The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-10
Committee Divides Louis
 iana Delegation.
Ex-Gov. YARMOUTH ANGRY
Clean Sweep of Mississippi by Taft
 Men
Work Of Republican National Commlt- tee Is We'll Advaneed--Juassn,
 Lyons, Negro, Presides
 Over Meeting.

| Chicago. June s.--After working for l four days and with five additional days
 yet to come before the meeting of the
 convention. the Republican National | Committee adjourned late today with two-fifths of It's contests decided. This is based on the actual number of contests filed, sixty having yet to bo heard. while forty-one have been set
 tied. It is probable, however. that the | Committee has finished about one-half l of the total amount of work imposed l on 1t by the numerous contesting dele- l gations from the Southern States. There are In Texas contests on deie- ! gates at large and each of the sixteen 1 districts. These win be consolidated. l reducing the aggregate number of | cases yet to be heard to forty-four. l There Is a possibility also that nther | consultations may be made in Virginia and other States.
 | The Committee today decided sixteen l contests affecting thirty-six delegates. | Of these twenty seven are Taft men | and the remainder nine. all of whom I are "Black and Tans'' from Louisiana. ! have tentatively agreed that they VIII
 cast their votes for Taft. There ia.
 however. no binding agreement to that | effect.
 A Split Delegation. 1 The contests decided today comprised the delegates at large In Louisiana and | Mississippi. seven districts In Louis i jana. six districts in Mississippi ana 1 one In Missouri. Int Louisiana contest which was the most important of the day. resulted in a split delegation. the l Committee deciding on a division of twenty to thirty to seat both the Lily 1 White or Taft delegation and the Black and Tans with a half vote for each.
 This agreement was not reached un- ] til after repeated conferences and much anxious teiegraphing and telephoning
 between Chicago and Washington. The l decision finally reached by the Commit
 tee was carried out with tine full con-
 Taft and President Rosseveit. It pro-
 vides that tho Repnblfcan party In
 Ii0nisiahh shall be raorNanlzed under
 the direction 0f q committed of tliraa composed CT the Chairman. the secre~
 tary and one member of the incoming National Committes.
 The Committee today passed a reso-
 luton instructing the National Commit ] tee to- name as this member Pearl Wight. tho present National Commit-
 teeman from Louisiana. The agree ment as reached between the Taft and 1 antlTaft elements on the committee l was later carried Into effect by that body and was highly displeaaing to the
 LilyT-Whites. headed by ex-Governor l Yarmouth.
 The Governor declared with great emphasis that he would not accept the 1 compromise. but would carry the fight . before the Credentials Committed, and 1 if defeated there he would go homo. | Other memb bers of the Lily White fac- i ton were not so emphatic in their l statements and the Taft managers arc hopeful that they can bring them to see the wisdom of today's action be- | fore the National Convention is called , to order.
 | Tho Black and Tans" accepted the I compromise with entire satisfaction. IL 1 was originally supposed that their votes. If they had been seated as delo- l gates, would be cast for Senator Fora ker. but after the Committee had set- ] tied the contest they announced that l they were uninstructed and entered in- | to a tentative arrangement by virtue of 1 which their votes will be cast for Sec- ] retary of War Taft They claimed that l they were fighting especially for rec- l ognition of their organization and that
 with them all other questions were
 comparatively dwarfed. The agree
 ment to vote for Taft. however, is not 1 binding and to all intents and pur-
 poses the Black and Tans'' votes from 1 Louisiana are uninstructed.
 | McHarg Lets Tongue slip.
 Something of a sensation was cre-
 ated during the hearing of the Louis-
 lana contest by Ormsby McE5arg, Of
 Washington. general counsel for all of
 the contesting Taft delegations. Mr. 1 McHarg had not been informed by the
 political managers of the impending
 settlement and during his argument before the committee declared that
 there would be no compromise stating l that he had visited the South Cat the
 request of the next President of the
 United States" his words plainly re-
 ferrln gto the Secretary of War. l uF n .E I.n.
 on his feet the instant Mir. McHarg
 had concluded his argument The Sem
 ator was livid with wrath and pro-
 tested vehemently against the lan- | Ruage used by the attorney, declaring
 that it was nothing less than threat
 intended to compel the committee to
 act as he desired.
 l The Taft men on the committee att l tempted to smooth 1t over. but Senator | Scott of West Virginia, refused to be
 reconciIed. and declared that he believ- ed that Mir. McHarg had spoken ex-
 actly as he thought and that he was attempting to browbeat the commit- l tee.
 | Comm ltteeman John G. Capers of l South Carolina made a motion at the conclusion of Senator Scott's speech
 that all attorneys appearing before | the committee be instructed to refrain | from using language similar to that adopted by Mir. McHarg.
 No vote was taken but the incident provoked much feeling and occupied ! the attention of the committee for fif- | teen minutes.
 l Later Mir. McHarg in addressing the
 committee on Mississippi contests of ! fered a graceful apology saying that | he had spoken merely as counsel. and
 not for the Secretary of War. This closed the incident entirely. except
 when MT. McHarg called upon the Taft managers and expressed his opinion
 of their conduct in letting him go be- fore the committee to make an argu- ment without being possessed of full
 and accurate information of what the
 Taft people proposed to do.
 The division on the Louisiana com~
 promise was the first test of strength that has been made since the commit-
 tee. met. This was not decisive be-