The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-09
CONTEST HEARINGS RESUMED BEFORE
 CREDENTIALS BODY
Duffield Elected President of Credentials Committee. Most of Committee Con-
 tests Are Appealed
sy Associated Pres.

Chicago, June Slate to- night the credentials commit tee of the republican national convention was still at work hearing appeals from last weeks decisions of the nation al committee in the questions of contested state delegations.
 Practically the same ground was be- ing gone over and the prospects were the committee might sit until the small hours of the morning so as to complete it's report and enable the convention to go ahead tomorrow with a permanent roll of delegates.
 Howard D. Duffeld of New Jersey was elected chairman of the commit tee. 2S to 16, over c. H. Innes of Massa- chusetts. William F. Laube of Wash ington was chosen secretary. The election of Mir. Duffield was said to be without significance as to the presi- dential race. He was nominated by Charles B. Carter of Maine and MT. Innes by C. E. Pickett of Iowa, coun- sel for Governor Lowden in the na- tional committee hearings.
 Chairman Duffield was said to be a Wood supporter and active in the New Jersey campaign.
 Most all of the national committee contests were appealed until the roll was called for filing of contests. Tn addition. Oregon announced a contest of one seat at large, Judge McCam- ants of Portland. who intends to vote for General Wood, although Senator Johnson won the oregon primary.
 101 APPEALS FILED
 Of the 1s7 contests decided by the committee. appeals involving 101 seats sInittee with an additional contest of the one Oregon vote.
 Filing of the Oregon contest was questioned. Lafe Gleason. temporary convention secretary, holding New York's proxy said no contest had been filed, as required under the national committees rules, with the national committed The credentials committee then adopted a motion to refuse con sideration of contests not complying with the rules.
 No appeals were filed from Louisiana or North Carolina. From the former the national committee had seated twelve delegates of the faction headed by National Committeeman Kuntz and counted for Lowden. From North Car olina the committee seated seventeen delegates, led by National Committee man Morehead, pledged to Judge Pritchard. The credentials committee. however agreed that the appeals from any state might be filed later.
 Delegates from the Fifth Missouri district, which was denied representa- tion by the national committee for al- legged frauds, filed an appeal
 DROP ALABAMA CONTEST
 The Alabama contest. in which ne- gro challenged the seat of J. B. Atkin- son of Selma. a Lowden supporter, was dismissed after a biier statement by the negro.
 The committee adopted a rule to lim- ten minutes and districts to five. ex- cept in unusual cases.
 The committee opposed a proposal that Charles B. Warren. counsel for the national committed be invited to assist it in it's work.
 Tn the Arkansas contests brought by negroes charging race discrimina- tion. the committee seated the "regu lars"
 Appeals Involving ten seats from Georgia were filed by Roscoe F. Pickett. who fought for the four seats at large and six district delegates O. the faction led by Henry Lincoln Johnson.
 Johnson. who was elected national committeeman today. argued the Georgia case for his side ard former Governor Hooper of Tennessee for the
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