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Show IN ILLINOIS 4 Committee Decides in Favor Regulars. Decision Based on Ground That Stato Convention Was Suprems. ST. LOUIS, Mo., July C The sub-committee " of the National Na-tional committee, which yesterday yes-terday and last night heard the evidence In the fourteen districts of -Illinois, today reported to the National committee that It was the unanimous opinion of tho members of the sub-committee that the Hopkins delegates be allowed al-lowed to retain their seats. The report was concurred In and the Hopkins people peo-ple will hold their seats unless ousted by the action of the committee on credentials. cre-dentials. Ground of Decision. The decision of the sub-committee was based on the ground that the State convention con-vention was supreme, that fights in tho district caucuses are not proper matter for adjudication by the National committee, com-mittee, and It Is not the business of the National committee to go behind the record of the convention as submitted to them. This shows that the Hopkins people are rpgularly accredited delegates, dele-gates, and because of this fact the subcommittee sub-committee gave its verdict for them and did not consider that it had any right to go behind the returns and take up the evidence submitted. The fight' should have been, In the opinion of the commlttee, made In the State. This attitude at-titude of the National committee sustains sus-tains the contention of,the Hopkins people, peo-ple, who Insisted yesterday In every contest that the National committee did not have the right to decide contests in district caucuses. Hearst Hen Despondent. The Harrison and Hearst men were greatly disheartened by their defeat, and announced their Intention of carrvlrMiflHl the fight before the committee on cr9n I dentlals. and If beaten there, before tnfly' convention itself. WF This statement did not alarm tna'f Hopkins people, who said that tho arifeuCL gument that won for them before ttiBiTf Nntional committee would hold good beSnl'L fore tho committee on credentials, aniH -before the convention also. "It is all over," said John P. Hop' gWv-klns. gWv-klns. "We won, as 1 knew we would ET There was, In fact, nothing else for th'i . k committee to do. What steps may bi fklL taken later will havo no effect. Oir tn delegates will remain Just where th I -.111 Stato convention seated them." - " The victory of the Hopkins factlol fe was also a defeat for W. J. Bryan, wh ft.nfl has made the fight almost a persons' matter. He yesterday attended thl ;vl hearing in the greater part of the con $S test, and showed his anxiety In every &-: way to win the seats for the Harrlsor Wf. and Hearst people. t i Don't Like It. ' W&tt. "The action of the committee I far-lfer,:. reaching," he said, "and means that thaw'r.Ql work of a few men is to stand bofore thaftjS' wishes of the majority of the delegatesXfftju I hope the credentials committee wllill"'! see the matter in a different light." 3Nu The contests In the other States werquBF-reportcd werquBF-reportcd by the various aub-commlueesfHsji-as previously announced, and their ac-flWft tlon was approved by the National comptf" mittce, which then adjourned. Two Canvasses Made. aB5 After the adjournment of the com H mlttcQ it was announced by three dlf Kifc fercnt members of the committee that ?! the report circulated early In the dayl K to the effect that the Hopkins people Stt( were to be unseated In several districts 5ft' was correct. The first decision of thefff committee was to declare the Hopkins, ir men out In the Second, Sixth. Ninth'? pd Twenty-first, VTwenty-thlrd. Fifteenth and Sixteenth districts. After reaching! fe this decision the committee went over; 1!8 the ground for the second time, andjtjfiifl decided that they had no jurlsdlctlonlPjfe in the matter and that the record of the! State convention should be held suBlffi prGtr.e. Last Committee Meeting. SSp The National committee held this af-jSpT ternoon what will probably he Its laetf?.y .meeting. The reports of sub-commlt-flpji tees appointed to hear contpsts In thelMjjJ States of Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania,f?5r Ohio. South Dakota and the District olj J Columbia were heard and coj;cuvred InJj These- reports In every Instance recoin-i S mended the placing on the temporarrl-S , roll-call of the convention of the conVj W tests. No one contest was succesefuUcj! The majority of these will go before jig the committee on credentials. 2i) Members From Islands. j Kfr Palmer Woods of Honolulu was de j clared a member of the Committee, toj succeed William H. Cornwell. deceased? j A resolution was passed providing that 5 the delegates from the Philippine! K islands and from Porto Rico should he4 ,gj given seats In tho convention but nojj'jM votes until their status had been fixed? r |