 This proposal was met by an amendment by Morris Hillquit of the Socialist Party, who called the 5 million votes cast for La Follette an encouraging beginning and urged action for establishment of an American Labor Party on the British model—in which constituent groups retained their organizational autonomy within the larger umbrella organization.A third proposal was made by J.A.H.Hopkins of the Committee of 48, which called for establishment of a Progressive Party built around individual enrollments.