Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-06-30
TROUBLE BREWING.
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FRIDAY. Rev. p IT.. Ramsey of St..

Friday. Rev. PIT. Ramsey OF 81.
Pa,rl,s NJ f. church, South Denver.
Secretary Trey Woodson of the ma
tional committee did not announce To-
day the names of the assistant secre-
taries. reading clerks and tally clerks
of the convention press OF routine
work having rendered him unable TO
fill out the list from the large number
of applications. The number is limited
to Is.
Notices of contest have been filed
with the national committee involving
As seats, but of this number the con-
tests actually filed relate to 10 seats.
Six of these are from the District OF
Columbia, the contest having been fill
ed today, and seven are from the LIST,
%, 4th, 5th and 9th Pennsylvania Con-
gressional districts. The LIST and "a
Districts, however, have only one seat
each in dispute. Notices Of contests
yet to be filed came from Chicago and
Brooklyn. In the Chicago acses the
first to the 10th Congressional dis
tricts are involved, the contesting dele
cations being led by Robert =. Burke
of Chicago. Contrasting delegations
from Brooklyn will come from the %
to the 18th New York Congressional
districts. inclusive and relate to the
McCarren- Murphy fight. Two dele
cations at large We're elected in Idaho,
but no notice of contest against the
seating of the delegation headed By
Former Senator Dubois has been re-
ceived. Contests may be filed any time
before the meeting of the national
committee July G.
The committee on convention ar
engagements paid q visit today to the
Auditorium, which was pregnant in
results as far as increasing the seat
ing capacity of the hall is concerned,
but which brought woe to Architect
Wilson That gentleman, with keen
professional eye to the beauty and in
ished character of the work, had ar
ranged the seating capacity in such
way as to produce the most pleasing
effect on the eye of the spectator. In
so doing, however. he had left con-
siderable amount of vacant floor space,
much of which was in extra width
given to the aisles. When the members
of the committee visited the hall to-
day, their eye at once fastened upon
this extent of empty floor and Roger
C. Sullivan of Illinois at once asked if
more chairs could not be placed.
1T would injure the scenic effect
replied Architect Wilson.
Mr. Sullivan in a single energetic
sentence gave vent to the opinion that
what the committee desired was seats,
seats and then more seats and that
scenic effect could take its chances or
betake itself to any place it chose to
go The other members of the COM
mittee whose lives are made a burden
by the unceasng demand for tickets,
cordially supported the criticisms and
contentious of Mr.. Sullivan and the
net result was that the seating capacity
of the hall was at once increased from
the original number of 1.33S to more
than 1900. The alterations suggested
today also resulted in allowing IS adj
| ditional seats for members of the press
The national committee which for
| several days has been in cramped quar-
| ters on one of the upper floors of the
Brown Palace hotel, today moved into
| the more commodious quarters on the
| parlOr floor, which it will Occupy until
| after the convention has adjourned.