Republican farmer., 1920-07-02

The subcommittee planned to con resume its labors. By afternoon or night. Chairman Carter Glass said, it was hoped to go finally before the full committee where long spirited discussion was in prospect With a late session tonight leaders hoped to be able to bring the completed pro- duct before the convention toHor- row.
 The League of Nations and prohfbi- tion 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 the prospects of har-' mony on this fundamental dispute. They had Slept ono administration and other proposed blanks stuffed in their pockets when their meeting broke up shortly before o'clock this morning, and it was asserted by influential subcommittee members that the tentative recommendation If the league and treaty plank would go to the full committee with virtual ly substantial agreement. Some of the more hopeful even expressed the view that the threatened fight in the full committee might be averted. On prohibition the subcommittee remained largely at sea- All sugges- tions for a wet plank which would declare for repeal of the 18th amend ment or annulment of the Volstead enforcement law were said to have been virtually thrown overheard by tacit consent in the subcommittee, but the fight for a beer and wine plank on one hand and some sort of a prohibition declaration on the other was reported still in progress. Secre- tary of State Colby, according to re- ports. slipping out from closely sealed quarters, was favoring a beer and wine provisions. The report was accorded significance because of his recent conference with President Will son.
 No basis for settlement of the liquor dispute was reported in sight when the subcommittee resumed l work. The drys were said to be in- sistent upon prohibition expression, l if only to the extent of a plank prom 1 ising enforcement of the constitution and laws generally and not specific | ally. The proposal to keep the plat f form entirely silent on the subject
 also was still prominently discussed i Many uncontroverted blanks were l practically complete. Among these | were commendation of many acts Of 1 the Wilson administration, the execu- 1 tive bureaus and the records of the 1 Democrats in Congress, together with I attacks on the Republican legislative | course. The Virginia platform en- 1 dorsed by President Wilson and I brought to San Francisco by Senator I Glass, was said to have furnished the l basis for declarations readily agreed l to regarding the general the princi- 1 pies of the party.
 Senator Glass sat as chairman of the subcommittee and his advocacy
 of administration policies was sec
 onded by Secretary Colby. A major ity of the other members were re- garded as administration supporters and the chief objector to the blanket
 endorsement of the League of Nations
 desired by the administration was said
 to be Senator Walsh of Montana, who l voted in the Senate to take the Re- publican reservations.
 Some administration members were said to be for outlining directly in the platform the sort of reservations that should not be considered as nulli- flying the league covenant, while l others wanted merely a blanket de- claration for ratification without de- structive reservations. Those who ar- 1 gued for a bill of particulars declared
 one easily could be found in the
 speeches of the president last fall
 when he told many western audiences he would not object to reservations
 re-stating what he considered already 1 was in the covenant.
 The platform committee members | considered most likely to start trou-
 b1e in the full committee were W. J. ] Bryan, Senator Walsh of Massachu-
 sets, and W. Bourke- Cochran of New l York. All of them were left out o1
 the little circle of nine, and all o1
 them had ideas that they said the
 full committee and perhaps the con-
 vention itself would have to consider
 Bryan's principal fight was to bt
 waged for an affirmative dry declar-
 ation which he already had drafted
 but declined to submit to the sub
 committee. A league plank omit
 ting any pledge to ratify the treaty
 was to be the vehicle of Senator
 Walsh's fight and recognition for the
 Irish republic was to be asked by Cochran.
 That the subcommittee would ap-
 prove some sort of a positive declara-
 tion for the treaty's ratification was g foregone conclusion. What might be
 done about Ireland was a differen
 question but one suggestion was that
 a plank might be recommended de claring that the Irish problem should l be brought before the bar of the League of Nations
 . ORDER AVIATOR RELEASED.