The Indianapolis times., 1932-06-14
RESUBM|SSION
PLANK DRAWN
FOR PLATFORM
Draft, Virtually Complete,
Is Given Approval of
President.
PENNSYLVANIA IN LINE
Differences on Method of
Action Still Are Vex-
inq Leaders.
BY RALPH TURNER
United Press Stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 14.-The ad-
ministration cabinet group virtual
ly completed today, with President
Hoover's approval. platform plank
advocating resubmisSion of the
eighteenth amendment by congress.
Pennsylvania, at the same time,
Joined the resubmission movement
at a delegation caucus.
The chief executive and the cab
met members drafting the plank for
the platform committee, which be-
gins sessions later today, are agreed
on the resubmission proposal. There
still is a difference of opinion. ii
was learned, whether the plank
should suggest the method of re-
submitting the amendment.
President Hoover has been con-
stantly in touch with Chicago.
Try to Keep Dry Support
Some of the leaders favored
merely declaration for resubmis-
sion, leaving to congress the method
by which it should be done, and
the President was represented as
favoring this principle. It was
supported by the moderate element
as a means of keeping as much dry
support as possible.
Others advocated the plan sug-
gested by the late Senator Dwight
Morrow, New Jersey, which would
permit individual states to remain
dry and guarantee their protection
by the federal government, and al
so provide for federal government
control plan in "wet states"
Regardless of whether the resub-
mission plan is defined in the
plank, it will carry a strong COM
mitment against the return of the
saloon, as we'll as a declaration for
enforcement of the law as long as it
remains on the books,
The Pennsylvania delegation
voted today, 49 to- Is, for resubmis-
sion to state conventions and also
adopted a resolution favoring a
constitutional amendment whereby
the manufacture, sale, and trans
portation of intoxicating liquors
would be regulated by the federal
government.
Action Is Challenged
The action, however, was chal-
lenged and another meeting was
called, as some claimed steam roller
methods had been applied.
Secretary of War Patrick j. Hur-
ley arrived here today to join with
the administration forces in draft
ing the prohibition planks. He will
sit on the Platform committee as
Oklahoma's representative.
"The Republican platform should
contain no SubterfugeS, Hurley
said. "It should stand square on
every question of policy confronting
it,
The uncertainty over prohibition,
manifest in secrecy surrounding all
negotiations here, was revealed fur
ther today, when the Ohio delega-
ton was induced to postpone action.
Postponement was at the suggestion
of James R. Garfield of Cleveland,
who is to be chairman of the plat
form committee.
Postmaster General Walter Brown,
participating in the prohibition
conferences, sat in with the dele
cation today.
The work of the plank writer's
was suspended today during the
opening session of the convention.
being resumed afterward.
VETS May Turn to AL Smith
Nicholas Murray Butler, in a
speech at the Coliseum where $4,000
people maSsed under the auspices
of the vets, pleaded for frankness
in dealing with the issue.
He asked that a definite repeal
amendment be submitted and acted
upon by the people. He pleaded that
we do not do anything to cloak it
(repeaD under some false name
and surround it with conditions, ifs
and ands."
Intelligent voters by the mil
lions" he said, demand courage
and performance.
Raymond Pitcairn, another wet
speaker, declared significantly that
the United Repeal Council, a wet
organization, could indorse an in
deOendeYt eandidota
IF both parties fail the people
in this emergency" he said, I'VE
could and should indorse a strong
leader of the peoples cause. I have
in mind the name of such leader,
fearless. strong. a man of action