Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-30
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM.
Senator Foraker Joins the Discussion
Regardig It's Drafting.

New York, June Ex-senator Foraker OF
Ohio has given the Tribune a statement
regarding his knowledge of what was done
by til he sub-commfttee on resolutions of the
republican party when the platform was
being framed. He says the subcommittee
had three and probably four meetings be-
fore It reached the full committee and he
attensleU only the first two meetings. He
says that his knowledge of the action of
the sab committee is confined therefore
to th.t- first and second meetings.
Y II Naay be remembered that General
Grosvenor of Ohio charged that a certain
Of congress over the territory OF the United
States had been approved by President
Mckinley and had been agreed to by the
been surrepetiously excluded in the final
draft Of the platform In his statement for
publication In the Tribune. Senator For
aker says that at neither one of the meet
ings ne attended did any one suggest that
the plank asserting the power of congress
to govern the territories should be omit
ted, ror did any one suggest that the plank
in regard to the merchant marine should
be modified as it was The senator from
Ohio knew nothing about the changes and
Senator Foraker's statement is as fol-
THE subcommittee had at least three
and probably four meetings before 1t re-
ported to the full committee attended
present when the report was read to the
full committee. All know about the ac-
tion of the subcommittee Is confined there
first meeting read the draft that had been
prepared by Mr. Smith and others. It con-
sisted OF an earnest tribute Of the achieve
est tribute to him, followed by number
OF specific declarations In regard to the
financial question, the merchant marine
the authority of congress to govern ac-
QutrEd territory, pensions, ETC.
There was considerable discussion as to
the exact language that should be en-
for the word flexible which it was
thought should be omitted and some little
aid and Il the y substit"ton M Of q other M Mara an.
guagn therefor in the, merchant marine
plank; As to the Isthmian canal substi-
gether y with all these other en changes ] to to
which l have referred was without any
formal vote, acquiesced in by the commit
I'm view of the opposition taken by Mr..
Quigg as to the historical part of Mr..
Smiths draft he was requested by the
proper substitute therefor and in this con-
necton Mr. Smiths draft, together with
Other 9TH propositions were turned over to him
the result Of his labors.
A that hour the subcommittee met for
the second time. Mr.. Quigg had not fully
subcommittee what he had written and
written and with some changes of a minor
character 1t was without any formal vote
accepted and the committee adjourned un-
I'll o'clock in the morning. at which time
Mr.. Quigg hoped to be ready to make a
final report At neither one Of these meet
ings did any one suggest that the plank as
serting the power OF congress to govern the
territ cries should be omitted, nor did nav
one suggest that the plank In regard to the
merchant marine should be modified except
as above indicated, and I did not know
until after the platform had been reported
to the convention that the plank asserting
the power of congress to govern the terri
tories had been omitted or that the mer-
chant marine plank had been changed to
the form in which 1t appears In the plat
form. Whether these subjects were dis
cussed and acted upon at the meeting of
the committee which did not attend do
not know. ! learned of the matter for the
first time after the platform had been re-
in the newspapers. l did not know until |
then that it was intended on the part Of !,
anybody to omit any of the special planks |
or to make any material change in any of |
them. think the merchant marine plank |
was stronger and better In Its original form
but can understand how the subcommittee
may have preferred 1t In the form adopted. |
I'm view OF the fight we had In congress-
in respect to the power of congress to gov
ern Porto Rico and our other insular ac- !
QuisitiOns thought 1t highly appropriate
to insert plank approving the position we |
had taken and was very much disappoint ed |
when / learned 1t had been omitted, II I i
had been present with the committee Il
would have opposed such omission, but III
son cannot say more about it."