The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-30
RI0TOUS SOCIALISTS.
ANOTHER DAY GONE AND BUT LIT
TILE DONE.
Seven Hours of an Uproar, in Which
Not One of the Opposing Forces
Knew What the Other Was Say
ing-SimpIy "a Nightmare.

LONDON. July 29.-The sessions of
Union congress were resumed this
afternoon in st. Martins town nall
with Chairman Hyndman presiding.
In his opening address. the chairman
begged the delegates to maintain
order, pointing out that their enemies
were deriving considerable satisfaction
from the apparent inability of the
congress to conduct it's business.
Discussion was then resumed upon
the question of admitting the French
Socialist members of the chamber of
deputies, Nm. Jaurez, Milleraud anu
Viviani, it being claimed by the dele
gates who objected to their presence
that they did not represent the French
peasantry, and that they were not
properly accredited.
The congress, after a great deal of
Wrangling, referred the credentials of
NJ. Jaurez and his companions to the
French delegates.
The discussion Of the credentials of
other delegates VINO had been objected
to were then commenced and con-
tinued amid much interruption. Many
DELEGATES FROM SECRET So
CIETIES
of Russia and Poland were admitted.
The admission of these delegates was
the signal for another disturbance.
Kantsky, one of the Polish delegates,
was openly denounced as a suspicious
character, and the person who made
the denunciation added that it was
well known that Kantsky had been in
communication with a notorious police
spy. Kantsky fiercely protested his
innocence. Several hot speeches for
and against his admission were made
and the congress, after a very noisy
session, decided to expel him. Kantsky
was hustled out of the hall, vowing
vengeance against the man who had
denounced him and loudly protesting
his innocence of any connection with
the Russian police.
1t required the whole of the re-
mainder of the sitting 10 decide the
CLAIMS OF THE FRENCH DELE
GATES
to seats, these delegates having in the
meantime developed a difference in
their own ranks. They were finally ad-
mitted, only on terms of division and
disagreement among themselves. The
proposal made by NJ. Miilerot, on be-
half of the French delegates, was to
allow them to divide into two sections,
as they disagreed on important ques-
tons. This Immediately precipitated a
discussion and great excitement and
loud shouting ensued among the dele
gates.
Chairman Hy1deman finally suggest
ed that one delegate should speak for
and another against the proposal. He
then asked that Milerot speak, but it
was fully another half hour before the
French Socialist deputy could obtain
hearing. When he finally succeeded
in making himself heard, he
DENOUNCED THE ANARCHISTS
and declared that his section would
withdraw from the congress if the
anarchists were allowed to take part
in it's proceedings. Another tremend-
Gus uproar on the floor followed and
mutual recriminations were hurled
back and forth between the different
French sections. The chairman was
utterly powerless to control the situa-
ton or to put stop 20 the noise and
the delegates went on yelling and wav-
ing their arms and denouncing each
other, while no one could possibly hear
| what any one else was saying and the
tenor of the remarks could be judged
only by the fierce gestures and threat
ening demeanor of the shouters.
An American deieSate, IN the midst
of the din, shouted out in stentorian
voice that could be heard. that the
Americans sided with the French mi
nority and against the anarchists. This
again aroused the French majority,
who, however, only imperfectly under
stood what the American said and they
shouted themselves hoarse in repudi-
ating what they thought was a charge
! that
THEY WE'RE ANARCHISTS.
The English delegates took no very ac-
| tive part in the disturbances, but sim