The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-07

tremes of republican opinion on the treaty, the long Senate fight over the League of Nations virtually was trans ferred to the conference rooms here. They are to be the scene of renewed effort for a programme on which all republicans can stand.
 The irreconciliables and the mild reser- vationsts of the Senate are prepared for hard battle on the treaty plank Sen ator Borah of Idaho, leader of the ir- reconciliables arrived late in the day with a plank which will have the back ing of the Johnson forces. The mild res- ervationists held numerous conferences and prepared to draft plank for sub- mission to ogden Mills, chairman of the executive committee on policies and plat forms
 "We will submit our plank to the reso- lutions committed" said Senator Borah, "and if we don't see it in the platform, we will offer it in the convention.
 'The men of our group think we are entitled to straight out, affirmative declaration for the maintenance of the foreign policies handed down by George Washington and James Monroe and as advocated and reaffrmed many times in republican platforms since 1S60-
 NOT MADE PUBLIC
 Senator Borah was not ready to make the Johnson-Borah plank public. but said it would be presented to the resolutions committee.
 It was learned that the mild reserva' tionists plank would demand a construc- tive policy for ratification of the Yer sailes treaty with protective reservations and in indorsement of the stand of sen ators who voted for the Lodge reserva- tions. Senator Lodge, who arrived to- day, deferred conferences on the treaty, but predicted that an agreement between the various groups would be reached.
 With the plank on Mexico still in it's formative stage, there was general feel ing that little trouble would be encoun- tered in bringing an agreement The declaration prepared at Washington by Senator Fall, of New Mexico, however providing for American intervention un- less Mexico mended it's wa! s, ran into some opposition and it was suggested that it might be modified to omit alto gether the reference to possible military interference by this government in the southern republic.
 WOULD AWAIT GUARANTEES
 There also would be an attack on Pres ident Wilson's Mexican policy and a gen eral statement of the necessity of pro- tecting American rights. Two former American ambassadors to Mexico, Henry P. Fletcher of Pennsylvania, and Henry Lane w llSOn or lnulana, are ln cOnSulld- ton here with other leaders on the sub lect.
 Shaping the industrial relations plank revived many old aninosities and brought into focus several of the issues raised by recent strikes and unrest. On this plank the supporters of Senator Johnson are generally expected to have programme of their own and various other elements of the party are counted on to bring in proposals that will run counter to the views of some delegates. None of these elements has yet disclosed it's hand how ever, and the whole subject is influx.
 Although only the less controversial platform declarations have heretofore been taken up in the conference here, the leaders declared that so far they had been able to reach complete agree ment
 There has been apparent unanimity on everything taken up' said Will H. Hays, the national chairman. '"The treaty has not been taken up because the properties required that there be no real movement in that matter until more of the advocates on the different lines of thought arrived"