New-York tribune., 1920-07-02

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The b-committee's plank on Arme-
nis was rejected by the full commit
tee. The plank is understood to have
declared that the United States should
consider it duty to see that COM
plete independence and order were
guaranteed to the new Armnian Re-
public.
Sympathy for Armenia
The committee adopted. however, by
overwhelming vote, substitute plank
offered by Senator Beckham. of Ken
Armenian people and promising assist
ance so far as it shall be considered
possible and proper The Beckham
substitute received forty votes, with
about dozen reported in the negative.
On the prohibition issue the sub-com-
mittee made no recommendation at all,
and many members of the committee
were for steering the same middle course
in the final platform draft. A dozen or
so proposed declarations ranging from
ultra wet to ultra dry were brought
into the controversy, however, and the
whole scale of wet and dry arguments
was rehearsed as the debate progressed.
William j. Bryan was the supreme
chief of the drys. He told the com
mittee bluntly that unless there was
q positive declaration for preservation
and enforcement of the present pro-
hibition laws he would not hesitate to
appeal his case to the convention itself.
The vets. who suggested everything
from wine and beer plank to
blanket personal liberty declaration,
showed an equal determination to fight
it out before the party's final court
of resort.
The committee recpnvened promptly
at II a. m. to-day, after sitting nearly
all night, to resume the platform strug
gle. sharp fight on the ory plank
offered by Mr.. Bryan was in immediate
prospect when Chairman Glass banged
his gavel for order. and newspaper men
and propagandists were hustled out of
the hall to their dreary watch in the
corridors.
Mr.. Bryan was early in the commit
tee room. stirring about in a score of
personal conferences. He said he was
prepared to fight to finish for his dry
declaration against the disposition OF
the Subcommittee on platform to keep
the party declaration silent on prohibi-
tion enforcement.
The Nebrn skan announced he would
battle for his plank precisely as he had
framed it, and that the "only ballast"
it contained which he might be willing
to sacrifice was an adjective here and
there that merely reinforced the asser-
tion for bone dry enforcement of the
Eighteenth Amendment.
New efforts to prevent leaks in the
platform deliberations were ordered by
Senator Glass. The dead-line, drawn
first yesterday twenty feet from the
doorway Of the committee room and
later set back to fifty feet under
skirmish line of police, was sent clear
to the ends of the corridor to-day.
Privacy Even for Roars
Newspaper men were not permitted
to approach within fifty yards of the
doors, and the committeeman could
roar their protest at will without being
overheard.
In addition to the Irish and dry
planks, the only point remaining to be
covered when the committee met, 1t
separate Federal department Of edu-
cation would be recommended. Printed
copies of the planks agreed to during
the long night session were said to be
available to committee members too day,
the draft showing blanks for the dry,
Irish and educational expressions.
The printed version was set up and
run off during the morning hours with
comparative columns showing differ
ences of opinion on certain questions.
In blanks left near the top, presumably
for the wet or dry expression, the
printers had inserted the likeness of
wide-brimmed, black slouch hat, asso-
cated in cartoons with Mr.. Bryan's
favorite type of headgear, while OPP
posite it appeared the "stovepipe" with
which cartoonists usually crown
"Tammany" figure or any old line poll
tician.
Mr.. Bryan and Senators Pomerene.
of Ohio, and Walsh, of Montana, offered
substitute League of Nations planks at
the meeting of the committee last
night but they we're thrown out with
but II to Is votes each.
AS reported by the b-committee,
the League of Nations plank followed
closely that adopted by the Virginia
Democrats Senator Walsh, of Mon
tana, submitted minority report ana
led the fight against the Virginia pro
posal, which had the backing of Presi
dent Wilson.
In the debate, which loosed a flood
of bitter feeling, Senator Walsh was
seconded by Mr.. Bryan, Senator Walsh,
of Massachusetts, and Senator Pom
creme, of Ohio, while the battle for the
Administration was led by Senator
Glass, of Virginia, the committee chair
man. Senator Walsh's minority report
provided for a plank pledgng the
nominee of the convention and Demo-
cratic Senators to make such conces-
sions as might be necessary to secure
ratification of the treaty. All of those
who supported it told the committee
bluntly that hope of ratification with
out modification might as we'll be aban-
doned, and that the wise course was
to compromise.
Would Break Deadlock
In his fight against the Administra-
tions league plank Senator Walsh de-
clared that. although he had been for
the treaty without reservations a year
of effort had demonstrated that such
q ratification was impossible. In the
coming campaign, he asserted, the
Democrats could not hope to win
enough Senators to make up the neces-
sary two thirds, and if the Admins stra-
tion declaration was adopted the coun-
try might we'll ask what the Democrats
could possibly hope to do to carry it
out.
Mr.. Bryan argued that the party
should not go on record as opposing
reservations, to which majority of the
Senators had agreed, but should take
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