The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-09

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 his opponent Ogden Mills of New York. Mr. Mills was head of an executive committee which compiled the platform suggestions of the committee of III and in lobby gossip he was credited with having the support of Will H. Hays, the national chairman, to head 1 also the resolutions committee. | Immediately after effecting it's or ganization, the committee threw open | it's doors, but before the hearings had gone far they were suspended by unan- 1 inlous vote, it was decided to put a | tune limit on all who desired to be heard. On questions where two sides were to be presented the allotment was fifteen minutes in all equally divided l ano on all other subjects it was five minutes.
 l Among those who appeared today and tonight were Professor Irving | Fisher of Yale. who advocated an in vestigation of currency inflation for | mer Representative Charles N. Fowler l of New Jersey advocating revision of l the banking and currency laws, and
 S. P. Bond of Missouri who wanted | price fixing in wartime declared in vii | olation of the constitution.
 GOMPERS TO APPEAR | Tomorrow Samuel Gompers, presi-
 dent of the American Federation of | Labor. is to present his programme; 1 and a delegation headed by Frank P. | Walsh is to argue for plank advo- eating Irish. freedom. There also are | cores of others on the days pro- | gramme and the list tonight was growing.
 | Despite six months of work by the committee of III and several weeks of | conferences among the leadErs in Washington and elsewhere. several l troublesome platform questions remain 1 to be answered - 1 Foremost in the minds of most of tha committeeman tonight was the Leagus of Nations plank, but other ticklish is- sues remaining in Aux included anti strike Legislation. the soldier bonus, | and long string of proposals by
 farming inteests.
 A detsrmined effort will be made, it
 was said. to have the platform include | plank at least indorsing in general | terra~ the action of the republican
 Senate in writing an anti-strike provi- | sion into the railroad bill. In many quarters that proposal met with fiery opposition. however, and the labor l leaders on hand were expected to help | in the fight against it.
 l A declaration for enforcement of
 prohibition will be asked of the com
 mttee, though many of the party | chiefs are said to be in agreement that the liquor issue should be con-
 sidered settled. It was suggested that
 as a compromise a plank might be | framed declaring generally for strict law enforcement.
 | Many leaders also want to let the
 suffrage question alone. but there are
 some who think the platform should
 urge that ratification of the suffrage
 amendment be completed.
 THE BONUS QUESTION
 It was predicted generally that no
 direct reference to soldier bonus leg
 islation would be made in the plat
 form, but that a plank would (
 adopted stating in terms that the party
 favored generous tre~.ment of former
 service mem That may not satisfy the
 republican members of the House oi
 Representatives which passed bonus
 bill. and fight in the committee may develop.
 The fight over the League of Nations
 IS simply a continuation of the Ions
 Senate struggle and the tactics and
 maneuvering here repeat in precise
 terms the same familiar story of ths
 unsuccessful effort to agree at Wash
 ington. With the same senators 1T their accustomed roles and the same arguments and animosities runnipe through the whole theme or OlSCuSSlO1 1t appeared tonight that the grea
 drama of the Senate committee room. had been transferred complete to 2 new background.
 Whether the convention floor Is in turI to repeat the history of the floor of th Senate, with the contestants carryini their fight into the open as they did a Washington. remains question of spec ulation and some concern among tn partys titular leaders
 r Neither the irreconciables nor the mill reservationists were ready tonight to tax the middle ground plank fashioned b. the pre-convention platform builders, an each element was prepared to present | draft of its own.
 WANT LIBERTY OF ACTION ! Failure to get an agreement so far wa declared on both sides, however, to no barometer so far as the final outcom was concerned. It was said that the sen ators taking leading parts had becom | by long experience weary of the dan gers of binding agreements on the suf ject that they preferred to retain som | liberty of action until the resolution . committee was ready to act. :, On the side of the irreconcilables. Ser \ i ator Borah of Idaho. a member of tn | resolutions committee held off frol final acceptance of the middle groun
 plank and kept in readiness the one prt pared by himself and Senator Johnson Representing the mild reservationists the platform conferences were Senator Kellogg of Minnesota. Hale of Maine an Lenroot of Wisconsin, although none ( the three was on the committee. Con pleting the lineup. Senator Lodge (
 Massachusetts and Senator Watson r'
 produced their Washington efforts | bring the extremes into agreement. On the outstanding principles to be en | bodied in the plank. all the senators ha, | lcng been in substantial agreement. conferences more than a week ago Washington all agreed that the platfor l. must declare against the covenant of ti ' league as written at Versailles. must Ill held the stand of the Senate in refusir E to ratify the treaty. and make gener statement of faith in the theory of inte national peace The question of putin these principles into language. howeve is where disagreement begins, HOPE FOR AGREEMENT Among all the senators there is di