The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

THE SECOND DAY 257
GREAT THINGS REMAIN TO BE DONE
Speaking of the living in the presence of the dead, we have tears for them and
admiration for the great things that they accomplish ; but
the glory of our race, of
our civilization, is that each generation works out its own salvation and marches
forward to success and the betterment of the condition of mankind, and, as they
drop into the grave, their successors move on to the stage of action, holding fast all
that the past has given us, and going in turn a generation's march further on for the
benefit of the race and of civilization.
After the applause had subsided the band played "Amer-
ica." The delegates and the audience listened standing.
COMMITTEE ON RULES REPORTS
Chairman Cannon called for the report of the committee
on rules. It was submitted by Representative Bingham of
Pennsylvania, who said:
I am directed by your committee on rules and order of procedure to submit
their unanimous report for the approval of the convention. In iSSS the rules we had
governing the preceding conventions of the party were gone over with great care
and authority. That convention adopted a rule, and from that day to this the guide
of the order of procedure has been changed only in a limited number of its rules or
provisions. Your committee has followed the action of a like committee in preceding
conventions, but several changes are enacted in these rules because of the inclusion
of the Philippine Islands and Porto Rico, together with the inclusion of a rule
recommended by the secretary of the national committee, in order that in making
up the roll of delegates and alternates and contested seats a better submission could
be made than has heretofore been made under no rule.
In full recognition of the fairness and famiUarity of your presiding officer to-day,
in order that he may feel perfectly' at home in this convention, as he always does in
the speaker's chair in the house, we have adopted the rules of the Fifty-Eighth Con-
gress when not inconsistent with the rules submitted for this convention.
The reading of the report was dispensed with and Mr.
Bingham moved its adoption.
FORAKER OFFERS AN AMENDMENT
Senator Foraker offered as an amendment:
Resolved, That tiie report of the committee on rules be amended so as to allow
the six delegates from Hawaii six votes in conformity with her sister territories of
Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Indian Territory, and Alaska.