The San Francisco call., 1898-08-17
ORDER OF
 BUSINESS Governor Budd Declined the Honor of the
 Chair. George M. CaSSin Selected by the Committee on Or
 ganizatiOn.

SACRAMENTO, Aug. 16-The commit tee on permanent organization and order of business met tonight and after a ses- sion lasting several hours agreed upon the following report, large part of the discussion having been devoted to the drafting of rules governing the State Central Committee and the abolition or proxies:
 To. the chairman and members of the Democratic State Convention-We the committee on permanent organization and order of business beg leave to submit the following report:
 l. Charles M. Cassin of Santa Cruz for permanent chairman. All the other temporary officers to be made perma- nent.
 2 Reception of the report of commit
 3. Report of the chairman of the State Central Committee on fusion and the appointment by the chairman or a a committee to consist of seven members to confer with a like committee from the Populist State convention.
 4. Consideration of the plan for the government of the State Central Commit
 5. Reading of the report of fusion com mittee and action thereon.
 6. Report of committee on plalloiHi and resolutions.
 '. That nominations be made in the following order, to-wit: Governor. Lieu tenant Governor, TWO ASSOClGlc JuolANco of the Supreme Court, Secretary of State, Controller, Treasurer. Attorney General, Surveyor General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, superintendent of Pubic tioa 1nsr4or for district officers. Election Of members or State Central Committee.
 8. Vacancies occurring in in the rnteo exeei Committee may be filled at any time, by a quorum of that committee and that said executive committee be empowered to fill vacancies occurring In the list or noml- nations of this convention in accordance with section 1192 of the Political Code or the State of California, and we recom- mend that the several district conventions empower by resolution their committees to fill vacancies among district nominees In accordance with said section 1l92 or said Political Code.
 g. There shall be no change or votes un- til the close of the roll call.
 10. Roll call shall be made by counties in alphabetical order or assembly districts and the chairman of each delegauon shall announce the vote thereof, except where the poll of the delegation be demanoed or the delegates.
 II. When a member of any delegation Is absent from the convention his vote may be cast by majority vote of the delegation, provided he has left no proxy.
 12 Whenever a county convention has made a rule respecting It's delegation or the right to vote a proxy, the same snail be binding upon this convention.
 13 All resolutions shall be referred without debate.
 IA The selection of the State Central Committee. "The membership of this committee to consist of 20 members at large. to be appointed by every guberna- torfal nominee; two from each Congress sional district, to be elected by the dele gates to the Congressional convention in even numbered years; one from each AS sembly district comprising county or less than a county, to be elected by the delegates to the first Democratic State convention held In even numbered years, 1trr fnT of an Assembly district shall be entitled to a membership of the committee
 The members of the State General com rnittee must be selected by the members of each county or Assembly district or Congressional district and reported to the State convention before final adjourn ment.
 IS From the members of the executive committee of the State Central Committee there shall be appointed sub-comm1t.ee of five persons, who shall perform the ou. ties required by the provisions Of an act to promote the purity of elections by reg uating the conduct thereof, etc. Ap,, committee is named the chairman and secretary of this convention shall certify to the same as required by law.
 From the first it was apparent that the members of the committee were deter mined to prevent a recurrence of the hght for the control of the San Francisco dele gation that crops up in every Democratic State Convention. All the members but R. NJ Fitzgerald were in attendance, and during part of the session Governor Budd, Judge Mcguire and other party leaders were there.
 Before the convention settled down to business Barcar opened against the sys tenn of voting. proxies in the State Central Committee. He announced that for his part he wanted some plan adopted for the Reorganization and control of that body If possible. As long as the members. from San Francisco and the immediate vicinity were permitted to send oVt letters to the country delegates and secure their proxies this trouble in the metropolis would recur. - Every time a Democratic State conven- ton met. Barcar declared, San Francisco had fight on hand for the control of her delegation, and the Democrats of the constant washing of her dirty linen in public. He declared the present contest was directly due to the system of country members by Pr934}y w whereby few were were which evolved plan whereby the Demo- crats of San Francisco were denied the convention. It was suggested that the resolutions introduced in the convention in the afternoon by Tarpey and Heney were calculated to obviate that trouble by abolishing proxies, but still it '. as the unanimous sentiment of those present that the committee should present pro- gramme to the convention for the reor- ganization of the State Central Com
 Governor Budd entered the room just as Dockweiler called the meeting to or Qer. Just dS LHe TOlI was CdllSu, It, w {. Hill moved to report to the convention making the temporary officers of the body permanent Budd asked that some one else be named for permanent chairman and asked that Judge Mcguire be con- suited on the subject. Budd's name was included in the resolution. only to be taken down just before the committee adjourned, and that of Cassin substi- tuted.
 Chairman Dockweiler then took up the two resolutions offered by Tarpey and Heney. and this precipitated a debate that occupied the greater part of the evening and resulted in the adoption of set of rules governing the State Central Committee, which was embodied In that section of the report relating to the re- organization of that body.
 Barcar opened the engagement with fresh denunciation of the prevailing methods and Caminetti quickly rallied to his support, when Dockweiler made the remark that McNab had informed him that the Democrats could not hold an honest primary in San Francisco.
 Caminetti sprang to his feet in a rage and denounced the statement as lie and a slander It was the bosses. he assert ed. who were responsible for the present condition.
 the denunciation of McNab's methods eo@x-