El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-02-09
l.. A. w. MEETING.
Slate for Officers Made out. Legisla-
tiOn SDOkeu Of

JUL SpOhcu VI
Ia the L A. W. m citing at St. L uis,
Mo today, if ape. ances count for
anything, Pre- sidept Isaac B. Pot err has
the whio hand of his OPP onepts and
will be reelected to the heal of the
Lee gaze of America WheeImen by an
overwhe Ginning lajority. The move of
the Pc teritei in picking out Thomas
J. keenan,, of Pittsburg, for first &C.
president: Chief Con>ul Edward Hines,
of NJ chi an, for second vice-preside Mt,
and New Jersey man for treasurer,
has proven to be shire ed o'e, mas
much as it has made impossibl q
old com b nation of the west against
the east AID vice versa. The de e.
gatas are red hot with politics this
morning and are so determined to get
tn veXej question out OF the way that
the election my be spruug this after
noon and forced to a result AS mat
ter of fact the fight on officers, as in
previous years, is materially inter-
# rring with the legislative and other
important business of which there is
always enough to occupy the entire
time of the convention, and the result
is that import mt matters that ought
to he deliberately considered and be
As deliberately acted upon are ru-hed
and but half dieested. The ~wester i.
delegates who have combined in a
DlS SDOEU SStjuTc lOC6l opU
on Sunday racing held conferences
this morning to consider thoir pl .ns.
An ex-member of the natioEal racing
board, Douglas w Robe is, of Mi
souri,, has offered an amendmen
which will give those divi iuDs whose
boards of officers so It, the right to
hold Sunday rae urder l.. A. w.
anction. 1t ia believed that the best
thing. to, do with this question
each western division in a
Such a proc, eli would get at the
real continent of the division, and tot
leave the thing solely to the ser time7t
# the repre- sen tatives to the division
BOARD of officers. Mr.. Roberts will get
n rap at the six-day game also, for
he desirs S the passage of an amend
ment hibiting the aw ardiny of sane
tions to meets which have on their
programmes events requiring the con-
t.stants to ride more than "a hours
This latter amendment will 60 through
with rush. Further than this, Mr..
Roberts would have the racing rules so
amended that when an amateur is d.
clsred a professional he shall not he ex
oelled from the league, but transf FRED
o the professional class. This is in
keeping with the conditions which will
ex1SL ii une AmenQmonC OF OnloI COn-
sui Cooke of Rhode Island, is accepted.
Mr.. Cooke recommends the striking
nut of the word amateur from the con
stitution, so that both amateur and
professional riders may be m mbsrs of
he body which governs the sport 10
which they ride.
While the delegates were getting
Town to business in the big club-room
If the southern there was a kind of
mpromptu meeting in the rotunda of a
number of cycle racing men, profes-
-ionals and amateurs, who have a num-
Der of grievances in the matte of the
ontrol of racing, AMI who want to BE-
given a hearing. The professionals
ire urgent 10 their demand that the
limit to the value of prizes should be
abolished and think that race meet
promoters should be the best judge of
the amounts they could give to racing
men. The possibility is that the
league will consider some changes, but
is very unlikely ttat the request of
h. professionals to be admitted to
membership will be seriously con-
5idered.