The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-09
CONVENTION BULLETINS
By Associated Press

By Associated Press
 Chicago. June S.-The committee on rules by unanimous vote today recom- mended to the convention that the ex- ecutive committee of the national. re- publican committee be increased from ten to fifteen so as to give women rep |resentation. The vote was taken after a delegation. speaking for the wom an's section of the party, asked that women be allowed to sit in the execu- tive body. in anticipation of adoption of the suffrage amendment. Speakers
 included Mrs. Medill Mccormick. Illi- nois; Miss Mary Garrett Hay, New York; Mrs. Raymond Robins Illinois, and Mrs. Katherine Phillips Edson. California. Will H. Hays. national chairman, who took part in the gen. eral discussion. said if the convention adopted the recommendations, he would have authority to appoint any number of women. He thought, how ever, that the membership would be eight men and seven women. Chicago, June s.--Senator Johnson TclteTdteU COuIlQeuCe tOuhy OI WIn- ming the presidential nomination and again expressed complete opposition to this League of Nations. with or with out reservations" Meeting newspaper men, Senator Johnson declared that any other stand on the league than that sponsored by him would make the republican party the tall to Mir. Wilson's kite"
 Chicago, June s.--Picketing by the national womens party outside the Coliseum today was as quiet as a lawn social Under orders from Mayor Thompson the police made everything
 as comfortable for the pickets as pos sib1e. For four hours they stood bare headed and silent in the sun holding banners. They will be on the job again tomorrow and until the convention ad- journs.
 Chicago, June S.-An attempt was made late today to form a union of western state delegations under auspices of Senator John son's supporters. The first step. . meeting called just after the con- vention adjourned, by State Sena- tor Frank F. Flynt of the Can- fornfa delegation, was attended by delegates representing Utah, Washington. Nevada, Arizona and Oregon. Senator Flint. after the gathering, snid that nothing was discussed at the session hut the platform and proposals affecting the action of the credentials cOm- mfttee. Others participating. how ever, said that the gathering would probably he called asain and extended to take in other western states.
 Chicago, June 8.-William Jennings Bryan strongly urged that the repub- lican convention introduce a plank in its platform indorsing the eighteenth amendment as interpreted by the Vol stead act in an address before a mass meeting of the "drys" today. Chicago, June S.-A new candidate for the republican vice presidential nomina- ! ttion appeared today, when the secretary of state of Montana sent to members of the delegation certificates showing that Joseph M. Dixon of Missoula had re- .ceived the preferential vote in the pri- mary.
 Chicago, June Ex-Governor Allen of
 Kansas. who is to place Major Gen. 1 eral Wood in nomination, tonight com-
 pleted his speech and took 1t to Fort Sheridan for final approval by the gen.
 eral The speech. 1t was said, probab bly will not run over 2.4o0 words. taking about fifteen minutes to deliver. Chicago. June S.-Samuel Gompers
 president of the American Federation of
 Labor. arrived here tonight from Mont
 real, Ito appear before the resolutions
 committee tomorrow to oppose indorse-
 men of the Kansas court of industrial
 relations law or any similar proposI-
 ton. Mir. Gompers said he had prepared a number of suggestions for the com-
 mittee. but that he came here without
 ! prejudice. He declined to give them in
 1 detail.