The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-22
,,IE ROOSEVELT MEN '1]W NO DESIRE ID SHIT IN COMMITTEE sodentials Body Giving mc All Contests to the pa President
E CALIFORNIA
 TAFT MEN SEATED

Ohinpton Cases Are Likewise De- 'eded for Taft-Committe Work
 ing Hard to Complete List of
 Contests by This Morning
 bicapo. June M.-No changes in de-
 ons of the republican national com See had been made by the credentials eonittee of the national convention
 ,en the committee completed at 11:oS a ,,aoty +onteht A R hours session devoted - the contest cases -All but the Texas contests had been dis- sed of when the committee took its re- Css until o'clock tomorrow morning khe last fight of Roosevelt forces VIII enter on the 30 delegates seated from ,exas. One district in Virginia, the H11th' was held open until morning for decislon' although the committee practically had determined before adjournment to roi- low the ruling of the national committee
 Cases Decided
 The eases decided by the credentials committee are as follows: For Taft < Alabama Is.
 Arizona 6.
 Arkansas 16. California 2.
 Florida 12.
 Georgia 2S.
 Indiana 12.
 Kentucky 17.
 Louisiana 20.
 Michigan 6. Washington IA. Mississippi IS.
 Oklahoma 2.
 South Carolina 2.
 Virginia 1s I Missouri G. District of Columbia 2. > Alaska 2. rt Tennessee 8. Total POT. a. For Roosevelt Is Kentucky 1. North Carolina 6. ! Missouri 8.
 Total IS. z .., t,, . While all of the contests passed on py +ha national committee were revleWeo ps inc credentials committee, the hooseVeis forces centered upon the " cdss 'i.sA .. u bv Governor Hadley's resolution III 'no national convention, as those where they
 
 unfairly.
 Given Washington
 r.o xvasbinpton contest over the pro +ssts of Senator Miles PoindeXter, that a rsn,hlican state organization had been I syn1tv of ..prand larceny from the hoose- veil forces, was decided in favor or @ the : .Taft delegates by vote of 2S to 10, The }Taft delegates from the Ihlrn ohianonio district were seated 29 to 10. North Caro- nd Tennessee ,rict contests were settled without oppo- sition except in the Second Tennessee district where the Taft forces won ze to D. Ormsby McHarg, who handled the Roosevelt contests before the national committee, did not appear in any or the contest arguments duri ng t>e uay' when the Fourth North Carolina district contest was argued, Isaac M Meekins, Roose- welt delegate. said Mir. MeHarg had cer- tain of their papers, but he could not be found
 The Missouri cases. seating the four Roosevelt delegates at large and dividing the 10 contested district delegates arbitra- rily were settled just before adjouFpt ment The credentials committee fcl- lowed the decision of the national com mittee without debate or hearings.
 California Delegates Seated california's two district delegates were seated by the committee at 5;45 a. m motion to seat the Roosevelt dele gates was defeated 2S to 16. Personalities and political rancor were conspieously \ absent For 90 minutes the committee members, weared by more than 70 hours of work debated the right of Calif"nla to instruct for Roosevelt by statewide maioritv. the Taft delegates elected in the Fourth district.
 Debate of the California case followed the receipt of what was termed an lh- sulting letter from the two Roosevelt \ delegates, Charles s. Wheeler and Phillip Bancroft, refusing to appear and de- clining to recognize that contest existed. Tbe California case was taken up at 420 a. m.
 N Mitchell of Pennsylvania, member of the committee, presented the letter iron, the California delegates. It con- tained language which members consider ed objectionable and the committee or dered 1t returned to the California dele gates without comment
 motion to seat the Taft delegates brought a request from Roosevelt mem bers for an opportunity to discuss the case that had provoked perhaps the greatest attack from the Roosevelt forces on the national committee.
 "I believe if the two delegates from California who were elected by a state majority of 77,000 are not seated, said . MT. Halbert of Minnesota, it wilN the death knell of the national commit- tee"
 O T.. I.andstrom of Montana declared under such precedent the city of New York by a primary vote could com pletely dominate the entire delegation from the state.
 Representative F. w. Mondell of Wy oming declared he had intended to vote for the two Roosevelt delegates out of regard for the sentiment of the majority fEol so have voted" he said, If 1t had not been from the gratuitlous insult given the com mittee by the California delegates. shall now vote my convictions. not my sentiments"
 'sThe American people will not stand for such actions as you propose said w A Louder of North Dakota. "If this convention refuses a seat to the delegates elected in California by a majority oi 77.000 the American people will defeat the nominee of the party"
 Mondell Fayors Roosevelt Men Representative George R. Malby of New York declared Murphy of Tammany Hall has 90 votes in his pocket in Baltimore as the result of the unit rule'
 He said as a result of a precedent the states would be placed at the mercy of the state majorities and New York city would receive a practical control of one tenth of the delegates to the national con vention.
 1T do not want a precedent established here that will give to single city he