Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-06-30

} in the full platform committee when a
parliamentary battle for position on
the speakers list was decided In favor
of the vets by q vote of 81 to 25. When
the drys were forced to 60 ahead Mr..
Bryan took charge of the time allotted
to that side but divided all of 1t among
other speakers representing the anti
saloon league, church associations and
other prohibition organizations
For the vets, w. Rourke Cochran OF
New York. was the chief speaker during
debate in which Mr.. Bryan was CALI
ed upon to explain HRS connections with
the nti-saloon league He denied thst
be ever had received compensation from
the league except for -four months of
last year for certain public speeches"
Irish Issue.
The Irish issue was argued in such
mintant fa,shion that the crowded COM
mittee room was in almost constant up
roar Opponents of the proposal for
recognition of the Irish republic were
kept under hail of heckling and deris-
ion from Irish sympathizers and once
or twice were called short and ugly
words while the committee chairman
pounded with his gavel and sergeant-s-
alarms tussled with the crowd in an
Intellectual effort to keep order.
The argument for the Irish recogni-
ton plank was lea Big Frank P. Walsh
and the opposition was handled by
Demerest Lloyd, of Boston. president
of the loyal coalition.
Gompers Pleads for Labor.
Labor's platform was presented to
the committee by Samuel Gompers, who
declared the Republican party had writ
ten reaction on its banners and that
the labor vote must find some avenue
elsewhere for expression of its desires.
The league of nations. another sub
iect threatening convention floor fight.
was not mentioned during the days
hearings, but there were many sugges-
tions on almost every other political
subject. prolonging the committees
deliberations in to the evening.
Cooperative Marketing.
Approval of cooperative marketing
by farmers also was urged by DR.. w.
H. Walker, president of the California
farm bureau federation. He also dis
approved of government ownership or
operation of railroads.
Compensating Service Men.
Resolutions for compromising ex-ser-
vice men presented by Richard s.
Jones of the Washington delegation,
provide for "selective or OPTIONAL COM
pensation,' and condemned the "hypo-
critical conduct or the hepupuCan Cou-
gress" on the bonus bill.
Japanese Question.
A plank to deal with Japanese immi-
grafton and land ownership wss sub
mitted by v. S. McClatchy of Sacra-
mento. 1t would flavor laws provid-
ily for the exclusion Of non- assimilable
peoples and forbidding those already
here ownership and control Of the gol
Mir. McClatchy had calculated.A haxnh
the committee that at the pres8u& NJ
of increase there would be 1OOO60 "
japanese In this country at the eny "
140 years. The plank was suHpNk
by Senator Phelan of California.
INDUSTRIAL DISPUTES. ss,
A commission to Investigate IN. ri
dustrial disputes Is the basis ef sss.
william Jennlng Bryan's plank on Ts'
Industrial relations. A detailed state.
msnt Of his plan was issusd by Mr..
Bryan 40 follows: -
~ shall submit for the o. (|cl1er.
alton Of the coMmnnfty v1y6 sim.
pie plank which 10 id0KticaE In Its
peMeral provlsIons with tie plan
s0mhodled IN thirty treaties With three
iuarters Of the world and aftarwards
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