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inally engaged by Chairman Gilkeson.

inally engaged by Chairman Gllkeson.
Seventy-elght members were present.
Temporary Chairman Cooper called for
the report of the subcommittee on creden-
tials, and Lieutenant Governor Lyman,
chairman of the committee, reported in
favor of the Quay delegates in the First
and Fifth wards of Philadelphia and the
delegate favorable to Quay in Wyoming
County. Progress was reported, and leave
asked, to sit again with respect to the North
Cumberland and other contested delega-
tions.
The report was adopted and the State
committee met again at II CLOCK tonight
to hear the final report on credentials.
With respect to the Philadelphia contests
the committee found that Delegates Bayer-
lin, Grey and Fulmer, the Quay men, car
ried twenty-nine divisions of the FirstW ard
and Senator Becker carried fourteen of the
eighteen divisions of the Fifth Ward.
AS to the Wyoming contest the commit
tee found that R. P. Northrop, the Hast
ing's delegate, was chosen at a convention
called last January to fill vacancy in
Congress and this was in violation of q
long-standing rule of the party, which pro-
vided that delegates to State conventions
must not be elected more than six months
before the meeting of the convention.
81 have won this fight, for without the
contestants have more than majority
of the delegates to the State convention
tomorrow"
Thus spoke Senator Quay at IL O. clock
tonight after caucus of the Quay dele
gates had been held in the Board of Trade
rooms. The rollcall at the caucus showed
1853 Quay delegates present. 6 of whom
are .contestants-5 from Philadelphia and
from Wyoming County. As there are
289 delegates in the convention, 145 neces-
sarily being a majority, it is evident that
the Senator's claim is well founded and
that the most bitter fight that has ever
been waged in the ranks of the Republican
party in Pennsylvania, with Senator Quay
on one side and Governor Hastings and
Chairman Gilkeson on the other. is at an
end.
A caucus of the administration delegates
was also held tonight in the Supreme
Court chamber, but it was very brief, and
no estimate of the strength of the anti
Quay faction there developed was given
out.
The State committee, which is favorable
to Quay, met at II o'clock tonight and
appointed subcommittee of nine to re-
quest conference with the administra-
ton leaders regarding the use of the
opera-house by both factions and thus
have but one convention. Chris Magee of
Pittsburg, David Martin of Philadelphia,
Governor Hasting and other anti-Quay
leaders consented to meet the committee
and a secret conference began between the
factions at the Commonwealth Hotel at
midnight.
At Ia. NJ. the conference was still in
progress The Quay people announce that
they will be willing TO meet in the
opera-house if the hall will be cleared of
"shouters" and the convention allowed to
proceed in parliamentary manner.
Senator Quay, it was stated late tonight,
is willing to have the six Superior Court
Judges who were appointed by the Cover
nor on June 27 renominated tomorrow
This is the administration programme and
the Senator will make the concession, it is
said, in the interest of harmony.
The conference ended shortly before 2
o'clock this wednesday, morning. It
was announced that the conferees had
reached an agreement and there would be