The San Francisco call., 1896-06-12
TO INCREASE THE
CITY COMMITTEE,
New Working Force of
the Local Repub-
licanS.
MANWARING TO APPOINT
One More Member From Each
of the Assembly
Districts.
EXECUTIVE SESSION WORK.
Committeeman to Be Named at the
Regular Meeting in
July.

A prolonged executive session of the
Republican County Committee was held
last evening at the headquarters, corner
OF Market and Stockton streets. All out
siders were excluded, and q motion to
admit newspaper reporters was voted down
by 10 to 8. The entire committee of eight
cen members responded to the rollcall.
Z. w. Manwaring, chairman of the COM
mittee, presided at the session.
The main business before the meeting
was proposition to add eighteen mem
bers TO the mittee-one from each
Assembly district In anticipation of a
spirited contest many spectators gathered
IN the outer rooms to await the result.
There was a disposition on the part of
many members to defer action, and some
time elapsed before the fight opened on
the merits of the question.
J. M. Chretien made the motion to in
crease and an amendment was immedi-
ately offered to postpone action for thirty
days. After vigorous discussion, in which
Jesse Marks, favoring delay, made the
'speech of his life," the motion to defer
was lost, the vote standing to g.
The committeeman voting Tor the amend.
ment to POSTPONE were Marks, Berliner,
Gately, Thompson, Watt, Houston, Brown,
Clear and Chandler.
More talking followed and finally the
motion to increase was carried by a vote
OF II to 6. The affirmative voters were
Brown, Clear, Helman, jackson, Man
waring, Ayers, Louderback, Clinch,
Chretlen, Walsh, Bacigalupi and Chand-
Ter. Voting in the negative were Marks,
Berliner, Gately, Thompson, Watt ana
Houston.
Another motion which evoked speeches
was one authorizing the present commit
teeman of each Assem- bly, district to name
the additional member. Chairman Man
warlng ruled that this proceeding was i'll
usurpatlon OF his powers, as the bylaws
delegated to the chairman the right of ap-
pointment. He ruled the motion out OF
order. On appeal the chair was sustained
by vote of IL to 8.
In Difference to the desires of the COM
mltCeemen the chairman decided to ask
memb bers to present names from their re-
spective districts. Should the chairman
fail to find acceptable names in the list so
supplied, he will be at liberty TO make an
Independent selection.
The object OF increasing the committee
is to afford adequate working strength
during the campaign. Some of the Assem-.
bly, districts are very large, extending over
vast territory, and embracing twenty
precincts.
The present committee is unusually
small and on election day the single mem
Der from each district would not be able to
visit half the voting places and could not
possibly watch the count at night.
At the regular meeting in July Chair
man Manwaring will announce the names
OF the eighteen new mitteemen.
Meanwhile the present members of the
committee will consult the Republicans
in their respective districts in regard to
men to be recommended.
A suggestion was made at the meeting
that the committee wire the National
Convention at st. Louis asking that
Messrs. Shortridge and Montague be ad-
mitted as delegates. The suggestion was
not put in the form of a motion, so no ac-
ton thereon was taken.