the rise and fall of the international. l8l 
our heresies.” Marx carried the majority with him ; and the 
general council, far from being suppressed, was given the right 
of suspending sections and even federations, saving appeal to 
congress. This decision excited the warmest protests. The 
Blanquists, including, Ranvier, Coumet, and Vaillant, left the 
congress. Then followed an inquiry into the case of Bakunin 
and Guillaume. Both were declared excluded, as having been 
shown to belong to "the Alliance,"a secret society founld on 
statutes completely opposed to those of the International. 
Marx also obtained a decision that the seat of the general 
council should be transferred to New York. He hoped thus to 
take It away from the causes of division which threatened it in 
urope. The reason he gave was that this would be a means 
of gaming over the working men of the United States, who in 
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the power, and thus give practical effect to social reforms. 
1 he Congress of the Hague gave the death-blow to the Inter- 
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