The PRESIDENT: The question is, shall the resolution laid upon the table respecting the platform be now taken from the table?

Gov. REEDER: Does it not require a two-third vote under the rules of the House of Representatives to do that?

The PRESIDENT: I think not.

Mr. SWEETZER, of Massachusetts: I moved to adjourn until 5 o'clock; somebody else moved to amend, and adjourn until 9 or 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. My original motion has never been withdrawn.

The CHAIR: I understood it to have been.

Mr. SWEETZER: The gentleman withdrew his motion. I still ask to have my motion put.

The CHAIR: The question is, shall this Convention when it adjourns, adjourn to meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon; and the amendment is to 9 o'clock to-morrow morning.

Gov. CLEVELAND, of Connecticut: I am sure, gentlemen, that you are all disposed to act as you look, as gentlemen. I desire to say to you that we have a very polite and gentlemanly communication from the Board of Trade, and we have by a vote, accepted it. Now, I agree with my friend from New York [Mr. King] that we had better not do it, but to get out of it and treat them fairly, we have only to make a motion to reconsider, and then we can dispose of it in such a manner as the Convention shall see fit, and in such a manner as is consistent with the gentlemanly character of those who made the invitation. In passing a motion to accept it, and then voting to adjourn till 5 o'clock, we seem to throw contempt upon their very civil invitation. If the gentleman will withdraw his motion for the purpose of making a motion. to reconsider, I will make that motion, and then we can get out of the trouble.

Mr. SWEETZER: I withdraw the motion only for that purpose.

The PRESIDENT: The difficulty is here: If you withdraw your motion touching the hour of adjournment then comes before the Convention, as I understand it, the motion to take from the table the resolution concerning the platform. The motion before the Convention is that we adjourn, when we do adjourn, until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

Motion to adjourn was put and lost. [Applause.]

The PRESIDENT: Now the proposition before the Convention is that when this Convention adjourns, it adjourns to meet at 5 o'clock this afternoon.

Hon. JOSHUA R. GIDDINGS, of Ohio, appeared on the platform amid loud cheers. He said: I rise for the purpose of moving a reconsideration of the vote accepting the invitation received from the Board of Trade to meet there at 5 o'clock for a pleasure excursion I do this, sir, from a sincere conviction that every gentleman who has come here, has come impressed with the solemnity of the business before us. Knowing that we are here to perform high and solemn duties to our country and ourselves, and in justice to our own position and the cause in which we are employed, we should be zealously engaged in the business before us; and here I will take leave to say we have had a precedent recently set before us, far south of this, which should caution us about spending our time here to the wearying of the public mind in witnessing our discussions. If we can close up our business to-morrow by two or three o'clock, it will tell upon the community with a moral force that is incalculable. [Loud and prolonged applause.] Now, Mr. Chairman, I will labor from this time until three o'clock to-morrow in order to attain the object of a final adjournment at that time. [Renewed cheering.] Then, sir, I am willing to accept the kind invitation of the Board of Trade here, and enjoy the pleasure of going upon the proposed excursion.

For the purpose of reconsidering this vote, and then referring it to a committee that they shall make the arrangements with the Board of Trade, so that at our adjournment we will meet them and accept cordially the invitation and take this excursion, I now move that we reconsider the vote by which that motion was carried, accepting the pleasure excursion.

The motion of Mr. Giddings to reconsider was then put to vote and carried.

Mr. LOWRY, of Pennsylvania: I move you, sir, that a committee of one from each State be appointed by the Chair to confer with the Board of Trade.

VOICES: Make it a committee of five.

Mr. LowRY: I will modify my resolution and make it a committee of five.

Mr. HOPKINS, of Massachusetts: We have already a committee of five appointed upon the order of business, and I suggest that this matter of the invitation of the Board of Trade, of Chicago, can be referred to it. I will make the motion that that reference be had.

A delegate from Vermont: I hope that the committee will at once notify the Board of Trade, as they are already making their preparations for the excursion.

Motion of Mr. Lowry to appoint a committee of five to confer was adopted.

The CHAIR then appointed the following gentlemen to act as such committee:

Morrow B. Lowry,.
Aaron Goodrich,

Joshua R. Giddings,

F. P. Blair,.

C. F. Cleveland,..

Of Pennsylvania.
Of Minnesota.

Of Ohio.

Of Maryland.
Of Connecticut.

The Convention then, on motion, adjourned until 5 o'clock, P. M.

AFTERNOON SESSION.

The Convention was called to order at 5:15, P. M., by the temporary President.

THE INVITATION.

Mr. LOWRY, of Pennsylvania: In behalf of the committee appointed to confer with the Board of Trade, I would ask leave to make a report. The committee have called upon our friends, the Board of Trade, who invited us to the excursion. They extended to us an invitation and we accepted it. They left immediately and prepared themselves to carry out the arrangement that they had proposed for our enjoyment. They have a perfect fleet down there now in readiness. Before I could get there-before I could find the committee and the parties who have invited us, they had their fleet ready to carry us and large enough to carry us all. They say that if we are so pressed with business we can hold the Convention on the decks of their vessels, if we desire it-and we can, so they say, have their cabins for rooms to caucus in. They are very much disposed to press us and will wait one hour, that will make it six o'clock. We can have ample time to do here this afternoon all that is necessary and then go on the excursion. Now, inasmuch as the people of Chicago extend to us this invitation, I hope it will be unanimously accepted for 6 o'clock.

Mr. CARTER, of Ohio: I rise to a question of order. There is one question already before the house.

Mr. GOODRICH, of Minnesota: Say "as soon thereafter as possible." We may, perhaps, have to wait fifteen or twenty minutes thereafter. I hope that we shall go on and perfect our organization, and I believe that can be done within the

time named. I hope the Convention will get ready at once to take the excursion.

Mr. HAZARD, of Rhode Island: The proposition now made as I understand it, differs only from that of the morning in this it is now said that it will not interfere with the pro'gress of the meeting—that we may go on and complete our business just as well as not, and take this excursion. [Cries of "Never mind," and much confusion.] But it does not meet the case. I suppose that we are here on important business. We are here, believing as was said this morning [much confusion], believing that the government is pressed on both sides, one half of the Democratic party threatening us with annihilation-and the other [amid loud cries of Question," the remainder of the sentence was lost.] Suppose you were standing by the sick bed. [Cries of "Question," and great confusion, amid which the speaker took his seat.]

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The question to adjourn to 6 o'clock being submitted, was lost amid much applause.

The PRESIDENT announced that the reports of the committees were in order, and asked for the report of the Committee on Permanent Organization. [Cries of "Good."]

Mr. HINCKLEY, of California: I ask if it is not in accordance with usage that the Committee on Credentials be called, so that we may know who are members of the Convention.

The PRESIDENT: I do not know that there is any special order in which committees should report.

Mr. KELLEY, of Pennsylvania: I move that the report of the Committee on Credentials be called, so that we may know who are members of the Convention.

The motion of Mr. Kelley was carried.

Mr. COMINS, of Massachusetts stated, that the Committee