The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21

Chicago, June 21-A decided differ eace pf orauionS devefsped betweensthe ExA &skA As44~ isf cnA1aSSe of the con~sn ! tion here. prior to its assembling, to- day. A majority of the steering commlttse wanted the credentials .committee to make a partial report at IL o'clock, when the convention met. so thst 1t could be taken up and dis p0sed CT ChsArman eDevane, of the committeesss opposed this Inc Feadefs were insistent. however. that to keep the delegates -smarking time would cause renewed dissension.
 Chairman Root communicated with Devine, but he still insisted that he could not sanction any partial re- port.
 Devine's suggestion to the steering committee was that they meet and then adjourn until tomorrow morning, but the steering committee refused to accept this decision as final and con- tinued to bring pressure to. get more work out of the committee. ' Cbngre0man George R. Malby, the New York member of the credentials committee, joined with Devine in his demand that the leaders drop their plan of asking for partial report.
 
 he said, five districts of Missouri. eight delesates-at-large and eight dis~ trfcts in Washington, seven districts in Lbouisiana, six delegates at-iarge in Michigan and four at-large and eight districts in Virginia, all of which are of supreme importance to the Repnb- licars. of the nation.
 We cannot limit debate. To do so would giye the opposition another op- portunity to declare that we favor gag rule. I, for one, would not. stand for the committee making any report to this convention until such time as we are in 9 position to clear up the entire At 1o:5o, William Barnes, .Jr, and Colonel Harry s. New went to the National committee headquarters to make 8 last appeal to Chairman De- vine for action.
 s At 11:01 the convention hall :, gal leries were two-th thirds filled and all of the delegates were in their seats.
 At that hour, Chairman Root sent a messenger to Chairman Devine, of the credentials committee demanding that he present a report to the convention of the. contests already disposed of.
 Root, in explanation said:
 ssI have sent for report because we must get down to business. We cannot keep on delaying forever.
 Governor. Hadley the floor leader of the Roosevelt forces, and Former Congressman James Watson, for tho Taft men, have arrangeds.a program so that the entire controversy can be threshed out in parliamentary way.
 After agreeing to report on the two states, the committee got into a snarl as ]. to what the report should contain.
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 While the convention waited, the various state delegations amused themselves by cheering and the band with a series of lively tunes.
 So far as can see, all. you have done in, this committee to make 1t different from the national committee ,is that you have slowed up the speed a little. The results are the same. :" dsg e's st shd aekE es sssssEs NSase l|ea b.} s. ta, after the Rapubiican natic6ai conventions committee on credentials had proved another ruling of the na-. tfonal committee and directed that the Taft men in the 4th California placed on the regular roll Of the con- vention. The vote on this proposition was 28 to 16. sss',
 The committee sat continuously from 2 o'clock, yesterday. until a brief breakfast recess was ordered, today. GVcIy uucLluST WdS dIfOWeQ tuc Wlu- est latitude in his remarks
 The only incident that stirred feel ing was when the California contest was called. A bitter letter was sent to the committee by Chas. g. Wheeler and Philip Bancroft, the two deTe- gates from the 4th California district in which they accused the committee of having prejudiced their cases. They absolutely refused to submit any ar gument as to- the legality of their