The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-06-16

young New York leaders, while Law
son, grim and intent, has been IA
miliar figure in previous conventions.
"The convention will please come to
Order,n said Chairman Mckinley at
precisely $50. Chauncey M. Depew
at once secured recognition,a and moved
congratulations by the convention to
Hon. r. w. Thompson of Indiana on
ais eighty-third birthday, which oc-
cured today, and inviting him to the
platform.
Cheers followed the motion, and
without single dissent the motion
was carried and the venerable ex7
secretary of the navy, escorted by
Depew and A. G. Dawes of Missouri,
walked to the platform, where he adj
dressed the convention.
A resolution admitting the Grand
Army men was then reported and
adopted, followed by the reading OF
messages from the mayors of Titus
vile and Oil City appealing for pub
lie aid.
Regular order was then announced
by Chairman Mckinley to be the re-
port of the committee on credentials,
and he recognized General
Cogswell of Massachusetts,, chair.
man of the committee, who
announced that the work of the COM
mittee had been completed short
time before; that it would be neces-
sary to report verbally unless the con-
vention desired to wait for written
report.
Wallace on behalf of minority gave
notice of disagreement in the com.
mittee and submitted his written re-
port. Chairman Mckinley received
it, stating that it would be considered
after the majority report should be
ended. Mr.. Cogswell then took the
floor and stated that the committee
had considered twenty-four con-
tested cases. He then submit
ted a list of the uncontested
delegates same as that submitted by
the national committee to the tempo
rary organization and asked that it
be accepted except in cases which he
would mention later. He then pro-
ceeded to give the following resume OF
the action of the credentials commit
tee:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at large, Nose
ly contestants seated in the Third,
Fourth, Fifth and Eighth districts,
anti Moselyites seated in the Ninth
district.
Kentucky-Sixth district, Matthews
and Westell seated, reversing the &C
ton of the national committee.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS at large, KEEL
logg faction seated, First and Sixth
districts; Yarmouth faction seated in
the Second and Fourth.
The Second and Fourth districts
supplied and Cummings seated, Brin-
ton and Clay being unseated.
Mississippi The delegation at large
divided. The Lynch and Hill fac
tions getting two votes each! The
Seventh district seated members
Eugenbarth and Perkins retain their
places.
South Carolina-The white Repub
l1can contestants were given no recog.
milton, the Crum delegates being re-
tanned.
North Carolina - Fourth district
John Nichols, whose contested seal
John A. Williams secured. In the
Sixth district Smith and Gordon were
given places by the national commit
tee continued therein. Seventh dis
/ trict, Mott who was given one vote by
, the national committee divides tive
f votes of the district evenly with Wal
zer and Bailey.
The Texas LILLY White" contest
, ants who failed to establish theil
claims before the national COMMITTEES
/. also failed before the credentials com
mittee. The Quincy delegation wer'
, not disturbed.
District Columbia = Carson anC
Gleason, sitting members, maintain
their position.
/ The Utah delegation is divided
, Salisbury and Cannon being givel
one vote, Goodwin two and Walins
the other.
In the Utah case Cogswell re
, marked that Salisbury who was {
member of the credentials committee
desired his dissent to the action of tn
committee in his own case to be votel
, on. General Cogswell added, if tn
convention decided that the Indial
Territory and Alaska were entitled f.
, seats in the convention, the commit
: tee was able at any time to repor
upon the case of those respective ter
, ritories. At the conclusion of Cogs
Wells remarks Wallace of New
York, in behalf of the majority, ad
] dressed the chair.
Wallace called for the reading b,
the secretary of a report submitted b.
him in behalf of the minority in re
, gard to delegates at large and from
he Ninth district of Alabama. A
the conclusion of the reading Chair
, man Coggeswell of the COMMITTEE
, moved that the majority report b.
, adopted, the motion being received
with loud cheers by the Harrison dele
gates, and when Chauncey L. Filley O
, Missouri offered a substitute to tn
minority report, the applause which
followed from the Blaine delegate
, showed to the galleries that the lonl
} expected fight between Blaine ant
| Harrison forces was on. The chic
! point in Filley's argument in behal
, of the minority was that the regula
organization of the party in Alabama
has been debarred from the regular
place of meeting by United State
deputy marshals. Massey OF Della
ware, maintained that the committe,
had considered its report upon it,
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