The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-04
PROGRAMME FUR
 THE CONVENTION Four Days Allowed to Finish
 Up the Business SPEECHES TO BE LIMITED Five States and the District of CoIum- bia Have Contests To Settle-AIi Committees Will Report and
 Business Be Rushed.
SPEECHES TO BE LIMITED

Denver, July 3.-The committee on cratic convention met today and com pleted the order of business of the con vention and for the session of the na- tional committee to be held on Mon day. The committee programme is out lined for four sessions, beginning next Tuesday. This will carry the conyen- tion through to Friday afternoon un less a fight in committee or on the floor should prolong the deliberations. As already announced it is proposed that an adjournment shall be taken immediately after the temporary or ganization Is perfected out of respect to the memory of the late MT. Cleve- land although this feature does not appear on the formal programme. The first days order of business is as fol- lows:
 1. Chairman Taggart of the national committee calls convention to order at noon.
 2. Secretary Woodson reads call for convention.
 3. Prayer by Archbishop James J. Keane.
 4. Announcement of temporary of- fiicers agreed upon by the national committee.
 5. Chairman asks for further nomina- tions.
 6. No further nominations, the chair man puts the question on agreeing to the accommodations of the national committee.
 T. Chairman appoints committee of two delegates to escort Temporary Chairman Theodore A. Bell of Califor- mia to chair.
 and g.. Introduction and speech of temporary chairman.
 10. Call of states for memb CTS of the following committees: Credentials, per- business. platform and resolutions.
 Il. Probable adjournment or recess. It is expected that the Cleveland resolution as finally agreed upon will be introduced just before adjournment. For the second session on Wednesday the programme for the permanent organ ization, the address of permanent chair man and the receipt and adoption of com mittee reports. The nominations for President will be made Thursday and it is planned to ad- journ after this is settled until Friday morning, when the nominations for Vice President will be in order. Provision Is made in the programme for the receipt of motions to limit seconding speeches to presidential nominations and limit both nominating and seconding speeches for the vice presidency. There will be no limits placed upon the presi- dential nominating speeches. The order of business arranged for the national committee calls for a decided simplifica- ton of the methods of disposng of con- tests
 The contests filed are from five states and the District of Columbia. To hear the testimony and determine the merits of these contests it Is slated that six sub-committees of five members each shall be appointed, one subcommittee for each contending state. These sub-com- mttees will meet simultaneously and all will report at the same time at an ad- journed meeting of the full committee.
 The reports will be adopted without dis cussion.
 The national committee will adopt
 memorial resolution to the late Senator James K. Jones of Arkansas, former na- tional chairman. Norman E. Mack of New York is drafting the resolution The revised official list of contests Is as fol- lows:
 New York-Second to Sixth district, in- elusive.
 Pennsylvania-Firs to Sixth districts, inclusive.
 District of Columba-Entire delegation Illinois-First to Tenth districts. incu-
 sive
 Idaho-Entire delegation Ohio-Ninth to Nineteenth districts, in- slusive.