Excerpt from James McMillan: A Senator From Michigan, Nominating Speeches in the Caucuses of 1889 and 1895 N Wednesday, January 2, 1889, being the day prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Michigan for the biennial meeting of the Legislature, the Senate was called to order by the Lieutenant Governor, James H. Macdonald; and Lewis M. Miller was elected Secretary. In the House, Gerrit J. Die kema, of the First District of Ottawa County, was elected Speaker, and Daniel L. Crossman was elected Clerk. At eight o'clock on the evening of that day, in pursuance to a call signed by a majority of the Republican senators and representatives, the Repub lican Legislative Caucus was held in the hall of the House of Representatives, for the purpose of placing in nomination a candidate for the office of Senator in the Congress of the United States, for the full term of six years, beginning March 4, 1889. The floor of the hall was filled with members of the Legislature and prominent men from all parts of the State; and a large number of ladies occupied seats in the crowded galleries. The caucus was called to order by the Clerk of the House; and on motion of Hon. J. Wight Giddings, a senator from the Twenty-eighth District, the Speaker of the House was chosen to preside. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.