The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-01-21

senatoFE-Wanfs Voters to Have a
 chance to Consider Matter Before
 Action is Taken.
 An adjourned meeting of the repub- lican city convention, which was held April 4. 1903. was held in the Young Mems Republican club hall last night. The former chairman and secretary acted in the same capacity last night. They were Chairman A McC. Mathew son and Secretary Futile.
 The session was a long and tiresome one, lasting until after midnight. Dur ing this time there were any number of discussions and any number of motions and amendments made. The meeting was called to receive the report of the special committee concerning the pro posed changes in the republican party rules.
 All the arguments which have been advanced at the public hearings of the committee, and which have been pulp lished in full, were heard last night, with a number of additions.
 When the meeting was called to order and the roll called Chairman Macdon- ald of the republican town committee, stepped to the front and presented to the chairman the proposed revised rules which had been submitted to him by the special committee.
 Before the secretary had a chance to read them Clerk Isbell, of the city court, presented the secretary with an- other revision, which he had composed, and which was signed, as a minority report. by five members of the town committee.
 Then the fun commenced. All kinds and descriptions of motions tending to do away with or towards the adoption of one or the other of the reports were made.
 Long speeches relative to the situa- ton were made by Colonel Ullman, ex- Judge Harrison. Chairman Macdonald, Colonel c. W. Pickett, Frederick Orr. City Attorney Webb, Assistant City Attorney Hall and many others.
 After much time was spent in how to dispose of the two reports most advan- tageously it was finally decided to dis cuss and act on each separately. For a while there was considerable discus sion over each section, but it was quickly discovered that those who fa- vored the authorized committees re- port were in a large majority.
 With the exception of the second arl6s.. third sections of the committees re- port, up to the eleventh section all oe the majority report was adopted. As it was thought, concerning the two sec- tions In question, that the report of the minority was a little more specific, they were adopted They refer to when the rules shall go into force, and the elec- ton of town and ward committees.
 When the eleventh section was read Colonel Ullman submitted the follow ing substitute:
 Section 11--All delegates to state con- ventions shall be chosen by the dele- gates elected from the various wards to the town convention chosen to elect such delegates, provided that the two delegates allowed from each senatorial district shall be residents of such dis- trict
 The delegates elected from the vaTi- ous wards to the senatorial convention shall meet in town convention, and the senators to which New Haven is etlti- tied shall be nominated in such nlan- ner and subject to such regulations as said convention shall determine. Dele- gates to all other conventions may be chosen from the city at large.
 Colonel Ullman explained the ssibsti- tution by saying that 1t had been clai1n- ed by the opposition that the republs- can voters were not having fair chance to consider this matter, and also that the delegates of the present con vention had been elected without any knowledge on the part of the voters that they were going to act on any Ees~- vision. He therefore thought that for people ought to have a chance andsstf- this reason he had offered the suEing ute. Said the speaker: By adopiaye this substitution the voters will Iider from now until next fall to conh to what they wish to do in referenctave the nomination of senators They who the opportunity to elect delegates ters can conform with what the vcobie want; and in the meanwhile the peave who are objecting so seriously will fany all the chance they wish to perform de- missionary work which they may sire oor
 Attorney Webb then took the hsut land said that this substitution was but one form of deceiving the voters that it would not work. mt
 Colonel Pickett made an eloquthe speech, in which he stated that ,1y agreed with all that Colonel Ullmat had said and in the substitute which he had presented. He thought that there was no question but that every voter in the town must see the reason ableness of it and be satisfied.
 Judge Harrison thought that Colonel Ullman's substitute was Q, very fair measure and that 1t would give general satisfaction.
 Attorney Hall said that he thought that the minority report had not had the consideration which was due re- port which had been signed by one third of the republican town commit tee.
 A motion was then made that the mir nority report be accepted and this was amended that the substitute, submitted by Colonel Ullman, be adopted instead. Colonel Ullrnan called for an aye and nay vote on both the amendment and the original motion, which was done. Colonel Ullnaan's substitute was adopt ed by vote of 57 to '.
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