The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-18
PARTY EXECUTIVE
 COMMITTEE KILLS
 MEETING PROPOSAL
Chairman White and His Forces Victorious at Confer ence, Where Reorganiza-
 ton Plans Are Made
By Associated Press

aShlngton, February It. Chairman George White, of the democratic committee and his supporters came forth victorious tonight from meet ing of the national com mittee's executive committee of sixteen, the first official conference of the party s leaders since the November election.
 The executive committee. appointed and called together by Chairman White to discuss reorganization of party machinery. by unanimous vote turned down as impracticable the pro- posal Of Thomas B. Love or Texas and 56 other members of the national com mittee that the full membership of the national committee be called to meet March 1 at St. Louis or some other central city.
 lie eAtcullN6 cOIHiDlIttS also aQppl- ed a programme for reorganizing the party which MT. White was under stood to have llIt Before the meeting. This programme, as adopted, provides for the appointment by the chairman of subcommittee of five to devise means of liquidating the $160,000 in- debtedness incurred in the last cam paign and to prepare a budget of ex- far taf o-t, lin Washington and for preparation by the chair.san of plan for the reor- ganization of a woman's bureau of the national committee.
 PARAGRAPH ELIMINATED
 The victory of Chairman White and his forces was augmented through absence from the committee discuss sions of any suggestion that MT. White be asked to retire as chairman. The nearest approach to the matter was the announcement of Robert w Wool ley. former interstate commerce com missioner. who, with MT Love. drew up the petition requesting a meeting of the national committee that the paragraph in the petition which was interpreted in some quarters as re- quest for Mir. Whites resignation. had been eliminated.
 
 Woolley and half dozen other signers of the petition. appeared before the committee, denied that he or the 56 Hcommittee members signing the p@ti- tion were supporting any one man for presidential nomination in 1924. The denial was made in reply to charges and reports at the time the petition was made public two weeks. ago that it was an attempt to start move- ment for William c. McAdoc as the 1924 candidate
 WIN ONE VICTORY
 The forces led by Tessrs. Love and Woolley however were victorious in one respect They obtained incorpor- ation in the resolutions adopted by the committee proviso that while it was impracticable and unnecessary to call meeting of the full committee at this time, members of the national committee should advise Chairman White If, in their more deliberate opinion, an early meeting of the fun committee should be called"
 The remainder of the resolution. re- ferring to the requested meeting of the national committee, as adopted. read:
 That the chairman be requested to notify the members of the democratic national committee who signed request
 
 which was presented at this meeting, that the executive committee, after careful consideration. deems it impracticable in the short time intervening between this meeting and the first day of March, the time mentioned in said request, to call meeting of the full committee for the reason that it would be practically inn possible for the members of the com mittee living at a distance to arrange 4< 1 fha Al: EARLY MEETING UNNECESSARY
 The resolution added that the commit tee was of the opinion that no imme- diate meeting of the national committee is necessary, in view of the action taken by the executive committed in orovid~ ing for conduct of this party's activities.
 Favorable action on the Love petition was vigorously opposed by Homer $. Cummings and Senator Glass national committeeman from Connecticut and Virginia. respectively who said that, while they favored meeting of the na- tional committee in the near future as an abstract proposition, they were op- posed to the present movement in view of the false impressions that such meeting would be a slap at Chairman White.
 Let's go out of here pulling together.p Mir. Cummings told the executive com mittee. with the knowledge that ulti- mately we are going to have meeting of the full committee. and let us trust Chairman White to call that meeting when in his discretion he thinks it wise and necessary to do so.'
 The forces petitioning for an imme- diate meeting refuse to comment tonight on the executive committees action, but it was indicated that they would not abandon their efforts to bring about a meeting in the near future.
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