The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-06-21
Meetipe Of the National Oommit.es.

St1lCACOs To- hO
national committee got to actual work
tonight but before taking up the bust
ness in hand, however, Mrs. isabelle
Hooker, a well known woman
suffrage advocate, was granted few
minutes at her request to present her
cause to the committee. The secre-
tary was instructed to wait upon Mrs.
ton of Mr.. Conger, of Ohio, next Mon
day, June IS, was fixed as the date
when each state delegation
to the national convention
should meet and elect chairman of
their delegation and one member to do
service as vice-president and one
each on the committee of credentials,
permanent organization, rules and
order of business, platform and nation
al republican committee.
Mrs. Hooker, white haired and state
ly, entered with Secretary Fessenden
and lady friend. She spoke clearly
and well arousing laughter and en-
thusiasm by an offer that if the
committee would endeavor to
have woman suffrage plank
inserted in the convention platform
they would guarantee a hundred wo-
men speakers in the coming canvass
who would sweep the republican party
into power to stay as long as 1t pleased.
The plank offered by Mrs. Hooker was
read on behalf of the committee by the
secretary.
Conger, from the subcommittee ap-
pointed to prepare the roll of the con-
vention, reported that there were
number of contests for seats,
regularity of the set of delegates
placed upon the rolls presented. Mr..
Conger continued that on the papers
fled and statements made to the sub
committee it was deemed unWise to de-
eide respecting the contest in the Dis
trict of Columbia, and the sub-cOmmit-
tee recommended that both delega-
lions be admitted to seats on the floor
and neither be entitled 20 vote until
the right to seats had been determined
by the convention. There were no con-
tests in the First and Fourth districts
of Virginia. In the matter of the con-
tested seats in the Second, Third, Fifth,
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and
Tenth Virginia districts the committee
recommended that both delegations be
admitted to seats without votes until
the convention determined the right of
the matter. In regard to the delegates
at large for 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 delegates head
ed by v. ID. GrOner be admitted to
seats as contestants.
The Virginia contests at once be-
came a matter of rigorous discussion,
Lynch, the colored member from Miss
issippi; Harker, of Vermont, and a
dozen others taking part. After near
ly an hours earnest debate, Walter
Evans, of Kentucky, endeavored to
bring matters to a head by moving
as an amendment to the report of the
subcommittee that the entire Mahone
delegation from Virginia be placed on
the roll. The speech making contin-
ued undated, and it was fully
an hour longer before the
Evans proposition came to a
opposed Evans while Brownlow, of
| Tennessee, took the opposite side. The
ayes and nays were necessary TO decide
| the result and the call showed that
| the motion to place on the convention
roll the entire Malone delegation was
| defeated.
Immediately a claim from Dakota
for ten seats in the convention, dot
six, came up and caused another lively
/ time. The idea was that Dakota is
| riehtfully state, not territory, and
entitled to the full representation of q
state. The proposition did not involve
any enlargement of Dakota's vote II
the convention; it was matter Of
seats, not votes. The committee gave
the larger number and therefore it
moral support to Dakota's clam K
statehood.
The report of the committee to pre-
pare the convention roll was theI
unanimously adopted, the only chang
being that in regard to Dakota. Tn
effect is to relegate to tn.
action of the credentials committe
OF the convention itself the Who'll
question of the Malone and anti Ma
! hone contest IN Virginia, both side
convention.