The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-06-16
COP. MACHINE FLATTENS VETS
 ON PROHIBITION
Administration Forces Rout Wet Liberals on Re-
 peal Plank Issue
BEER PARADE STAGED
 IN CONVENTION HALL
Republicans Adopt Major ity Plank of Prohibi-
 ton, 68l to 472

CHICAGO, H., June 16. = The organization steamroller last night flattened out the Wet forces in the Republican National Conven- ton and, after four hours of bitter debate, rejected a States rights plank calling for the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment by a vote of 681 to 472, one delegate being absent
 The majority plank on Prohibi- ton, pledging the party to sub mission of a new amendment to State conventions calling for Fed eral control of liquor manufacture, sale and transportation and as- serting the party would maintain all gains made under the Prohibit tion system, was then adopted by exclamation and without a record vote. A volume of noes greeted the convention when Chairman Shell put the final question, but there was no objection to his ruling that the ayes apparently have a ma jority"
 Stage Beer Parade
 The repeal partisans aroused the enthusiasm of the convention and the thousands of spectators who filled the galleries of Chicago's great stadium AS Wet States swung into line for parade around the hall, carrying their banners and buckets of beer tied to the tops of poles, the assembly hall presented a scene almost with cut parallel in the history of the G. O. P.'s national conventions. The volume of cheering filled the huge hall and as the crusading spirit of the marchers spread through the delegations, it looked for a moment as if the Vets would stampede the convention.
 Chairman Shell, quickly sensing the situation, hurriedly sent com- mand to the band to cease play ing. When the music stopped the excitement Subsided somewhat and the Wet opportunity was gone.
 Nor was 1t regained. Even though the delegations from the States of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, diana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Washingto n marched down the aisles with their beer buckets running over and the foam dripping down the sides, pausing now and then as some thirsty delegate, both male and female, climbed onto chairs and drank some of the beverage, the Administration forces were again in the saddle and kept the dele gations in line from the organiza- tion controlled States.
 Garfield Is BoOed
 The minority repeal plank was unquestionably the choice of the galleries. Chairman James R. Gar field of the Resolutions Commit tee, who largely drafted the plat form at the direction of President Hoover, had hard time stating the two questions and making his defense of the majority plank. Cat calls, boos and misses greeted him and Chairman Shell had to threat en to clear the hall to bring about even semblance of order.
 Ogden L. Mills, Secretary of Treasury, who with Secretary Ar thur M. Hyde and other high of ficials came to the convention to aid the Administration forces, got much better reception as he, too, demanded the defeat of the major ity plank. He cracked the whip of party loyalty over the delegates and pleaded for harmonious sup port of the President.
 Gavin McNab, San Francisco att torney and close friend of Presi- dent Hoover, who placed him in nomination in 1928, closed the debate for the majority. If you insist upon repeal of the Eigh- tesnth Amendment you must He- pudiate President Hoover" he de- clared in an impassioned appeal for the delegates to stand by the party's chieftain.
 Butler, Bingham Speak
 Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, who is one of the most militant
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