titution. When the
sub-committee met the next morning Mr. Quigg submitted an entirely new
draft, which he had prepared the afternoon and night before, using the
Washington draft and the amendments submitted by members of the
sub-committee as the basis of what he had done. His draft proved to be
so satisfactory to the sub-committee that it was accepted and adopted
with very slight modifications. Mr. Quigg seemed to have been very
careful in the preparation of his draft, not only giving expression to
the views of the sub-committee, which had been developed in the
discussion, and as had been set forth in the suggested amendments
referred to him, but the manner and form of expression used by him
impressed the committee as being a decided improvement upon the
Washington draft, although the subject matter in both drafts was
substantially the same. Mr. Quigg's draft, with very slight changes and
alterations, was not only accepted and adopted, but he was the recipient
of the thanks of the other members for the excellent manner in which he
had discharged the important duty that had been assigned him.

The full committee was then convened by which the unanimous report of
the sub-committee was adopted without opposition and without change. But
I had anticipated a renewal of the effort to change the basis of
representation in future National Republican Conventions, and had,
therefore, made some little mental preparation to take a leading part in
opposition to its adoption. Such a proposition had been submitted at
nearly every National Convention of the party since 1884. That a similar
effort would be made at this convention I had good reasons to believe.
In this I was not mistaken. It was introduced by Senator Quay, of
Pennsylvania. His proposition, like the others, was that in the future
delegates to the National Convention should be apportioned among the
different States upon the basis of the votes polled for the party
candidates at the last preceding national election, instead of upon the
basis of the States' representation in Congress. On the first view this
proposition seems to be both reasonable and fair, but it cannot stand
the test of an intelligent analysis. As soon as I sought and secured
the recognition of the chair, I offered an amendment in the nature of a
substitute, declaring it to be the judgment of the party that in all
States in which there had been an evasion of the Fifteenth Amendment by
State action, that there