The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-12-13
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CLUBS.
Executive COmLhittee Meets to Select
 Place for Annual Convention.

| Washington, Dec. 12-The executive
 committee of the National Republican
 League of Clubs met here to-day fol
 the purpose of deciding upon city fo, | holding the next convention of the l league. The chair was occupied by President George Stone of San Fran | cisco, and the roll call by Secretary D.
 II. Stine of Newport, Ky, showed forty four members present, the largest on | record at such a meeting. On motion
 of MT. Myers of New Jersey the com
 mittee unanimously adopted a resolu-
 ton regretting the death of Vice Presi- dent Hobart. To-day's session was
 rather informal, the main feature being
 discussion of the repeal of article thirteen of the leagues constitution, which prohibits it from endeavoring to influence the nomination of any candi- date or the adoption of any policy by
 any state or national convention.
 Melville Hayes of Ohio offered reso-
 lution declaring it to be the sense of the
 executive committee that the article
 should be repealed and that the secre-
 tary should give due notice that prop
 osition to that effect would be presented
 at the next national convention of the
 league. The repeal was opposed to by
 Hiram Lloyd of St. Louis, who thought
 change such as that proposed would
 lead to office-holding politicians getting
 hold of the machinery of the clubs and
 running them in favor of some particu
 lar person. l.. J. Crawford of Kentucky
 offered resolution providing that a
 committee. of five be appointed to pre-
 sent to the next national convention of the league revision of the constitution and bylaws to incorporate into such re- vision an article providing for revenues. so that the league may be self-sustain- ing, and to take into consideration whether the leagues interests would be best conserved by embodying in its con stitution the right to declare it's prefer ence for particular party politics and to criticise, if necessary, acts of public off, cials.
 The matter was shelved temporarily. The claims of citizens who are anxious to entertain the next annual convention were heard. The advantages of St. Paul, Minn., were set forth by D. M. Reese, clerk of the Minnesota supreme court, and Representative Burke of South Dakota invited the league to hold its convention at Sioux Falls.
 After listening also to the claims of Galveston and Indianapolis, St. Paul, Minn., was chosen as the place for holding the next convention of repub- lican clubs, receiving twenty eight votes to three for Indianapolis and sixteen for Sioux Falls. The date of the con- vention was fixed for the third Tuesday in July. A resolution declaring in fa- vor of selecting delegates to the na- tional republican convention on the basis of republican votes cast in the several states was tabled, as was also one declaring it unwise to make a change at this time. On motion of Mel vile Hayes of Ohio, resolution was adopted expressing the sympathy of the league with the republicans of North Carolina, in their struggle against the adoption of a proposed amendment to the constitution of that state which, it is alleged, violates the fourteenth and amendments to the constitu- ion. The resolution offered by MT. Crawford of Kentucky for the appoint ment of a committee to revise the con- including the article forbid ling the league to present candidates, vas adopted The committee adopted a resolution offered by Melville Hayes to ,all on the president and to express to Jim its hearty endorsement of This wise md patriotic administration" The presidents and secretaries of the va 'icus state leagues reported that the or sanizations in their states were doing excellent work and that unusual inter- 'st was manifested in the campaign for he coming year