Official proceedings of the National Democratic convention, held in Cincinnati, June 2-6, 1856. Pub. by order of the Convention:

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NAYS.-Maine, 8; Vermont, 5; Maryland, 8; Virginia, 15, Georgia,
4; Alabama, 9; Mississippi, 7; Ohio, 24; Kentucky, 12; Tennessee, 12;
Indiana, 13; Arkansas, 4; Florida, 3; Wisconsin, 2. Total, 126.
And the resolution was laid on the table.
Mr. Singleton, of Mississippi, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the galleries of this hall he deelared free to all spectators.
Mr. Wilson, of Iowa, offered the following amendment: That the
question of admission of persons to seats in the galleries, be referred to
the Committee on Organization, with directions to adopt some equal
and just plan for the admission of persons from the several States;
and that said Committee report to the Convention as early as practicable.
On motion the resolution and amendment were laid on the table.
Mr. Moore, of Maine offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Committee of Arrangements be instructed to issue no more tickets of admission to this hall, without the special order of this Convention.
Mr. Pettit, of Indiana, moved that the galleries be cleared, which
motion was lost.
Mr. Vallandigham, of Ohio, moved to refer the resolution ofMr. Moore,
of Maine, and all other resolutions on the subject, to the Committee of
Arrangements.
Mr. McMullen, of Virginia, moved to lay the resolution on the table.
Carried.
Mr. Thompson, of Mississippi, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the Committee on Arrangements be instructed to admit Mir. J. W. McDonald to
his seat as reporter from Mississippi. Adopted.
After several motions to amend, and considerable debate with reference to the galleries,
Mr. McLane, of Maryland, said-Gentlemen of the Convention, I
desire to say, on behalf of the Committee of Arrangements, that in
this hall it is absolutely impossible to seat a number of persons greater
than the number that has been provided for. I will state further, that
it was not the design of the Committee originally to apply the galleries to the use of the press. It was designed to seat the reporters for
the various newspapers on the platform on each side of the President.
That was the arrangement made for the press. If gentlemen will look
at the platform and consider that, in the plan of organization now
adopted, room must be made for three Vice-Presidents, and thirty-one
Secretaries, they will see that the press had as large a space as possible
devoted to their use. I would remark that over three hundred applications were made for tickets by gentlemen, under the style of reporters for the press. In very few cases was it believed that these were
efficient reporters of the proceedings of this Convention. In very few
cases did they profess to be so. They simply professed to be attached to
cors of reporters. The Committee of Arrangements, of which I am
not a member, but which I have been requested to represent on this
floor, deemed it proper that these gentlemen should be admitted as
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