The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1892-08-04
JUDICIAL CONVENTION
FULL REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS
OF THE FIRST DAY.
The Committee on Credentials in Session Al
the Afternoon and Way Into the
Night Wrangling Over Con-
testing Delegations.

Promptly at 2 o'clock the conven
ton as called to order by Chairman
j. j. Faulk of Travis county, VIII
stated the object of the convention t.
be the nomination of three justices o
the civil court of appeals, for this, tn
Third Supreme Judicial district. HI
asked that partisan feeling be KEEP
out of the deliberations of the dele
gates and that harmony prevail. HI
then declared nominations for tempo
rary chairman to be in order.
Mr.. r. H. Ward of Travis, Offered
the name of Hon. r.. l.. Bate of Bias
trop county, and there being no fur
Their nominations, on motion of Col
Ferg Kyle of Hays county he was
elected by reclamation.
Chairman Faulk then appointed
Messrs. Ward and Kyle committee
to conduct the new chairman to the
platform where he fittingly acknowl.
edged the honor thus conferred.
At this point in the proceedings
Judge Wood of Hays county stated
that while there were two delegations
from his county they had settled their
differences and that they had agreed
to divide the vote of the county.
Chairman Bats declared nomlna-
tions for temporary secretary to be in
order, and on motion of Judge Hud-
son of Frio county Marsh Burney of
Atascosa county was unanimously
elected to fill the position.
Mr.. John f.. Crawford of Robertson
county moved that two commit
tees, one on credentials and basis
of representation and one on perma-
nent organization and order of bust
ness, be selected, there being one dele
gate from each of the senatorial dis
tricts or fraction thereof represented
in the convention on each of the COM
mittees.
A recess of ten minutes was taken
in order to allow the districts time to
make their selections, after which the
following were made:
Committee on credentials and basis
of representation:
No. g. Col. e. r.. Lane, proxy, Ma.
varro; IL, N. II. Tracy, Milan; y,
w. h. Boyd, Freestone; 10, II. f.
Harris, Lee; 20, J. G. Cook, Burnet:
81, Thos. Mcneil, Gonzales; 22, e. r.
Lane, Live Oak; %, A. e. Atlee,
Webb; "a, r. H. Burney, Kerr; Is,
III. G. Carter, Val Verde; 2G, w. M.
Allison, San Saba, and 81, S. r.
Caruth, BOsque.
Committee on permanent organiza-
tion and order of business:
No. o, Col. e. II. Lane (proxy for
Navarro); II. G. +. Thomas, McLen-
nan; II, l.. b. Cobb, Limestone; 10, j. |
b. b. Laird, Bastrop; 20, j. w. Parker,
Williamson; q, j. w. Baines, Blanco;
%, b. f. Ballard, Wilson; 23,J.O.
Nicholson, Webb; "a, A. w. Mour.
sand; 25, w. ID. Cochran, Tom Green;
rs, III. 1. Sims, Coleman, and 81, w.
b, Abney. Lampasas.
In order to give the committee time
to prepare their reports an adjourn.
ment was taken until o'clock.
AT the above time Chairman Bats
again called the convention to order
and stated that the committee on
credentials would not be ready to re.
port for two or three hours, whereupon
the convention took a recess until $50
O'clock.
NIGHT SESSION.
AT $3.50 o'clock the convention was
again called to order, it being thought
that by that time the committee on
credentials would be ready to report.
such was not the case however, and
On motion of Judge Cochran of Tom
Green, another recess was taken, this
time until 10 o'clock.
In the meantime the committee on
credentials was sitting behind closed
doors, wrestling with the contests
from Bexar and Coryell counties, the
ormer causing the greatest trouble.
At 1915 the chair raped for
order and stated that the
had not concluded their
'eport and asked what was the pleas
Ire of the convention.
Judge Cochran moved that a COM
nittee be appointed to wait on the
committee on credentials and find out
when they would probably have their ,
'eport ready.
The chair appointed Judge Cochran
II Tom Green, Captain Blair OF McLen-
ian and Mr.. Chinn of Travis. The ;
Immediately withdrew and
n few minutes reported that the
would not be able to report
Until this morning, whereupon the
convention adjourned until 0 O'Clock
his morning.
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION.
The committee on permanent organ
cation and order of bushes organized
~ the election of j. w. Parker of
county, chairman. They
concluded to recommend that the
order of business be as follows:
First-Nomination of a chief Justice.
Second-Nomination of Cwo ascot
ate justices.
rehabilitation of an executive
chairman of the district.
For permanent chairman-L. j.
Storey of Caldwell county.
For permanent ecretary-Marsh
Burney of Atascosa county.
For assistant secretaries-C. NJ. Cal
Iaway of Travis, and two others,
Later in the evening, however,
lhe committee was again
called to OF der and the name of r. l..
Bats substituted for that of Storey,
.he latter having declined to accept
Jhe honor, as he was the floor man