Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held at New York, July 4-9, 1868.: Reported by George Wakeman, official reporter of the Convention.

NATIONA. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
At the reading of Governor Seymour's name, the ConTvention rose
and gave cheer after cheer.
General McCOOK, of Ohio. -I move the acceptance of the report and the
discharge of the committee.
Mr. WHITE, of Maryland. -I desire to ask the chairman of the committee
whether the adoption of their report will require for the nomination of the
candidates for President and Vice-President two-thirds of all the votes in the
Electoral College, or whether two-thirds of the votes cast in this Convention
will be sufficient to nominate the candidates? The reason I make this interrogatory is this: I observed, on Saturday last, that some of the States represented on this floor cast no votes on the questions which arose in our
temporary organization. When we come to vote for candidates for President and Vice-President, the same States may withhold their votes, and
consequently it will take a much larger vote to make two-thirds of the votes
of the Electoral College, than if the rule applied only to the votes cast in this
Convention. In 1832, the rule was, that it required two-thirds of the votes
cast in the Convention; but, if I remember correctly, at Charleston the rule
was qualified so as to require two-thirds of all the votes cast in the Electoral
College. I want to know, therefore, so that we can vote intelligentlfy,
whether, if we adopt in their entirety the rules of the Chicago Convention in
1864, the candidates must receive two-thirds of the Electoral vote, or only
two thirds of the votes cast in the Convention?
The CHAIRMAN.- The Chair is of opinion that the merits of the report are
not now under consideration. The question is whether the report shall be
accepted and the committee discharged.
The question was put on accepting the report, and discharging the
committee, and it prevailed.
The Chairman announced the question to be upon the adoption of
the report of the Committee on Organization.
A DELEGATE from Wisconsin.- Before the vote is taken, I desire to say
that we can see nothing and hear nothing. Will the Chair have the goodness
to request that everybody be kept in their seats?
The CHAIRMAN. - The Chair will direct the Sergeant-at-Arms to see that
the aisles be kept clear, that the members of the Convention remain in their
seats, and that order is preserved.
The question was put on the adoption of the report of the Committee on Organization, and it was declared carried.
Mr. H. C. MURPHY, of New York.- I am requested by the Committee on
Resolutions to ask permission of this body to sit during its meetings.
A DELEGATE. - I move that the Committee on Resolutions have leave to sit
during the session of the Convention.
The motion prevailed.
The Chairman appointed Governor Bigler, of Pennsylvania, and Governor Hammond of South Carolina, a Committee to escort Governor
Seymour, the permanent President of the Convention, to the chair.
The committee, amid great applause, performed the duty.
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