Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-12-05
Has Authority to Allow Dele
gates to Be Chosen Accord
ing to Laws of States Which
They Represent,
HAS POWER TO CALL
SPECIAL CONVENTION
Important Conclusions Are
Reached By Legal Commit
tee Appointed to Find Basis
for Party Renovation.
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IlBy LEASED Wire a. EVvniag UrrRth
Detroit. Mich. Dec. The Re-
publican national committee has no
authority to change the basis ot rep
q rescntntion and voting in national
conventions.
The national committee has uu-
thority tu change the manner and
method OF choosing delegates to fu-
turc national conventions So as Co
provide that delegates bee chosen Ia
such manner as the laws of the scN-
oral states from time TO time may
provide. Delegates shall be- chosen
according 60 the laws of the state
they represent instead of according
To the discretion OF the committee
itself
The national committe has thc au'
thority to call special national con
vention of the party, the legal form
of which call h provided hy the legal
committee.
These conclusions arc reached In
an opinion made publr here today
hy Charles % Warren ut Detroit,
chairman of tho legal committee, APP
pointed by the executive committee
~ the Republican national conn
mttcc.
The executive committee iu Wash
ingtou. May "a last, adopted res"-
luton requesting thy chairman to
call q meeting ur The national com
mittco. to be- hold within sixty days
after the expiration of tho special
session of congress convened DBL
March. 1913. Tn, national commit
tee will consider among other THINGS
proposed plans for party rcurgnn'H'
tion Tho legal committee was named
tu mako % detailed examination "l
the questions that would arise. Nh
Warren. who wrote the opinion n"N
submitted is new member of lh'
national committee tie was one "'
In, lawyers for the United states i
the arbitration with Great hrilall
bcfor, TN, Hague tribunal of lh'
North Atlantic fisheries controversy
The opinion is ,oucurrcd In hN th'
other mombcTs of the legal commit
tee who arc. United states S'nnt"
Wesley L. Jones of Washington
Ucprcscutativc James u Mann Ilh
nols. James A. Fuvlos of Tennessee
former assistant attorney g"noia'
William Marshall nulhtt of N''
york. former solicitor gcncrHE u"
o.. West OF Illinois, and Shcrmal
Oranges OF ohio
In reuching his conclusion Ml
Warren quotes extensively from n'
uonaI conventions of the party iron
thar OF 1856 to That 81 1919
The first question considered was
HAS tho national committee 1000
thority under les present powers q
change the present basis of repro
sontatlon aud voting iu national con
Ncnuous now, aside from r'prcsDul
ito from the territories, torrii"t"
possessions and the District Of ''
mmbia. being number of dcles'l'
from each state equal Goo double lh
number of senators ana representa-
uycs iu congress from That state
each entitled Go one vote
"To answer this question Say
the opinion "it Be- necessary g." aSrc'
tain tho source ana extent ui VI
powers uf the national committee
and To determine whether the var
Gus national conventions have dci'l
mined ana fixed The basis oi repre-
sontatiun and voting leo nauonn c"i
vcntions to Dc changed only by
national convention.
There is mo- federal law proNidr
for the election of % national con
mittec. while Il is true that in
limited number of states "a method
provided hy statute for tho nainil
or nominating of "a member OF ~
national committee, u is ncNcrth'l'
tru, that the members of the nauul
AL committee have invariably bee
elected by the national convention
of the party sine, the election of u
first committee hy the convention
1856,
Whatever method the law of uI
state provides for the selection of
person to represent the Repuhlic'
electors of that state ON the nation
committee such selection b., In ta'
only a nomination properly 90 be a
ccpted hy the delegation from sal
state In presenting to tho neNt O.
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