The record-union., 1896-06-14


three-quarters of an hour. A motion to
seat the Cuney delegation was defeated
by II to %. Then Fessenden of Con-
necticut moved that both sets of dele
gates be excluded from the temporary
roll. The vote was p to 20 in favor or
the proposition, and the question OF
who are the regular delegates at large
from Texas must be settled in the Ma
tional Convention.
At $40 o'clock Secretary Manley an
nounced that there yet remained
twenty-five contests, involving forty
eight delegates. Allowing half hour
to each case, it would take the COM
mittee eleven hours to complete this
branch of it's labors. The room in which
they were meeting, he said would have
to be surrendered IN twenty minutes,
but the New York delegation had Of
fered the use Of the ladies' ordinary. of
which it had POSSESSING, until u o'clock
tomorrow morning. Several members
urged an all-night session until that
hour, but no action was taken, and the
first Texas District contest was called.
In this district the claims of David
Taylor and NJ D. Dawson (both colored
with Mckinley preferences) were rec
ognized, and their names placed on the
rcll. In the Second District the Reed
contestants, George w. Burkett and }.
w. Brinkley (coloreO claimed that
Colonel Webster Flanagan, who resides
in another district, came to their con-
vention and controlled it upon alleged
proxies from counties in which no Re-
publican organization existed. Colonel
Flanagan, who was called from the
ante-room by order of the committee,
denounced this as an ''unmitigated lie,
whereupon William Mcdonald (colored),
who represented the contestants, threw
q package of affidavits down at Flana-
gan's feet and dared him to repeat the
statement Flanagan held his position
and kept his temper, and the committee
quickly disposed of the case by seating
Kahn and Pollard, the regular (Mc-
kinley) delegation.
A few minutes after the committee
reconvened this evening a decided SEN
sation was created by the appearance
of Senator Matthew S. Quay OF Penn
sylvania With a nod and smile for
the friends that he recognized on MS
right and left he walked with Jaunty
air UP the aisle, shook hands with
Chairman Garter, seated himself at the
corner of the Secretary's table, reached
for a sheet of foolscap and commenced
to write rapidly He had hardly fin
ished writing when Col. Perry Carson,
the colored National Committeeman
from the District of Columbia, came
rapidly into the hall and found his way
to the rear of the Pennsylvania Senator.
The latter ceased writing on the mo-
ment, and Colonel Carson, taking the
pen from his hand, attached his sigma
ture to the sheet upon which the SEN
ator had written. Thereupon the col
ored committeeman withdrew. A few
moments later it developed that the
document was a proxy under Whlcn
Senator Matthew S. Quay was "au-
thorized to sit in the National Commit
tee as the proxy for Perry Carson" until
such proxy was withdrawn. The Sena-
tor took a seat in the front row of the
committee and listened with interest
to the presentation of the remainder of
the Texas contests.
"Yes, 1 am a National Committeeman
for the time being" said the Senator in
response to an inquiry from the repre-
sentative of the United Press. Il am
here on sufferance as it were, as l hold
the proxy Of Perry Carson. 1 shall stay
here during the consideration of the
contests from Pennsylvania, and may
be longer, if Carson does not put me
out"
Il am foot loose for the rest of the
night" said Carson a few moments
later, and am glad of it. / have given
my proxy to Senator Quay, and he can
use it as long as he wants to. He can
stay there until the adjournment sine
die before 1 am likely to put him our" !"
Consideration of the Texas cases was
resumed. The contestants in the Third,
Fourth and Fifth Districts failed to put
in an appearance, and Webster Flana-
gan, ]. W. Butler, c. M. Ferguson, H. G.
Goree, Cecil A. Lyon and William
Johnson, Mckinley men, were placed
on the roll from these districts In the
Sixth District, ]. Nj. Mccormick and
Robert Armstrong (colored), Mckinley
ties, were seated, while in the Seventh
W. F. Crawford and B. F. Wallace
(colored), both supporters of Reed,
were seated over the Mckinley dele
| gates. In both contests the decisions