Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-04-10
MAY BE 918 OF THEM.
WHAT REPUBLICAN, MANAGERS MUST
 FIGURE ON AT ST. LOUIS.

COmmttree NOrrecbS some NAisStSeeAnSnoS
 as to the Size of the Convention-Utab
 to Have State Delegation.
 One of the curious things about the campaign for delegates to the Republic an national convention is the amount of transformation which is floating around the country in regard to the representa- tion at St. Louis, the total number of votes and the number necessary to 6 choice. Representatives of the different candidates have given out tables which are misleading, and the newspapers have differed widely in this regard. To settle the matter the secretary of the Republican national committee, Joseph Manley, was asked for the facts based on the proceedings of the committee and the official call.
 ''This call provides, he said, that each congressional district shall have two delegates, elected in the usuual man. ner. In addition to these each state is entitled to four delegates at large ill its own right and two additional delegates for each congressman at large, If any. In other words, the states will be repre- sented in the convention by twice as many delegates as they have senators and representatives. There are now 90 senators and 357 representatives, or a total of AT, in congress, so the states will have twice that number, or 894 delegates. In addition to these the call provides absolutely for the election of two delegates each from the territories of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklaho- ma, the District of Columbia and the unorganized Indian Territory and Alas ka. This is total of 12, which makes the convention consist absolutely of 906 delegates.
 "When the call was issued, Utah was still territory and entitled to only two delegates, but since then it has become a state, and it may send six delegates to St. Louis, and they are so included in the figures given. When the roll is made up by the national committee, therefore the convention should contain 906 dele gates, of which 454 would be necessary to a choice. The national committee, however, recommended to the people of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma that they should elect four additional delegates, making the total for each ter ritory six, the same as the smallest state, instead of two as designated i'll the call. They were given the full six votes at Minneapolis, and probably there will be no objection to doing so again. There is no provision for extra delegates from the District of Colum- bia, Indian Territory and Alaska, which must remain content with two, as they have not even territorial form of gov ernment.
 If the additional delegates from the three organized territories are admitted, as will probably be the case, the full convention will consist of SIS delegates, of whom 460 will be necessary to the choice of candidate. Tosum up, there- fore, 1 will say that the convention, when it meets, will have authority un- der the call to swell it's number at once to SIS, and this will probably be dono at once, although the convention must decide for itself, as the national com mittee has no further authority i'll the matter. !"
 Among some of the Republican lead CTS strong movement is on foot to cut off Alaska and Indian Territory from representation in future conventions. It is represented that they have but small fraction of voters and should not be al lowed to possess the political influence they now wield. Alaska is a great tract of barren country, for the most part de- void of population, and is not yet even deemed worthy of being organized into a territory. It's chances for statehood are remote, to say the least. Yet Alaska has a member of the national committee, and ill all party questions it has as much of voice as Illinois or New York.
 There will be a sentiment cropping out in the convention to deprive Alaska and Indian territory of representation on the national committee, possibly leaving them their delegates in the con vention, who are too few to amount to much, but whose strength is wonderful ly compounded when transferred to the committee. There is similar opposition in the case of the District of Columbia, though it is not so strong. The Repub- licans of the District never have an cleo tion of any kind except to elect two del egates to the national convention, and one of those two goes on the national committee.
 Though representing not single vote at the election, Colonel Perry Carson, the giant colored man who now repre- sents the district and who probably will again, has just as big vote in the com mittee as Clarkson or Manley or ex- Governor Fifer. The representatives of the big states have long chafed over this state of affairs, and there is formida- ble movement going on to limit the na- tional committee, which is responsible for the conduct of the campaign, to states only, as they do the voting, leav- ing the territories to have their say only ill the convention. Chicago Tribune.
 Billy Brady's Offer to Frank sIavin.