The record-union., 1896-12-20
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fects recommended that its provisions

fects recommended that it's provisions
be not indorsed.
A motion was made that further
consideration Of the report be deferred
until Monday morning, the committee
meanwhile to get legal construction
of sections five and six, and was car
ried.
The Committee on Law recommended
that resolution enabling an amend
ment to the Constitution to be made
by majority instead of requiring a
two-thirds vote of the convention be
not concurred in, and the recommenda-
ton was adopted.
A resolution for the establishment of
defense fund by the levying of | cent
monthly dues on members was favor
ably reported by the Law Committee,
and the Recommendation acquiesced in
Delegate Meyers offered a resolution
that hereafter A. f. of L. officers be
elected for term of two years, and
it was promptly negatived
The matter OF moving the national
headquarters has been much discussed
by the delegates, and was brought be-
fore the convention. President Gompers
vacated the chair and gave the conven-
tion his views on the subject. which
were strongly in favor of removal from
Indianapolis. His chief arguments were
that the city lacked adequate facilities
for the discrimination of federation and
labor news through the public press,
the great news associations having
there only correspondents who could
put nothing on the wires without first
receiving orders from headquarters in
some larger city, and that it was equal
ly lacking in printing facilities He
did not speak in favor of any other
city.
There were several speeches on the
subject most of them favoring the mo-
tion, and on the roll being called the
motion to strike out was carried by a
vote of /, l54 to 81, and indianapolis
was ordered stricken out of the con-
stitution. 1t was moved that the word
Washington be substituted, as was also
one to substitute Chicago,
Il hope that Washington will not be
chosen" said delegate. There is a
have accomplished the passage of sew
Y,
and will accomplish this one
There was a general murmur of dis
approval of this remark and the Chair
promptly called the delegate to order
First Vice President p. j. Mcclure
denied that there was any probability
of the members of the Executive Coun-
cid becoming corrupted, and advocated
the selection of Washington for the
good of the federation and all wage
earners. He hoped to see the time
when the organization will buy ground
tai for the permanent home of the
American Federation of Labor
After two or three other delegates had
spoken the debate was brought to a
close by a motion for the previous ques-
tion, and the vote rsulted in the Sc
lection of Washington by 1915 against
11J for Chicago.
Messrs. Wood and Manlinson having
announced that they would leave at =
p. m. for their homes in Great Britain,
President Gompers in a happy manner
expressed the pleasure felt at their
presence. and both gentlemen respond
ed in words of the highest commenda-
ton of the way in which the business
of the convention was handled.
On motion, a special committee of five
was appointed to escort the fraternal
delegates to the railway station, and
after singing "Auld Lang Syne" and
They Are jolly Good Fellows" in
chorus, the convention adjourned until
Monday morning. 1t is thought the
convention will complete its work Mon