The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1872-10-12
OFFICIAL PROtEEDINt.S


The Eighth Annual Session of the e.
gar MaA,rs Information mon Vt America
w''s called t' ,ri..r precisely nt Io O'Clock.
a. u. h, the President Edwin Johnson.
The President welcomed tho represent
ativcs M few appropriate remarks,
and declared tic convention open f"r the
transaction II business
Roll of officers called Present Edwin
Johnson President Peter Cady, "a Vice
President Angel Hart, Int. Secretary
Joseph >terrltt. Asst Secretary
on motion ot Representative Nltus. of
Syracuse. a committee Of three De appoint
ed 70 examine thc credentials If Repre-
sentatNys.
The Chair appointed as such committee
Representatives NIws, " Syracuse
Schulmeyer, of It, Louis otatleI. VI
Springfield. IT,
Representative Cajy moved that We
take a recess Of thirty 30 minutes for the
purpose of enabling the Committee "u Gre
dentials time tu make their report
When the tuuy had expired. the President
called the convention t' order and thr
Committee "n Credentials m''dc the follow
ing report
TURNER Hun, 81 LorIS
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~ Ne OTleets rtd h.uh,r. VI tlHry H'tl
es LDterrto,.d t".on. u ,,,anot.a
assembled
GE<rtr,rt< N,ur. committee. .,r,.,,iI,r-
ca u examine crrd,utial, would most r,-
spectfullv report the following delegates as
entitled to seat in this convention
Union Nu.4 Iguatz VOL WIN Syhul-
never NJ. = Michael Nur..rIr Nu T..
Michael NIus NJ = John 4 Hr,pau
No. g-Prter Cal, Nu IL Nm n
Noerr, Werner ~taubyr. Felix Lanes Nn
IL Thos Hrsmm.sm Nn - August
Eitzler No. 80 David Ambrose s."
3S-Conrad Staha ~. a VIM. koe-
mig NJ. 56 ID. ID. olive; SO. 80 Ed
Rollett ~ II Nick smith, No. "o
conrad huhm y" ~ joseph Nterrltt
No. lO2 Nm. l3reshch.
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accepted as reported.
Representative Hecnan protested against
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employer.
The case vas argued hy Reps Hecnau.
Cadv. Sterritt. Staubcr and others when
upon a motion ,f RAJ, \,.rr , -,,,u
mittee of three appointed to investigate
the case Of MIR Kuhn.
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committee. Rep Nuerr. kucug and Bran
nigan.
ON motion Of Rcp. Cady that the report
Of the Committee ou Credentials bee ac-
cepted. exc,ptinu that portion pertai.ln.
to the case II Conrad kuhn.
Roll called and members All present
On motion of Rep. Cady. that We take 4
recess Of twenty minutes. IN order tu en-
able the Special Committee un Mr. Kuhn
case to make NJ their report
Al nm. ,yt,ira.inp nf thr r,.crss tbr com
,,;t,aaar H. k,br,'s. ..,.,. .,,,j. tb. t,l-
lowing report
TrK>rE Han 81 LnrI.
sept "A. 1872.
The committee aprointed to investigate
the case II Conrad Kuhn repres.ntatlyr
nf Union No. 90 of New York CITY hay
ing examined the charges preferred against
hiil' u" n"' ueeln 'H'ili ~ 7'''l,lent import
aiice =" "el'ilNe MN "l hIS seat ll '''ia '''h
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Th1s Branuigan
A motion was made that the report OF
the committee be- accepted
On motion ~ Rep. Heenan the ayes and
nays were ordered Win tht I'H""lhs TT
p.-I-.J- c.I..t......- NJ.
Noerr. Staubcr. Laeis. Branniean. Eitzlcr.
Ambrose. Statfcl. koeing. Olive. Rollett.
Smith. Sterritt 10. Naves Rep. 5 Voc
pele Heenan. Cadv-3.
Rep Heenan presented the following
Re.,,Ir.d That the pri,ilege ~ tb4 toor IL
extended T. the members OF the =" Press and
IN visiting ,.i,,ar makers
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