Arizona republican., 1920-06-09

strike legislation, the soldier bonus and a long string of proposals by farming interests
 1 A determined effort will be made, it was said. to have the platform include a plank at least endorsing in general terms 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 leaders on hand were expected to help in the fight against it.
 A declaration for enforcement of pro- Inhibition will be asked of the commit Etee, though many of the party chiefs fare said to be in agreement that the iliquor issue should be considered set tiled. It was suggested as a compromise Ia plank might be framed declaring generally for strict law enforcement. Many leaders also want to let the suf- frage question alone but there are some who think the platform should urge that ratification of the suffrage lamendment be completed
 To Exclude Soldier Bonus Plank
 It was predicted generally that no direct reference to soldier bonus leg fislation would be made in the plat form. but that a plank would be adopt ed stating in general terms that the party favored generous treatment of | former service men. that may not satisfy the Republican members of the house of representatives. which passed a bonus bill. and a fight in the com mittee may develop.
 The fight over the league of nations is simply d continuation of the long senate struggle and the tactics and
 maneuyering here repeat the same l familiar story of the unsuccessful eff ] fort to agree at Washington. With
 the same senators in their accustomed | roles and the same arguments and ani- i mosities running through tEe whole
 theme of discussion, it appeared to- night that the great drama of the sen
 ate committee rooms had been trans
 ferred complete to a new background.
 Whether the convention floor is in
 turn to repeat the history of the floor
 of the senate with the contestants car
 rying their fight into open as they did
 at Washington remains a question of
 speculation and some concern among
 the partys titular leaders.
 Neither the irreconcilables nor the
 mild reservationists Were ready tonight
 to take the middle ground plank fash
 toned by the. pre- convention platform
 builders and each clement was pre-
 pared to present a draft of it's own
 Does Not Indicate Deadlock
 Failure to get an agreement so far , was declared on both sides, however
 to be no barometer so far as the final
 outcome was concerned. It was said
 that the senators taking leading parts had become by long experience so wary of the dangers of binding agreements on the subject, that they preferred tc i retain some liberty of action until the
 resolutions committee was ready tC act.
 On the side of the irreconc1Iables
 Senator Borah of Idaho, a member q
 the resolutions committee, held of from final acceptance of the middle ground plank and kepti in readines; v Naan a N.s s-..TE
 ator Johnson. Representing the milo I reservationists in the platform con i ferences were Senators Kellogg o , Minnesota, Hale of Maine and Lenroo
 of Wisconsin, although none of th' . three was on the committee ' Completing the lineup, Senator T Lodge of Massachusetts and Senator
 Watson reproduced their Washington :, efforts to bring the extremes into l agreement.
 On the outstanding principles to b' = l embodied in the plank, all the senators 7 ] have long been in substantial agree ' 4 ment. At conferences more than S ] week ago in Washington, it is under 5 stood all agreed that the platform de u clare against the covenant of th'
 league of nations as written at Yer ', sailles, must uphold the stand of tn, 2 senate in refusing to ratify the treat,
 and make a general statement of faiti ,- in the theory of international questions = The question of putting these prin . ciples into language, however, i
 where disagreements begin.
 Keep Dispute From Floor, Cry
 Among all the senators there is
 distinct aversion to letting the cOntes :. get to the convention floor even for e minute. They realize how full 0 .A dynamite the whole subject is and the U. know what a wide field of bitter de
 bate would be opened. So they al = declare the effort to reach an agree i l ment behind the doors of the resolu -o tions committee will be sincere an , determined.
 It was universally declared that n = anelc of the treaty fight was involve 1f in the contest between Senator Wat .r son and Mir. Mills for the resolution aJ chairmansh'p ard that the differcnc in Of opinion as to who Sho2ld heaG th
 committee was based on persons of grounds purely. Isaac Gilman of Cor -- Continued on page 2