Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-07-01
COLBY LEADS FIGHT
IN SUBCOMM|
FOR BEER AND WINE
Little Trouble Is Anticipated
Over League of Nations
Issue = Virginia Platform
to Serve as Party Model

brynoic stage, but with prospects Of
presentation tomorrow to the con'
vention when the platform builders
| reassembled today.
Although many minor planks had
been virtually settled, some in prln-
ciple only and orners in phraseology
as we'll, most of the troublesome ma
ior problems remained unsolved when
the subcommittee of nine preparing
tentative draft reconvened today at
$3.50 after less than eight hours rest.
Secretary Colby early this morning
was waging a fight for light wine
and beer plank. He was arguing 1t
as a political expedient and not nee
essarily as his personal views.
| The subcommittee adjourned with
out completing it's work early today
to meet again at $3.50. No announce
ment was made by Chairman Glass.
The fact that Secretary Colby con-
ferred with the president before leav-
ing Washington for San Francisco
added significance to his stand.
Some of the committeeman were OF
the opinion that the Volstead Act
should be amended so as to make its
enforcement less stringent.
! A wide variety of suggestions.
ranging from the strictest enforce
ment of the law to Co1by's sugges-
ton, were offered. Senator Nickel s
lar, Of Tennessee. brought in the
Bryan proposal.
League Plank Ready
With the meeting of the full reso-
lutions committee scheduled for 10
o'clock, the subcommittee arranged to
meet with the main body, report par
tial progress and then resume its
labors. BY afternoon or night, Chair
man Carter Glass said, 1t was hoped
| to go finally before the full COM
mitee, where long spirited discussion
was in prospect. With later ses-(
sion tonight, leaders hoped to be
able to bring the completed product
before the convention tomorrow.
| The convention proceedings will not
| interfere with the platform commit
teemen continuing their work with
out interruption as the program calls
for the delivery of presidential nom
] mating speech which will consume
virtually all of today's session.
L. The League of Nations and prShi--e
bition remained the big barriers to
agreement. Adjustment of the league
question, however. was said to be in
a fair way of realization.
/ Some of the subcommittee were
optimistic over prospects of harmony
on this fundamental dispute. The
had Slept on" administration and
other proposed planks stuffed in their
pockets when their meeting broke up
shortly before 2 o'clock this morn
ing and it was asserted by influential
| subcommittee members that the ten
tative recommendation of the league
and treaty plank would go to the
full committee with virtually sub
stantial agreement Some of the more
hopeful even expressed the view that
the threatened fight in the full COM
mittee might be averted.
On prohibition the subcommittee 6
remained largely at sea- All sug-
gestions for a "wet" plank which
would declare for repeal Of the
eighteenth amendment or annulment
! OIL the NOlSIGdu SulOICCluSuL law
were said to have been virtually
thrown overheard by tacit consent in
the subcommitte, but the fight for
1 beer and wine" plank on one handN
and some sort of prohibition declara-
ton on the other, was reported still
in progress.
Virginia Platform the Model
| AF
quor dispute was reported in sight
when the subcommittee resumed
work today. The drys were said 70
be insistent upon a prohibition ex-
| preston, if only to the extent of
a plank promising enforcement of
| the constitution and laws generally
and not specifically. The proposal
to keep the platform entirely silent
on the subject also was prominently
discussed.
The platforms course also was de-
| pendent today on the subcommittee
| conference with the full committee. It
was thought the subcommittee re-
| port of progress at last nights ses-
sion might develop important discus
| sion at the ten o'clock session to-
| day. 1t was expected, however, that
! the full committee would recess I'M
! til this afternoon or tonight to await
| further word from the subcommit-
| tee.
Although Chairman Glass said none
of the proposed planks had yet been
| adopted definitely by the subcom-
mittee, considerable of the uncon-
troverted sections were reported
practically complete. Among these
were commentator of many acts of
the Wilson administration, the execu-
tive bureaus and the records of the
Democrats in congress, together with
attacks on the Republican legisla-
tive course.
So far as the main body of the
platform was concerned, the subcom-
mittee found little difficulty in agree
ing. The Virginia platform, indorsed
by President Wilson and brought to
San Francisco by Senator Glass, was
said to have furnished the basis for
declarations readily agreed to regard
ing the general principles of the
party
Senator Glass sat as chairman of
the subcommittee, and his advocacy
of administration policies was sec
onded by Secretary Colby. A ma
jority of the other members were re-
garded as administration support
ers, and the chief objector to the
blanket Endorsement of the League of
Nations desired by the administra-
ton was said to be Senator Walsh, 4
who voted in the senate to take the
Republican reservations.