The record-union., 1896-06-13

Next the committee took up the case
brought from the First District OF Ala
ba1na, and which had been laid over
from Wednesday afternoon. Here the
contestants were s. M. Murphy and d.
III. Prentiss, both colored and favorlng
Reed as first choice, and the contest
ees, Samuel S. Berth and John Har-
mon (colored), both for Mckinley. After
the statements had been heard Com
mitteeman Sutherland of New YORK
moved that in view of the conflicting
statements the affidavits in the case
be submitted to a subcommittee OF
five. This was ruled out on the ground
that the committee had previously re-
fused to refer contests to sub-com-
m,ttees. Settle of North Carolina then
proposed that both contestees and con-
testants be excluded from the tenn
porary roll, but it was defeated. The
committee then refused to seat the
Reed delegation by vote of II to 81,
and Booth and Harmon were placed up
on the temporary roll.
Senator Gear of Iowa declared that
this vote would have bad effect upon
the country"
At the afternoon session the con-
test from Delaware was called, but 1t
was announced that Mr.. Addicks would
not arrive until 3 p. M, and 1t was
postponed for three hours.
Meanwhile the contest on the dele
gates-at- Large from Louisiana was
taken up. In this case the representa-
tives of the Republican party Of the
State comprising William Pitt Kellogg,
Albert H. Leonard (white Reedites)
and Henry Demas and ]. Madison
Vance (colored McKinleyites) claim to
be entitled to be placed upon the roll.
Against them are the nominees of the
National Republican Sugar Planters
Convention, A. A. McGinnis, E. G.
Germany, Anthony Doherty and r. II.
Hackney, all while McKinleyites. In
addition Leonard's seat is independent
ly contested by Andrew Hero, Jr.
The McGinnis quartet had an ad-
vantage in certificate from the
Chairman Of the State Committee, set
ting forth that it was regular, and its
proofs were presented and argued by
William Belian of New Orleans With
out calling upon the other delegation
to reply the committee went into ex-
ecutive session and promptly seated
the Kellogg delegates by unanimous
vote.
1t was suggested. however, by sew
eral members of the committee that
this summary proceeding might do in
jury to the Republican cause in Lcuisi-
ana by alternating the sugar planters
element and the respective delegations
having been called back, Chairman Car
ter made a pacific address pointing out
that the action taken had been based
upon the statement of Belian himself
that the organization he represented
was not regular, and suggesting that
the Committee on Credentials OF the
National Convention was a court Of
last resort The contestants accepted
the suggestion, and announced as they
withdrew that the case would be car
ried to the convention.
Although the seating Of ex-Gov-
ernor Kellogg and his associates was
regarded as disposing of all the con-
tests in the six Louisiana Congressional
Districts, it was decided to take them
up seriatim and hear arguments.
In the First District Ex-Governor
Henry c. Yarmouth and Walter L.
Cohen (colored), instructed for Nc
Kinley, and c. w. Boothby and G. w.
Deverzin (co1ored), instructed for
Reed, were the rival delegations. War
mouth and Cohen were seated without
a roll-call. This was a victory for
the sugar planters, or National Repub-
lcans, and a practical reversal of the
position taken by the committee on the
preceding contest.
In the Second District the contestees
were w. A. Wilburdy and Richard
Symms (colored), instructed for Nc
Kinley, and the contestants. Morris
Marks and Lucien Como (colored), in
structed for Reed. AS in the other
contests In this State, the disputes were
based upon the regularity or otherwise
of the conventions at which the dele
gates were elected. Wilburdy and
Symms We're seated without debate or
opposition.
Next on the list was the Third Louisi-
ana contest, where L. S. Clark and
William ]. Belian, National Republi-
cans, challenged the credentials of
Myer Calm and of State Chairman
Thomas A. Cage (colored), all four Nc
Kinleyites. Calm and Cage were ex-
cluded by a vote of 10 to Is, but sub
sequently on motion of Hahn of Ohio
both delegations were seated with a
half vote each. The vote was 81 to II.
This was the first double delegation
to be placed on the roll by the com
mittee, and Committeeman Botkin of
Montana expressed the fear that the
precedent would return to plague the
body.
David S. Ferris and c. c. Antoins
(coloreD, both regular Republicans and
instructed for Mckinley, were the
claimants in the Fourth District, while
Benjamin O'Neil and William Harper
(colored), both instructed for Reed,
made contests for the seats. This was
an echo of a similar dispute which
arose over the same competing dele
cations in the Minneapolis Convention
four years ago. Harper and O'Neill,
the Reed men, were seated by a unani-
nous vote
No presentation of facts was made
in the Fifth and Sixth Districts, and the
regular delegates from each locality,