The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-02

While the convention waited for
 the committees work to be com-
 pleted, vets and drys were locked
 in struggle which some members
 thought it might take hours to
 terminate.
 Leaving the subject until last be- cause it was the most troublesome of all, the committee has made it's de- cisions on the Irish question and the League of Nations and has cleared away all of the lesser controversies delaying its report.
 But so long as prohibition remained that their troubles were far from over
 Aside from the wet and dry issue. the biggest fight of the day was cen tered in the Irish plank Overruling its subcommittee, the full committee threw out the administration plank proposing to leave the Irish problem to the League of Nations and adopted in it's stead a declaration of sympathy and pledge to take whatever diplo- matic action would be in consonance with international comity.
 IRISH RECOGNITION REJECTED
 In making their decision, the platform makers also rejected by two to one vote the plank prO- l posed by organized Irish sympa- l thfsers and backed by a caucus of 1 about 200 convention delegates for diplomatic recogni,ron of the Irish republic.
 At the same time, in m ndjoin-
 ing room, the caucus laid plans for carrying it's fight to the c0nven- l tion floor.
 But while prospects for floor fights on prohibition and the Irish problem were increasing. all likelihood that the League of Nations also would bs a subject of open hostilities virtually disappeared. The word was passed | around that most of the administra- tion chiefs here were content to let the 1 league plank stand as 1t was when ts emerged from last nights stormy com. l mittee meeting.
 i The reference to reservations, added at the instance of anti-ad ! manifestation leaders, was not in- consistent with the stand taken
 by President Wilson, his managers here believed, nor in conflfct with the party's record. l COMPLETE SUFFRAGE PLANK ] Among the other blanks completed during the day was that relating to woman suffrage the committee after a 1 long argument, following the advice of the subcommittee by approving an app peal to democratic officials in Tennes~ see. North Carolina and Florida fos quick action on the suffrage amend- meut
 1 On the prohibition issue the subcom~ mittee made no recommendation at all and many members of the committees were for steering the same middle course in the final platform draft dozen or 1 so of proposed declarations ranging from ultra-wet to ultra-dry were brought into the controversy however. and the whole scale of wet and dry arguments 1 was rehearsed as the debate progressed.
 William J. Bryan was the supreme l chief of the drys He told the commits 1 tee bluntly that unless there was pos- tive declaration for preservation and enforcement of the present prohibition laws he would not hesitate to appeal his case to the convention itself The wetS 1 who suggested everything from a wine and beer plank to blanket personal lliherty declaration showed an equal de- i lterrlnation to fight 1t out before the | party's final court of resort
 To make certain that the committeet disagreements should be kept in absolute confidence, Senator Glass of Virginia, lthe chairman, banished newspaper men and spectators to further and further
 bounds as the day progressed. throwing la cordon of police across railways and other approaches to the committee room He also enioned all the members to strict secrecy regarding the subject. AAs eussad aud actin~ 'a'ren
 The subcommittee plank on Armen4
 also was rejected by the full committee.
 The plank is understood to have declared t.i. s.f.x
 Ia duty to see that complete independence
 and order was guaranteed to the new
 Armenian republic,
 The committee adopted. however, by aN ioverwhelrping vote d subplank offered bv Senator Beckham of Kentucky. express. ing sympathy for the Armenian people
 and premisine assistance in so far IS io
 shall he considered possible and proper. The BecSham substitute received 40 votes
 with about dozen reported in the nsgas
 tive.