The sun., 1908-06-19

radical Oh La Toilette, demanded separate
vote on the minority plank declaring. for
the asoertainment OF the physical valua-
ton OF railroads.
SEPARATE VOTES oApzRnp.
Then q Nebrasea delegate demanded
q separate vote on tho Wisconsin plank
declaring for the election Of Senators by
The leaders were greatly concerned by
this time. Representative Serene Il. Payne,
one OF the platform makers, rose In his
place In the New York delegation and
wanted to know IL motion to lay the mi
nority report on the. table was In order.
Chairman Lodge decided that 1t was not
because the previous question had been
ordered on the approval Of the minority
report. That settled It,, and the roll call
by States was begun after Senator Lodge
votes on the minority planks dealing with
publicity OF campaign expenses. physical
valuation OF railroads, and the direct cleo
ton OF Senators.
elusive each State delegation cast its vote
solidly against the minority platform
The first vote for that proposition came
from New Jersey. One Of the "a Jersey
ites, it was announced. favored the, La
Toilette principles. There was little cheer
at this. South Dakota cast Q Of her votes
and Wisconsin 25 Of her 20 votes for the
platform presented by Cooper. There we're
loud cheers and some Misses when 1t was
announced that the minority platform was
Then came the test on Gov. Hanly's
motion to adopt the La Toilette campaign
publicity plank. Upon that ] demand
roll call, said Gov: Hanly Wisconsin
seconded the demand; Representative j.
and waving a fan, jumped up ON his chair
and asked unanimous consent to have the
plank read before the vote was taken, but
cries OF 4Objeot! Object!" arose and Mr..
Fassett sat down.
NO ON ALL AT ONCE.
Everybody laughed when Connecticut
was reached on the list and Charles F.
Brooker, the national committeeman Of
that State, cried out in loud voice: "Con-
necticut votes her fourteen votes No on
this and all other amendments.' 4
Some applause came when 10 was an
nounced that Idaho cast her six votes in
the affirmative, There was no applause
when Timothy L. Woodruff cast six votes
In the affirmative and sixty-six in the mega.
tive for New York. Mr.. Woodruff declined
to tell afterward who the six men were
who voted for the proposition.
The plank was rejected "a to IS. the fol-
lowing votes being cast in the affrmative
Idaho. 0; Indiana. II; kentucky, 8; Mary
land. T. Missouri. 3; Nebraska. 10; New
South Dakota. Q; West Virginia. 2. and
Wisconsin. rs.
MR.. EMERY NOT ENOUGH.
Shouts of -No, No, No. went up when
Wisconsin demanded roll call on the
physical valuation plank. These had
hardly ceased when Delegate Emery of
Pennsylvania made known that mir.
Emery Of Pennsylvania seconds the call"
After Mr.. Emery had been gently adj
monlshed by Chairman Lodge that a
delegation and not mere individual must
second the call Gov. Crawford announced
hot nok fha
second. This motion was knocked out
to the tune Of 8i7 to 6S The affirmative
| vote was as follows: Indiana. 8; Missouri.
8; Nebraska IL; New York. 8; Pennsyl-
vania. 4; South Dakota. 8; and Wiscon-
sin. rs.
Next came the vote on the minority plank
declaring in favor Of the election of Senators
by the people. Nebraska demanded roll
call and Chairman Lodge called for a second.
Again there were cries OF mo, no, no!' For
a moment It looked as II the proposition
had few friends and Mr.. Lodge was about
to declare the demand for a call lost when
Wisconsin came to the front with a second.
There was some applause when Senator
II votes for it and 10 against it. No break
occurred in the ranks of the New York ers
this time, all OF her seventy eight delegates
voting -No." AS on all the previous sep
cation cast his ballot against the La Toilette
schemes. His identity was not announced.
but Uncle Isaac Stephenson. the venerable
junior Senator from the Wolverine State
had guilty look on his face.
The plank was rejected, ia to 500, the
affirmative vote being as folows: Idaho. g.
Illinois, l. Indiana. II; Iowa. /: Kentucky,
.; Maryland. /; Michigan. S; Missouri, I;
Nebrasks. 10; Ohio, Q; Oklahoma. ID; Penn
syEanis. IS; South Dakota. 8; Utah. 2; West
Virginia. S; Wisconsin. IS; Hawaii. 1.
mighty roar of Aye" went up when
Senator Lodge put the question on the
adoption OF the platform reported by the
committee on resolutions. Nobody re-
sponded to the call for negative vote.
There was cheering and handclapping when
the platform yas declared adopted
HOW COMPROMISE WAS MADE.
It has been told already how the WELD
ing Of the Big Stick and the fear Of Presi
dent Roosevelts denomination helped bring
about the decision. OF the conservative
members on the platform subcommittee
to accept the anti-inj junction plank de-
manded by the Administration.
Early yesterday evening Messrs Kellogg
and Ellis, backed by Senators Hopkins and
Long, got the subcommittee TO adopt an
ANTITRUST and railroad plank which had
at the end Of it declaration that the anti
trust law should be so amended as not TO
interfere with combinations of business
men. farmers and wage earners. This was
one of the things demanded by union labor
and embodied in the civic federation bin
pTepdTIu dL tIle Wine E1OuSe IptpIeeeHlt-
tive Payne of New York, Representative
Dalzell Of Pennsylvania. Senator Crane Of
Massachusetts, and Senator Clark Of Wyo-
ming, who had votedfn the negative, became
alarmed over the radical tendency dis
played and secured an adjournment for
consultation.
They went to Speaker Cannon at the
Union League Club and told him what the
subcommittee had done. 1t was suggested
to the Speaker that this plank might be
used as means Of obtaining a compromise
on the ant-injunction matter The whole
situation was gone over including the
fear that President Roosevelt would be |,
renominated il the anti-injunction plank
was left out of the platform. fear which |
was accentuated by the Roosevelt demon
stration in the convention yesterday.
Speaker Cannon gave 1t as his opinion
that the plank exempting labor unions
and other organizations from the operation !
Of tho antitrust law was much more dam
gerous than the anti-injunction plank as
Il was an Endorsement of class legislation,
and he gave his approval to the suggestion
that IL this plank was eliminated from the
platform the conservatives would cbn-
sent to the inclusion of modified anti
injunction plank declaring for a statute
confirming the practices OF the courts and |