The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-16

Iotai TOT Iait yesterday, b2. Total for Roosevelt yester- day, G.
 Chicago, June 15.-Its closing hour at tended by exhibitions of tense partisan and personal feeling among it's members. the republican national committee con cluded tonight the hearing of the con tests involving 254 seats in the national convention, which is to assemble Tues day.
 The sum of it's work is: Roosevelt 1s. Taft 235.
 President Taft today received @ dele gates, Colonel Roosevelt 6. All of Wash ingtons fl went to the President against the protests of Senator Poindexter that the country would judge the case" Out of Texas he secured 26 of the contested 30, over the prostrate form of Col. Cecil A. Lyon, who declared: You may de- pose me now, but will be back four years from now when many of you will not"
 Virginia. where the issue was drawn between the negro voters and the rega- lar state organization. the President re- ceived the entire contested delegation of 20 Tn the District of Columbia he won two. Committeeman Sidney Bieber going to defeat with the Roosevelt delegation.
 Colonel Lyon fought each of the Texas contest cases personally and was defeat ed in all but two of them.
 Lyon Fjohts for Own Life
 In the end he was called upon to fight resolution for an investigation and reorganization of the whole struc- ture of the republican party in Texas. Presented by Thomas L. Devine of Colorado it proposed a subcommittee of three from the national committee to attempt a change in the republican organization of the state that would destroy the system of county repre- scntation desired by the Taft attor- neys as survival of the rotten bor- ough" methods of England.
 Committeeman Lyon declared he would fight such a proposal to the end. He said many of the members of the committee thus trying to drop him had been themselves deposed and would be missing from the committee room four years from now when he would return.
 q had heard much recently of the one hundred days and the return from Elba,' he said. T give you fair warning that if you persist in the way you are going there will be repeti- tion of another history incident-the commune"
 The Washington cases. almost the last to engage the committees atten- tion before the conclusion of its 10 days work, were preceded by threat J. Heney and Committeeman Kennedy of North Dakota. which was prevent ed only by the interference of their associates.
 Met at 9:15
 The committee convened at 9l5 a. m.
 Despite protests from Roosevelt men, the committee passed the Texas contests temporarily and took up that involving the Virginia delegates at large contests
 The Texas delegates appeared at the Coliseum annex shortly before the hour of meeting. Many of them were made conspicuous by the white badges they wore, reading. Texas for Taft recall ing the historic banner flung to the gaze of the republican convention four years ago
 A huge piacard, to which a pair of pants was attached. was borne through the hall carrying the legend, As pants describe species, so Texas pants is for the race of Adam and Taft"
 Cecil Lyon of Texas was an early ar rival He was welcomed by many dele gates from the Lone Star State. Francis J. Heney again held proxy in the com mittee
 After deferring the Texas contests, the Virginia case was called. Attorneys said they were not ready because they be- lieved Texas would be taken up Wash ington was then called with the same re- suit. The committee reverted to Texas and began the hearing of contests of del- egates at large
 The contest of the Texas delegates at large was the first called. Colonel Lyon announced he believed there were techni- cally no contests against the1 Roosevelt delegates at large. He said he was of the opinion that no printed brief for the Taft delegates had been filed within the prescribed time, and that in consequence the rules Of the committee had not been followed and no formal contest existed for the place of the eight delegates at large.
 Two Sets of Credentials
 Secretary Hayward said he had two sets of credentials from Texas
 "The chairman can only go on the ad- vice of the secretary" said Chairman Rosewater. He says a contest exists and it must be called"
 Colonel Lyon said that in the Alaska case yesterday. and in other cases, con tests had been excluded because they had not been filed within the stipulated time He and Committeeman Capers of South Carolina insisted that no Texas contest of delegates at large existed A crisis was precipitated when MT. Mulyane of Kansas moved to pass Texas and take