The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-07-04
CONVENTION TO
LAST -FOUR DAYS
Democratic National Commit
tee Has Completed the
Order of Business.
D. ]. CAMPAU CHAIRMAN
IDAHO DELEGATION EN- ROUTE
TO DENVER.

Denver. July 0.-Ine COnifiittte vi
arrangements of the national commit
tee met today and completed the order
~.of business for the convention and Tor
the session of the national committee
TO be held on Monday. The convention
program is outlined for four sessions,
beginning Tuesday. This would carry
the convention through to Friday aft
ernoon, unless a fight IN committee or
on the floor should prolong the delibe-
rations. AS already announced. it is
proposed that an adjournment shall be
taken Immediately after the temporary
organization is perfected, out of respect
TO the memory of the late Mr.. Cleve-
land, although this feature does not
appear on the formal program.
Order Of Business.
The first days order of business is as
follows:
First.-Chairman Taggart of the ma
tional committee will call the conven-
ton TO order at noon.
Second.-Secretary Urey Woodson
win read the call for the convention.
Third.-Prayer by Archbishop James
j. Keane.
th.-Announcement of temporary
officers agreed upon by the national
committee.
Fifth.-The chairman will ask for
further nominations.
Sixth.-If there are no further nOmi-
nations the chairman will put the
question on agreeing 10 the recon-
mendations OF the national committee.
Seventh.-The chairman will appoint
committee OF two delegates to escort
Temporary Chairman Theodore A Bell
OF California to the chair.
Eighth and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and
speech of temporary chairman.
Tenth.-Call of states for members
of the following committees: Creden-
tials. permanent organization, rules
and order of business, platform and re-
solutions
Eleventh.-Probably adjournment or
recess.
} 1t is expected that the Cleveland re-
solutions as finally agreed upon will be
introduced just before adjournment
Second Day.
For the second day of the conven-
ton. on Wednesday the program calls
for the permanent organization. the
address of the permanent chairman
and the receipt and adoption of COM
mittee reports.
The nominations for president will be
made on Thursday. and il is planned
TO adjourn after this is settled until
for the vice presidency will be in order.
Provision is made in the program for
the receipt of motions TO limit second
ing speeches to presidential nomina-
tions. and to limit both nominating
and seconding speeches for the vice
presidency. There will be no limits
placed upon the presidential nominal
>Sng speeches.
Disposal of Contests.
The order of business arranged for
the national committee calls for de-
cided simplification of the methods OF
disposing of contests. The contests
filed are from five states and the Dis
trict of Columbia. To hear the testi-
mony and determine the merits of
these contests. IT is stated that six sub
committees of five members each shall
be appointed. one subcommittee for
each confesting state. These sub-com-
mittees Will meet simultaneously and
all will report at the same time at an
adjourned meeting of the full commit
tee These reports win be adopted
without discussion. This is a new
method OF disposing OF the contests
and is expected to so expedite matters
that everything can be cleared up in
an afternoon.
Memorial Resolution.
The national committee will adopt a
memorial resolution 10 the late Sem
ator James j. Jones of Arkansas, for
mer national chairman. Norman z.
Mack of New York is drafting the re
solution. The revised official list OF
contests is as follows:
New Yark, Second to Sixth dis
tricts, Inclusive: Pennsylvania, First to
Sixth districts, inclusive; District OF
Columbia, entire delegation; Illinois
First to Tenth districts inclusive: Ida
no. entire delegation; Ohio. Ninth to
Nineteenth districts, inclusive.
BOTH PLEDGED TO BRYAN.