The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-16
4 NEW CONSTITUTIoN
Adopted by Young Mems Republican Club
 Last Evening.


 At the regular monthly meeting of the Young Mems Republican club, held in the assembly room of the club house, last evening, the principal business was the adoption of the new constitution, which was presented to the meeting by the committee appointed some time ago to draw up constitution and by laws The report of the committee was accepted and it was then decided to go over the reported constitution and by laws section by section and then after each section had been considered care fully to adopt the whole if it seemed advisable. The first section or two were accepted without any dissenting voices, When a section was read in which it was provided that at the December meeting each year the executive com mittee should appoint a nominating committee of five members to nominate and bulletin two weeks before the an nual meeting a list of officers to be voted for at that annual meeting, but that if so desired by twenty-five mem- bers of the club other candidates might be nominated to be voted for by the club, and that no one nominated in any other way than either of the two here mentioned should be considered a can didate
 When this section was read, a dozen men bounded to their feet, all clamor- ing for recognition by the chair R. H. Tyner was finally recognized and | made an eloquent speech, in which he opposed the adoption of the section. On a vote the section was stricken out. | The only other section of the proposed constitution which aroused any oppo- | sition was that which provided that | no member of the club under twenty one years of age should be allowed to vote at the annual meetings of the | club. This section was strongly op- posed by Dr. Waldo H. Minor.
 Jacob Ullman spoke in favor of the section. It was finally voted to strike out the section.
 At this point Minotte E. Chatfield of | fered a section providing for nomina- tions, in place of the section covering that matter which was stricken out. Mir. Chatfields suggestion was laid up- | on the table and the remainder of the | constitution, as reported by the com mittee, was rapidly gone over and ap- proved. MT. Chatfeld's suggestion was | then taken from the table. No sooner was its reading finished than a half dozen amendments were offered from | different parts of the house. But this | was only a commencement of what was to follow. Debate ragged fast and | furious, the speakers flying off at tan gents and other places, and getting SC | far away from the original motions and amendments that a cooler head than l President Hotchkiss would urdoubted- ly have been unable to keep the thread l untwisted. He, however, kept things | strengthened out and all the motions in regard to providing for nominations were voted down. leaving nothing in i the constitution bearing on this sub | ject. The entire constitution as ap- l proved was then adopted It was voted that a committee of five members should be appointed by the president to arrange for the annual excursion ot the club. President Hotchkiss an nounced that he would appoint the l committee and instruct it to be ready and report at the next monthly meet. ing.
 | The following club committees were then appointed Advisory committee F. J. Brown, A. M. Beebe, J. B. Ullman J. F. Martin, G. L. Hamilton, w. A |
 w. Orr, r. Brazos, c. W. Rowe, F. S Conklin A. Wright, J. R. Baldwin ant A. H. Burr; entertainment committee
 Henry Hopkins, Theodore Greuner, H w. Merwin, T. H. Macdonald E. s
 Willis; library committee, H. N Snow and Rutherford Trowbridge; committee on clerical work, A. McC. Matthew sen.