According to the rules, the substitute motion must be voted on first. You are now voting on Mr. Schechter's motion. Only regularly elected delegates are entitled to vote. In order that we shall have a record of the vote, I suggest that those in favor of Mr. Schechter's motion rise. The rest are obviously against the motion.
Ten votes favored the substitute resolutions. Majority vote favoring the majority resolution.
Leon Kohn, of Newark: Some of the papers this morning reported that there was a split in the Zionist ranks on the question of the Congress. As one of the movers of the substitute resolution that has just been defeated, I wish to say that we who have been defeated will stand by the Organization, and that it was always our intention to abide by the majority vote of the Zionist Organization.
The Convention then adjourned, to meet again on Tuesday morning in the same place.
TUESDAY MORNING SESSION
The convention opened at nine-thirty, July 4th, in Horticultural Hall. Mr. Lipsky in the chair. Mr. de Haas read a number of announcements and telegrams of greetings.
EEE re u eh ee Nr - bu nee aaa — Mr. Allan Davis, of Pittsburgh, Pa., read a letter from Dr. Edgar B. Friedenwald, addressed to the Convention, informing it that he had left to serve the Federal Government as physician in Mexico. Mr. Davis suggested, in view of the fact that there is such a large number of Jewish young men serving in Mexico, both Zionists and non-Zionists, the heartfelt greetings of the Zionists in America be sent them.
The Chairman suggested that this be referred to the General Resolutions Committee, which was done.
Mr. Max Baron, of St. Louis, Mo., chairman, read the report of the Credentials Committee, which was taken up seriatim.
A motion was carried that that part of the report which recommended that Dr. Schmarya Levin, Mr. Leo Motzkin, Dr. Benzion Mossinsohn, Dr. B. Epstein and Mr. M. Scheinkin, be seated as Honorary delegates to this Convention be approved.
A motion was carried that the representatives present of the Federation of the Galician Jews, the Order Brith Sholom, Independent Order Brith Abraham, Independent Order Sons of Israel, the Federation of Roumanian Jews, Independent Order Western Star and other Jewish national organizations, who have adopted the Basle Program, be seated as Honorary delegates.
A motion was carried that the members of the Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs be accorded full delegateship. Mr. Julius Meyer voted "No."
A motion was carried that the members of the Executive Committee of the Order Sons of Zion be seated as regularly accredited delegates. The names of the delegates appear in the report of the committee which is printed in full elsewhere.
A motion was carried that delegates elected by Gates of the Knights of Zion be seated as delegates to this Convention with full privileges. A discussion followed in which Mr. Rothenberg, Mr. Wolf and Mr. Fischer took part.
A motion was carried that the reading of the names of the delegates of the Knights of Zion be dispensed with.
A list of delegates entitled to representation at this Convention, according to the Constitution of the Federation, was presented.
A motion was carried that the reading of these names be dispensed with.
A motion was carried that Dr. Solis-Cohen and Louis Edward Levy (the latter Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Philadelphia Convention Committee) be seated as Honorary Delegates to this Convention.
A recommendation was read, to the effect that Rabbi Jacob Kohn of New York City and Harry Chabrow of Philadelphia, be seated as Honorarv delerates.
Mr. Rothenberg urged an amendment that instead of electing Rabbi Kohn and Mr. Chabrow Honorary delegates, they be elected as delegates without the privilege of voting. The amendment was carried.
The names of the proposed delegates of the Order Bnai Zion, were read. The chairman explained that these dele-
gates had been vouched for by the Nasi of the Order, but their credentials had not been regularly presented.
Mr. Schotland of Newark, moved that these 19 delegates be placed in the same category as the 27 of the Order who were regularly elected. Mr. Rabinowitz of New York amended the motion that these delegates vouched for by the Nasi of the Order Sons of Zion be entitled to participate in the discussions of the Convention, but not to vote. The amendment was defeated. A motion was carried that these delegates, vouched for by Mr. Barondess, be entitled to seats in this Convention.
A motion was carried that the report of the Credentials Committee be accepted as a whole and the committee discharged with thanks.
The Baltimore Society requested the privilege of substituting for Dr. Edgar Friedenwald, who had been called to the army as physician, Rabbi Eugene Kohn, alternative of the Society.
A motion was carried to elect to Honorary delegateship Dr. H. Pereira Mendes and Rabbi B. L. Leventhal. Dr. Mendes was introduced by the chairman.
DR. MENDES' ADDRESS.
Dr. Mendes: I want to say, first of all, how deeply I appreciate the honor of being elected in this way as Honorary Delegate to this Convention. Although I hold in my hand an official letter, Mr. de Haas informed me that I was invited here as a delegate to the Provisional Committee. Anyhow, no matter how I am here, I am glad that I am here, because my interest in Zionism is not a thing of to-day or yesterday. Possibly I am the only man in this room, in the whole of this assembly, who was a member of the original Actions Committee of Dr. Herzl. I do not know, but I hold in my hand letters from Dr. Herzl, signed by him, that I brought here out of general interest. Years ago when this present movement was first initiated, I was telegraphed for by Dr. Gaster to mect Dr. Herzl, and Dr. Herzl gave me this message to the American Zionists, that I have never forgotten, although he has passed away now so many years: “Tell the Zionists in America that we look to them and to them alone for success for our movement.” I am sure, fellow Zionists, that you will understand what he meant. He meant that here in an American atmosphere can best grow and blossom those ideals that are bound up with the fulfillment of Zionism. We are not working for our own benefit only. We want the welfare of the whole world and that is how we understand the real blossoming of Zionism, which means more than an assured home for us Jews in our beloved Palestine. It means that every man and every woman in the wide world shall have an assured home in his or her own land, free from the horrors of war, the curse from which we are now, all of us, suffering. I shall not take your time at this important moment of the session. I have only this to say: Again I say it, with God’s hand on my shoulder, that in all our history, when God puts an idea into the hearts of our leaders, the idea is to develop; all our fathers who came forth from Egypt could understand of the ideal of Moses was that God had brought them out of slavery. Moses showed them a higher reading of that ideal, that they were to be prophets of God. The prophet came with a higher ideal of what Moses meant, that we were to be the leaders of all men to universal peace. I came to this convention not only because I love Zionism but in order that I may try to affect one of the great purposes of Zionism, a unity of the different, shall I say a terrible word, factions in American Israel. There is fault in the Bnai Brith, there is fault in the American Jewish Committee, there is fault in our own section.
I have been very glad to hear the different views expressed. It seems to me that the American Jewish Committee has recognized the necessity for a congress. That is one point gained. I did not attend the meeting of the American Jewish Committee which has been referred to and which took place last November, but I did attend a special meeting that was called about a month or two ago, and it was then resolved not only that a Congress should be called but that if it were decided that a Congress should be called even before the war ended, it would be called before the war ended. In my own hearing, Mr. Marshall, as chairman of that meeting, said that the American Tewish Committee