this day in all its - deliberations, the spirit of wisdom, of discretion of a sound mind, of equity, of an enlarged patriotism, and guide its members in all their deliberations to such an issue as shall be honorab.e to them and acceptable to the people who have charged them with this high service, and whose servants they are. We ask this and all other blessings in the name of Christ, our Lord and Redeemer. Amen.

PLEDGING SUPPORT TO THE NOMINEE.

Mr. CONKLING, of New York. I have in my hand a resolution which I will offer, in the hope that there will be no objection to it. I shall not ask that the roll be called, if, as I hope, it shall be unanimously agreed to. Should there be a division, I will beg to ask that the roll be called. I offer the following resolution :

Resolved, As the sense of this Convention, that every member of it is bound in honor to support its nominee, whoever that nominee may be; and that no man should hold a seat here who is not ready to so agree.

Mr. HALE, of Maine. Mr. President. I take it that a Republican Convention does not need to be instructed that its first and underlying duty, after nominating its candidate, is to elect him over a Democratic candidate. We have come here with our preferences, and are earnest and ardent in the expression and urgency of those preferences; but I have yet failed to hear, in the busy and exciting conflict in which men have been engaged for the last week, any expression on the part of any delegate to this Convention, for whomsoever he may be, of a dissent as to the final determination of this Convention. When we have had deliverance from all the labor of this Convention, I have no doubt, and I shall in that agree with the

distinguished gentleman from New York, that we will be found hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder, marching on to the election of our candidate. If he nominates his candidate, Mr. President, we will pledge ourselves to refrain from nothing, by night or by day, to elect him. And, in turn, we shall expect that if we nominate ours, he will work night and day to elect him.

Mr. BRANDAGEE, of Connecticut. I do not rise, Mr. President, to advocate the resolution. I do not think such a resolution needs advocacy in a Republican convention. It ought to pass without opposition, sir, and no man can be in a Republican convention that is not prepared to vote for it, and to stand by it. Mr. President, all I rise for is to ask that this question shall be taken by a call of States, that we may emphasize the verdict, and know who votes for it and who will try to escape from it, if any such there be. I call for the roll of States on the vote.

The PRESIDENT. The Chair will first put the question. If the decision of the Chair is doubted, the call of States will then be ordered. The Chair will not hold himself bound to put questions on a call of States at the request of any individual member of the Convention unless there be some doubt as to the sense of the Convention. [After putting the question,] the ayes have it.

Mr. BRANDAGEE. I doubt it, and move that the roll of States be called.

Mr. CONKLING, of New York. Plainly and audibly to me and to others, negative votes were given on this resolution, and I respectfully ask the Chair to call the States, that we may know who it is in a Republican convention that votes "No" on such a pledge. The PRESIDENT. The Chair will take the sense of the Convention. Is it the pleasure of the Convention that this question be taken by a call of States?

The motion for a call of the roll was agreed to.

The roll of States was then called, and resulted: Yeas, 716; nays, 3, as follows:

On the call of the State of South Carolina.

Mr. ELLIOTT, of South Carolina. Mr. President. Being the only member of the delegation present from South Carolina, and not being authorized to cast the vote of the other members of the delegation, I desire to be allowed to record my vote on the affirmative side of the question.

On the call of the State of West Virginia.

Mr. CAMPBELL, of West Virginia. Mr. President. There are two members of the delegation from West Virginia serving on committees. Those present vote five "aye" and three "no."

On the call of the Territory of Dakota.

A VOICE. The members forming the delegation from Dakota are absent, but their alternates are here and cast two votes aye.

[The delegates from the Territories of Idaho, Montana and Washington and from the District of Columbia were absent, and their votes were not recorded.]

The Vote was announced as above recorded.

Mr. CONKLING, of New York. Mr. President: I wish to offer a resolution, which in one moment I will reduce to writing, the substance of which meanwhile I will submit orally to the Convention.

Resolved, That the delegates who on this roll-call have voted "no" on the resolution just adopted do not deserve to have, and have forfeited their votes in this Convention.

Mr. CAMPBELL, of West Virginia. I hope that for the benefit of those who voted in the negative the gentleman will repeat his remarks.

Mr. Conkling having sent to the Chair his resolution in writing, it was read, as follows:

Resolved, That the delegates who have voted that they will not abide the action of the Convertion, do not deserve, and have forfeited, their votes in this Convention.

Mr. CAMPBELL, of West Virginia. Mr. President: Before the resolution is put to this Convention, I desire to make a few remarks. There are three gentlemen from West Virginia, good and true Republicans, who have voted in the negative. I came to the City of Chicago, when a young man, from the State of Virginia, after