The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-06-22
RepusLicAM COMMITTEE.

REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE.
wsnas saarase Advocate neard-rhs
Virginia Contests-Daketa's Claim.
CHICAGO. June 16--When the Repu blican
National COMMITTEE met last night Mrs.
Isabelle Beecher Hooker, the well known
woman suffrage advocate, was granted
ten minutes at her request to present her
cause, and the secretary was instructed to
wait upon her. and in the meantime, on
motion OF Mr.. Conger, Of Ohio.
next Monday was fixed as the date
when each State delegation to the
National convention should meet and
elect chairman and one member to serve
Is vice-president aud one each on the COM
mittees on credentials, permanent organ
izati0n, rules and order Of business, plat
form and resolutions and the National Re-
publican Committee Mrs. Hooker, white
haired and stately, entered With
Secretary Fessenden and lady
friend, and spoke clearly and
well, arousing laughing enthusi-
assn by an offer that if the committee would
endeavor to have q woman suffrage plank
inserted in the convention platform she
would guarantee them . hundred woman
speakers in the coming canvass who would
sweep the Republican party into power to
stay AS long rs 1t pleased. Her plank was
received On behalf II the committee by the
secretary.
Mr.. Conger, from the subcommittee ap.
pointed to prepare the roll Of the conven-
,iop, reported that there was y number Of
contests for seats in which the papers in.
dictated the regularity Of the set Of dele
gate, placed upon the rolls presented. He
continued that on the papers filed and
statements made TO the subcommittee, it
was deemed unwise to decide respecting
the contest in the District OF Columbia, and
the sub committee recommended that both
delegations be admitted to seats on tho
floor and neither be entitled to vote until
the right to sets had been de-
termined by the convention. There were
NJ contests in the First and Fourth dis.
tiicts Of Virginia. In the matter OF the
contested seats in the Seconi, Third, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth
Virginia districts the committee recon-
mended that both delegations be admitted
to seats without votes until the convention
determined the right of the matter. In re-
gard to the delegates at large from Nir-
gina the committee voted to recommend
that the delegates headed by Sena-
tor Malone be placed on the roll and ad-
mittCd as delegates, and that the opposing
delegation, headed by v. d. Groner, be adj
mitted TO seats as contestants.
The Virginia contests ut once became
matter of vigorous discussion, Lynch. the
colored member from Mississippi, Hooker,
Of Vermont and a dozen others taking part.
After nearly an hours debate Walter
Evans, OF Kentucky. endeayored 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. But the speech making continued
undated and it was fully an hour longer
before the Evans proposition came 10
vote. Secretary Fesseadel warmly OPP
posed Evans, while Brownlow, of Tennes-
see. took the opposite side, and the ayes
and noes were necessary to decide the re-
suit. The call showed II 1t 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 c0nvention-not six-came up
and caused another lively tilt. The idea
was that Dakota was rightiully State,
not Territory. and entitled to the full rep
resentation of State. The proposition
did not involve any enlargement Of
Dskota's vote in the convention. 1t was
matter of seats, not votes. The committee
gave the larger number and therefore its
moral support to Dakota's claim to State.
hood.
The report of the committee to prepare
the convention roll was then unanimously
adopted, the only change being that in re-
gard to Dakota. The effect is to relegate
to the action Of the credentials committee,
or convention itself, the whole question OF
the Malone and nti-Mabone 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
a Messenger, except the States of New
York, Pennsylva Ohio and Illinois,
which should each appoint two. all to have
the privileges of the floor and be under the
charge of the sergeant at arms. The mo-
ton was adopted and General Charles
Fitzmmons, OF Chicago, the sergeant-at
arms of the convention. was presented to
the National Committee by Mr.. Clarkson.
He was received warmly.
kilograms were read from Greed Hay
mond, of California, and N. d. Foley, of
Nevada, stating that the Pacific coast dele
gates desired to present the nsme Of
Morris M. Estee, of California, for tempo. |
rary or permanent chairman and request |
ing that action by the National Committee |
be suspended until the coas, men should ar.
rive. This met with no opposition |