The New York herald., 1874-10-11
and the fOllowing comnlittee appointed =

committee took recess OF one hour drom
four TO Ave ociock) to consider the claims OF the
contestants.
SETTLING LITTLE DIFFERENCES.
the committee returned at six O'Clock and
Colonel Fellows reported the decision. He SAID
that the committee had considered the claims OF
contestants from the seventh, Sixteenth, Nine
tecnth and Twenty-drst Assembly districts, and
from the Twenty third ward. As to the Sixteenth,
Nineteenth aud Twenty-flrst districts aud Twenty
third ward the certificates had Deen found made
out in proper form and signed by three inspectors
Evidence had been listened to that led them to be-
Meve great frauds mad been committed at some OF
the primaries. The committee had concluded
not to go behind the certificates ana to
report in favor OF the delegations whose
regularity had been certified to by q
a The dseTa
tion from the sixteenth district headed by Ed
ward Cooper; from the Nineteenth headed by
Daniel Iiemann; from the Twenty first headed by
Hugh H. Moore, and from the Twentythird ward
headed by William Cauidwell. As to the seventh
NOT possessing all the essentials required had been
submitted; also another paper signed By two IN
m:ttee, therefore, had decided TO admit both dele
cations, each OF the delegates 30 have half vote.
Tine Chairman, alter colonel Fellows had con-
cluded, was about TO put the report to a vote OF
the Convention, when Mr.. Billings, delegate
from the Fourteenth district. moved that the Con-
ventlon disagree witn the report OF tnc commit
tee, anu substitute the delegation from the Six
teentn district headed by Peter Woods, instead Of
that headed by Cooper.
A STIFF BREEZE.
This motion created the greatest excitement
and confusion, which was interrupted ny Mr.
Woods taxing the floor himself Cries OF .'Ques-
tonp "Ques.on" resounded from every part or
the hall, during which Maurice Power rose ex-
cltedly and raised the point or order that a con.
testant had no right to the moor. The Chair
finally succeeded IN restoring order and allowed
Woods to proceed. Mr.. Woods then explained
shat frauds had been committed at tue primaries,
and showed petition signed by 637 democrats oil
The district protesting against the admission OF the
Dther delegation. The votes had been counted in n
dark room, and he had been refused admittance
TO the room while they were being counted.
were wiling tools OF men who had de-
termined to gain their ends by .perpetratlng
tell oS Woods na
'you can't af1ord TO let tae opinion OF the three
men who acted az inspectors IN our district
stand against that OF the 637 voters whose
names are appended to this paper. You say you
can't 80 behind the certificates OF the inspectors!
willing tools, ready to do the dirty work OF the
men who do not represent the voters OF the ais
sc the ass Us On aside Se fe o e
may be felt before election day." William
II. Kelly, another delegate. appealed TO the
Convention to treat tho contesting delegations with
the same courtesy that had been shown toward
the seventh district-admit them both. Woods
again got che floor, and after bitterly denouncing
the men. whom he charged with having manipu-
lated the ballots at the primaries in his district,
AS men who made their living out OF the public
treasury and .'led themselves out OF
THE PUBLIC POT,H
demanded that his delegation should be admitted at
least on equal terms with the "balOt box stuf1crsu
Colonel Fellows In o short speech argued to show
that the committee could not go behind the certifi-
cate OF the inspectors and suggested that the
proper place for the contestants TO fight their
battles was in their own district. The excitement
Dy tins time had considerably Gained down, and
30 the vote on the substitute, to ADMIT both dele.
&nIons with one hall vote each, offered BY Mr..
% Mi.mam u. Kelly, was taken quietly. II was voted
d0wn. as was tnat OF Mr.. Billings, and the
report OF the committee was finally adopted. This
ugly subject, which at one time threatened TO cul-
minate IN row, once disposed OF, Mr.. John Kelly
arose ana moved that the Convention should at
once proceed to the nomination OF q candidate Tor
Mayor tnat every district should be called in its
Order, ana wnen district was unit that 1t
should cast its vote as unit, and when not, as
parts OF unit, and that the nominations should
be made IN the following order First, Mayor
second, Register; third Aldermen at -Large-the
names OF the candidates for Aldermen 10 be prc.
sented at the same time.
wICKHAM NOMINATED
When this motion was carried Henry r. clinton
cot the floor and said -
Mr.. CHAIRMAN-At the present juncture of our mn.
ncipal affairs 1t Is ri the highest inpurancc tnnt we
elect to the office O Mayor large inc Iipe nee
great force OF character: who thor
oughy the Of this metropolis tcs he
importance of wise and indcious city IMPROVEMENTS
ho Knows the jnoerstive necessity oiradica rciorm IL