The Portland daily press., 1898-02-12
WHEELMEN ADJOURN.
The L. A. W, Assembly at St, Louis a
Notable One.

St. Louis, February 11.-After three
days of work the National Assembly
of the L. A. w. tonight finally adjourned
one Of the most notable sessions ever held
by that body. At this session the fight of
President Isaac Potter for reelection,
was successful, and the important CUES
ton of local option in the matter of Sun
day racing was again defeated. This eve
ming an amendment was offered to the
bylaw. Is moving to strike out in article
4 of section Z, clause G, oil the words
.''but' and Cor" and insert in their
stead the following:
'No meeting shall receive sanction il
it is to be held on Sunday in any divis-
ion where the board of officers of such
division shall prohibit the same"
W. II. Baker, delegate from Buffalo,
offered as a substitute for this amend
Inent one in favor of local option, Oh
which he spoke at length.
A number of other speeches were made
and by good majority Mr.. Baker,
amendment was substituted for the orig
inaI amendment A proxy vote was TAX
en- on the adoption OF the substitute. 1t
was defeated as the required two-thirds
The total number of votes cast was 1897,
making the necessary Two thirds 2l8. A
count of the votes showed l75 for the
amendment and 1o2 against The matter
will therefore be laid on the table until
the next national assembly. President
Potter voted for the amendment. Thirty
ty other amendments were disposed of
during the day in various ways. Among
the more important of these adopted are
the following: Article 2, of the consaitu-
ton, new section inserted to read: No
8. "No professional shall be eligible to
entry in any open race under the rules
of the League of American heelmen I'M
less he is registered with the racing
board"
meets closed to q college or to any num-
Der of colleges forming an intercollegiate
meet, may for those meets only he gov
erned by the amateur rules of the inter-
collegiate association of amateur athletes
of America.
Article 5, section 3, was amended by
striking out the word 'wheelmen".
Other amendments adopted provided for
the payment of $4,000 year as q compen-
sation tc Chairman Mott of the national
racing board and declared that here
after no sanctions would be given for any
six day continuous race unless riders
were compelled to take at least two hours
rest out OF every "a.
Resolutions were adopted fixing the
registration fees for professions at SO per
year. calling on the national government
10 push the demand on the Turkish gov.
eminent for the prompt payment of $40,-
600 indemnity to the mother of Frank f.
LEM, the Pittsburg member of the l..
A. W., who was murdered in Turkish
territory while on a tour of the world;
favoring the passage by Congress of the
bill introduced by Representative Davis
of Alabama for the appointment of a
committee to view the roads in the ma
tional forest reserve of the Yosemite val
lev in California and report to the next
session of Congress the beat location for
q road through that reservation.
M. G. Rather of Milwaukee introduced
the following resolution which was warm
" endorsed by prominent men in the
league and finally adopted:
Resolved, That the executive commit
fee of the L. A. W. be instructed to in
vestigate the feasibility of turning over
to some other organization or body the
control of racing and to report its results
at the national assembly. M. Harrison,
n member of the good roads bureau of
the department of agriculture, and a
Lacquer from New Jersey, asked the dele
oates to make such urgent demands on
their respective congressman to secure
fine building of sample roads as will
ayvakep their interests in the bureau and
cause them to make larger appropria-
Hons. This concluded the work of the as
sembly and it adjourned sine die.