Birmingham state herald., 1896-06-11
FIRST BLOOD FOR MCKINLEY.
The Buckley" Delegation From Alabams

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 Seated by an Overwhelming Vote.
 St. Louis, June 10.-The first session of the republican national committee lasted less than one hour. Chairman Carter call ed the members to order at 12:15 in the club room of the Southern hotel. Secre- tary Manley called the roll and Indian Territory alone failed to respond.
 Senator Gear was proxy for James $. Clarkson of Iowa, from whom telegram had been received saying that he had been taken ill at Philadelphia while en route, and might not be able to get down here at any stage of the proceedings A committee having been appointed to pre- pare resolutions of respect to the memory of Ex-National Committeeman w. J. Campbell of Illinois, who passed away since the last meeting of the body, the list of contests was read. At this stage R. c. Kerens of this city submitted resolution providing for the presence at the secret meetings of the committee of representa- tives of each of the two press associa- tions. This was an infringement of the es- tablished precedent of the body, but Del egate Isaac Trumbo of Salt Lake sup ported it in a few vigorous remarks, and 1t went through unanimously. A motion to take up the question of territorial rep resentation was ruled out by the chair on the ground that the territories must be reached in proper order, and it was then decided to take up the contests, begin
  recess was taken until p. m.
 As the committeeman were dispersing MT. Manley announced that he had re- ceived large number of dispa tches from different parts of the country urging that on account of the lack ot courtesy accord ed the colored delegates the convention be held elsewhere. He added that while he could not speak for the other hotels, he was authorized by the manager of the Southern to say that he would carry out ot hu raopfUipp and entertain ing every delegate who had reserved accommodations in the house, no matter what his color. This was received with applause. No other reference to. the trouble was made. Each member of the national committee and the leading del egates on the ground were furnished this afternoon with a suggested monetary plank for the platform drawn up by R. c. Kerens. It reads as follows:
 We believe that our money should not be inferior to the money of the most en- frightened nations of the earth, and we are unalterably opposed to any. scheme that threatens, to debase or depreciate our present monetary standard. We fa- yors the reasonable use of silver as cur rency, but such use should be to the ex- tent only and under such well defined regulations that its parity with gold as currency can be easily and efficiently maintained.
 "As consistent bimetalists we are op- posed to the free coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to l as measure fraught with certain disaster to all commercial inter- ests, destructive to the interests of the wage earner, and, in the absence of in- ternational agreement sure to lead to silver monometallism."
 Mark Hanna is already taking a hand in the financial fight and has set on foot A strong movement for. a compromise.
 This afternoon he sent for number of the southern delegates who are known to be friendly to Mckinley and urged them not to push their demands for gold plank He fears big defection in the west, and the whole power Of the Ohio organization will be used from this time on to prevent the absolute overrfd- ing of the free coinage westerners
 The Alabama contestants were called before the national committee at 2:15 p. m and occupied three-quarters of an hour in presenting their claims. At o'clock the committee announced that they had heard sufficient testimony and the contestants withdrew. By vote of 9S to 6 the committee seated the Buckley tor Mckinley delegation at large from Alabama as against the dele gation headed by Ex-Governor Smith. Those voting for the Smith delegation were Connecticut, Louisiana, Iowa, Mas sachusetts, New York and District of Columbia Secretary Manley afterwards said he should be recorded as voting with the minority, which would make the re- suit 37 to T. Powell Clayton made the motions against Buckley delegates and the result was victory for the McKin- ley element. The contesting delegates of the Sixth Alabama district announced that they withdrew their protest. This allows the Mckinley delegates-Daniel Cooper and Isaac Dawson-seats with out protest.
 North Carolina Pops Won't Cooperate.
 Raleigh. N. O., June 10.-There has