all resolutions submitted to the Convention be referred to the proposed committee without debate.

Judge TRACY accepted the amendment.

Mr. JUDD, of Illinois: I ask the gentleman to suspend for one moment while I make a presentation to the President of the Convention. I am directed, Mr. President, on behalf of one of the working mechanic Republicans of Chicago, to present to you, sir, this emblem of your authority. [Exhibiting a beautifully wrought oak gavel, finished and ornamented with ivory and silver.] It is not, sir, the wood and the ivory and the silver

Mr. HINCKLEY, of California: [Interrupting.] I rise to a point of order. ["Sit down;" "Go on with the presentation," and great confusion.] The Committee on Order of Business has not yet reported; when that committee reports perhaps the Convention will find the adoption or rejection of that report will settle the controversy in reference to the appointment of the Committee on Platform and Resolutions.

The CHAIR: The chair holds that that is not a point of order. [Applause.] It may be a ground for the rejection of the proposition of the gentleman from California (Judge Tracy).

Mr. JUDD: I would not, sir, have attempted to have made this presentation, if I had not supposed that I had the unanimous consent at this time of the Convention. [Applause and cries of "Go on," "Go on."] I was saying to you, sir, that it was not the wood or the ivory, or the silver, of which that little instrument is composed, that renders it valuable. It has, like the Republican party, a history. It is a piece of oak taken from Commodore Perry's flag ship-the Lawrence. [Applause.] It is not from its size that its power is to be felt. It is like the Republican rule, strong but not noisy. [Great enthusiasm.] It is not, that the Republicans require

a noisy and violent government, or that they require riotously to put down the sham Democracy; but they require and intend to apply to them, and to all those persons who seek disunion, and keep up a cry about destroying our government, the little force necessary to control and restrain them, like the little force which will be necessary for you, Mr. President, to use in presiding over the deliberations of this Convention. [Great cheers.] There is a motto, too, adopted by that mechanic, which should be a motto for every Republican in this Convention-the motto borne upon the flag of the Lawrence-"Don't give up the ship." [Great applause.] Mr. President, in presenting this to you, in addition to the motto furnished by the mechanic who manufactured this, as an evidence of his warmth and zeal in the Republican cause, I would recommend to this Convention to believe that the person who will be nominated here, can, when the election is over in November, send a dispatch to Washington in the language of the gallant Perry: "We have met the enemy, and they are ours." [Terrific cheering.] Voices, "Name, name." Mr. President, in the beginning I should have named Mr. C. G. Thomas, of Chicago. [Hearty applause.]

The PRESIDENT: In behalf of the Convention, I accept from the hands of the gentleman from Illinois the present made by the Chicago mechanic; and I have only to say today that all the auguries are that we shall meet the enemy and they shall be ours. [Loud cheers.]

Mr. DEMBITZ, of Kentucky, announced that the Committee on Rules and Order of Business, had matured a partial report, defining the manner in which votes should be taken in the Convention. He moved that that report be now taken up.

The PRESIDENT announced that the question on the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions and Platform was pending.

Mr. DEMBITZ moved that the question on the appointment

of a Committee on Platform and Resolutions be postponed until the report of the Committee on Rules and Order of Business had been received.

The motion of Mr. Dembitz was lost.

The PRESIDENT: The question is now on the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions and Platform, to whom to refer, without debate, all resolutions or propositions.

Gov. REEDER: Mr. President

VOICES: "Name."

The PRESIDENT: Gov. Reeder, of Pennsylvania. [Prolonged cheers.]

Gov. REEDER: I understand the resolution before the Convention to be that a committee of one from each state be appointed for the purpose of drafting a Platform and Resolutions. Am I right?

The PRESIDENT: You are, substantially.

Gov. REEDER: Then I move to amend so that it may include the territories.

Judge TRACY: That is the language of the motion.

The motion to appoint a Committee on Platform and Resolutions was then carried.

The PRESIDENT suggested to the Convention the propriety of having a roll of the Convention, arranged under the heads of the different states, made out by the Secretaries, and to be printed for the use of the Convention. He then proposed to call the states for the appointment of a Committee on Resolutions and Platform.

Mr. JAMES, of New York: Before that is put, I would suggest that the Committee on Credentials report. We refused to adopt this very resolution before dinner.

The CHAIR: The Chair is about to call the roll of the states, for the purpose of receiving the names of gentlemen to constitute a Committee on Resolutions.

COMMITTEE ON RESOLUTIONS, &c.

The roll was then called, and the committee constituted as follows:

Mr. R. H. CORWINE, of Ohio: The Committee on Business have a report prepared, but it will be necessary for them to

modify their report in consequence of the action of the Committee on Credentials.

Mr. HOPKINS, of Massachusetts: In response to the suggestion from the Chair, I move you that the Secretaries of this Convention be directed to prepare a full list of the delegates to this Convention.

A DELEGATE FROM MISSOURI: I would move, as an amendment, that it contain their post office addresses.

The CHAIR: That, I suppose, will be attended to. It will be done under the direction of the Secretaries.

Motion to print adopted.

The PRESIDENT then announced the reception of the following communication, which was read to the Convention :

ARMORY OF THE ZOUAYE CADET GUARD, }

May 16,

TO THE HONORABLE MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN

CONVENTION.

Gentlemen: In compliance with the wishes of the citizens, we are, through the courtesy of the Committee, permitted to occupy the "Wigwam" this evening for an exhibition drill, to which we beg to return an invitation to the members of your honorable body. We shall feel highly honored by the presence of all who can find leisure to attend. Tickets of admission will be found at the head-quarters of the different delegations.

I have the honor to be,

Your obed't servant,

E. E. ELLSWORTH,

Commander U. S. Zouave Cadets.

On motion, the invitation to be present was accepted with thanks.

Mr. KAUFMANN, of Pennsylvania: I would suggest to the