The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-04

gates in the city held a brief caucus
at the Sherman house tonight to take
into consideration the advisability of
naming a man for temporary chair
man of the convention, but postponed
action until Monday.
The only affirmative action taken
consisted in the adoption of plan
suggested by Hon. o. W. Powers OF
Utah to bring the silver delegates to-
gether in such numbers as to make
/ conference among the delegates posi-
| bic, and render them thorough with
out making the meetings so large as
TO be intractable.
The plan consists in the appointment
of a member from each silver deLega-
ton, with power to act for the state,
to meet and confer with the steering
committee, composed of Senators Jones,
Daniel and Turpie and Governors
Stone and Altgeld. The members of
this committee will be expected to
I POLL THEIR RESPECTIVE DELE
CATIONS
on all questions, and to be the repre-
sentatives of their various states in
the proceedings of the silver commit
3 tee. This committee is to continue in
|
the convention. The committee will be
composed of the following delegates:
| Alabama-John w. Tomlinson.
Arkansas. T. Tillar.
California-W. r. Burke.
Colorado-T. j. O'Donnell.
Georgia-Hon. Patrick Walsh.
Idaho-L. L. Haynes.
Iowa-C A. Walsh.
| Kansas-David Overmeyer.
| decentralization 7 y Ria PlzihIJrD
| Mlchigan-George P. hummer.
| Mississippi-Hon. III. D.,,Money--
Missouri-Hon. D. "A Dearmond.
Montana-W. A. Clarke.
Nebraska-C. j. Smith.
North Carolina-Hon. T. j. Jarvis.
| Oregon-D. Mullinix.
South Carolina-Hon. Benjamin Till
man.
Tennessee-Hon. James Richardson.
| Utah-Hon. o. W. Powers.
Virginia-P. ]. Otey.
| Washington-W. H. White.
Wyoming-J. E. Osborne.
Arizona-Wiley Jones.
Oklahoma-E. F. Mitchell.
! Indian Territory-B. l.. Owen.
! District of Columbia-John Boyle.
| South Dakota-V. S. Ross.
| No effort was made to secure a
recommendation for temporary chair
man beyond a speech made by Mr..
ODonnell of Colorado pressing the
name of Hon. c.. S. Thomas of that
state for the honor.
TILL MONDAY.
The meeting adjourned after decid-
ing against any further action on any
subject, until Monday at 2 o'clock,
when the committee provided for will
| be called together to take action upon
any question that may be presented.
The meeting was deferred until that
| time in order to permit the committee
| to secure official information as to the
action of the national committee on
the subject of temporary chairman
and other questions. Senator Jones
was among those deprecating any
| movement of selecting temporary
chairman. He indicated in his re-
mark that there was still reason to
| believe the national committee would
select a. silver man to preside. The
committee will also decide at Mondays
meeting whether it is desirable to hold
a general silver caucus. The question
was discussed at some length, several
delegates-among them Senator Money
advocating the caucus. Other dele
gates urged the impractical bility of so
large a gathering, and it was sug-
gested that any decision to hold such
a meeting should at least be post
poned until it should be demonstrated
whether the committee plan adopted
will prove practicable 1t is believed
the postponement of the decision upon
a caucus to so late a date will have the
effect of preventing the holding Of any.