The record-union., 1896-06-11

Chairman Vaughan made the argument
for the latter, while Moseley argued
that what was sauce for the goose was
sauce for the gander" and that the
committee could not decide against the
contestants in this case without admit
ting that, the facts being the same, 1t
was wrong in the Seventh District con-
test. The committee agreed with him,
and Powell Clayton's motion to seat the
colored man and the ex-Northern vol
unteer was carried with a shout
AT 6:15 O'Clock the committee took a
recess until s p. m. Subsequently it was
announced that the Fifth District case
would be settled by arbitration. OF the
regulars and contestants one favors AL
iison, one Mckinley and two Reed
THE CALIFORNIA AND FLORIDA
CASES.
When the committee reconvened at
$40 the contest on delegates at large
from Florida and those from the Third
and Fourth Districts of California were
made the special order for Thursday
morning.
GEORGIA CONTESTS.
Georgia was next in order, and Chair
man Carter remarked as he surren-
dered the chair to M. II. De Young that
at the present rate of progress the COM
mittee would still be in session when
the convention assembled on Tuesday.
Only two seats of the four delegates at
large from this State proved to be
contested.
r. r. Wright (co1oredD, who at the
outset announced himself to be the
original Mckinley champion of his
State, opened for himself and J. G..
Hetherington, an adherent of Senator
Allison, and who were chosen at a
second State Convention held after the
first one had adjourned.
w. II. Smythe replied in behalf of the
delegates attacked, J. Z. Deveaux and
Fl. A. Rucker, and showed from the
sworn minutes that the two last named
We're selected by reclamation, the OPP
position making no protest until after
the convention had adjourned. This
and other proof was sufficient for the
| committee, and by a unanimous vote
Deveux and Rucker were seated. The
other delegates at large are A. G. Buck
and H. L. Johnson.
In the First District of Georgia R.
w. White and S. o. Cherry (both col
| ored) contested the seats of NJ J. Boyle
anu - D. McTSe tcOIOT6ub, WHO were
chosen at the regular convention. All
four are Mckinleyites, the two latter
! having been given instructions. Both
sides were accorded a hearing. l. w.
Lyons of the Tenth District, a colored
delegate, aroused interest by an earn
est speech in behalf of Boyle, who is an
Irishman. Boyle and Morse were seat
ed, with five dissensions.
The Ninth Georgia District contest
was passed until tomorrow and that
IN the Eleventh District was taken up
In this case the seats of S. NJ. Scarlet
and William Jones (both coloreD in
structed for Mckinley, were claimed
by w. H. Matthews and D. Outlaw,
also colOred, who We're instructed for
Reed by a convention consisting Of
seven boilers.
Another exhaustive presentation of
affldavits and personal experiences of
persons at the District Convention
was in order, and in the result Jones
and Scarlett were seated with about
half a dozen votes in the negative.
At 1875 the first of the Kentucky
contests was called, but several COM
mitteemen entered a protest against
midnight session on the ground that
they had been on the rail from two to
four nights and needed rest, and an
adjournment was therefore taken until
10 a. m.