The age-herald., 1899-07-21

published by him as manager of the press bureau of the national committee in which over his own signature. he takes occasion to justify the act complained or, ana re- iterates largely the statement made in the Chicago dailies hereinbefore referred to. All Thrown on Devlin
 "Our investigation convinces us that no officer or member of the democratic na- tional convention was concerned either di- rectly or indihectly in the preparation or publication of the articles complained of by the Illinois committee and MT. Gahan says the responsibility for their preparation and publication whether accidental or other wise rests upon, and must be borne en- tirely by MT. Devlin; that occupying the position which he did, it was very injudic- ious and indiscreet for him Ono matter what his personal convictions as to the relative merits of parties or candidates in the mu- nicipal contests in Chicago to permit the national committee which he represented to in any way be drawn into such contro- versy; that it was very injudicious and un- wise for him to have prepared such an arti cle in the first place. even though he after ward reconsidered his first determination to publish it; but your subcommittee de- sires to call special attention to the fact that after the article complained of was published in the Chicago press, distinctly claiming that it was by authority of the national committeeman and his chairman Ca claim then known and now admitted by Mir. Devlin to be false) MT. Devlin remained absolutely silent from then until the elec- tion was over, allowing 100000 copies of those papers containing this article to be circulated in Chicago and vicinity and per mitting it to have its full effect, whatever that may have been, and made absolutely no effort to correct the false impression conveyed or to extricate the national com mittee from the false position in which 1t was designed and placed.
 In this the subcommittee believes Mr. Devlin was unfortunately unmindful of the plainest principles of fealty, due from a trusted representative to the body granting him authority.
 In view of the fact that press committee has been provided for as a subcommittee of our national committee and with the understanding that said subcommittee is in future to supervise and control all meth- ods of publicity in which the committee and the party are interested, 1t is our opin- ion and we hereby recommend, that the national committee press bureau of which MT. Devlin has been and Is now in charge, should be placed under the control of the press committee of the national committee and that its organization and future opera ton should be directed and supervised by such press committee. Respectfully sub- mitted,
 UREY WOODSON, Kentucky
 JAS. J. JOHNSON, Kansas.
 JOS. DANIELS, North Car.
 A motion was promptly made by Mir Ga. han, of Illinois, that the report of the com- mittee be adopted, and it was carried, with three dissenting voices, O'Donnell of Colo rado, Williams of Massachusetts, and Ab- bolt of New York. voting in the negative. MT. Bryan did not vote, notwithstanding the fact that he held two proxies
 TNhe matter of rues was then taLan ,,,, but Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, moved an adjournment as not all the members of the convention were provided with copies of the rules and he objected to further proceedings until they were SUD- piled. The meeting then adjourned until 33O a recess of one and one-half hours
 When the meeting reconvened Mayor Rose. of Milwaukee, addressed the commit tee. inviting the members to make a visit to Milwaukee, and Mir Cox the head of the delegation which Is endeavoring to se- cure the next democratic convention for that city, made a short speech, setting forth the advantages of Kansas City as a convention city. No action was taken by the committee regarding the talk of MT. Cox as it had been determined before the meeting was called to order that the con- mittee should not at the present meeting consider anything relating to the location of the next convention. =
 Ohio Bimeta1lic League
 Committeeman Norton, of Ohio, who was acting for MT. Mclean. the regular mem- Der from that state, then announced that the members of the Ohio Bimetallic League were at the door, and moved that they be invited to enter, and that MT. Tarvin, of Kentucky, their chairman, be asked to ad- dress the committee. The motion was pass ed, and the members of the League were admitted.
 Mir. Tarvin read the resolutions passed by the League at the meeting held at the Palmer house early in the day calling for the insertion in the next democratic nation- al platform of blanks antagonstic to trusts, in opposition to imperialism. and for a declaration of adherence to the silver plank of the Chicago platform. His address con- tained nothing calculated to convey the impression that unless the members of the League received the recognition they de- manded that they would bolt from the ranks of the democratic party
 MT. Clayton, of Alabama, then moved for the consideration of the rules governing the committee and asked the passage of a reso- lution to the effect that all sections of the rules"from to 10, inclusive, be stricken out. This was carried with some debate.
 MT. Thompson, of Nebraska, moved that the consideration of the plan of organiza- tion work the committee is expected to carry out, be taken up. Vice Chairman Stone then took the floor and made a leng- thy address, outlining the work the commit tee should pursue. He made no motion and no action was taken. MT. Williams of Mas sachusetts moved that the matter of the press committee be referred to the execu-