The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-02-02
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Portland. or Feb. i.-Thc Rrpublcar
l.rasuo of oregon met IN state eonyonLof
90 10 o'clock thls morning at A4nvry hai
@iJn President Carey la thc chaif AtcI
tppointmrnt og Matter l.. TOOau ami J
Is. Eddy ASSISTANTS to sucrcgary NclA,
tho chairman appointed TN tJkJWlus
contnittcr un crsicnilah.
\. j. Johnson. Lana; II. . HUDSON
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Aiat,nvNa. luiluVuaa.
i'rvuid,ut Caity tIra delivered al al.
drvEn 10 tuc uunvvndJn after Wl4>u All
Jo1rnmcut MA, taken unuI : o'oiook
Nhuh the cOuN0iuon fe-asscsnDled me
crvd,uttais committee Mas NJ, ready u
rcpor, ard the uinc Was nllei lu VITA
msnlc py the colored quartet.
Wallace McCamnant, ol Mulguomah,
offered the following resolution Nhich Was
almost UNANIMOUSLY adopted.
Whereas. tHo paramount issue which Is
now before the American people. dividing
the political parties and cngrossing the
attention OF ali patriotic citizens Is the
financial question.
1Nctcfore. DE It resolved that the
League Of Republican Clubs cordially ap-
proves and rearilrms iIs belief IN the
financial plank ui the last republican ma
uonal convention, and, be II further
ResoN ed. that we acc,p, and approve
OF the spcccn of President Mckinley at
New York on tac 9th OF January. 1875
as correct exposition OF that plank ana
the monetary policy o, tho republican
party.
Resolved, that We are In hearty ac-
cord with the administration and It's wsc
and efficient secretary Of tho treasury,
Lyman j, Gage, In their efforts TO resist
silver mono mctallsm and TO give addl-
tlon0l stability and strength 10 our pres
ent financial system,
McCamunant then offered motion TO
Discharge the committee on credentials
and substitute two Mitchell men and
two antl-Mltchell men 10 act as u COM
mittee on credentials"
Tho chairman ruled tho motion out OF
order,
After number OF motions and amend
mcnts un the same subject had been voted
down the convention took recess untll
I 80 this evening.
On tho re-assemblng Of the convention
thu credentials committee announced that
II was ready to report,
Johnson, OF Linn. read the report which
showed that co.'s delegates were entitled
10 seats.
The report was prcfaced with the fol.
lowing;
I'm view OF the loose provisions of the
league constitution In regard to ascer-
talning the qualification OF delegates or
the number Of members actually upon
the rolls Of the clubs upon which repre-.
are claimed we are compelled
to report that the following delegates have
u prima facie right to seats In this con-
vention. Your committee feels that II
must call the attention OF the convention
to the apparent stuftlng Of the rolls of
clubs ana the organizing Of new clubs for
the sole purpose of representation, es-
peclally In Multnomah county, by which
the county has representation about
donble that formerly Claimed, and deems
" is unjust to clubs of outside counties
TO come here with a genuine representa-.
tlon and have It offset by paper clubs
and fictitious membership In Multnomah
county. n therefore recommends that
such amendments of the league consttu-
tion be adopted as shall connne the rep
resentatlon In league conventions to clubs
regularly organized to do republican work
whose membership rolls shall have been
nled with the secretary OF the league.
1'he delegates were divided as follows:
First district. lSs clths. 756 delegates.
Second district, l26 clubs, 1862 delegates
delegates from Multnomah county, 96s,
Johnson moved the adoption OF the re-