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Full Committee Adjourns Over
Night, While Changes Are
Being Made.
ROOSEVELT PLANKS USED
Few Phrases on Conservation
and the Tariff Are
Adopted.

on resolutions adjourned after meeting
at $3.50 o'clock to receive the report
Of the sub committee.
After the full committee had been in
session an hour It was decided to return
the report to the subcommittee to re-
draft some Of the planks which had
been discussed. Two in praticular were
those having to do with the tariff and
the inland waterways.
a strong plea was made by the South
crn members for stronger plank on
inland waterways. Senator Burton ap-
pealed to the committee not TO go too
far in calling for Government aid in
this direction. however. Tho decision of
the committee was not announced.
Adjourns Over Eight.
The full committee adjourned until
$3.50 o'clock tomorrow, and in the mean
time the sub committee Is to continue
it's work.
Gov. Hadley was asketDif the Roose-
welt platform would be presented as a
minority report to the convention.
we will be guided by what happens
tomorrow when the convention is per-
manently organized" he said.
The Roosevelt members. IL was
earned. have not gone so far az to offer
their platform to the full committee yet.
Late tonight the matter Of the single
Presidential term Of six years had not
been passed upon. according 10 a men,
her Of the committee.
william Draper Lewis. the Pennsyl.
Nania member who bolted the sub. COM
mittee. turned up at the meeting Of the
fun committee, and SO did most Of the
other Roosevelt members. Mr.. Lewis
said it had not been decided whether to
present the Roosevelt platform to the
convention as n minority report or 10
adopt the attitude Of taking no part in
the proceedings after the credentials
committees full report had been acted
upon.
Senator Owen said the La Toilette
platform would certainly be presented to
the convention.
The Roosevelt platform represents the
combined literary abors of such men as
Frank Munsey. Clifford Pinchot. William
Allen White and James r. Garfield. 1t viii
not be presented as n minority report.
according to the latest information, but
will q carefully preserved for the new
party should one he formed. Natura lily
the authors are hoping the result Of theil
labor will be preserved. they having
boosted the third party idea ever since
the Colonel issued his statement.
The subcommittee. as matter of fact
did little more than receive the produce
<r h1 DDooax.alt
went 30 far as to borrow especially vel
worded phrases from its tariff and con
servation planks.
Roosevelt Platform Curious.
The Roosevelt platform was a curious
piece OF work said member Of the com
mittee. Al, read like a copy Of the out
loo. We were glad there were one OF
two things we could use in it.
/ The sub committee adjourned earl,
in the morning and returned to work a
a3O o'clock Ry that time it had com
pleted the draft Of the platform. with th'
exception of the tariff plank and the plank
which is 10 take up the woman's suffrag,
question
/ 1t was decided TO entrust the phrasin,
Of the tariff plank to Charles Hopkins
Clark of Connecticut and Senator Suther
land Of Utah. This plank has caused
more trouble than all the others put to
/ gether and is regarded as being perhaps
the most important because of the inten
tion Of the Democrats to make il the issu,
in their campaign.
One suggestion was that the declaration
OF 1908 that the tariff should be equivalen
to the difference in the COS, of production
here and abroad be reta ined. IL wa
argued by Senator lippitt Of Rhode
cost of production abroad could no, he
exactly ascertained. He asked that in
place of this wording the plank call for
tariff that would maintain tn. American
standard Of living" He was backed III
by Senator Crane. The plank as adopted
calls for some sort of downward revision
il recommended by "A permanent Tariff
Commission. II ia regarded by thos
who have seen it as fairly aggressiv
tariff plank.
! Rorrows \. II. Ideas.
The idea borrowed from the Roosevel
! pIdIiOIiu 10 thdt ol SlNl recognition L
the profits of labor as we'll az capital Of
the tarif recision. This was agreed 4
after President Tafts views on the mat ;e
had been ascertained.
/ The woman suffrage question was let
to former Nice-President Fairbanks I,
work over. AT first il was de cided to q
go the whole distance on this que st.oi,
but majority of the members weakened
and this plank has been modified. II vii
speak of the suffrage matter as one be
fore the American people and will com
mend it TO the States.
The Roosevelt platform contained
straight out uneQuvocal declaration 70
votes for women. but the Taft platform
trainers think they have gone far enough
in their concession to tho demands of IN,
women to keep their support for wha,evc
its worth.
The Taft conservation plank is regarde,
by those who have seen it as being pro
grt ssve. some of the language being takel
from the Pinchot plank II calls Tor tn,
conservation of natural resources and 70
heir development under Government
egulation.
The business plank calls for lcgislat 10,
supple M ntary TO the antitrust act which
shall define IA criminal offences th
EInri fit art which M pmrt n IN St ro in :.