that his margin will not be swept away by fluctuations in the currency. The laborer knows that the money earned by his toil is as honest as his labor and that it is of unquestioned purchasing power. He likewise knows that it requires as much labor to earn a poor dollar as a good one; and he also knows that if poor money is abroad it will surely find its way into his pocket.

We protest against lowering our standard of commercial honor.Y We stand against the Democratic attempt to degrade our currency to the low level of Mexico, China, India and Japan. The present high standard of our currency, our honor and our flag will be sacredly protected and preserved by the Republican party.

There are many and important questions requiring the enlightened and patriotic judgment of the Republican party. A pan-American commercial alliance was conceived by James G. Blaine, and the highest motives of self-interest require us to accomplish what he had so well begun.

The Monroe doctrine must be firmly upheld; and the powers of the earth made to respect this great, but unwritten law. There can be no further territorial aggrandizement by foreign governments on the Western Continent.

Our devotion to the pensioners of the nation was never more emphatic nor more necessary than now.

The Republican party believes in the development of our Navy and Merchant Marine until we establish our undisputed supremacy on the high sees.

The struggle for Cuban liberty enlists the ardent sympathy of the Republican party-a party which has given to liberty its fullest meaning on this continent. We wish to see a new Republic born on Cuban soil greet the new century whose dawn is already purpling the East.

My friends, the campaign of 1896 is upon us. The great questions for debate in the august forum of the United States are Free Trade and Free Silver against a Protective Tariff and Sound Money. As we regard our homes and our honor, our happiness and our prosperity and the future power and majesty of the Republic let us dedicate ourselves to the restoration of a protective tariff which shall be genuinely American, and the maintenance of an honest standard of value with which to measure the exchanges of the people.

A distinguished Republican has said that the supreme desire of the American people is for honest money and a chance to earn it by honest toil.

At the conclusion of Mr. Fairbanks' speech he received an ovation.

Charman CARTER: Mr. Chairman: By direction of the National Committee, I recommend to the convention, for Temporary Secreretary, Official Reporters, Sergeant-at-Arms, Reading Clerks, etc. as follows:

For Secretary-Col. Charles W. Johnson, of Minnesota.

Assistant Secretaries—William E. Riley, of Kentucky; Harry H. Smith, of Michigan; A. B. Humphrey, at large and A. Warfield Monroe, of Maryland.

For Official Reporters—James Francis Burke and John Jay Burke, of Pennsylvania.

Sergeant at Arms-T. E. Byrnes, of Minnesota.

Assistants-Geo. W. Wiswell, of Wisconsin; W. W. Johnson, of Maryland; Maj. W. P. Huxford, of Washington City; Charles E. Stone, of Illinois.

For Reading Clerks-F. H. Wilson, of Missouri; J. H. Stone, of Michigan; John R. Malloy, of Ohio; R. S. Hatcher, of Indiana; John B. Bean, of New Jersey.

These names are suggested, subject to the approval of the Convention for the respective offices indicated.

Chairman FAIRBANKS.

Gentlemen of the Convention: You have heard the recommendation of the National Committee; all in favor of approving the recommendation will signify the same by saying "aye."

The motion was carried unanimously.

RULES.

Mr. LAMB, of Virginia. I desire to offer the following:

Resolved, That until a permanent organization is effected, this Convention will be governed by the rules of the last Republican National Convention, and I move its adoption.

The motion being seconded and put by the Chair, was carried unanimously.

COMMITTEES.

Mr. LAMB, of Virginia. I desire further to offer the following

resolution:

Resolved, That the roll of States and Territories be now called and that the chairman of each delegation annouuce the names of the persons selected to serve on the several committees as follows: Permanent Organization; Rules and Order of Business; Credentials; Resolutions; and that all resolutions in relation to the platform of the Republican party be referred to such committee, without debate, and I move its adoption.

Upon request, the resolution was read by the clerk, from the platform.

The CHAIRMAN. You have heard the resolution; all in favor of its adoption will say "aye."

The resolution was then adopted unanimously.

The CHAIRMAN. The resolution is adopted. The Secretary will proceed with the call of the roll of the States. The Chair would suggest that as the names of the members of the different committees are announced by the chairman of the delegation, that the chairman follow the announcement with a written memorandum of the names and addresses of the various members of the committees to the clerk. The clerk will proceed to call the roll, and while the roll call is in order, the Convention will please preserve quiet.

LEMUEL E. QUIGG, of New York. Mr. Chairman, what is this committee?

The CHAIRMAN: All of the committees. The roll will be called first for the Committee on Permanent Organization.

The clerk here proceeded with the call of the roll.

While the roll was in progress of being called, the Chair recognized William Warner, of Missouri. Mr. Warner addressed the Chair as follows:

My observation has heretofore been that the Committee on Permanent Organization and Rules of Order of Business is one committee. Does the resolution adopted substitute two committees?

The CHAIRMAN: There are two committees; the committees are separate. The resolution will be read again for the information of the delegate.

The Clerk here read the resolution, after which the Secretary again proceeded with the call of the roll of States.

When California had been called General Grosvenor, of Ohio, said: I would like to suggest that these lists be made out by the chairmen of the delegations and sent to the desk to be read by the clerk from the platform, without being read from the points where the State delegations are located.

The CHAIRMAN: Is there any objection to the suggestion of General Grosvenor that the chairmen of the delegations send up the names and that the names be read from the platform?

The CHAIRMAN: By unanimous consent, the chairmen of the delegations will send up the names of the different committee men and they will be read by the Clerk from the platform.

The call of the States for the purpose of constituting the various committees was proceeded with on the plan just adopted.

The committees as finally made up are as follows: