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the Congress for the nominees reported by the Committee, 

 which prevailed, and they were declared elected. 



The list of States was then called, and the several delega 

 tions nominated their Vice-Presidents, and they were con 

 firmed by the Congress as follows : Alabama, C. C. Langdon, 

 Mobile ; California, Col. C. C. Younger, San Jose ; Colorado, 

 W. M. Byers, Denver ; Georgia, 0. H. Jones, Atlanta ; Illi 

 nois, A. M. Garland, Springfield ; Indiana, General Solomon, 

 Meredith, Cambridge City ; Kansas, J. K. Hudson, Wyan- 

 dotte; Kentucky, Dr. E. J. Spurr, Lexington; Minnesota, 

 Hon. William S. King, Minneapolis ; Missouri, Hon. Nor 

 man J. Colman, St. Louis ; Mississippi, Dr. M. W. Phillips, 

 Oxford ; Nebraska, Governor Kobert Furnas, Lincoln ; Ohio, 

 J. M. Millikin, Hamilton; Pennsylvania, Hon. A. Boyd 

 Hamilton, Harrisburg ; South Carolina, Winborn Lawton, 

 Charleston; Tennessee, C. &quot;W. Charlton, Knoxville; Ver 

 mont, 0. S. Bliss, Georgia ; Virginia, Colonel H. E. Peyton, 

 Waterford ; West Virginia, H. S. Walker, Charleston ; Wis 

 consin, Eli Stilson, Oshkosh. 



In the debate upon the selection of the place for the next 

 Congress, Atlanta, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, Lin 

 coln, Nebraska, and Columbus, Ohio, were put in nomina 

 tion. After a short discussion, from which it was evident 

 that nearly all of the members from the North-west were 

 favorable to Atlanta, it was so elected, and the second 

 Wednesday in May, 1874, was adopted as the time of 

 meeting. 



