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Show SETTLING CONTESTS. National Committeo Meets to "Determine "Deter-mine Who Shall Hnvo Seats on Temporary Roll Call. ST. LOUIS. July 4. The National committeo met toduy to decide the contests for seats on tho temporary roll call and to transact matters of routine rou-tine business. The sub-committee which heard tho evidence In tho contests In the first, second, sixth and eighth New Jersey districts adjourned without action. The South Dakota contest ilattencd out and tho regular delegate was not disturbed. A long and bitter fight was waged before be-fore the sub-committee that heard the contest In the Twelfth Ohio district, where C. D. Saviors end John C. Pugh, two Hearst men, are seeking to unseat James Ross and C. F. Gilliam. Allan Thurman made two speeches for Roas and Gilliam, and John J. Lentz spoke twice for tho contestants; Saviors, Ross and Pugh also spoke ln their own behalf. be-half. Gilliam declined, saying that it was not necessary for him to speak. It Is claimed by the contestants that they were not given sufficient time prior to the convention to certify all of their delegates, and were thereby deprived of 176 votes. Tho sub-committee decided to report In favor of the contestants, Ross and Gilliam. Af ler an almost continuous session of nine hours, the sub-commlltqe of the national committee, to which was submitted sub-mitted the evidence ln the fourteen contests ln the State of Illinois, went Into executive session at midnight with every indication that their verdict would be a victory for John T. Hopkins Hop-kins and his faction. Tho evidence In each. of tho district cases related to the convention at Springfield where Chairman Chair-man Frank P. Qulnn was accused of riding rough shod over the rights of two-thirds of the delegates nnd of arbitrary ar-bitrary and allegal substitution by tho socrotarles of the convention of names of men who were not elected or even submitted to State caucuses as delegates dele-gates to tho National convention. The discussion was at times very acrimonious. |