New Britain herald., 1924-09-10

.azzz1A home rule and on this basis a dis- trict ought to have the right to break a deadlock without calling in the committee men.
 Major Buckley said the talk was getting the convention nowhere" He said another amendment being written would fit every statutory re- quirement and solve a deadlock. It would add the town committee chairman and vice-chairman to the district convention.
 Mir. King analysed that situation with frequent verbal rallies with Major Buckley.
 General Debate
 The debate was getting to be gem eral. Feinmark withdrew his amend ment when Mir. Chandler moved the previous question on it, saying he "bowed to Mir. Buckley's superior political weight"
 The convention had a few min utcs of relaxation while the Buckley proposal was prepared by Mir. Is- bell. It added the town chairman and Ice-chairman to dissolve deadlock and was backed by the jules committee and MT. Bissell &C., cepted it.. l.. M. Allyn apologized for, prolonging the inter but said ] Sth district situation required rule change. He opposed the amend ment, saying that In his district there are four men on a side and if the change is made there will be six on a side. He suggested dropping the whole matter, Major Blakeslee moved to send the question to the state committee for solution.
 J. Mortimer Bell of Salisbury en- dorsed Blakeslee's sentiments.
 The debate continued and the delegates grew restless and Averill of Branford moved the previous question on the Blakeslee motion.
 There was confusion and tellers had to count the vote.
 The chair was asked to explain what the motion meant. When he said the state committee would "promulgate" it's decision, Dr. Allyn wanted the world "promulgate" ex- plained by Congressman Merritt The latter said it meant give it to ss," but he couldn't say what good it would do.
 Mir. Allyn asked where his motion went to. MT. Bell made point of order that vote was in progress.
 Senator Pierson of Cromwell wanted the chair to give fin plain English" the motion being voted on. The Blakeslee motion was over- whelmingly lost. The action was then on adoption of the committee rule in it's new form.
 Dr. Alcorn. Enfield wanted to know how his probate district would be affected The confusion continued, there were conferences in Ithe aisles and when the vote carry ing the rule was doubted, Dr. Allyn moved adjournment, but it was not recognized as tellers were counting the doubted vote
 The chair declared the commit tees resolution adopted and ad- journment came at 1850 ?. m.
 Anti-Klan Plank
 Most of the delegates to the re- publican state convention had gone to bed early today when sub. , committee of seven of the com. mttee on resolutions reported back to the whole committed ) a rejection of plank offered by Mrs H. H. Townshend, of this city which was termed "anti-klan" be. } cause it. denounced the K. K. K. b, . name.
 The procedure in the committee had been slightly different than in , previous years. A general draft of platform had been offered and read as a basis on which to begin work. Heretofore, the practice had been 10 have any proposed blanks offered as additions to the resolu- tions already in hand and then have ; small subcommittee draft them into shape for presentation to the , convention. Last night however ] the first action was 10 send the gen. } eral draft to the subcommittee and submit to it all the proposed blanks 9 It was nearly 1 a. m when the committee hearing was over and the l subcommittee retired and it wal = 2;15 when the latter reported to the l general committee that it had re-