The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-03
CUMMINGS PAYS
 VISIT ID t. O. P.
 COMMITTEE ROOM
Hotly Debated Cases En- liven National Commit tees Hearings of Con-
 tests Yesterday
By Associated Press

Chicago, June 2.-The republican na- tional committees hearings of conteses today was enlivened by some hotly de- bated cases and also by a visit from Homer S. Cummings. chairman of the democratic national committee. MT. Cummings, availing himself of the open sessions, visited the hearing room where he became the center of a good natured reception which almost drowned out the proceedings. He was photographed with Republican Chairman Hays and looned over the coliseum for ideas to take to San Francisco.
 In it's days work on the contests the committee threw out both sets of deie- gates which asked seats for the Iiltn congressional district of Missouri, the Kansas City district. A fierce and heated controversy was aired in long hearing. Deciding the first case affecting the strength of Senator Johnson's $ forces III the convention the committee, on roll call, voted to seat the delegates from the Tenth Minnesota district who are uninstructed, but counted as favorable to the candidacy of the California sen ator. The defeated delegation was pledged to the candidacy of General W ood.
 MISSISSIPPI DECISION
 In the Mississippi contests the com mittee decided to seat the delegates at large headed by National Committee man Mulvihill, but did not decide on the contests from the Eighth Congress sional district, because it was necessary to have subcommittee look over the proofs In the Louisiana contests the committee voted to seat the officially re- ported delegation, headed by Nauonai Committeeman Emil kuntz of New or leans, which was uninstructed, put claimed for the Wood forces, and in part by the Lowden managers.
 The contest from the Fourth Missouri district was quickly disposed of by seat ing the regularly reported delega ton. un- instructed, but claimed by the Wood forces One of the contentants, John Albus of St. Joseph, Mo, who was men tioned in testimony before the senate committee as having been paid szVo from the Lowden campaign fund, did moi ap- pear to press his case
 NOBODY SEATED
 The real sensational fight of the day came on the contest from the Kansas r,tz district, which the committee finally solved by refusing to seat anybody
 Charges of strong arm politics, meet iugs broken up by mustard gas bombs,
 
 rule flew thick and fast. Committee- men denounced the situation in the dis trict as "disgraceful and tainted with fraud" and after voting down by 8 close vote motion to seat the regularly reported delegates, Robert J. Flick and Jesse L. Martin, decided to seat none Of the parties.
 This action reduced the total number of votes in the convention from SS4 to 9s2. and furnished the first case in which a district will be left without represen- tation.
 The net results of the days work were to bring the number of contests disposed of up to g. out of the 137 filed.
 The Georgia and Florida cases continued to hang fire in subcommittee, and there was a disposition evidenced in the full committee meeting today to check the practices of referring disputes rather than having the national committee de- eide them first hand. There was some discussion on the subject, but further ref erences to sub-committees were made later in the day, and when the session adjourned until g o'clock tomorrow morn ing the list of cases in subcommittee had been supplemented by the reference of the eight congressional districts of Mississippi, where the regularity of the district convention call is to be deter mined.
 WOULD SPLIT SOME
 Many of the committeeman expressed their satisfaction with the decisions of today although there were proposals to straddle some contests and split the votes of delegations between the contestees and contestants. Committeeman Howell of Nebraska led the sentiment which argued that the committee would check the quad
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