Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-06-02
TWO DELEGATES
REPORTED To Be
FOR GEN. WOOD
GRANTED SEATS
Committee Hearing Contests
at Chicago Makes Slow
Progress; But Little BuSi-
ness Transacted TUESDAY,
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
CASES COME UP TODAY
Excess AIternateS at the
Convention viii Have to
Find Seats Among the
Spectators, Is Decision,

Isf MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LGksE7 WIREl
Chicago, June 1,-Another slow
going session with little progress
in actual results marked the work
of the republican national commit
tee today in its course of deciding
the claims of contestirg delegates.
The seating of two regularly ap-
pointed delegates from the District
of Columbia, said to be favorable
to Major General Leonard Wood
and an extended hearing of the
Georgia contests involving dele
gates pledged to Wood and another
group counted as favorable to Low
den, was the principal business Of
the day. At the same time the
committee declined to reopen its
action of a year ago by which II
seated Emile Kuntz of New Or
leans as national committeeman
Frank c. labit of New Iberia was
denied. At the outset of today's
session the committee expected to
hear the report of a subcommittee
and close up the three cornered
fight from Florida which was be-
gun on Monday. But the question
of law and fact turned out to be
so vOluminous that the commit
tee headed by Charles B. Warren
of Detroit, reported that the only
conclusion it was prepared to re-
port today was that the Florida
delegation headed by A. l.. church
of Jacksonville. had no claim on
which the committee could act.
Henry Lincoln johnson, an At
lanta negro, heads the regularly
delegation, which is said
to be counted in the LowdCn col
umn.
AS to the contest between the
regularly appointed factions led by
National Committeeman Bean and
the other headed. by H, l.. Ander-
son OF Jacksonville, the suheoua
mittee recommended a rehearing,
which probably will come tomor-
row.
The committee then went into
he Georgia contest. Looked upon |
rs the first real contest of actual |
political significance and having |
bearing on the strength of the |
Wood and Lowden men, it drew a |
arge audience, of which a large |
number were southern negroes, |
The contest opened with a dash of
1ratory and was continued with
fury and at the end !
IF four hot hours the committee
'ound itself confronted with such
mass of conflicting claims, argu-
nents, charges and counter
charges that it appointed a sub
,ommittee, headed by Mr. Warren,
o examine the documents and |
make a report on the tangle.
The contesting delegation, known
rs the Pickett faction, is pledged
% General Wood. The action OF
he committee means seventeen
ieats for Wood or Lowden, and
iecision is expected tomorrow. The
contest ranges about charges of
)olt, but the national committee de-
,ided it would have to study the
evidence to decide who bolted, Du-
,uicate convention rolls and Gre
lentials figured in the mass of evil
lence.
Although the committee was
to hold night session |,
he next contestants on the pro-
ram were not ready and the plan
vas abandoned, with the under
tanding that at the outset of to-
norrow's meeting the Florida and
feorgia cases would be taken up
or decision and the remaining con-
ests would be hurried along as fast
$ possible. II
The committee today made final ;
Is decision to seat all the excess {
elegates on the convention floor ,
n extra space and to let the excess {
lternates find seats among the {
pectators. Ie