The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-11
RATIFIED AS MISSISSIPPI
 COMMITTEEMAN
Ousting Of Mulvihill Is
 Made Definite By Proce eding


 CLEVELAND, Ohio, June 10.-- Robert H. Todd of San Juan, Porto Rico, oldest member in point of serv. ice on the republican national com. mittee and E.. Mont Riley of Kan sas City, former governor of the is-. land, were unscatcd as delegates to tho national convention. tonight by i. the credentials committee
 Juan Soto and Ramon Vades, who arrived here today from Porto Rico were seated in their place. Soto was elected as national committeeman to succeed Todd, whose service has ex- !, tended over moro than 20 years.
 CLEVELAND, June 1O.-Action the national republican, delegation in un- seating Mississippi National Commit teeman Mulyilhill in favor of delegates led by Perry W. Howard. a negro, was approved today by the credentials committee of the convention by an over- 'whelming vote.
 Negroes who crowded portions of the hearing room applauded and cheered the vote. It required five minutes for the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
 As was the case before the national committee, the result hinged, on the failure of Mulvihill to support in his committee in a written agreement en- tered into with Howard for a consolida- tion of the warning factions in the state. Felix H.. H. Flynn, the member from Michigan, cast the single vote for overturning the action of the national committee.
 Immediately after the decision of the credentials committee, majority of the Mississippi delegation met and elected Howard, who is an assistant United States attorney general, national com mitteemen to succeed Mulyihill as na- tional committeeman. Selection of seven of the twelve in the delegation, five negroes and two whites, participated in the caucus.
 The credentials committee next took up the appeal from the action of the national committee in seating the dele gatiop under Henry Lincoln Johnson, negro national committee man from Georgia, over delegates elected by the faction formerly under the chairman ship of J.. l.. Phillips.
 The delegation of Johnson was seated by the credentials committee over the delegation of the Phillips faction. BOlting Is Charged
 Reviewing the records before the na- tional committee, Sidney Holdenness of Carrollton, Ga., appearing for the contestants, said the Johnson faction participated in consolidation meeting of Georgia republicans held at the in- stance of President Harding and of ficials of the national committee and later had bolted.
 The Phillips organization, he con- tended, was the regularly constituted one recognized by the national com mittee and that the delegates elected at the convention called by that or ganization should be seated over the Johnson delegation. Holdenness con cluded by introducing Mrs. W. J. Til son of Atlanta, selected by the Phil lips organization as the associate na- tional committee woman,
 In the Texas case the committee unanimously approved thet action of the national committee in seating the Creager delegation over that headed by E. H. R.. Greene of Terrell, son of the late Hetty Green.
 J. E. Elgin, again presented the case for the Texas contestants. He con- tended that the Creager delegation was elected at a mass meeting and not a state convention required under the law of Texas.
 Conducting his own case, Creager dis puted that the Dallas convention was not legally called and exhibited docu- ments to support his contention.
 J. NJ. Johnson, on behalf of him self and H. o. True, contestants for the seats of G. T. Taylor and Wyman Wilkerson for the Tenth Tennessee dis trict announced that ''in the interest of harmony in the republican party ir Tennessee the contest would be with drawn. Johnson said privately thai he and True had been offered seats ir the convention with one-half a vote each but declined to compromise or that basis.
 Taking up the District of Columbia contest next the committee affirmed the action of the national committee in seating William T. Calliher and Thomas l.. Jones over Aaron Bradshaw and John T. Rhines.