Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-06-18
ADOPTS INJUNCTION PLANK
Urged by the President and the Sec
rotary Of War.
DEBATE EARNEST, NOT BITTER
Restraint of the Courts Recommend
ed by a Vote of 35 to 16-Session
Ends at 4 go A. M.


came with the dawn. A platform which
contains an injunction plank satisfactory
to the prospective candidate is embodied
In the substantial structure of verbia &c
upon which Is to be made the Secretary s
appeal for popular approval. This result
was attained with suddenness upon the
collapse of the opposition early in the
evening. Two hours before this the OPP
ponents of the injunction provision were
rejecting offers of compromise and assert
ing with positiveness Their ability to elm
mate any injunction plank.
A telegram from President Roosevelt
arrived. as we'll as a letter and a tele-
gram from Secretary Taft, each urging
action An ultimatum in substance, if not
in words had been delivered shortly be-
fore to the "ailies which was interpreted
as spelling the denomination of Roose-
welt should the convention refuse a plat
form upon which the Secretary of War
could make the race with confidence. Then
followed protracted discussion and the
final adoption of the contested plank by
a vote of 35 to 16.
There we're a number of minor con-
tentiens in the committee. but the Roose-
velt-Taft idea prevailed in the ultimate
analysis, and while Thomas NJ. McCarter
of New Jersey insisted on his right to
take the question of injunction to the
convention floor the prediction was made
in authoritative quarters that no murmur
of the preliminary fight would be heard
in that gathering.
BEGINNING with the adjournment of the
convention Tuesday the work of the reso-
lutions committee was practically contin-
uous until 40 o'clock this morning, when
the finished platform was produced. 1t
was not until 10 o'clock last night that
the scales began to tip in favor of the
administration forces. but after the dis
solution of the opposition began it was
rapid and soon complete, leaving nothing
to mark it's existence but a few unre-
corded speeches and a slim minority OF
votes.
Subcommittee Reports.
The meeting of the full committee on
resolutions was held in the Francis /
room of the Auditorium Hotel Annex at
Michigan avenue and Congress street,
and began at I'D clock last night.
The subcommittee. after recess for
luncheon. met again at 3 yesterday after
noon. At 4. according to the agreement
the full membership of the committee on
resolutions assembled. but the subcom-
mittee was not ready to report. The sub
committee thereupon agreed to report to
the full committee at o O'Clock last night
When the committee met at O'Clock the
subcommittee was ready to report. but
IT was agreed that there should be a post
ponement Of the committees sess ion until
10 o'clock.
Later the subcommittee on the admin
istration anti-injuncton plank reached
the agreements, which is said to have
been unanimous.
The full committee meeting was sup
posed to be strictly executive" and Sc
carried on in comparatively low tones, in
audible a few feet beyond the outside
group of committeeman. but when the
much discussed plank relating to the linn
itation of court injunction orders. espe-
cially in labor controversies. was reached.
the intensity OF feeling which has mark
ed all debates on this subject since the
convention began was evidenced in raise
voices and eager attention and attempts
at secrecy were forgotten. At the same
time the debate never reached the point
of personal heat or exchange of invective
The injunction plank was reached in
the full committee few minutes after 1
am, with Committeeman McCarter of
New Jersey opening the fight against its
adoption. Mr.. McCarter. whose resonant
tones filled the hall. declared that such a
plank would be reflection upon the in
tegrity of the courts and was entirely I'M
necessary. He asked those in favor of
it to show single instance where the
power of injunction had been abused by
any court. and emphasized his remarks
by denunciations of the stand and de-
mands of the labor people. Mr.. McCar-
ter's remarks occupied nearly fifteen min
utes. and during that time the committee
sat apparently unmoved, and there was
no response in the way of applause or
audible dissent as he concluded.
Urging the Plank.
Senator Long OF Kansas then took up
the cudgels in behalf of the plank sub
mitted by the subcommittee. He also was
very emphatic in his remarks He said
that the wording of the plank, while not
SO radical as was proposed by Mr. Com
pers and several of the labor leaders
was. nevertheless. not a dodge or strad-
die, but step forward by the republican
party. He declared that an issue con-
fronted the party and that there would be
universal criticism if someth hing was not
done. He agreed that while the issuance
OF injunctiOns by the courts was, as a
rule, In strict confOrmance with the laws
as they appear on the statute books. the
plank proposed by the committee would
serve to make the general practice a uni
versal practice throughout the country.
Representative Serene f. Payne Of New
York. who is chairman of the ways and
means committee In the House of Rep
resentafives. came out strongly in favor
OF the proposed plank. Mr.. Payne said
that the party was about to nominate a
man who believed in such a measure, and
that he had declared himself in his
speeches of the last two years. and espe-
cially in his receft one in Cooper Union.
New York city. as strongly in favor of
such action by Congress. Mr.. Payne
dwelt at considerable length on the atti-
tude of Mr.. Taft i'm this connection, and
said that, although he himself had been
pledged to vote for Gov. Hughes for the
presidential nomination. he had no doubt
that the Ohio candidate would be the
choice of the convention.
He believed the adoption of this plank
in the republican platform would insure
Mr.. Taft's election.
Frank d. Kellogg of Minnesota followed
with an equally spirited and vehement
speech in support of the plank.
kilograms From Washington.
Wade H. Ellis of Ohio surprised his
hearers by quoting telegram from Presi-
dent Roosevelt, and letter and a tele-
gram from Secretary Taft. The Presi-
dent in his message first called attention
to a telegram sent on the previous day
In support of the injunction plank, land
l hope very much" the telegram con-
tinued. that II will be adopted" The
President said he stood for the Square
deal" and was not in accord with the
EXTREMIST views of either the Manufac-
tuners Association on the one hand or
the trades uniOnistS the other
Secretary Taft's communication reviewed
4A4 hof hiS- III;