Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-07-08
BUILDING AP[ATFORM
Committee Works Hard Last
Night and Today.
BRYAN JUST SUGGESTS"
But His Views Are Fully Before
Those Responsible.
SOME B0THERSOME ANGLES
Postal Savings Banks Favored, But
With a Qualification-sessi
Resumed Again Today.
SOME B0THERsoME ANGLES

! work at 9:.O am. today. and continuing
for the time the reception Of suggestions.
listened to the reading of a proposed
plank by Robert D. Inman Of Oregon,
which is intended to cover the exclu-
sion of Japanese coolie labor, of which
| the following Is the text:
Oriental laborers are within our Dor
ders In vast and increasing numbers. es-
pecially on the Pacific coast. They are
being employed by the tens Of thousands
| in every branch of labor, thereby reduc.
ing wages and depriving our American
| citizens Of the means of earning a iveli.
hood We demand the speedy enactment
of law that will prevent further immi.
grafton Of oriental laborers into these
United States"
Mr.. Inman is the only. representative OF
the Pacific coast on the subcommittee.
and he presented the plank in the interest
| Of all the coast states
The plank proposed by Inman was ap-
parently received with much favor by the
subcommittee, and it is generally believed
that it will go into the platform.
Mr.. Inman also presented the follow
| ing:
Demands Of the Coast.
| "Our western coast has been woefully
neglected in the matter of coast defenses.
We believe that for the protection of our
people and their vast and rapidly increas-
| ing commercial interests of the Pacific
| coast it is imperative that the Atlantic
fleet now stationed in Pacific waters be
there maintained in its present strength.
There have been several suggestions con-
corning the defense in the west, and 1t
| soon became evident that considerable
consideration would be given to this sub
ject before acting upon it.
William J. Bryan's views as to what
the democratic national platform should
contain are now fully before the sub
committee charged by the convention
with the work of drafting that docu-
ment Gov. Haskell of Oklahoma. chair
man of the resolutions committee and
of the subcommittee. spent more than
an hour during the early hours of
men who constitute the subcommittee
what Mr.. Bryan had written In the form
| Of planks and what he had telegraphed
to the governor as suggestions for
planks. the particular phraseology of
which Is left to the committee should it
be deemed wise to incorporate the sug-
| gestions
| Mr. Bryan's views on the injunction
| plank, as thus transmitted. are that the
plank should begin with the statement
| that the party resents any attempted re-
Election upon the judiciary of the COUP
| try; that not only are the courts them
! selves created by law. but that their juris-
| diction and authority are defined by law
| as we'll as their rules Of procedure.
Party Stand Endorsed.
The position of the party on this sub
| ject in, the platforms of 1896. 1900 and
| 1904 is to be Endorsed. the further pro-
vision made that in contempt cases the
trial is to be before any Judge other
than the one issuing the writ. and. most
| important. the plank is to declare for
the re-enactment of the federal law re-
| quiring notice to be given before such
preliminary injunctions shall issue. pre-
| Bryan made subsequent suggestion for
this plank to the effect that it might
be well to provide that no injunction or
restraining order shall remain in force
for a period longer than three days. and
thu the hearing on such order shall be
| before two judges.
Mr.. Bryan also believes an expression
should be made to the effect that circuit
anil district courts should not have the
power to suspend the rights of the state;
that the right of appeal in such cases
should lie in it's cure. In one plank sug-
gestiOn Mr.. Bryan asserts that the Treas
ury funds were used as an emergency aid
to force through Congress bill which
has failed to give protection to the
150O0.OO depositors of the country. The
belief is expressed that the needs of COM
merce require an emergency currency.
that sucn currency should be issued and
controlled by the federal government and
loaned to national and state banks under
proper guarantee.
Postal Bank Favored.
I'VE favor the postal savings bank if
the guarantee bank cannot be secured, -
is the termination of this proposed plank,
and Mr. Bryan made 1t clear to the COM
mittee that this qualifying language
should be used in the Endorsement of the
postal savings bank proposition.
Another plank which Mr.. Bryan has
suggested in confidence to the subcommit-
tee. but concerning which he expresses
some doubt as to the wisdom of It's pro-
mitigation, is headed 1.-The misuse of pa
tronage."
1t condemns AS a violation of the spirit
Of our institutions the action OF the chief
Of his cabinet officers" The plank con-
tnues:
ITO force succession in the presi-
dency is scarcely less repugnant than life
| tenure in that Office and tends to the es-
Establishment of dynasty" The plank
1
democratic party stands for the right of
the people freely to select their officials (:
that the democratic party stands for de-
mocracy, while the republican party is the
party Of private monopoly.
Concerning the Tariff.
On the tariff question the suggestion is
| that the position of the party be for re-
vision on the basis of tariff for only suf-
fcient revenues to support the govern
ment, levied with special attention to the
necessities Of life. impartially as to all
sections of the country and so to not
afford monopolistic protection to any in
dustry The attitude of the democrats in
Congress is to be Endorsed with reference
to the news print paper question.
On the subject of the navy Mr.. Bryan
cautions the committee to be careful not
to indorse a large navy" IAN 'ade-
uuate navy" he says. lis as far as we
can go" He has no objection to plank
indorsing state militias but prefers it
to be in the language of Thomas Jeffer-
son on that subject "A we'll disciplined
militia is our best recognized defense"
II plank could be drawn on the
rights Of the negro that would be unanc
mously acceptable. Mr. Bryan would not
| object to it. but he would not want to
Some Other Planks.
| Suggestions Of Mr.. Bryan. which fol-
| low closely the Nebraska state platform
! relate to the planks on the Cancellation of
| capital and labor; amendment to the
antitrust law: the extension OF the eight