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suggestion that hereafter a m

A suggestion that hereafter a ma
I JOrity instead Of two-thirds, should be
/ required to nominate the president was
ruled out of order by chairman Coving-
| ton, who held that it properly should
be acted on by the resolutions com
mittee.
A similar ruling was made on a reso-
luton providing that at all future Dem
ocratic national conventions, the tenn
porary officers should be selected by
members of the national committee,
chosen by the representative states, by
! conventions or otherwise, last preced-
ing the meeting of the national con-
vention. The committee then ad-
journed.
After recess. the rules committee
completed its work by agreeing that a
committee of three, composed of the
chairman, representative COvlngtOn. OF
Maryland; secretary Z. H. Hill of Okla
/ homa- and representative Henry, Of
Texas should make the report to the
convention. Mr.. Henry VIII present
the minority report
Police Control Primaries.
Mayor Carter Harrison, of Chicago,
and Roger Sullivan. national commit
teeman from Illinois. INDUCED in coun-
ter charges before the credentials cont
mittee early this afternoon over the
police control exercised at the Cook
county Democratic convention. Mayor
Harrison said he had detailed 2S5 pc
1icemen and IS plain cloth esmen to pre-
serve order, while Mr.. Sullivan charged
him with having planned to control the
convention.
The credentials committee at 1880
o'clock determined to ask the conVe1-
ton to adjourn until o'clock tonight,
owing to the inability of the committee
to complete the work on the contests.
Arguments in the Illinois cases had not
been concluded at that time.
Illinois Case First Taken Up.
The Illinois contest cases were the first
taken up when the credentials commit
tee met today behind locked and guard
ed doors. Each side was given 45 min
utes for the sentatiOn of arguments
The contestants in the case were the
HarriSOn-Hearst delegates. who claimed
to have secured an actual majority Of
votes over the Roger Sullivan dele
gates, who had been seated by the ma
tional committee
The claims of the Harrison Hearst
delegates to the seats given the Sulli-
van delegates in Illinois were presented
to the credentials committee by con-
gresham Rainey, of that state. The
point made against the contestants was
that they had not formally presented
their contests to the Illinois state con-
vention at Peoria, but had kept entirely
out of that convention It was on this
ground that the national committee
gave the seats to the Sullivan faction.
Irregularities and BOssism.
T. b. Toleman assisted in presenting
the arguments of the Hearst Harrison
tactlon IN the contests involving the
eight delegates at large and the 20 dele
gates from the Chicago districts. Frank
J. Quinn and Elsea Williams appeared
for the Sullivan faction, asserting that
the contesting faction by ignoring the
regular state convention had lost any
claims it might have to regularity
A bitter fight was made by the Il
linois contestants on the rule of Roger
Sullivan as national committeeman. The
Reconsideration men claimed to have
carried a majority of the Chicago pre-
cincts and to have controlled the Cook
county convention. They charged the
Sullivan men had bolted that conven-
ton, but that when the case Of the
Hearst-Harrison delegations was pre-
scented to the credentials committee of
the Peoria convention, the Sullivan
faction was in control and refused them