The Alaska daily empire., 1920-06-30
MOIST PLANK IS
AGREED UPON BY
SUB COMMITTEE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.-Ad-
sninistration chiefs at the Democratic
| National Convention announced to-
day that the subcommittee on plat
form had agreed on a prohibition
plank slightly moist" which would
shut out William j. Bryan's dry
plank. They also predicted with
finaIity that League of Nations
plank would be adopted "just as
the President wants 1t without dot
! ting an 81" or crossing a "t".
| SAN FRANCISCO, June 30.--Sen.
| Carter Glass, Chairman of the COM
| mitee on resolutions at the Demo-
cratic National Convention here, an
nounced today that the subcommit-
tee on platform hoped to bring the
platform before the full committee
! late this afternoon or tonight and
before the convention tomorrow.
Although many minor planks were
virtually settled, Glass said the most
| troublesome questions remained un-
solved when the subcommittee adj
lourned at 2 o'clock this morning.
| The League of Nations plank and
prohibition were the big barriers,
although adjustment of the former
was said by Glass to be in fair
way toward settlement.
| The subcommittee is reported to
| have rejected by vote of six to
| three proposal to put an out and
jout "wet" plank in the platform
| Those supporting the plank were re-
ported to be Secretary OF State
| cambridge Colby, M. NJ Crane OF
! Texas and w. R. Pattingall of
Maine, while Sen. Glass, Sen. Thorn
as j. Walsh of Montana, Vance Nc
Cormick Sen. Frank b Kellogg of
Minnesota. Horace Hawkins of Col
orado and George II. Hodges Of
| Kansas opposed 1t.
! Colby for Beer and Wine .
Colby declared he favored a beer
and wine provision. which was con-
sidered significant by political OBJ
| servers because of his recent con-
| ference with President Wilson
The Drys are still insisting on
4 prohibition EXPRESSION promising
strict enforcement of the Volstead
! Act, while many are advocating COM
plete silence in the platform on
| the subject.
A fight on the floor of the con-
vention tomorrow seemed more in
prospect today than ever.
George Creel, former chairman OF
the Committee on Public Informa-
| tion, has been attached to the plat
| form subcommittee 1t is under
| stood his part will be to look after
the literary qualities of the plat
form as Col. George Harvey did for
the Republican platform at Chicago
| Advocates Of Silence aE.
1 hi hi
tion come from both camps and rep
| resent various shades OF opinion.
ranging from bone dry to almost az
| completely wet. Some at least OF
| its advocates are said to desire
now to head off vote on bone
dry program as matter of ex-
nediency If the issue were forced
to conclusion on the platform
struggle these strategists argued.
| 1t might be more prejudicial to their
hopes for modification of the Vol
| stead NAct than beneficial. while
complete silence would leave party
representatives in Congress free to
act.
| One element which today tended
to keep the problem in flux was the
uncertainty of many of those here
regarding the position of President
| Wilson. The Virginia state plat
form. which has been given the
Presidents unqualified approval. and
on which the national platform Is
expected TO be modelled, is silent
on the subject.
League Plank Certain
MANY of the party leaders. includ-
ling Homer S. Cummings. the Ma,
tional chairman. reiterated conft-
dence today that no other platfcr rm
plank than prohibition would lead
10 fight on the convention floor
The League of Nations declarations.
as framed by administration SUP
porters was declared by these iead4
ers to be certain of acceptance after
only nominal squabble in the
platform committee.
Richard Seelev Jones II Washing
ton. appeared before the platform
committee today and presented res
olutions providing selecsive or OPP
tional conversation for former sers-
ice men. The resolutions condemned
the "hypocritical conduct OF the Re-
publican Congress"
i V. S. McClathchy. Sacramento
1 (Calif.) newspaper publisher. Of
fered a. plank dealing with Japanese
migration and forbidding mon as
similable" people already in the