Excerpt: ...convention is opened with prayer. The call is read, after which the national committee names a list of temporary officers for the convention, temporary chairman, secretary, clerks, sergeant-at-arms and stenographers. The temporary chairman takes the chair and makes a formal speech on the political situation. A resolution is adopted making the rules of the preceding convention the rules of the convention until otherwise ordered. Motions are made for the appointment of committees on credentials, permanent ...
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Excerpt: ...convention is opened with prayer. The call is read, after which the national committee names a list of temporary officers for the convention, temporary chairman, secretary, clerks, sergeant-at-arms and stenographers. The temporary chairman takes the chair and makes a formal speech on the political situation. A resolution is adopted making the rules of the preceding convention the rules of the convention until otherwise ordered. Motions are made for the appointment of committees on credentials, permanent organization, rules and resolutions, each consisting of one member from each state and territory. Resolutions concerning contested seats are presented to the convention and referred without debate to the committee on credentials. (Every state is allowed double as many delegates as it has Senators and Representatives in Congress. The four men corresponding to the representation of the Senate are delegates at large, the others are district delegates, which number twenty-two district delegates and four delegates at large, making twenty-six delegates to the National Convention from Kentucky.) This ends the first session of the convention. When the convention assembles for the second session, the first business is the report of the credential committee. In deciding contested seats, the committee on credentials gives each side a chance to present its claims, and then decides between them, generally in favor of the regular delegates, those endorsed by the state and the district committee. Two full contesting delegations from the same state, sometimes seats are given to both, each delegate being entitled to one-half vote. Pg 38 After the credential committee arrives at a decision concerning contested seats, its report including a list arranged by the states of all delegates entitled to seats is usually accepted by the convention with very little debate. Then the committee on organization make their report, which consists of a list of permanent officers of...
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