The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-21
TAFT DELEGATES
 ARE SEATED IN
 QUIET SESSION Credentials Committee Is Holding All Night Session in Order to Finish
ALABAMA TAFT MEN
 ARE GIVEN SEATS
Two Arkansas Delegates Seated, Six Arizona and Four Georgia--Roose- welt Contestants From Cal
 ifornia Absent

Chicago, June 20-working slowly through the list of contested delegates referred to 1t by the republican national committee. the credentials committee had up to 10 o'clock tonight seated g Taft delegates. This included 12 from Florida against whom the Roosevelt men made no contest and who were seated unani- mously.
 or the 72 contested delegates included in Governor Hadley's list of those whom he claimed the national committee "un- fairly, indorsed the following had been approved by the credentials committee at 10 o'clock
 Alabama, Ninth district, ?: Arkansas Fifth district, 2: Arizona, delegates at large, g.; Georgia delegates at large, 4
 Perfect harmony prevailed in the com mittee throughout the evening. The Roosevelt members advocated passing the Florida, Georgia, and other similar cases. but the Taft members of the com mittee insisted on reopening each of the cases passed on by the national commit tee.
 Roosevelt Strength
 The committee determined to sit throughout the night in an effort 10 finish by the time the convention re- sumes its session tomorrow at II a. m
 The cases disposed of showed the Roosevelt men to have maximum strength of 15. the vote being 90 10 IS against the seating of the Arizona Itcoseyelt delegation. After settling the Arizona ease in an effort to hasten the committee work. Jess A. Tollerton of Missouri and Hugh T. Halbert or Minnesota offered plan of the Hooss. welt forces to abandon temporarily all other contests except those or Call fcrnia. Texas and Washington.
 The Taft forces defeated this mo- tion and insisted that the committee take up all contests in order. It was axnacted that the Roosevelt forces would make no hard fight on any but the three states named.
 Only 32 Present
 Only s2 of the 52 members of the com mittee were present when the doors were ouened to the newspaper men for the days procedure
 tJ,,oh IT Halbert of Minnesota and l.. N Mitchell of Pennsylvania were the two Roosevelt men first to appear in the committed room. Francis J, fteney ana inc majority of the other Roosevelt men were not present when the committee met. l.. MT. Halbert and MT. Mitchell joined In making the following statement:
 we feel that the action taken last night by the minority members of the committee has resulted in giving us faifiy good set of rules and free and open discussion with the presentation or any new evidence that may not have been heard by the national committee ready to he heard. We are going to stick to the committee. We forced the adoption or fair rules"
 The session opened with protest from H. E. sackett of Nebraska and MT. Hal bert that notice ought to be served on all contestants For n time this threatened anotheY break, for MT. Halbert appealed from the chairrnan's decision He later withdrew this request.
 The roll call showed the following Roosevelt men not present: Heney. Cali forria; Mccormick, Illinois; Harris. Kan sas: covington. Maryland: cowles. North Carolina; Norton. Oklahoma; Ray, South Dakota, and Cary, Wisconsin.
 Fight for Delay
 MT. Halbert declared seven of the men who left the room last night were still
 
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