Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-06-13
FARM RELIEF
BIG issue AT
KANSAS CITY
Administration Plank
Not Acceptable ;Law
enforcement Pledge
Planned

KANSAS CITY, June 13.-lP-
Farm relief proved 70 be a STUN
ping block today TO the republican
convention resolutions sub-commit-
zee appointed to draft the platform
on which the party will seek a re-
turn to power in the November cleo
tions.
The draft plank prepared by ad-
minlstration leaders proved to be
unacceptable TO a number of the
members of the subcommittee and
IT was indicated that a report to
the entire committee might not be
ready until late in the afternoon
with prospects that the platform
would not go before the convention
before tomorrow. The prohibition
fight was quickly settled at the
overnight meeting of the sub-com~
mittee and it had been expected an
agreement on the farm relief decla-
ration would be reached speedily.
The subcommittee Of fifteen
agreed on a law enforcement plank
substantially in the form as pre-
scented BY Senator Bcrah OF Idaho.
Under its provisions, the party
weuld pledge itself and its nominees
TO the observance and vigorous en-
forcement" Of the eighteenth amend
mert. which is identified by name"
The farm relief plank rs proposed
by the administration leaders pro-
voked so much discussion that COM
mittse members were satisfied an
agreement was impossible until fur
cher conferences could be held.
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conclude its labcrs in its overnight
session made IL almost certain that
the platform on which the party can-
didateS are 10 stand in the Novem-
Der elections would not be presented
70 the convention until tomorrow.
After the subcommittee has
wound up its work, the entire reso-
buttons committee must pass judg-
ment on each section.
Adoption b. the subcommittee of
the Borah plank regaNiing prohibi-
ton enforcement is certain TO
lead to a fight in the entire commit
tee and from there it may find its
way to the floor Of the convention.
Leaders in the New York. New Jer-
sey and other delegations have de-
clared against any declaration by
the convention which would identify
the prohibition amendment over
other amendments in the constitu-
ton.
As the subcommittee adjourned,
members would not even venture a
guess as to the time that would be
required to thresh out the farm re-
lief problem. 1t was indicated very
clearly that the division in the COM
mittee was wide, and it was regard
ed as possible that this subject
might have to be referred TO the en-
tire committee for a decision.
There also were limitations that
the controversial relief plank might
not be settled until the subject had
been taken 70 the floor Of the con-
vention.
Under the head "Law Enforce
ment" the prohibition plank reads as
follows:
1--WE reaffirm the American con-
stitutional doctrine as announced by
George Washington in his Farewell
Address to-wit: The constitution
which at any time exists until
changed by the expressed and au-
thentic act by the whole people is
sacredly obligatory upon ALL
W also reafflrm the attitude OF
the American people toward the
federal constitution as declared BY
Abraham Lincoln: We are by both
duty and inclination bound to stick
By that constitution in all its letter
and spirit from beginning to end. /
am for the honest enforcement of
the constitution. Our safety, our
liberty depends upon preserving the
constitution of the United States. as
our forefathers made it inviolate.'
THE people through the method
provided by the constitution have
written the eighteenth amendment
into the constitution. The republic
can party pledges itself and its NOM
inees 10 the observance and vigor-
Gus enforcement of this provision of
the constitution"