Arizona republican., 1920-06-03

Cummings Visits c. o. p. Headquarters
 The Republican national committees hearing of contests was enlivened by some hotly debated cases and also a visit from Homer $. Cummings. chair man of the Democratic national com mittee. Mr. Cummings, availing him self of the open sessions. visited the hearing room where he became the center of a good natured reception ceedings. He was photographed with Republican Chairman Hays and looked over the Coliseum for ideas to take to San Francisco.
 Tn its days work on the contests the committee threw out both sets of dele gates which asked seats for the Fifth Congressional district of Missouri. the Kansas City district. A heated contro- versy was aired in a long hearing
 Deciding the first case affecting the strength of the Johnson forces in the convention, the committee on a 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 Wood.
 Wood Delegates Seated
 In the Mississippi contests. the com mittee decided to seat the delegates at large headed by National Committee- man Mulvihin but did not decide on the contests from the Eighth Con- gressional district because it was necessary to have a sub- committee look over the proofs. In the Louisiana contests the committee voted to seat the officially reported delegation headed by National Committeeman Emile Kuntz of New Orleans, which was uninstructed but claimed for the Wood forces and in part by the Low den managers.
 The contests from the Fourth Mis- souri district was quickly disposed of by seating the regularly reported dele gation, uninstructed, but claimed by the Wood forces. one of the contest aRts, John Albus of St Joseph, who was mentioned in testimony before the senate committee as having been paid $2,000 from the LOWden campaign fund, did not appear to press his case
 Deny X. c. Delegates Seats
 The real sensational fight of the
 day came on the contest from the
 Kansas City district, which the
 committee finally solved by refus-
 ing to seat anybody. Charges of
 strong arm" politics, meetings
 broken up by mustard gas bombs"
 women intimidated by negroes. and
 gag rule flew thick and fast. Com
 
 ton in the district as "dis- -racoful
 and tainted with fraud" and after
 voting down, by a close vote, a
 motion to seat the regularly ap-
 pointed delegates, Robert ]. Flick
 and J. L. Martin, decided to seat
 none of the parties.
 This action reduced the total num- Der Of votes in the convention from 9S4 to 9S2 and furnished the first case in which a district will be left with out representation in it's deliberations
 The net results of the days work were to bring the number of contests disposed of up to 32 out of the 157 filed
 The Georgia and Florida cases con tinued to hang fire in sub- committee and there was disposition evidenced in the full committee meeting today to check the practice of referring dis putes rather than having the national committee decide them first hand There was some discussion on the sub ject, but further references to sub committees were made later in the day and when the session adjourned until o'clock tomorrow morning the list of cases in sub committee had been supplemented by the reference Of the eighth congressional district of Mis- sissippi, where the regularity of the district convention call is to be de- termined.
 Urge Definite Rulinqs
 Many of the committeeman eN- pressed their satisfaction with the de- cisions today, although there were proposals to straddle some contests and split the votes of delegations be- tween the contestants and coutestecs. Committeeman Howell Of Nebraska led the sentiment that the committee would check the quadrCunial flow of contests if it were 10 make definite de- cisions and send word back into the districts that no compromises could Ire tolerated. The committeeman who fa- vored this course argued succcssiveW that by splitting delegations To settle contests contest were heinz invited.
 Chairman Hays had a brief con
 Ference during the day with Lieut.
 Col. Theodore Roosevelt, who vi5
 ited the committee room and gave
 out a statement reiterating his