Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-12-11

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on the leaders said in order to OBJ
viate the customary accumulation o
business on Saturday afternoon an
night and the selection OF date 81
early in June was regarded by man,
as guaranteeing that the democrati
national convention would be hell
at later time in contradiction o
the practice of years under whicl
| the party in power has been first t.
make its nominations and declare
tons.
In the vote on the convention cit.
Chicago mustered a strength which
apparently surprised even its back
ers. The only votes cast for St
Louis were contributed by Ten
nessee, Connecticut, Pennsylvania
Oklahoma, Georgia, Iowa, Texas
Missouri and Hawaii.
1t was explained by party leader:
that the purpose of the special COM
mittee on policies was to overturr
the usual practice of writing the
party platform in few all-night
sessions of the resolutions commit
tee at the convention. The new
body, it was said, was not intended
to supplant that committee. but was
calculated to bring to it the result
of six months of concentrated
thought in which all elements OF
party opinion would be represented.
Chairmen of the senate and congress
sional campaign committees will
take part in the work of the policies
committee, which will include IL
members of the national committee
and probably a score or more of
others.
Four Women Members.
The same IL committeeman will
sit also on the new council, together
with IL others. four of whom will
be women. The purpose of this
body, it was said, was to deliberate
on matters touching party welfare
and to make recommendations to
the national committee itself.
Two states will gain and five states
will lose in the reapportionment of
state representation in the national
convention, which was based on
detailed system of calculation
adopted at the last national conven-
ton. The net result will be redue-
ton of seven in the number OF dele
gates to vote in the 1920 convention,
the total being 984 in place Of o9l in
1916. The changes are as follows:
New York gains one, making the
states total in next years conven-
ton S8; North Carolina gains one,
q; Alabama loses two, max
ing Ia; Arkansas loses two, making
10; Massachusetts loses one, making
IS; Tennessee loses one, making 20,
and Texas three, making Is.
Commend Ratifying Suffrage.
On motion of Senator Smoot,
from Utah, the COM
mittee adopted a resolution COM
the states which have rati-
fed the national woman suffrage
amendment and urging that the 9TH
ers do so in time to permit women
to vote in all states in 1920.
Miss Mary Garrett Hay, chairman
of the executive committee of the
women's division of the national
committee, held the proxy of Com
Sweet, of Maine, at the
Announcement was made of the
membership of various committees
as follows: ..
Committee on policies and plat
form: Committeeman Bursum, New
Mexico; Crane, Massachusetts,;
Croker, California; Highland, West
Howell, Nebraska; Kel-
ogg, Minnesota; Macgregor, Texas;
North Carolina; Parsons,
New York; Penrose, Pennsylvania;
omoot, Utah, and Warren, Michi-
gan.
Advisory Council.
Advisory council committee (com-
posed both of committeeman and
eaders not members of the nation
II committee): Walter F. Brown,
Ohio; w. Murray Crane, Massacr-
lsetts; H. 0. Bursum, New Mexico;
H. Croker, California;
Eustace Cullinane, California; Mrs.
California; Miss Mary G.
Hay, New York; V. L. Highland.
West Virginia; R. B. Howell, Ne
,raska; Senator Kellogg, Mime
ota; H. F. Macgregor, Texas; John
". Morehead, North Carolina; Her
,ert Parsons, New York; Senator
oenrose, Pennsylvania; George w.
Perkins, New York; Raymond Rob-
MS, Illinois; Elihu Root, New York;
Iulius Rosenwald, Illinois; Henry L.
,timson, New York; Mrs. John c.
south, Kentucky; Senator Smoot,
Utah; Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton;
Ohio; Charles B. Warren, Michigan;
Alien White, Kansas.
Executive Committee.
Executive committee: A. T. Hert,
Kentucky; R. B. Howell, Nebraska;