The Washington times., 1920-07-01
WALSH GETS PLANK
sFOR RESERVATIONS
Mass. Senator Wins 32-f8 VIC
tory in Committee Fight
Over Treaty.

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the Deaseratic piatfsrs an ssSaslts-
"a esder.eaest of President Wtissa's
Ieaxae policy Brys. west down 20
syery.> .lnaiaE defeat. He. like the
stkers whose sssesdaeats were de-
festes, was saiy able 10 muster u seat
terinE afteea or sixteen votes.
The acrimonious debate in which
the Administration and anti-Admin-
istration spokesmen were involved
for hours was deseecribed as a re-
nection OF the long bitter fght over
the treaty and the league covenant In
the Senate. So
When adjournment was finally
taken the steering Committee" OF
nine members departed with instruc-
tions TO prepare revised draft or
the Virginia platform, in accordanc
with the Walsh amendment and other
changes in phraseology agreed to and
90 report the same to the fun com
mittee when IL reconyened at 10
o'clock this morning.
PREDICT ITS ADOPTION.
II was predicted that the full COM
mittee would~adopt the Administra-
tion platform and have 1t ready for
submi ssion to the convention itself
by noon today.
Bryan and ether anti-Ad.iaistra-
tts. leaders planned, they said, to
! carry their nght TO the cosventisn
floor rs soen as the Ad.ainfstratiOn
pIstfsrm was presented at the con-
ciusfon of the n0min atisE speeches.
The adoption of the Administration
platform by an overwhelming major
ity OF the convention was declared by
Administr tration leaders to be a fore
gone conclusion. They said they ex-
pected it's adoption before the end Of
the day.
Secretary of State cambridge Col
by, selected by the President to lead
the treaty fight for the Administra-
ton forces on the convention floor,
was expected to bear the brunt OF
whatever attacks are made in the
convention on the Virginia platform"
by Bryan and other anti-Administra-
ton leaders.
It was Glass, and not Colby, how
ever. who led the Administration
forces in the tempestuous session OF
the resolutions committee which
started at 1850 o'clock last night, and
did not end until $3.50 o'clock this
morning. Fiery flashes from Glass
and Bryan enlivened the treaty fight
in the committee which met, behind
the closed doors of a spacious room
on the third floor of the convention
auditorium.
e SESSION WAS SECRET.
The session Of the committee was
secret, and a resolution was adopted,
as soon as it began consideration Of
the tentative platform draft submit
ted by the steering committee
which pledged all of its members to
secrecy.
> Newspaper men were not only
barred from the room by the Admin
istration leaders, but serSeant-at-
arms and policemen, were instructed
by Senator Glass first to keep them
twenty-feet and later nifty feet from
the closed doors.
Hour after hour the newspaper men
patiently, though sleepily, maintained
their tedious vigil while from a dis
tance voices raised in angry utter
ance could be heard from within the
room. Bryan's ringing tone, keyed to
a high pitch OF anger, could be asily
recognized and when Senator Walsh
plunged into a strong demand for the
adoption OF his amendment his elo-
ouent bass rattled the transoms OF
the doors.
When tho doors were finally flung
Spen and tired looking senators and
ether fagged-out members OF the
committee streamed slowly from the
room with newspapermen eagerly
besieging them on every side, one
of them described the long. hard
night over the Presidents league
sand as follows:
ssBoys, Just close your eyes and
Imagine yourselves back in the Sen
.to during the treaty AGht there and
yS1 viii be able to form an accurate
iSea Of what we have been doing all
sf this time