El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-08
l.. A. w.
The Annual Meeting ecgan at st. Louis
TODAY

IL. A. w.
The Annual Meeting gcgan at st. LOuii
j Today.
/ The seventeenth annual meeting o.
the l. ayue of American Whe elm er
was egun today with the usual NEE
! ing in the interest of good roads. Pa
pers bearing on various phases of the
! subject we're read and discussed, and
! the best way of interesting the great
est numbe of people in each state con.
sidered During the session consider
able difficulty was experienced by the
presiding Off ers in keeping the dis
cussicns off the subject of L. A. w.
politics long enough to give consider
alton to the matter in hand. At head
quarters and about the hotel Hobbies
the managers of the various campaigns
were busy all morning exacting
pledges or trying to from verybody,
and "F'or or against Potter?" is the
query heard on l sides. Many dele
cations, and pa ticularly those repre-
senting the western divisions of the
league, evince q tendency to keep
their votes unpledged until they see
through the imbroglio among the east
ern candidates for Office, and this
makes it difficult to tell the exact
status of the contest. Stories OF COM
binations for and against the re-elec-
ton of Isaac B. Potter to the presi-
dency are circulating freely, but It is
har to estimate with any degree of
accuracy the strength of either party.
The most reasonable prognostication
of the turn Of affairs is that Potter will
be re-chosen by making q deal with
the western delegates wereby the lat
ter secure for Michigan, Illinois, Ohio
or Iodiana will secure goOdly repre-
sent alton among the minor places on
the ticket. This in ali probability will
also AIRY with it the reelection of
Mott to the championship of the racing
board, as the western men are under
stood to be strongly favorable toward
him.
The business to come before the
meeting is receiving its full share of
ate ntiOn despite the fact that political
matters appear to have a monopoly.
Three days will be taken up for the
discussion of affairs and many
important and radical changes
are expected in tie ger eral working OF
the league. The matter of local option
in connection with the racing problem
will be one of the first questions to re-
ceive attention, and observation-disclosures
hedecision as to Sunday racing will be
left with the officials of each division.
the proposition to divorce racing from
the league and put it under the control
of a separate Organization has little
show of being carried. 1t is general
felt that such action could not be taken
unless the league had positive assur-
ance that thesport would be kept up to
its present high standard. Among the
proposed am ndments which are at
tracing attention is one providing for
a junior league of the L. A. w. for
boys and girls between the ages of
twelve and eighteen years George d
Locke, secretary-ts easurer OF the Ill
inois division, will offer an amendment
to the constitp ton which will provide
for the admission of professionally to
and there appears to be
good chance of the amendments adop.
ton. George L. Cooke, chief consul of
the Rhode Island league, is buttouhol-
ing the delegates in the interest of an
which he will introduce
for regulating the election of officers
and doing away with the annual fight
which always takes place at the as
sembly. The amendment provides
that the president, first and second
vice presidents shall hold Office for
two years, and shall be elected by
mail vote of the members of the divi-
= ions between the 18th. dag of Octobsr
and the 18th. day of November and
alternate years. It is further propo-
sed by Mr.. Cooke that the secretary
shall be elected by the national assem-
bly, and hold office as long as he per-
forms satisfactory service, the assem-
bly, to have the right to remove him
at any time by two thirds vote. An
other proposal which Is receiving at
tention will be introduced by the Ill
inois delegates and provides that cycle
clubs, of whose members Is per cent
are loyal to the league, will be eligible
to the league club membership roll,
At present 100 per cent of a clubs men,
bership is an essential before it can
be recognized as an L. A. W. organiza-
ton.