Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-16
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of contest for seats in which the papers in
dicated the regularity of the set of dele
| gates placed upon the rolls presented. Mr..
| Conger continued that on the papers filed
and statements made to the sub committee
| it was deemed unwise to decide respecting
| the contest in the District of Columbia,
and the subcommittee recommended that
both delegations be admitted to seats on
the floor and neither be entitled to vote
until the right to seats had been
determined by the convention:
There were no contests in the First and
Fourth district Of Virginia. In the mat
ter of the contested seats in the Second,
Third, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth,
Ninth and Tenth Virginia districts, the
committee recommended that both delega-
tions be admitted to seats without votes
until the convention determined the right
of the matter In regard to the delegates
at large from Virginia, the committee
voted to recommend that the delegates
headed by Senator Malone be placed on
the roll and admitted as delegates and that
the opposing delegation, headed by Y. d.
Groner, be admitted to seats as contest
ants.
The Virginia contests at once became a
matter of vigorous discussion, Lynch, the
colored member from Mississippi, Hooker,
of Vermont. and dozen others taking
part. After nearly an hours earnest de-
bate, Walter Evans, of Kentucky, en-
deavored to bring matters to head by
moving, as an amendment to the report of
the subcommittee, that the entire Malone
delegation from Virginia be placed on the
roll. The speech making continued I'm
abated. 1t was fully an hour longer be-
fore the Evans proposition came to vote.
Secretary Fessenden warmly opposed
Evans, while Brownlow, of Tennessee,
took the opposite side. The ayes and NAYS
were necessary to decide the
result. The call showed that the motion
to place on the convention roll the entire
Malone delegation was defeated-1S to l.
Immediately claim from Dakota for
ten seats in the conventiOn-not SlX-came
up and caused a another lively tilt The
idea was that Dakota is rightfully state:
not territory, and entitled to the null
representation of state. The proposition
did not involve any enlargement OF Dako-
ta's vote in the convention. 1t was mat
ter of seats, not votes. The committee
gave the larger number and, therefore,
It's moral support to Dakota's claim to
statehood. The report of the commit
tee TO prepare the convention roll was
then unanimously adopted, the only
change being in regard to Dakota. The
effect is to relegate to the action of the
credentials committee or convention itself,
the whole question of the Malone and
anti-Mahone contest in Virginia, both
sides temporarily being given seats in the
convention.
Mr.. Lawson moved that the several
state delegations be authorized each to
appoint messenger, except the states OF,
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and 1llii
nois, which shall each appoint two, all to
have the privileges Of the floor and be
under the charge of the sergeant-at- arms.
The motion was adopted, and General
Chas Fitzsimmons, of Chicago, the ser
geant-at-arms of the convention, was
presented to the national committee by
Mr. Clarkson.
General FitZSlmmonS was received warm
ly and created a very favorable impress
sion.
kilograms were read from Greed Hay
mond, of California, and NJ. d. Foley, of
Nevada, stating that the Pacific coast
delegates desired to present the name of
Morris NJ Estee, of California, for tenn
porary or permanent chairman and re-
questing that action by the national COM
mittee be suspended until the coastmen
arrived. The request met with no opposi-
ton. A number of member of the ma
tional committee itself are not here and
there will be no intention of making a
selection until as many as possible are
present.
Adjournment was taken until s p. N. to-
morrow.