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subcommittee for approval of reserva,
fiona consistent with the honor and
good faith of the United States" and TO
advise cooperation with RepuDlcan
senator's friendly to the treaty with
view to early ratification.
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
made public another league plank com
for the league. desiring ratification
without multiplying change but for
reservations making clearer or mols
specific the obligations of the onitea
States and denouncing any movement
to make it a partisan issue
Senator Pomerene also had before .he
full committee plank urging ratitlca-
ton without impairing reservations,
but harmonizinA differences on res
ervations. if necessary. senatofs VINO
voted for the Lodge reservations also
were demanding that their achoh ee
not repudia,ed.
irish Question.
The Irish question was another mil
ant proposition. Prominent leaders said
the plank fostered by Frank I. Naisn
and Eamenn De Valera for recognition
of the Irish Republic bad virtually
no chance but widespread influences
were working TO secure some adequate
and generally satisfactory expression OF
sympathy with Irish aspirations.
Mexico and Labor.
Among important pIanks placed in the
tentative platform by the subcommittee
were those dealing with Mexico ana IN
dustrial relations. The labor plank fui-
" recognizes the right of COLLECTIVE par
gaining and representation OF lapor bs
its own spokesman.
All of the sub committees decisions,
Chairman Glass said, were tentative.
As the subcommittee left the room
in which it had worked for nearly ~
hours. Senator McINeiler remarked that
No one would ever have TO ask what
the platform meant.
Former Governor Hodges of Kansas
added that it was ''epigramatic
I'VE have met every issue without
fhnching." said Secretary Colby. Chair
man Glass imposed on the sub committee
members pledge of secrecy, lie SAID no
planks would be made public until after
action bv the full committee. All mem
bers expressed general satlsfaction with
the results of the committees lsbors.
There were several clashes during the
discussion of the tentative draft. For the
most part however. members said their
deliberations had been marked with the
most cordial relationship and earnest
and sincere debate.
San Francisco. June 3o.-In letting
the full committee handle the liquor
question the sub committee platform
draft was reported TO be without any
plank whatever on prohibition. Members
let it be known that by a vote of five
to i the subcommittee laid all such
planks on the table.
BY one-vote margin the sub com
mittee was said to have excluded the
anti saloon leagues law enforcement
plank, those proposed by Postmaster
General Burleson for modification OF
the yolstead law and others. The. sen
timent of the subcommittee majority
was said to be for silence in the plat
form on the question because OF the IN
tense feeling on both wet and dry sides
and further because of the controversy
as TO whether the liquor question is
political.
Senator Mckeller presented the anti
saloon league enforcement plank to the
sub committee and following its defeat
five to four. he said he would present
it to the full committee.
In the efforts to have the full com
mittce's deliberations secret, all out
siders were shooed from the room
when it convened and spectators were