Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-06-08
RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE.
j. II. Forpiser Captures the Chairman
ship-The sub-Committees Appointed.

ship-The sub-Committees Appointed.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, June NO less q
person than Ex-Governor Foraker, or ONO,
was chosen as Chairman OF the Committee
on Resolutions, and he 1t is, therefore, VINO
will have the honor 10 tlrst voice IN the Ma
tional Convention, the official declarations
upon which the coming Presidential cam
paign will be fought by Republicans, no
matter who is their nominee.
The first meeting of the committee oe-
gan Immediately after the adjournment OF
the convention, and before the slower menu
bers had realized what was going on, Gov
ernor Foraker was at the helm. 1t came
about like flash.
Delegate Oliver, of Pennsylvania, on en-
tering the room, raped Immediately for
order, briskly named Foraker for the place
and getting q prompt seconder put the
motion, and announced that 1t was car
ried and Governor Foraker was the man.
If there was any idea Of opposition 1t had
no chance to develop and the hearty ayes
of the lively Ohioan's friends on the COM
mittee went wholly unchallenged by any
hostile negatives.
When the committee had caught its
breath after the liGhtning-like election,
Governor Gear, Of lowe, offered sugges-
ton which was adopted after some desul-
ton of the platform be referred TO five sub
committees of five members each. One
topic was TO be assigned to q sub-commit-
tee. the division to be as follows:
First, tariff; second, silver; third, elec-
tions; fourth, foreign relations; nth, mis-
cellaneous subjects
Governor Foraker announced that he
would name the members Of the five sub
committees at + p. m, and the meeting
quickly scattered, with 5 p. m. set for the
hour for re-asSembllng.
Governor Foraker, after looking over the
list Of members when he reached his hotel,
made the appointments Of the, sub-commit-
tees as follows:
Tariff. w. Oliver. Pennsylvania; J..
G.. Gar. Iowa: j. w. Bourne, Jr., Oregon ;
David r. Pierce, New Hampshire; George
Denny, Jr., Kentucky.
SiEer-Lucius Fairchild, Wisconsin {;
JOIN p. Jones, Nevada; Joseph G. Can
non, Illinois; J. Il. A. Prackett, Massa-
ohusetts; Henry NJ Teller, Colorado.
Electious-Newton Hacker, Tennessee; ;
James p. Platt, Connecticut: Edmund
Waddill, Virginia; A. S. Fowler, Arkan-
sas: Charles Austin, Michigan.
Foreign Relations-George A. Knight,
California; c. F. Libby, Maine; John A.
Hutchinson, West Virginia; R'mund
O'Conuor, New York; w. p. Hepburn,
Idaho
Miscellaneous Matters-O. E. Learned,
Kansas; James II. Wilson, Delaware; G.
+. Griffin, Idiana; Frank j. Harris, Rhode
Island: Edward G.. Ericsson, South Dakota.
Talk of big row in regard TO silver was
current when the full platform committee
re-assembled at night. The silver men
were reported as claiming that they had
been promised a majority on the sub-com-
mittee and that the promise had not been
fulfilled.
Jones and Teller, two Of the members of
the subcommittee, were easily recognized
as pronounced free silver men, but Common
snd Bracket were said 70 be as positively
against the white metal, with Fairchild's
leaning strongly toward the hostile party
making it three TO two against silver.
The silver men were said 10 be angry al
the delay Of the subcommittee IN postpon-
ing meeting until the full committee was
in session. As q matter of fact. however,
no one of the sub committees has been able
TO get together, no hour nor place,of assemb-
ling having been settled upon previous 70
the scattering of the full committee a. its
hurried first meeting.
The membership Of the sub committees,
too, though the list was quickly posted by
Governor Foraker, as he promised, did not
become very generally known 10 the dele
, gates most directly interested, owing 10 a
combination Of misunderstanding
The meeting Of the subcommittee
promises 70 last long past midnight.