The record-union., 1892-05-04
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celved a non-committal one. The COM
mittee simply reported that it had made
fair and honest investigation and had
prepared revised list of the delegates
entitled to vote in the convention.
The delegates looked at each other and
! then the question naturally arose as to
what the report was. After considerable
| changes were in seating the Del NOrte
delegation and the Burns-Wilson delega-
ton in the Thirty-sixth Assembly Dis
| trict of San Francisco. Then
| A LIGHT-HEADED MEMBER
Of the San Francisco delegation, who
| evidently did not know that the Commit
tee on Credentials had been at work, got
up and moved that all of the report be
adopted except that portion relating to
| the Thirty-siXth District, and he moved
as an amendment that the original Kelly
Crimmins delegates be substituted for
the Burns Wilson men who were seated
| by the committee.
Delegate Dorm, the champion of Kelly
| d CrimminS, took the floor and asked
the convention to vote down the amend
ment, as the trouble had been settled
| amendment had no second, and it was
not necessary to vote on it. A country
delegate gave the San Francisco delega-
| ton
A DRESSING DOWN,
Saying he hoped that the washing of San
! Francisco's dirty linen would not be tol-
Grated by the convention.
The report was then adopted. The re-
port of the Committee on Permanent
| Organization and Order of Business
RAN AGAINST A SNAG, TOO.
That part recommending Jacob Neff for
| permanent Chairman. the appointment
of r. L. Thomas and Eugene Lehe as
Secretaries, and II. w. Bachelor, w. IL.
Hanlon, II. A. Weaver and E. c. Denio
! Assistant Secretaries and some SergeantS-
alarms, went through all right. The
! committees recommendations on order
of business, however, got into deep water.
1t recommended the election Of four dele
gates at large and two alternates, by roll
call, to the National Convention-two
| delegates and two alternates to the same
! conVention-the election OF State Cen
! tral Committee of one from each assem-
| bly, district, and the selection of an EX-
ecutive Committee Of twenty-one MEM
| bers of the State Central Committee by
| the Chairman of this convention. Then
! the convention
| HAD SOME FUN WITH MAJOR ANDERSON
OF SACRAMENTO.
He moved that the report be divided so
as to leave the order OF business for Sepa-
rate action. He put the motion himself,
and by misunderstanding many voted
against the proposition, and then all
laughed at the discounted Major. The
/ latter, however, declared the motion car
ried, causing another laugh.
L. J. Niles Of Los Angeles moved an
amendment to the second part Of the re-
port, the pith of which was that persons
holding Federal, State, county or other
public Offices be disfranchised from serv-
| ing on the State Central Committee.
| W.; hat o1l fIn l. L.
J. n. Z. Wilson asked Niles what reason
there was for the amendment, and the
| latter replied. "The benefit of the Repub-
! lican party"
! This retort was received with great
cheers from the -Crimmins faction
in the San Francisco delegation. John
r. Dare opposed the amendment in
all the workers of the party who hap
pened to be fortunate enough to hold
office. These are the very men the party
needed. 1t would bar out such men as
Chairman Nef and Irwin c. Stump.
There was no sense in it, he said.
MORE TURBULENCE.
J. L. Murphy of Los Angeles said that
| although Niles, the mover of the amend
ment, was Los Angeles man, he did not
voice the sentiment of the delegation. He
/ was opposed to any such.
Walter More, also of Los Angeles, was
with Niles, however, and cried down
| Murphy.
| The discussion went on, pro and con,
and gradually rose in heat, and several
times the Sergeants-at-Arms had to be
called on to keep order. Dozens of dele
/ gates would shout for the floor at once.
! One venerable gentleman from the south
ern citrus belt, after shouting himself
! hoarse for permission to speak, ask ed
/ that the amendment be adopted so that
| the Federal officers could attend to their
duties.
After dozen or more speeches, Frank
| d. Ryan of Sacramento moved the mat
| ter be tabled, but this was declared out of
order, as it would cause the laying of the
original report on the table, too.
Then there were more speeches, during
| which George A. Knight of San Fran
cisco made one of his usual brilliant
| efforts. j. r. Lennon of Santa Rosa
| threw cold water on the talk by declaring
that they were wasting their wind over
| an unimportant matter. 1t was
NOT CASE OF LIFE OR DEATH
| To the Republican party. He was op-
! posed to the amendment, though. and
! hoped it would not prevail.
Judge Dibble of San Francisco made a
good point against the amendment. He
! said it was not a new proposition at all.
| The country has been fighting for the
principle involved IN the Niles amend
ment for twenty years. The object was
! to take the control OF the political ma
chinery out of the hands of those in
/ Office and prevent them from perpetual
| ing themselves in Office.
! Delegate McConoughey of San Diego
| tried to ease the strain by moving to
strike out of the report ali reference to
! the State Central Committee, but even
\ this did not hit the right spot Another
series of speeches followed, which were
onlivened by the
/ REAPPEARANCE OF THE CLOWN
/ OF the San Francisco delegation who had
created so much sport during the after
noon session. But his Nemesis was still
on hand and jerked the elusive delegate
| back into his seat.
Then, after more wranglinc, McCon-
/ oughey's motion to strike out the refer
ence to the Central Committee in the re-
port was finally put to a vote 1t seemed
as if every delegate in the hall voted ave.
/ Then, when the noes were called for.
there was the same unanimous vote
Then the roll had to be called. with the
result that the motion was ingloriously
defeated.
/ Then the previous question was moved.
! but nobody seemed to know by this time
what it was; but, with the aid of the sec
retaries II was announced that the con-
vention must vote on Niles original
amendment TO the committees report. A
uiva Uoce vote was taken first. and the
chair gave the opinion that the noes had