New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-17


the sergeant-at-arms to compel every man to
take his seat
Lauterbach then arbitrarily refused to re-
ccve the substitute of Mr.. Smith, this would
permit the reading of the protest.
Phe temporary chairman then smashed
through Gibbs's previous question motion and
declared 1t carried Lauterbach had his commit
tee list for contested seats ready, and promptly
announced it as follows l.. L. Van Allen, YIN
District; S. II. Randall, NXlst; NJ. NJ. Mckee,
XXIlId f. NJ. Fisher, With, and Frank Nc
Cabe, XXXIst.
Mr.. Lauterbach declared a recess of one hour,
and the Committee on Contested Seats met IN
the room of the Committee on organization. on
the same floor to consider the contests OF the
LIST. IVth, XIIth XVIII and XXXlld districts
The committee stood four Plat II one opposition.
Mr.. McCabe was the Anti-Nachine member. The
committee refused to receive the protests from
XXNIIIth which attacked M. LauterbacA's
title.
The many points in inc protest which John
Sabine Smith was unable to get before the meet
ing will be found in anoihcr column.
AFTER THE RECESS
1t was after 10 o'clock when the committee on
contested seats headed by MI Van Allen. re-
turned II the room and the County Committee
could be got in order 20 hear the report Mr. Van
Allen said the committee had heard Ill of the
protests and had decided them unanimously ex-
cept in the case Of the NXXlId District in which
there was one dissenting vote The report W."
in favor Of seating the anuPlatt delegates IN me
LIST. WITH. XIlth ana NNNlth pls'llct9 anu ne
Newman delegates in the XXXIld District, VINO
were known az Tire sitting delegates ana hid
been legally elected II was also in faNoI OF sea-
ing the Patt delegates in me nm t, ,, ,aa
XXXIVth districts Tie report of the coni.llt'tc
was adopted by wha; appeared - b. 2 unanimous
vote. 49,, 80,
John Sabine Smith was then recognized. ana
he offered the protest against the permanent l'.a
organization of the County Committee lie Wa
not allowed to read it. as Frederick > ulons
promptly moved to haye the pr0,e her fbat COM
mittee should be appointed, and the mouoh was
carried with shout L..
HI c. Adce then made short and modest
spcech. nominating Edward Lauterbach as the
permanent chairman Of the County Conlmt'ee
There was a prolonged yell as NY. Ao'e to3n
his seat and then eX-Assemblyman ilalpih
seconded the nomination in spieau-easIe
speech taking occasion at the same TIME 20
sneak i'll of the Republicans in the room VINO
were included in the minority, and declaring
that they thought themselves better 'hah ti'e
other members of the party. .
Three cheers for Lauterbach.' yelled man
in the rear of the room, ana lHele ""@ an w
roar for two minutes
some of the delegates wanted the election OF
Mr. Lauterbach to be rushed through ny a.
clamation. but John Sabine smith raiscu 'nN
point of order that there must be loiI'all =, -
Gaze of an objection and he was there TO max
objection Before he resumed MS seat ne Sdiu'
looking at Mr. Halpin. Il know OF no i,'puu-
ican in this room who thinks himself better
than any other publican
THE VOTE FOR CHAIRMAN.
Montague Leester wanted to make further
reply to Mr. Halpin but he was declared TO De
out of order. There were no other nomina-
tons for chairman. and the secretary was or
dered to call the roll. 1t soon became eN!cen'
that the Republicans who were in the minority
had determined not to vote as they We're az
silent when their names We're called Abraham
Gruber with malice aforethought Votei lOE
James W. Perry. and 7. {. CampoeI' lmnh-
ing he might want a. opportunity 10 SdH E"".
thing before the vote was announced. VCf d for
Mr. Gruber Montague Leester, when ms l-'ihe
was called. asked 10 BE- tXcl"cd from Young anu
began a violent speech az linst the ac'lch "I
the majOritt declaring that the refusal 10 con-
slider the protest would be repented OF soon
Then he made the mistake of declaring that thr
minority represented the better element in the
marty and he was booted and jcercd until ne
was obliged to take his seat Mr. Grubel ;kea
leave 10 change his vote and tainted the MI
nority with sullenness. declaring that they act
ed like deaf-mutes The secretary announce
that eigh 'y-four delegates had voted. eighty
three for Edward Lauterbach and one for ADra-
ham Gruber The announcement was received
with mingled applause and g'oans. Mr. GrupeE
moved to make the election of MI Lau'erpa.h
unanimous. but there were a number OF as
senting noes" m
"Wii the gentlemen who voted no please rise
asked Mr. Lauterbash, after declaring that he
could not tell if the noes lad come from dele
A dozen delegates rose ard faced the storm Of
hsses which the 1auterbaCn crowd let loose
Then Mr.. Lauterbach said, with an attempt at a
smile that his election had not been unanimous
After that there was no disposition to demand
roll-cal the election Of the other men VINO
had been named at the Iauterbach caucus and
they were elected by reclamation as follows:
Charles y. Taintor, first vice-presldent; FTea-
erick Haldy, second vlce-president; ROBERT a
Greacen, treasurer; George K. Manchester sec
Mr.. Lauterbach appointed James f. Johnson
as the sergeant-at-arms.
She routine business disposed of, Abraham
Gruber advanced to the chair armed with reso-
luton which was read by the secretary. IL
asked for the appointment OF committee OF
seven TO revise the constitution and 1t was
adopted The members will be announced later:
Then Mr. Gibbs moved that 1t be the sense OF
ganization had been perfected in the action
taken. and this was adopted. There was the
moment to adjourn but few enthusiasts IN the
rear of the room called for a speech.
No" said the chairman you don't want
any speech. We don't want any. speech We
don't want any acrimony. We want this com
mittee to proceed in harmony to perform its
work" Then he proceeded 10 stir up more
strife and to breed more dsaffection than at any
previous time by INDUCING in a TRADE against
anv and all who might be considered doubt
full In their allegiance to the dictatorship. He
cited as one Of the duties OF the county Com
noittee the necessity of seeing 10 1t that the
New-York delegation, State and city was Tor
Levi p. Morton for President at the coming 81.
Louis convention. He personally pledged 10 the
Governor the support OF the W-Nork deleSa-
tion Then he turned to county affairs. de-
clarng that there no criticism which could
be made to stand against the organization OF
last wear He alluded to the protest filed by
the minority as a document signed by citizens
not members OF the committee, although some
of them might be. he was not sure. YET ne
had been told that it was signed by thirty
four members Of the committee, and he hlmself
had seen the paper passing around. II was
signed he said by gentlemen whose names are
eminent perhaps, in this city. He went on to
remark that when demand had been MADE
for an inspection OF the enrolment books II
1a6
passed on to review the figures OF the enrol
ment After having. as he thought. shown that
some ten thousand or more names mad beeh
noted on the former list which did not belong
there he dramatically said: An, but some
were there added that should not have been
there / would ask who put them there; VINO:
rharannn, there was q deal OF laughter the