The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-16

tee Adjourns-Carter's Farewell.
ST. LOUIS, June 1.-THE Republic
can national committee had under con-
sideration today the resolution offered
by MIR. Payne of Wisconsin. providing
for a change of basis of representation
in the national convention. Mr.. Payne
has amended the resolution since first
prepared. As presented it is as fol-
lows
Resolved That the national COM
nittee recommend to the convention
that hereafter the basis of represen-
taGion from the several states shall be
fixed at four delegates an large and
one additional delegate for each 1000
votes or majority fraction thereof cast
in each state for the Republican cleo
toral ticket at the last preceding elec-
ton, and that each territory and tine
District of Columbia be entitled to six
Delegates and THAT the delegates be ap-
poqtioned to the several congressional
districts of each state upon the same
basis
Mr. Payne made a speech in support
Of the amendment, saying that the
states who cast Republican votes
should have an increased representa-
ton at the conventions, and that the
representation ought to be ON the
BASIS OF REPUBLICAN VOTES.
If he said, Nevada casts $4,000
Republican votes and Mississippi, for
: instance casts the same number, Ne
| vada should have the same repreSen-
tafion in congress that Mississippi
has, but that cannot be under the
/ present system"
He declared that the Republicans of
| the north were emphatic in their de-
mard for reform in this respect. He
hoped that the time would come when
the Republicans of the south would be
able to cast an increased vote, and
insure it's being counted, but under
! existing circumstances he thought the
! proposed change necessary and hoped
| the committee would recommend the
change to the convention.
/ Mr.. Clayton opposed action on the
resolution by the committee, contend
ing that the question was a proper one
for the convention. to deal with, but
| not for the committee. He, however,
would vote for the consideration of
the question, and he would not say
that he would not vote for this or
some similar proposition in the con-
vention, but he did not believe the
national committee had any power to
consider it. His good friend, Mr.
Payne, he said, seemed to doubt the
south. The southern Republicans had
been told that they must work out
THEIR OWN SALVATION,
and they had been trying to do
that. Furthermore, he declared, grow
ing very earnest. they would have
succeeded if they had been left alone.
IF northern money had been kept
out of the south there would be no
reason for the charges now made" a.
southern member interrupted to say
Continuing, Mr.. Clayton said ne re-
ferred to no especial candidates effort
to control in that section, but that all
influence from the outside was per-
nicioUs. Yet, bad as were affairs in
the south, they were no worse than it
had been shown that they were in
some of the great northern states, to
which the resolution proposed to give
: more representation.
Mr.. Leonard of Louisiana supported
the resolution, saying he hoped to new
er again see a presidential candidate
NOMINATED BY SOUTHERN
l VOTES
and defeated at the polls.
Mr.. Hill of Mississippi complained Of
! MI Payne's want of consistency ir
[ proposing to take three votes from
Mississippi and add six to- the Dis
trict of Columbia. He denounced the
plan as one calculated to disfranchist
: the south on the democratic plan.
= Mr. Sutherland supported the propo
ciF in ha
: have to hear the recital of such dis
: graceful scenes as had been detailed
/ here during the past week. HI
: thought the national committee shoult
. be instructed to require the certificate
of all delegates by the state commit
e tee.
;. Mr. Youngblood of Alabama mad
quite sensational though brief speed
|. in opposing the resolution.
f 1--WE will be all right in the south,
he said. eff you will keep your boodl
S and emisearies of your candidates from
a. the north at home 1t is just as wei
e to be plain about it; this is the infiu
:. i ence which demoralizes the south
|. When a campaign is on, the south i
e overrun by these emissaries, who com
o among Us. get our men out and Civ
r them money to fix things for their can
S didates The money seldom goes far
;. Their than to the first man to whom it
= handed, but it has
A PERNICIOUS INFLUENCE
s all the same. Now, repeat, just kee
e your corruption allies at home an
= your Doodle, Also
vt Continuing, he said that the souther
J. Republicans conducted themselve
with all due decency until 1880, whe
:, men were sent through the south t
s corrupt the vote in favor of Blaine g
If against General Grant and asserte
" that the man who was responsible fl
If the inauguration of the system no
held a seat in the United States SCI
lie ate. He said that the adoption of II
D. resolution would merely open the dool
< for more fraud.
1T Mr.. Scott of West Virginia, the ori.
A. inal author of the plan proposed, d
clared as a southern man that ii
It. present system was wrong and asser
n, ed that but for the large vote of O
ID ce-holders in the Minneapolis Coz
vention, many being from the sout