The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-17
Epithets Are Applied With Force and Frequency in Bitter Fight Before Gre
 dentials Committee.
ALLIES GO DOWN TO DEFEAT
Outnumbered in All Night Ses- sion of Committee-Cum- mins Takes Leap to First
 Place in Vice -Presi-
 dential Race.

Chicago, June 16.-At midnight the committee on credentials was still In session with every intention of finish ing It's work before adjournment. Six states involving 62 delegates had been called Up to that time and in every in- stance the decision of the committee had been In favor of the Taft factions and sustained the action taken last week by the national committee.
 The contests heard were those In Ala bama Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky and Mississippi The bitter fight in the state of Louisiana was set- tied without coming before the cred- entials committee. The "Lilly Whites" ad the Black and Tans" held an ex- tended conference late in the day and agreed to accep. the verdict rendered by national committee which seated both delegations with half vote each. No decision could be reached on selec- tions for the various committees and 1t was decided not to attempt to ap- point members to any committee Pearl Wight, will however, retain his seat on the national committee without op- position.
 The Taft members of the committee early showed that they possessed a strong working majority The oppo- sition several times attempted to force roll calls, which could only be had on the request of 20 members. At no time did they show more than 16 in favor of such action. The first vote taken on the seating of the Taft delegates in Alabama were 37 to in favor of the Taft delegates and the others showed about that division of strength.
 Although outnumbered in the com mittee the "allies" announced that they would continue their contests and would carry every one of their fights to the floor of the convention before they would accept final de- feat
 Much ill-feeling was shown between the contesting delegations throughout the night. The members of the op- posing factions in the first Kentucky district applied epithets with force and frequency, and angry disputes between counsel were frequent.
 After the election of Mir. Fulton to the chairmanship at the opening of the session. methods of procedure were discussed by the committee. As time went on without word coming from the committee room in the Coils. cum and no cases being called, a rumor that the committee would re- sort to blanket" approval of the tenn. porary roll which had been prepared by the national committee, was strengthened. Charges that the Taft organization had formulated a scheme for steam roller" disposition of al of the ant-Taft contests were made freely.
 There was disposition on the par of some of the members of the ere dentials committee to accept the de cision of the national committee with out further hearings, but this prop osition was defeated in a sub commit tee of five by vote of three to two In the whole committee there was motion made to lay on the table tn, report of the committee recon mending that brief hearings be grant ed, but 1t was voted down 1t wa decided to allow ten minutes to tn allies for each side for cases involvinj delegates at large and eight minute to each side in the district contests