The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-06-15
MAKING DELEGATES.
How the Seats Were Given to Men on the
Hanna List.

now the seats were Given to Men on the
Hanna List.
st. Louis, June 13.-While the mem
bers of the national committee were as
sembling this morning preparatory to
the fourth days siege in the matter of
the contesting delegations, there was an
informal exchange of opinions regarding
the ACCESSIBILITY Of holding one or more
sessions Sunday. 1t was admitted that
the work of the body was badly in ar
rears ana that unless means could be
found OF expedlting it, the temporary
roll would still be in allegiance when it
became the duty of Chairman Carter to
call the national convention to order at
noon tuesday. Although the committee
has been i'll session three days, sitting
until midnight and later, scarcely more
than half OF tine contests have been acted
upon and the most important yet remain
to be heard. Chief among them are tie
contests from New York. 1t had already
been informally agreed that time limit
Will not be enforced against the New
Workers and the contest from that state
will, it is expected, occupy at least one,
it not two, sessions of the committee
Notwithstanding the state of the calun-
dar. however. it was apparent that siren.
uous objections would he offered to auy
business tomorrow and some of the COM
mitteemen went so far as to say that they
would cease to participate in the delib-
erations at the stroke of midnight to-
night, no matter what might be the
pending question. The committee is
also harrassed by the fact that its tenan-
cy of the big club room on the parlor
floor, in which it has been holding Its
meeting, arbitrarily expires at g o'clock
tonight All subsequent meetings, there
fore, will have to be- held in the small
room OF the national committee on one
of the upper floors and will scarcely
hold the entire membership, much less
this contestants and contesteeS and other
parties interested.
When the committee went into session
at 10.50 a. M, the preliminary business
was shelved and
THE TENNESSEE CASES
were taken up. There were two contests
from this state. H. W. Cheatham and
j. B. Boseley, colored, from the sixth
district, being challenged by j. G. Craw-
ley, colored, and Dan W. Chufner, while
in the ninth district, the credentials of
David A. HUM and Henry e. Austin
were claimed by John r. Walker and
Robert a.McNeilly: Both contests were
based upon alleged irregularities in the
calls for. and the proceedings of, the
respective conventions. In the sixth
district contest, on motion of Mr.. Manley
of Maine, Cheatham and Boseley were
seated. They have no fixed presidential
choice, while their opponents were in
structed for Mckinley The ninth district
case was productive Of an elaborate argu-
ment either side, after which HUM
and Austin were seated They are for
Mckinley as were the contestants. 1t
devolved at this point that there was
third contest from this state. affecting
the tenth district. Only five minutes
were devoted to tho contest and the regu-
lar delegates, W. M. Randolph and
Zachery Taylor, were seated. they and
the contestants were all for Mckinley.
At 11.30, the special order, the oonsid-
GRAFTON of the South Carolina contests,
was taken up and large delegation, re-
presentive of the white and black Repub-
iicans of the state, filed into the room.
The contest was between tho regular Re-
publicans and the
SO-CALLED LILLY WHITES, ~
Col. Ellery L. Melton of Columbia, the
recognized leader of the Lily Whites,
opened for himself and his associate con-