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The National Convention is called to order about noon on the day appointed in the official call, by the chairman of the national committee.
The 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.