The morning call., 1894-07-15

that the hotel was stuffed, the mem bers
meant that suffers had given the Dec den.
tai as their place of resldence-in fact
they did not live there
Fitzgerald smiled and then went on to
say that he had not been able to get hold
CT the original roll OF the district, in spite
of the repeated orders from the committee
to Secretary Sayles to deliver it to him.
IT'S not The property of the secretary
nor the president of the club, nor of the
canvassing committee" declared Clunie.
IL is public properly. ANY member of
the club has right to see ii. This CON-
mittee has been repeatedly set at naught,
and it is about time this sort of thing was
stopped"
Secretary Cusick made a statement to
the effect that he had seen Sayles, and
that that officer had said that he ddn'
have the roll, but that he would get 1t and
produce it at the meeting of the COM
mttee.
We'll wait and see if be does" said the
chairman, calling for the next district.
An hour later Mr.. Sayles had not made
his appearance, and Clunle then moved
that unless the secretary OF the club
should produce The original roll on Monday
and permit Fitzgerald to get from it the
addresses of the supposed suffers on
his list new enrolment be ordered in
the Forly-ffth, under the direction of the
primary committee, and the primary be
governed by the new list. This was car
ried. although Major Harvey raised the
point that the committee was exceeding
its powers in taking the enrolment out O (
the hands of the district committee. There
was long discussion over this, Andy
Clunle arguing that the committee could
d o what il chose. All power, he said, was
vested in the general committee, and the
general committee, when it appointed the
primary committee, had given it under its
resolution all the power originally repOsed
in itself. There was nothing in the plan
providing for the purging Of the rolls. and
the general committee had selected the
primary committee for that duty, giving it
full power to act. $50 you see that we are
something Of a committee" said Boss
Peppers right-hand man.
Harvey argued in vain. Pepper and
the others consider that they have supreme
control, and they evnce disposition to
use their power to the fullest extent.
Nealy Murphy produced list of 237
names, which he said should be stricken
from the roll in the Forty-frst, but like
Fitzgerald Murphy had failed to give the
addresses, because he said Secretary
Doyle had refused to let him see the orig
inal roll. The committee refused to &C.
cept the list without the residences. An
other order was issued upon Doyle to pro-
duce the roll and if he does not the COM
mittee will probably order a new enroll
ment in this district
Otto Keeper, chairman of the district
comm ttee, and George Seacamp, chairman
of the cauvaSslng committee of the fOrty-
fourth, came in with list Of eighty-seyen
persons to be cited TO show cause. They
also had a plaint. SeacamD said that by
virtue of his Office he had called meeting
Of the ranvassing committee 10 Bersagiieri
Hall, and that as soon as the committee
was called to order j. j. Walsh of the
majority carried motion to adjourn to the
backroom of saloon. They tried to grab
the roll.
ibid they get ii % inquired member of
the committee.
NO" said Keeper. "Seacamp held on
to it and got away with it,"
Chairman Pepper told the committee
that he had spoken to the Election Com
missiOners about getting the booths used
at general elections, and had been told
that the Democrats might have them for
day. Mr.. Pepper thought it good plan
t. get them, as it would avoid disputes
about the location of the voting places.
There would be the usual effort 10 have
the voting in or near certain saloons, and
this would Illustrate all such schemes. II
would cost S13 90 to put up each booth.
and. as there would be eighteen of them.
the expense would reach S243. The COM
mlttee decided to secure the booths and
locate them in the centers of the districts.
Tomorrow night meetings will be held
in all the districts to nominate candidates
for members of the new general commit
tee to be voted for at the primary. In the
Thirty fifth District the meeting place will
be in Carr's Hall, Twenty-fourth and
Mission streets. In the Thirty-first the
club will meet in Trades union Hall.
1859 Mission street. Secretary Cusck has
been instructed to advertise complete
list of the meeting places In The CALL
and other papers.
Colonel d. NJ. Burns returned from the
south yesterday on the steamer Mexico.
and went Immediately to his home. He