Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-06-21
THE CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE
Had Time of 1t with the Virginia Case
Reasons for the Report.

| Had n Time of 1t with the Virginia Case
Reasons for the Report
| CHICAGO, June 21-After continues
session of six hours yesterday the committee
on credentials came to an agreement upon
the Virginia contest It decided to recon.
mend to the convention that the four Malone
delegates-at-large-Jo G.. Watts, A. II.
Harris, 7. S. Brown Allen, and Gen. William
MahOne-be declared the regular delegates
and he seated accordingly; that neither the
regular nor the contesting delegation from
| the Ninth district be admitted, and that the
| Wise delegates in the Second, Third, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh Eighth, and Tenth districts
be recognized as the regularly elected dele
gates. There were no contests in the First
and Fourth districts, and the Malone dele
| gates hold their places. The decision ga We
Wise fourteen of the delegation and Malone
eight This deprived Sherman of fourteen
| votes, as, had Malone carried the day, the
entire delegation would have ranged itself
under the Ohio banner The Wise contingent
| is divided between the various candidates
Very stormy indeed, according to all &C
| counts, the session of the committee.
| Gen Malone was excluded from the room
while it was in progress. The case for the
| Wise contestants was summed up by Con-
| gresham Brady, after oral arguments had
| been made on behalf of both delegations.
| There times when the discussion was of
| the most acrimonious and personal charac-
| ter. There was not a man of the committee
| but what breathed more freely when the an
| nouncement was made that the case on both
sides was closed, and the resolution to go
| into executive session was adopted with a
resonant "aye," and audible expressions of
| satisfaction and relief. The representatives
of both sides having withdrawn, the
committee made haste to get
down to business. 1t was gen
orally agreed that the Malone delegates
at-large had been selected by the properly
constituted state convention, and the vote to
recognize them was una nimous. There was
good deal of discussion over the case OF
the Ninth district, and Mahones friends on
the committee made the most of the evidence
adduced tending to show that only three peo-
pie attended the district convention
A call of the roll was ordered, and ma
jority voted in favor of the recognition of
the Malone delegates, NJ. B. Wood and w.
A French. But just here the point of order
was made that the delegates just seated were
ineligible from the fact that they
had been elected at the state con-
vention, in violation of the terms of the call
of the national committee which provided
that district delegates must be elected by
district conventions. This argument carried
SO much "elght that n reconsideration OF the
previous action carried. and by n vote of 2s
to il it was decided to exclude the Mahoneites
and leave the district without representa-
ton As the Malone delegates in the Sec
Ond, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Tenth
districts had also been elected by the state
convention, while the Wise men had held
district conventions, the same rule held good
and the Wise men carried the day in all dis
tricts by the same vote, y to 10.