Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-20

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June 19.-The
committee on resolutions organized i'm
mediately after the adjournment of the
convention, has adjourned to meet at
the Walton Hotel at 5 o'clock.
On motion of Senator Foraker, Sen
ator Fairbanks, of Indiana, was chosen
chairman of the committee, and E.
Rosewater, the Nebraska member, sec
rotary. In suggesting Mr.. Rosewater's
nomination, Senator Foraker stated
that the place should be given to him
as a compliment to his profession of
journalism. The suggestion was re-
ceived with general approval.
The committee re-convened at FIVE
o'clock, when the following members
were appointed a subcommittee to
draft and submit a platform to the full
committee:
Senator'S Fairbanks, Qndiana);
Davis, (Minnesota); Gallinger, New
Hampshire); Foraker, (Ohio); Carter,
(Montana), and Mccumber, North Da-
kota), and Messrs. Grigg, New York;;
Noyes, tMaryland); Madden, (IllinoisJ,
and Rowell. California;.
Senator Penrose, of Pennsylvania,
introduced a declaration for an execu-
tive department of the government to
be known as the department of COM
merce and industry, but it was re
ferred to the subcommittee.
When the subcommittee convened a
delegation of ladies fro "A the suffrage
association was admitted TO present
arguments for a resolution which they
submitted asking Congress to submit
to the State legislatures an amend
ment to the constitution granting the
election franchise to women The
delegation was headed by Mrs. Carrie
Chapman Gait, president of the Equal
Suffrage Association, and Mrs. Annie
Shaw, vice president of that associa-
ton, and they both made brief speech
es in support of the proposition.
Fl plOLCOI against JilC Sufl1d6C pkdDh
was also submitted. This was handed
in by Mrs. Francis NJ. Scott, Of New
York; Mrs. J. Eliot Cabot, of Massa-
chusetts; Mrs. Caroline F. Gorbin, of
Illinois; Mrs. R. w. Wilbur, of Oregon;
Mrs. Samuel Cassidy, of Iowa, and Mrs.
G. w. Griggs, of Washington, each of
them president of a State or city soci-
ETY. opposed to the extension Of suf-
frage.
Another Delegation
that was heard very briefly was com-
posed of colored men and was headed
by Representative White. They asked
for the insertion Of a plank d~enouncing
mob violence in the South. E. ]. Dick
inson, also a colored man, asked the
insertion of a similar plank and for
n protesting against the suppress
sion of the ballots of citizens in the
Southern States" which the resolution
went on to declare amounts to a nulli-
fication of the constitution and the
laws of the United States. The whole
matter was referred to Mr.. Lynch, of
Mississippi, with instructions to draft
a plank covering the Southern ques-
ton.
H. H. Hanna and Henry c. Payne,
Of Wisconsin, were heard at some
length in support Of the request to in
corporate a plank in the platform to
equalize and lower the rates of interest
by providing a flexible and sufficient
medium of exchange for the benefit OF
the borrower as well as the lender of
money in order that American COM
merce nay be enlarged and that labor
may be assured of steady and remu-
nerative employment.
They made an earnest plea for the
resolution, but it met with opposition
on the ground that 1t was liable to be
interpreted as calculated to disturb the
financial legislation already secured.
The draft of the platform as pro-
posed by Senator'S Foraker and Fair
banks and others was then read by
Mr.. Foraker. II is the same document
which was outlined in these dispatches
on Monday morning, but several verbal
changes were suggested. Objection was
made that it was too long and il was
| referred to a subcommittee to revise
and shorten If uoSsfble
There was considerable discussion Of
the financial plank, which, as it stands.
is an absolute
Declaration fs the Gold Standard.
Several notifications Of this resolution
were considered, among them one sug-
| gested by the Colorado delegation,
which mel with favor among the west
ern members. II read as follows:
The Republican party by tradition
and principle is in favor of bi-metaI-
ism and upon all proper and oppor-
tune occasions will advocate the CO.
i operation of the United States with the
other leading commercial nations o!
the world to secure the free coinage
OF both gold and silver at a fixed ra-
to-"
The question was not settled at the
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