The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-08
THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING. JUNE s. 1912
TAFT WINS ALL THE
CONTESTS HEARD
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The chairman-The gentleman from
Idaho is out of order.
Mr.. Bartholdt-There is nothing be-
fore the house.
Senator Borah-I am before the
house.
Mr.. Bartholdt-1 ask tho unanimous
consent that the gentleman be permit.
ted to proceed in order that these pro.
ceedings be made parliamentary.
Mr.. Peprose-I hope consent will be
given to the senator from Idaho to con-
Time, and | think we should give unani-
NOUS consent now and let him get his
remarks into the record
Ii was made plain soon after this
that even though Mr. Borah S motion
had been tabled the majority intended
to give the minority a rollcall on de-
mand on any question. Penrose, Crane
and Others of the Taft faction repeated.
ly Joined Borah and his colleagues, in
the minority in asking for q rollcall,
and they always got it.
The test vote came in the case of the
Ninth Alabama district, in which the
Taft delegates were seated by a vote of
3S to 81.
Insulting Brief.
An incident of the day was the re-
lection by unanimous vote of the brief
Arkansas delegation-atlarge case. on
the ground that 1t contained Indecent
and insulting language, Members of
the committee said later that proper
regard must be shown for the dignity
of the court by which these cases were
being heard.
Tomorrow s work will begin with the
remaining Arkansas cases and these
will be followed by the Flor
L. l-1
from the Fourth district of California,
who are contested by the Taft faction,
will not be heard until Monday, as the
parties cannot reach here in time for
tomorrow g session. The Florida cases
cover the six delegates at-large and two
from each Of the First, Second and
Third districts.
Opens Big Question.
A contest filed in the Fourth Calfor-
MIA district, it developed tonight, is in
tended to affect the entire delegations
from California, Oregon and North Da-
kota, involving forty-siX delegates.
Among these delegates are the two
@ suffragettes from California pledged
TO Roosevelt.
The contest which assais the legality
Of the state S primary law on the
ground that its provisions are not in
harmony with the rules laid down for
the election Of delegates in the official
call of the national committee directly
affects Colonel Roosevelt, who carried
California and Oregon and Senator La
Toilette, who was victorious in North
Dakota.
The question at issue is the right of
state to enact law making the state
rather than the district the unit in the
af roe fn
vention.
s. Fred Hogue Of San Francisco, who
arrived here tonight as the representa-
tive of the Taft executive committee of
California to look after the contest in
the Fourth district Of that state, init
mated that the national committee rul-
ing in this case would have direct
bearing in the case of every state where
the delegates were chosen at large by
direct vote.
Roosevelt leaders declare that the
contention is purely technical
Proposed Platforms.
1t is said that platforms dramatically
will be presented to the com
nittee on resolutions Of the Republican
convention by Taft and Roosevelt
forces.
Tho Taft resolutions intended for in
sertion in the party platform, it is said,
will be conservative in tone and make
A feature of a constitutional govern
ment plank in addition to urging sup
Elemental legislation to the Sherman
antitrust act, providing national con-
troll Of corporations.
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia university, Senator Elihu
Root and Senator Theodore L. Burton
are designated as among those likely to
be selected to draft the Taft platform,
The Roosevelt platform, it is said,
will give careful consideration to the
trust problem and be prepared in
large part by the colonel himself.