The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-05-18
BEGINS IFS REAL WORK
CONDUCTORS CONVENTION HAS NOT
NET TAKEN ANY DECISIVE
ACTION
HAS BEEN HEARING REPORTS
Matter of Building Home for Dis
abled Trainmen Still Under Con-
sideration-Cedar Rapids
Keeps Headquarters.

The conductors convention is now
/ nearing a close, and beginning with to-
/ day the real work will commence. The
/ past week has been devoted entirely to
/ discussions on the subjects which have
| come up and to the reading or reports,
| but no final action has been taken on any
matter, for the reason that all business
/ or Importance to the order must be con-
come up and to the reading of reports,
| must be read three times. An officer
| Of the orderBtated yesterday that the DIS
4 cuSsionS which have taken up most of
1 the time have been relative to proposed
4 changes in the constitution and by
! laws When the business of the con
! vention is wound up it will be found that
many changes have teen made, some of
! them of considerable Importance
The question OF having home butt for
/ the disabled raiIroaders belonging to the
various orders in the country received at
tention again yesterday afternoon.
! Father Coffin who could not seen when
the matter first came up, was found yes
! terday and he stated that there was some
/ misunderstanding relative 10 the building
! Of the new home He thinks it would
/ be better to have the structures buj t on
some other site than that at Highland
/ Park 1t developed at the discuss ons IN
! the Auditorium yesterday that there IS
. general sentiment III IdFOi u iie1FliL6
! the home on some 1e0-acre tract in
good farming community. The buildings
alone will not he as costly as at first
thought but there is the question of the
! land for the new site and the heavy run
ming expenses. A doctor alone W II draw
! several thousand dollars. Then there
/ Wiz be the library to which large addi-
tons will be made, the hospital the serv-
! ice at table and throu ghont the instltu-
! ton, and a long array of incidental eX-
] penses. From this it can be seen that
| the total of expenditure win foot up high
/ before the end of year. The matter OF
! a home will be considered for the third
time today and the final vote will he
1 taken Monday.
WORK IN HAND.
The appeals from insurance decisions
4 will come up for consideration to-day.
There are many conductors who have put
in claims in the past for insurance who
have been turned down and they now
have an opportunity OF appealing 1t is
I understood that there are quite number
of cases coming. up for cons deration and
| the convention will devote some time 10
i them.
Another matter that viii claim some
attention from the grand division is q
/ proposition to allow the Endorsement Of
candidates for office who give pledges
satisfactory to a local division. The
/ proposed amendment has only received
! it's first reading, so it will probably be
I Monday when the final vote is taken.
/ Politicians all over the country will be
/ interested in this and will watch the out
leone closely.
/ Chairman NJ. N. Goss, of the local com
nittee ON arrangements, was seen yes
! terday relative to the statements about
! the appointment of a joint committee
of the different railway orders, and he
said the matter had not even come up
for consideration in the convention.
Several other conductors, including the
! grand secretary, said practically the
/ same thing Assistant Grand Chief Con-
! ductor A. b. Garretson was then asked
! about the same matter, and he said tho
| subject was periodical nightmare which
4 had been hanging. fire for the last ten
/ years, but about which nothing had
/ been done There has been joint COM
mittee before, but this was done away
/ with three years ago. Mr. Garretson
! was then asked directly If the matter
/ had been given any consideration at
! the present convention. He sad: Yes.
/ but nothing to speak of; it is a subject
! which may fall off unnoticed and it may
crop up any time The probabilities are
| that it will be dropped
! Another conductor who had attended
/ the convention was then talked with,
and he stalled that the Texas delegation
was about the only one which wanted
the matter brought to the front.
CEDAR RAPIDS WINS OUT.
Cedar Rapids viii be the headquarters
Of the order as heretofore if the mat
ter does not come up again. The con
ductors stated yesterday that some meas
/ ure was railroaded through the CONVEX
/ ton without half the conductors know
ing what they were voting for. The
name of Cedar Rapids was not even
mentioned in the measure, and after
wards the delegates found out that the
! town was ut with a big 1. 1t is not
known to certainty yet whether or not
| the matter viii come up for considera-
| ton. Most of the delegates are indif-
ferent, though those who were backing
up Cleveland feel rather put out about
/ it. They say the vancouver savored
much of trickery or political methods.
There are only three candidates to
certainty as yet after the Offices of the
/ grand officers. The first is J. R. Neider-
1 heiser, of Lorain, o, who wants to be
! grand Junior conductor Howard Leach,
| of Jackson Mich, wants to be the
grand senior conductor, and Delegate
Holloway. of New York, would like to
be the grand secretary.
The fight for the next convection is
still on. An erroneous statement was
made in the G 10 b e yesterday to the
effect that one. Delegate Shipley, of
Pittsburg, claimed that his city would
! not press it's claim. 1t should be stated
/ that a wrong name was secured. Pitts
/ burg is still in the race, as the following
| will show:
To the Editor of the St Paul G b e:
An article appeared in your issue of May
| II, purporting to be an interview with
! Delegate Shipley, of Division 81, where
! in he says Pittsburg has withdrawn from
/ fl7a fff. q fiTaer Of h1
! Division in 1868. We, the delegates from
| Pittsburg, desire to say that Pittsburg
! has not withdrawn. but is in the contest
| to stay until the last vote is taken
i Walters Division IA
-E. Reese, Division 201.
w. H. Corners Division 314
| Outside Of this there We're no new
developments in the contest yesterday.
VISIT. TO MINNEAPOLIS.
Most of the visiting conductors and the
Of Ja lal