St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-05
AND STILL NO CHOICE
The National Committee Un-
able to Agree Upon a
Chairman.
Lily Whites and South Caro-
linianS Knocked Out in
the Contests.
Anti Administration Forces
Badly Routed in These
Proceedings.
Generally Conceded That Pro-
lection Mckinley viii Be
Chairman.

The meeting Of the national commit
tee called for yesterday morning passed
Off without a vote being taken upon any
question which would show the strength
of the candidates. 1t was generally
considered that neither side was sure of
a majority, though both claimed to he
in control. The anti-Harrison men as
serted that they OUtnumbRred their Op-
pOnentS two TO one. The adjournment,
without touching upon the matter Of
temporary organization, vndicated the
accuracy of the report circulated that
nothing of Importance would be done
today, and the session would be de-
voted to the claims of c0nteSting dele
cations. ClarksOn called the committee
to order. There were six states and
one territory not represented either in
person or by proxy, the absent members
being During, of CalifOrnI9; Hamill, Of
Colorado; Manley. of Maine; Cheney,
of New Hampshire; Flynn. of Okla
homa; Hooker, Of Vermont, and CaYan-
naugh, of Washington.
GThe first business. after approving the
minutes of the previous session, was to
arrange the roll of uncontested dele
gates and refer the cOntesting delega-
UiOnS to subcommittee for investiga-
tiOn and report upon their claims. Con-
tests were reported flOm Alabama, the
whole state; the District of Columbia;
maryland. one district; Indiana, one
ldistrict (the Twenty-seyenth. Fort
.Nayne): Georgia, one district; Texas,
one district; Mississippi. all but three
districts; Louisiana. the whole state,
ana Utah.
Indian Territory Admitted.
Application was received from the In
dian territory asking for recognition and
admission to the convention. A motion
twas made by Mr.. Clayton, of Arkansas,
THAT the committee recommend TO the
.cOmmittee on credentials that the dete-
gates be admitted from the territory to
Ffhe convention. but without seats. The
motion was supported by a number of
members on the ground that
the Republicans everywhere should
be given every possible encourage
ment to increase in numbers and grow
lin interest and enthusiasm. The Oppo-
sitlon was legal iii its nature, that there
being no organization of state or terri
tory to be represented it would be set
llilE q pIcCtucNt IbT iHS dNiliSSlOn OF
Representatives from mass meetings and
such other irresponsible bodies. The
vote OH Mr.. ClaytOn'S motion resulted
lin a tie-l9 to -, anu was decided in the
affirmative by the vote Of Chairman
fClarkSOn, who was one of its most earn
est supporters. The delegates chosen
are Ridge, PaScoe and John S. BANNER.
Mr.. RyerSOn, of New Mexico, moved
that a recommendation be made to the
committee on credentials that six dele
gates be admitted from the territory.
The argument was made that the con-
ventiOn of 1855 established a precedent
for such action by the admission of the
ten delegates from the territory of Da-
kota before its division and admission
as two states. The appeal. backed as it
was by precedent, and having
the support Of the progressive
element in the committee, was
potent, and Mr.. RyerSOn'S motion pre-
vailed with thirteen dissenting votes.
The names of the four additional dele
gates thus recommended tor admission
are Nicholas COLES, Junao Whitmore,
TranQCilenO Luna, Miguel OterO.
COntesting Delegations.
The matter of disposing of the contest
for hearing was then considered, and it
was finally decided TO refer them. all,
save the Alabama and Utah cases, to a
subcommittee of seven, the excepted
contests each TO be submitted to a sub
committee of three. The committees
were named by Chairman Clarkson as
follows:
General-Messrs. Quay. New, Fessen-
den, Scott, Hansbrough, Clayton and
Hyde.
On Alabama-Mes5rs. Brady. Conger
and Fiiley.
Utah-MessrS. Warren. Leland and
Hobart.
1he first named committee was anti
administration TO 8, President Harri-
sons friends being New, Scott and
Clayton: the Alabama committee was
to l against Harrison, MeSsrs. Conger
and Filley being opposed to him. The
Utah committee are all Harrison men.
The subcommitTeeS we're Instructed
to hear the various contestants and re-
port to the full committee on Monday.
1t may be explained that the action of
the national committee in matters of
contests settles nothing finally. They
act only for the purpose OF making up
temporary roll. If the contestants, or
any of them. are not satisfied with the
action of the committee the contest may
be carried into the convention through
the committee OH credentials, and
there is nothing to prevent entirely
original contests being instituted for
the committee on credentials. The re-
port Of the subcommittee of the national
committee in charge of the preliminary
arrangements Of the committee was
then presented and adopted
On motion of Mr. Quay, the commit
tee then adjourned until l o'clock Mon
day afternoon.