The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-17

and reciprocity and is based upon the speech made by MT. Mckinley in op-n- ing the Ohio campaign at Springfield, An effort was made to secure the in sertion of plank restoring bouuties on sugar, but this was defeated, al though the subject was cared for through the medium of a declaration for the protection If the American sugar grower and manufacturer. The plank relating to foreign affairs is eS- pecially strong. It endorses the Mon roe doctrine, comments the policy of the Harrison administration in affairs pertaining to Hawaii and declares in favor of the recognition of the Cuban insurgents as belligcrents. There is also strong pension plank in which the democratic administration of the pen sion office is arraigned and a demand made for liberal pensions.
 The committee is pledged to vote down all amendments that may be of fered to the financial plank
 St. Louis, June 16.-The committee on credentials met in the rooms of the Massachusetts headquarters at the Southern hotel immediately after the adjournment of the convention and or ganized by electing J. Franklin Fort as chairman, Jacob Trieber of Arkansas secretary, J. M. Gilbert of Arkansas as sistant secretary, and Edward Smith of Colorado sergeant J. C. CoWan of Nebraska then submitted the following resolutions:
 That the roll of delegates and alter mates prepared by the national com r,oit 10 of ho t1I, organization, and the same is hereby adopted by this committee as the true and correct role of the delegates to the convention, and that this comprised with the hearing of the contests refer red to it by the national committee, viz, the delegates and alternates from the state of Delaware and the delegates and alternates from the state of Tex as."
 w. P. Hepburn of Iowa offered the following substitute:
 That the secretary be instructed to obtain from the national committee all papers and documents filed and before that in the contests for seating in the convention, and that thereupOn this committee proceed to dispose of all con- tests in alphabetical order of states"
 The substitute was lost by vote of 29 nays to F ayes. thus showing that the Mckinley men of the committee who desire to shut out any further hearing of the contests have won, and that the temporary roll of the conven- tion, as far as completed, will be made permanent and the work of the conven- tiOn shortened.
 The committee adjourned until 7:30 in the evening without vote. Be fore adjourning, however. Messrs. Thompson of Ohio, Hepburn of Iowa. and Cowen of Nebraska were appoint ed a subcommittee to formulate rules for any contests that the committee may hear.
 Nearly every member responded to the roll cali when the committee reas- sembled at 7:30. MT Sutherland nov ed that representatives of the press as sociations be admitted to the sessions of the committee, and this was carried unanimously all other persons not con- nected with the committees investiga- tiOn being required to withdraw.
 A subcommittee reported in favor of giving two hours for the discussion of 
 an hour and half to Texas This re- port was antagonized by MT. Hepburn of Iowa, who moved that two hours be given to each side in these contests, but the proposition was defeated by an overwhelming majority and the report of the sub-committe was adopted with one vote in the negative.
 At 8 o'clock eX-Senator Higgins of Delaware was presented and proceed ed to open the case in behalf of his del egation. He said that J. Edward Ad- dicks was no more qualified as repub- lican to sit and act in this convention than would be Arthur F. German or David B. Hill. As recently as 1890 Ad- dicks had given $5,00O to defeat a re publican candidate for governor and elect democrat, and the proofs were forthcoming in the form of the sworn statements of three witnesses who liV- ed in the same house with him in Phil adelphia and to whom he boasted of the facts. He declared that as a re- suit of the conspiracy between Addicks and the democratic party in the last election the republicans of Delaware had lost a governor and a United States senator No question of principle was involved, assuming that this man had any principle. He simply claimed to own the state. Republication had no place in his repertoire. Would the com mittee give this man a clean bill of health, would it condone his crime so that he could go home and elect him self to the United States senate? If this were done it would mean the de- struction of the republican party in Delaware. He begged the committee not to put upon the party this un- speakable shame. As for AddiCks' as sociates they had chained themselves to his fortunes and were ntttled to no consideration. Addicks had no moral conception, no idea that there was a man above ground that was above be- ing bought.
 Would the committee give him recog- milton? He begged and entreated it not to do so.
 Michael J. Murray opened for the Ad- dicks side. He protested against the personalities that had been indulged in and insisted that the question should be fought out on the strict issues in the case. It was not necessary to take up time in defending MT Addicks-he needed. no defence. This brought out so much applause that Chairman Fort stated that no demonstration in behalf of one side or the other would be toler-