The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-07-24
P0PULISTS CONTINUE TO POP
WILL UNDoUBTEDLY INDORSE
 BRYAN AND DROP SEWALL.


 The Formers Friends Control the Conven- ton, but the Nuddle-of- -the- Roaders, Who Want an Independent Candidate, Form a Big Majority Senator. Allen Elected Permanent Chairman After a Bitter Fight-Makes n Lengthy Speech It is Not Likely That There Will be a Bolt-The Work of the Convention Will Probably be Finished To-day. St. Louis, July 23.-The populist con- vention reassembled during the hottest portion of an progressively hot day, The committee on credentials was still unready. It was half past three when Senator Butler called the convention to order and stated that the commit tee on credentials was prepared to make a partial report. Thereupon MT. Wardell of California, chairman of the committee, came to the stand and sub mitted a majority report recommending that the delegates be recognized in all the uncontested cases; that in the cases of the first seven Illinois con eressional districts both contestants and contestees be seated with the right to cast half votes and that, In the case of Colorado the delegates known as the Patterson delegates be seated and cast the full vote Of the state
 Minority reports, the chairman stat ed. would be submitted in these cases. The report for the admission of the delegates whose seats were uncontested was agreed to- MT. Patterson of Colo rado said the reason why it was de- sired to take up the Colorado case first was because this was the only case where a whole state delegation was contested, and Colorado had forty three good populists who desired to be heard.
 The Colorado case was then taken up. A Kansas delegate moved that that part of the report be adopted that the Patterson delegates be seated. A delegate made protest against act ing on the Colorado case until the minority report on that case could be presented to the convention. The mi nority report was not yet ready. The protest was of no avail and it was or dered that discussion be confined to fifteen minutes for each side.
 MT. Patterson of Colorado, at the re- quest of the delegations from Texas and Georgia, moved that the Colorado case be postponed for one hour or un- ti, the minority should be ready That motion was agreed to and the Illinois case was taken up. The report of the majority declares that the Taylor dele gates from Cook county, Illinois, are not entitled to the seats and that the contestants are The minority report is in favor of the Taylor delegates.
 MT. Moran of Nebraska moved the adoption of the minority report and MT. Denning of Virginia moved the adoption of the majority report MT. Palmer opened the discussion in sup port of the minority and in favor of seating the Taylor delegates. The con- testants, he said, did not represent the peoples party of Cook county, but rep resented a certain element in Chicago. He declared that the case had not been decided on it's merits.
 Some delegates intimated that the certain element in Chicago" alluded to by MT Palmer, was the anarchist element, but MT. Palmer disavowed making such charges
 The majority report was defended by c. L. Darrow of Illinois, the lawyer who defended Eugene Debs. The case he declared had been carefully consid- cred last night by the committee on credentials and the decision of the committee was honest and fair
 iron favor of the minority report. He de- clared that the majority had made no decision as to the equities, but had promisedto give both sets seats. That was not just If the Taylor delegates were entitled to the seats they should have them.
 The majority report was advocated by MT. Norton of Chicago.
 MT. Maxwell, chairman of the state committee of Illinois, advocated the minority report and gave a sketch oi the difficulty, saying politics were more peculiar than anywhere else on the American contingent except in New York
 Mr. Haight of West Virginia, of the credentials committee, defended the majority report and declared it the best thing that could be done for the party
 The vote was then taken on the minority report on the Cook county case, that the Taylor delegates are en titled to the seats
 Instead of voting aye or no on tht question before them-the adoption O the minority report-most of the dele cations voted upon both reports. II this haphazard way the sense of tht convention was reached and it wal found there were cast for the minorit, report seating the Taylor delegate! rom Cook county GAP votes; for tn, majority report seating both delega tions with half vote 665 votes. It wa stated by the chair in reply to ques tion that the Illinois delegations hat voted on their own case though no on had heard Illinois called. It was in cidentally disclosed during the roll-cal that the vote of Louisiana had beel increased by the committee on creden tials from 15 to 32 without any repor being made in regard thereto. The rol call also gave public information flo the first time of the number of vote assigned to each state under the elas tic rules of the convention. The vot ing strength of each state was as fol lows:
 Alabama 5l Arkansas 25 CaIifo,-nt.