Straight Issue On The Floor

There was no disousslon of the tariff or any other issues in Che committee except that of the eilvor plank, and no differenees of opinión exlsted in the committee of forty-six members except on the süvor question. Noarly all the members of the oommittee were instructed on the silver question by their respective state delepations, and it is conceded that these Instructions make it al most certain that both majority and minority reports wlll be presentad to the convention and that the silver question wUl be foaght out on the floor. The convention was oalled to order promptly on time and the usual welcoming addresses and responsea thereto were duly delivered to a house f uil of people. Ne ver bef ore has tbe National club convention been go well attended. Everything being ready President Tracy delivered his annual address, whloh was a review of events political sinoe tbe last oonvention, an arraigninent of the Demooratio admiaistration and policy and a cautious relerence te silvor, an enlarged use of which, the speaker satd everybody advooated, buc how to bring this about w as the question- one of económica, not politics. Ue ihipressed upon the convention, however, that it was not its business to seleot oandidates or promúlgate platforms, but to eleot the former and promote the latter. President Traoy was applauded all through his speech und at its close. Then the prelimlnary business of the oonvention was rapidly done. The secretary announced that there were representad at the convention forty-sii states and territorios, the largest number ever represented ao any convention of the league. Among the delegates were a number of ladios, four trom Colorado, one from New York, two from Washington, and three irom Illinois, the latter representing Woman's League clubs in that state. The ladles from Colorado lost no opportunity to do misslonary work in favor of the free ooinage of iilver. After the appointment of the usual oommitteoi the oonvention adjourned for the day in order to give the committes, especially that on resolutions, time to do Cheir work. A mass meeting was held last night in Music hall at which prominent orators made addresses. Ex-Governor D. Russell Brown, of Khode Island, reviowed the past two years under Democratie rule, and statod that the policy pursued had been un-American and unpatrlotlc. Hon A. B. Cumtninors, of Iowa, presonted n eloquent argument in favor of protection and said that the tarifT formed the cornerstone and onlr safety of the workingman of Amorlca. Upon the silver question hc said the Republican party stood flrmly upon the principies laid down in the Minneapolis platforn - that every dollar in circulation should have an equal purchasing power, and favored a ratio ot 16 to 1. Speeches were alto made by Senator Thurston and Mrs. J. Ellen Foiter. The oommittee on resolutions agsembled at t p. m. and appointed a Bub-cominittce to draft a declaration, headed by John D. Robinson, of Pennaylvania. The full committee beard argumenta on the gil ver question, pro and con, for hours beiore the sub-committee went into an all-night ession to prepare a report to be made to the full oommittee thls mornlng.