apolis and nominated Peter Cooper of New York for President, and Samuel F. Cory of Ohio for Vice-President.

On June 27 the Democratic convention met in St. Louis, and on the 29th nominated Samuel J. Tilden of New York for President, and Thomas A Hendricks of Indiana for Vice-President.

The result of the popular and electoral votes were as follows:

Mr. Cooper received 81,737 votes, of which Indiana cast 17,233,

and Mr. Smith 9,522.

*Electors chosen by legislature.

† Double returns received.

From Florida, 2 sets of certificates were received; from Louisiana, 3; from Oregon, 2, and from South Carolina, 2. They were referred to the electoral commission, formed under the act of January 29, 1877, and the commission decided in favor of counting the electoral vote as given in the foregoing table. As a matter of interest and pertinent to that election, it may be stated that said act provided that the commission should consist of five senators, five representatives, and five justices of the Supreme Court, the Senators and Representatives to be chosen, respectively, by the Senate and the House of Representatives. The Senate chose Senators George F. Edmunds of Vermont, Oliver P. Morton of Indiana, and Frederick T. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Republicans, and Allen G. Thurman of Ohio and Thomas F. Bayard of Delaware, Democrats. The House of Representatives chose Messrs. Henry B. Payne of Ohio, Eppa Hunton of Virginia, and Josiah G. Abbott of Massachusetts, Democrats, and James A. Garfield of Ohio and George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, Republicans. The four justices of the Supreme Court designated by the act were Justices Nathan Clifford, William Strong, Samuel F. Miller, and Stephen J. Field. Messrs. Clifford and Field were Democrats, and Strong and Miller, Republicans, and they selected Justice Joseph Bradley, Republican, as the fifth member of the commission on the part of the Supreme Court.

By the act, double returns, and all returns to which objections should be made, were to be referred to the commission, whose decision was to be final unless reversed by the vote of both houses. The general rule held by the commission was that it was only empowered to canvass electoral votes, not popular votes, and to decide whether the governor had certified those electors who had been declared elected by the canvassing authority of the state. It thus ascertained that in Louisiana the governor had certified the legitimate electors, while in Oregon the governor had not. In all these cases the House voted to reject and the Senate to sustain the commission's decision, and the decision was therefore sustained in favor of the Republican electors. In the case of South Carolina and in those of electors objected to as federal officeholders, the commission decided in favor of the Republican electors, and the decision was not reversed by concurrent vote of the two houses of Congress. All the 20 doubtful votes (Florida 4, Louisiana 8, Oregon 1, and South Carolina 7) thus fell to the Republican candidates, and the result was declared to be 185 votes for Hayes and Wheeler, and 184 votes for Tilden and Hendricks.

In the case of the South Carolina contest, the commission voted

unanimously that the Tilden electors were not the true electors from that state, and, by a vote of 8 to 7, that the Hayes electors were.

The count proceeded under the law in the alphabetical order of states, commencing March 1, 1877, and a final vote was not reached until March 2, at 4 o'clock a. m., when the summing up of the votes was read by Mr. William B. Allison of Iowa, one of the tellers on the part of the Senate, and the result announced by Senator Thomas W. Ferry of Michigan, President pro tempore of the Senate.

SEVENTH NATIONAL CONVENTION

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, JUNE 2-8, 1880.

GARFIELD and ARTHUR.

The Seventh National Convention of the Republican party was called to order in Exhibition Hall, Chicago, at 12 o'clock m., Wednesday, June 2, 1880, by the Hon. J. Donald Cameron, chairman of the Republican National Committee, who stated that he had been instructed to place in nomination as temporary chairman the Hon. George F. Hoar of Massachusetts, which nomination was unanimously agreed to; John H. Roberts of Illinois and Christopher L. Magee of Pennsylvania being made temporary secretaries. A resolution submitted by Senator Eugene Hale of Maine, for a call of the roll, on which the chairman of each delegation should announce the names of persons to serve on the committee on Permanent Organization, Rules and Order of Busines, Credentials and Resolutions, was adopted, and those committees formed, after which, at 3 o'clock and 5 minutes p. m., the convention adjourned until 11 o'clock the following morning.

SECOND DAY-THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1880.

A motion made by Senator Roscoe Conkling for a recess was rejected, after which Mr. Henry R. Pierson of New York, from the Committee on Permanent Organization, submitted a report proposing that the temporary organization be made permanent, with a vice-president and assistant secretary from each state and territory, which report was adopted. The convention, on motion of Representative William P. Frye of Maine, at 1 p. m. took a recess until 5 p. m.

After the recess, Mr. David B. Henderson of Iowa moved that the Committee on Rules be directed to report at once, to which Mr. George H. Sharpe of New York offered a substitute directing the Committee on Credentials to report. The substitute was rejected on a roll-call by yeas 318, nays 406, after which the original resolution was laid on the table. The convention met at 7 o'clock and after thirty minutes' session adjourned until the following morning at 10 o'clock.

FRIDAY-JUNE 4, 1880, 10 A. M.

Mr. Conkling submitted 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 shall hold a seat here who is not ready to so agree.

The roll of states was called, resulting, yeas 716, nays 3 (the three negative votes being cast by West Virginia delegates).

Mr. Conkling thereupon offered another resolution, declaring that the delegates who had voted that they would not abide the action of the convention, do not deserve, and have forfeited their votes in the convention, which resolution he subsequently withdrew, after a spirited debate, it being apparent that the convention would table it, the three West Virginia delegates having stated that they expected to support the nominees but were opposed to the resolution on principle. Mr. William J. Sewell of New Jersey moved that the Committee on Rules be instructed to report, which motion was agreed to, and Mr. James A. Garfield of Ohio submitted the following rules and order of business:

Rule 1. The convention shall consist of a number of delegates from each state equal to double the number of its senators and representatives in Congress, and two delegates from each territory, and two from the District of Columbia.

Rule 2. The rules of the House of Representatives shall be the rules of the convention so far as they are applicable and not inconsistent with the following rules.

Rule 3. When the previous question shall be demanded by a majority of the delegates from any state, and the demand seconded by two or more states, and the call sustained by a majority of the convention, the question shall then be proceeded with and disposed of according to the rules of the House of Representatives in similar

cases.

Rule 4. Upon all subjects before the convention the states shall be called in alphabetical order, and next the territories and District of Columbia.

Rule 5. The report of the Committee on Credentials shall be disposed of before the report of the Committee on Resolutions is acted upon, and the report of the Committee on Resolutions shall be disposed of before the convention proceeds to the nomination of candidates for President and Vice-President.

Rule 6. When a majority of the delegates of any two states shall demand that a vote be recorded, the same shall be taken by states, territories, and the District of Columbia, the secretary calling the roll of the states and territories and the District of Columbia in the order heretofore stated.

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Rule 7. In making the nominations for President and Vice-President, in no case shall the call of the roll be dispensed with. When it shall appear that any candidate has 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 unaniBut 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.

Rule 8. In the record of the votes by states the vote of each state, territory, and District of Columbia shall be announced by the chairman; and in case the vote of any state, territory, or 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.