Salt Lake Herald | 1904-07-07 | Page 5 | Illinois Contest

ILLnOIS CONTEST I Hopkins Delegates Hold All the Seats Save One OneSt I St SL Louis July Jub 6 The credentials committee met tonight James H Head of or Tennessee and J M L H Cor Corrigan Corrigan rigan of Minnesota were ere named for I permanent chairman The question tion of 1 Hearst or Parker Parke Park men controlling the I committee depended on the selection I of or the chairman for Head and th the Tennessee delegation were avowed supporters of the New York candidate On the vote ote the Parker man won a ad decisive d cis e victory Mr Ir Head being elect elett elected ed Pd by a vote of 32 n to 12 I IBy By unanimous us vote ote the committee decided to award six seats and six votes each to 10 the delegation from the Philippines and the Porto Porte Rico dele delej deleI j I gatlon gatton j I The Norris or delegation 1 I from the tha District of Columbia was wasI I I seated by b a practically unanimous i vote vot I The Time committee was as fully full an hour bour in 1 considering the evidence In the Illinois I contest and decided that all the Hop Hopkins i kiss kins delegates should retain their seats eats I save sae Duncan C Best of the Twenty first district General Alfred was as given the seat scat held by Best After the vote yote on the Illinois cases was taken a motion to adjourn until tomorrow was made It was over overwhelmingly overwhelmingly defeated and it was de tIe decided dEcided elded to hold a continuous session un until 1 til all aU the contested eases cases were dis dia disposed disposed 1 I posed of I The Hearst delegates declare that they will m carry the Illinois contest upon I time tile of the convention and light fight to the tho last Jast JastI The Time action of the national nation commit committee I tee in seating the regular delegates from Indiana was as sustained