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Show 1 CMiN if Makes Preparations For Arrival of National I Committee ' " Chicago, June 1. Harry S. New, chairman of the sub-committee on arrangements ar-rangements for the Republican national na-tional convention, and his aides were i busy today preparing for the arrival r of the national committee and the representatives of contesting delega- Jtlons who are due next week. Secretary Haward returned from , hlB eastern trip and plunged Into the Efr, work of tabulating credentials and K&j contests preparatory to the hearings mt which will begin June 6 before the mh national committee to determine the f&A temporary roll call of the convention. Wt Congressman "William B. McKlnley yk " and Charles S. HMles, secretary to the 9 president, are expected Monday and ' will open the Taft national headquar- & " ters. Senator Joseph M. Dixon, cam- ; '. .' paign manager for the Roosevelt 'tvi forceB, also Is to arrive oarly In the & -week and will open headquarters. '. Senator La Follotto and Senator ,yt Cummins, each of whom has delegates 'j instructed, for him In the convention, V; have arranged for headquarters M " through convention week. ! 'Of Ticket Controversy Ends. jjj The storm over the allotment of 3 tickets brought about by the refusal of Chairman New to honor the requeBt of Senator Dixon for 250 tickets was I ' little in evidenco today. "The tickot incident is closed," said r Col. New. "I have nothing more to say about It," Politicians who have watched the 'ticket tempest" were Inclined to believe be-lieve the national committee would sustain the contention of Col. New that the managers of the dlferent ' candidates would not be lecogmzed as entitled to blocks of seats Horace Stllhvell of Anderson, Ind , cne of the state Roosevelt managers, conferred wllh Col. New and declared that the Roosevelt delegates from Indiana In-diana would be seated California Contest Received. A contest based on the 'wording of the .call for the Republican conen-tlon conen-tlon was receied today by Secretary Hay ward fiom the Fourth distiict qf California. California delesaies were selected In a state-v. ide primary and Col Roosevelt was the favored ijominee In the Fourth district B. R. Tron and "Morris Meyerfleld, Jr., of San Francisco, Francis-co, Taft followeis, certify to the national na-tional committee that they were the choice of the Republicans of their district, having received a majority of the Republican votes cast. Charles F. Wheeler and Philip Bancroft, Roosevelt candidates, received the highest vote in the state-wide primary pri-mary for delegates from the Fourth district and claim the convention seats. The Taft men base their contest on 'a paragraph of the national convention conven-tion call which follows: provided that In no state shall an election be so held as to prevent the delegates from any congressional district and their alternates alter-nates being selected by the Republican electors of that district." It is their contention that the Republicans Re-publicans of the Fourth California district dis-trict elected the delegates apart from the state-wide selection. |