New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-08
COUNTY COMMITTEE RULES
CHANGES RECOMMENDED TO THE sPE-
CIAL MEETING+TO BE ADOPTED
ON JUNE 81

Only fifteen minutes required for the trans
action OF business al the special meeting OF the
Republican County Committee In the Murray Hill
Lyceum last evening The work had been laid out
at a meeting Of the district leaders No. l Madi-
son-ave. in the afternoon. All that the County
Committee could do at the special meeting was to
receive notice of the changes IN the rules rez
lations that are to be made at the regular meeting
on June q. Incidentally It announced that
General Francis v Greene had been elected
member OF the County Committee from the XVIII
Assembly District. General Greene is to be chosen
president OF the County Committee al the regular
meeting
McDougan Hawkes. the first vfce-president was
in the chair. Postmaster Van Cott presented the
list OF changes in the rules which had been agreed
upon at the meeting Of the district leaders in the
afternoon There was discussion OF the pro-
posed amendments which laid oyer after
being read by the secretary. Charles A. Hess the
leader In the XVIII District gave notice that
arthur 2. Sturses had resigned as a member OF
the County Committee from the district and that
General Greene had been substituted In his place.
Everybody understood the reason for making Gen
eraI Greene member of the committee
III first of the proposed amendments to the rules
was an addition. special article being added as
follows;
he TIE County Committee elected at the official
primary In August, 1900. shall meet for organza-
uon on the third Thursday in December 1909
AS stated recently in The Tribune the plan Is to
Keep the present County Committee in power until
diter the election. The next amendment TO the
rules takes from the president Of the County Com
mittee the duty of being chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee and leaves the second paragraph
OF Article follows:
The The president shall be the chairman of the
county Committee, and II shall his duty 70 pre-
side at all meetings of that body aud ne shall De
eX-onclo member of all standing and special
Another amendment makes the chairman OF the
Finance Co nmittee a member OF the Executive
Committee. Another provides that the Executive
Committee shall elect its own chairman. Another
gives to the Executive Committee the power 70 ap-
portion delegates TO conventions ard TO call con-
ventions and primaries A new para graph is added
to Article L. follows:
Delegates TO all conventions and members of the
shall be elected the official primary day in Sep
TENDER in each year except in Presidential years
when they shall be elected the official primary
day In August
Some OF the district leaders said last evening
that the appointment of a special campaign com
mittee will be made at the regular meeting on the
evening Of June q. when General Greene is made
president OF the County Committee. william H
Ten Eyck will be chairman OF the Executive Com
mittee. There has been no agreement yet upon a
important member of the Special Campaign
Committee but there has been talk Of giving the
place to Qugg. The reorganization of the County
Committee is being made with the understanding
that the work Of the committee in the campaign
is 10 be directed mainly by Chairman Odell Of the
Republican State Committee.