The Nevada County picayune., 1910-03-09
CONGRESSIONAL
 COMMITTEE MEETS

man of the Democratic Congress ional Committee for the Eth Con. gressional District, met at the Court House in the city of Cam. den at 2 o'clock D. m. on the 3rc day of March, 1910.
 There was present as follows
 Union county, c. w. Smith proxy for w. T. Hudson.
 Ouachita County. J. T. SifforC
 Columbia County, w. l.. Jame- son.
 Lafayette County, Arthur Bak. CT, proxy for F. E. Baker.
 Hampstead, J. T. Sifford, proxy for J. D. Montgomery.
 Clark County, J. H. Crawford.
 Nevada County, J. c. Marsh, proxy for M. w. Greeson.
 Calhoun County, N. N. Wood, proxy for w. A. James.
 Bradley County, J. E. Bradley proxy for Byron Herring.
 Ashley County, J. E. Bradley, proxy for T. A. Jackson.
 Chicot County, J. E. Bradley. proxy for Harry E. Cook.
 The committee was called to order by J. T. Sifford, secretary, and J. H. Crawford was unani- mously elected chairman.
 John E. Bradley introduced a resolution which was amended by adding a second resolution on motion of C.. w. Smith.
 The whole as introduced and amended was unanimously adopt ed and is as follows towit:
 Be it resolved by the Democrat ic Congressional Committee of the seventh Congressional Dis trict of the State of Arkansas, at a meeting held in pursuance of the ca:llof the chairman of said committee, at Camden, Arkan- sas, on this, the third day of March. 1910.
 That the candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast in the respective counties com posing said District shall be de- clared the Demodratic nominee for Congressman from said 7th Congressional District.
 That the chairman and secre- taries of the respective County Central Committees are hereby required to certify the vote re- ceived by each candidate for Con- gress in their respective counties by townships, to the Democratic Congressional Committee on or before Thursday the Eth day of April, 1910. mailing the said cer- tifcate to J. T. Sifford, the Sec retary of the Congressional Com mittee at Camden, Arkansas. That said returns shall be tabu- lated by the chairman and secre- tary of said Congressional Com mittee who shall make a certiti- cate showing the total number of votes received by each candi- date in the whole district as shown by said returns, which certificate with the returns from the sever al counties shall be presented to the Congressional Convention Convention by the Secretary of the Congressional Committee.
 That the said Congressional Conve nt ion is called to meet at Philadelphia on the 4th. day of May, 1910, at the hour of l o'clock D. m. which shall be composed of the dele gates from each county to be se- lected at the time and in the m amer provided for the selection of delegates to the Democratic State Committee.
 Each county shall be entitled to such number of delegates to the Congressional Convention as it is entitled to under. the present rules and regulations as hereto fore established by the Democrat ic State Central Committee, for representation in the State Con- vention.
 The delegates to the Congress- ional Convention shallbe instruct ed to cast the vote of the county as a unit, in accordance with the vote cast in the primary election in the county.
 Resolved further, that we adopt as rules to govern the primary e. lection in the several counties, those rules prescribed by the last State Convention and the State Central Committee, and we part, icularly call the attention of the several Judges of the election tC Section One and Two, article four, of said rules providing fol the qualifications of voters wh(