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HEARINGS MAY
END TODAY
Republican National Committee
Ready For Convention.
LAST CONFERENCES HELD.
Senator Penrose Will Support Knox
on First BaIlot-Says Brumbaugh's
Vote Will be Negligible.

Chicago, June 5.-The Louisiana
delegate contest which has caused the
Republican national committee more
concern than any other, was settled
when an amicable agreement was
reached whereby both delegations will
be seated, each member with half
vote.
The agreement contemplates also
the registration of Victor Loise! as ma
tional committeeman from Louisiana.
Each delegation has a candidate for
the place, but it was said the choice
probably would go to Armand Roman,
of New Orleans, who is a member of
the regular delegation.
The Georgia contest, decided on
Thursday and Friday, will be carried
before the credentials committee, it
was announced by members of the So
called Johnson faction, to which the
national committee gave five seats,
eleven going to the Jackson faction.
It is expected the hearing of contests
will be completed today. There is still
strong element in the committee IA
voring refusal to seat any of the dele
gates from the District of Columbia.
The Texas contest involving eleven
seats, is the most important one to be
decided.
The last conferences have BEEN held,
the last attempts at "frame-ups" and
states have fizzled, and nothing re-
mains but for the national convention
to make a free, open choice between
the men whose names have been
household words for months.
Most of the last four conferences
had Senator Boies Penrose as their
central figure. He has been the most
sought man in Chicago since his ar
rival.
Outwardly, at least, he has been re-
ceptive, giving careful attention to the
hackers of all candidates. Such Rose.
welt "rooters" as Alexander P. Moore,
of Pittsburgh, and Medill Mccormick,
of Chicago, have had many walks and
talks with him, and the whisper, "Pen
rose is coming out for Roosevelt" has
several times stirred the newspaper
men and politicians to fevered excite
ment. Each time, however, a careful
statement from the Pennsylvania SEN
ator that he sis still of open mind and
not for any one in particular" killed
the rumor.
But it can be said upon the best
authority that of Senator Penrose him
self, that so far as a presidential nom
ination is concerned he is still "heart
whole and fancy free. The only pur
poses he has expressed related to the
first ballot. He is determined to
demonstrate to the convention that
Governor Brumbaugh is not the ga
vorite son" of Pennsylvania, so far as
a presidential nomination is concerned
an dhe is likewise bent upon placing
the name of Philander Chase Knox be.
fore the convention as the man receiv.
ing the majority of Pennsylv anias
votes.
81 have seen no occasion to change
my attitude of impartial observation"
said the senator. $50 far as the votes
for Brumbaugh are concerned, they
will be a negligible quantity in the
convention. He may have anywhere
from seventeen to twenty-seven. AT
any rate, he will not be a factor upon
the first ballot or at any other time.
The bulk of Pennsylvania votes on
the first ballot will go to Knox. There
may be a few scattering votes for
Hughes and Roosevelt"