The herald., 1896-06-17

| from voting on the appeal. The motlon
was ruled out and the calling or the roll
proceeded. When the junta delegation
| was reached-the last on the list-the
vote stood 1856 to sustain the chalr, as
| against ia opposed. The Buckley del
| egation had been overwhelmingly de-
feated by the interior counties. With
out calling for the vote of the san fran
cisco. delegation it was announced that
| the chair had been sustained.
The first skirmish over nominations
| for temporary chairman began. Frank
| Nichols of Stockton nominated Gould,
! whose nomination was seconded by w.
| NJ. Gibson Delegate Earl of Los An
| geles nominated w. a. Ryan of the same
| city. Delegate Cassin of Santa Cruz
| nominated Senator Burke of Santa Cruz
| county BurkeS nomination was sec
onded by Col. O'Byrne of San Francisco,
| Keller of Santa Clara and Joseph Roth
schild of San Francisco. Ryan of Los
| Angeles then withdrew and seconded the
nomination of Burke.
The roll call proved a landslide for
Gould. Santa Clara and Santa Cruz
supported Burke, who received scatter
ing votes from other quarters. Gould's
inevitable election became apparent,
however and after the vote of Santa
Cruz had been cast for Burke, the sem
ator arose and withdrew from the con-
test, and by permission of the delegation
changed the vote of the county from
himself to Gould. At the same time,
Senator Burke moved that Gould's cleo
tion be made by acclamation. Andrew
]. Clunie, one of the Buckley delegates
from San Francisco, who held proxy
from an interior county, seconded the
motion and Gould was unanimously
elected. Chairman Gould made a brief
address. and after a recess of half an
hour announced the following commit
tees:
On credentials-Miles Wallace of Ma
dera, F. V. Dewey of Kings, w F. Prask
of Nevada. Y. Y. Irvine of San Diego,
Robert Howe of Sonoma, John G. Muir
ray of Trinity. L. P. Farmer of Sutter.
p. E. Zabala of Monterey, Ben NJ. Mad
doX of Tulare, H. NJ. La Rue, jr, of Sac
ramento, A w. Eibeschutz of Inyo.
Woodson Gerard of Calaveras, A. S.
Cooper of Santa Barbara. George Hoff-
meister of Ell Dorado and George Fox Of
San Joaquin.
On permanent organization and order
of characterization Debries of San Joa-
quin, A. Caminetti of Amador, S. S. Ford
of Modoc, j. H. Wilkins of Marin, J.
c. c. Russell, jr., of Mariposa, E. s.
O'Brien of Merced, L. w. Fulkerth of
Stanislaus. w. III. Workman of Los An
geles, Byron Ball of Yolo and H. H Har-
ris of Napa.
1t was decided to postpone the ap-
pointment of the committee on platform
until after the report of the committee
on credentials. The convention then
adjourned until o'clock tomorrow morn
ing.
The Seventh district congressional
convention met tonight and by acclama-
tion nominated l.. j. MadduX of Modesto
for congress. Oscar Trippet of San
Diego and George E. Church of Fresno
We're chosen delegates to the Chicago
convention and @. W. Martin of Tulare
ir1a cd Pow rorpci6antia1 a1aptnr.
WORK IN COMMITTEE
SACRAMENTO, June 16.-The COM
mittee on credentials met at 10 o'clock
this evening to take up the various con-
tests before the convention. The con-
test between j. ]. Mcdonald and r. y
White of the Third ward in Oakland was
first considered. w. w. Foote, represent
ing White, who has been recognized by
the state central committee, made an
impassioned address. in which he
charged that the contest had been
brought largely to discredit him before
his constituents. Foote openly charged
that the ballot boxes had been stuffed
in the ward, and offered an affidavit
made by one of the election officers in
support of his contention. The commit
tee took the case under advisement until
tomorrow morning, when report will
be made to the onvention.
The San Francisco contest between
the junta and the Buckley forces was
next taken up. At midnight the commit
tee was still in session, with little pros
pect of all the evidence being submitted
before o'clock. From statements made
by members of the committee, it is be-
lieved that no decision will be rendered
tonight and that the case will be taken
under advisement. Persons in a posi-
tion to speak with authority, say that the
committee will undoubtedly report in
favor of rejecting the Buckley delegates
without even SO much as half vote each.
Should such a report be made it will be
great disappointment to the Buckley
men, as since they met with crushing de-
feat in the convention they have based
all of their hopes on securing a half vote
for each delegate.