The Indianapolis times., 1932-06-13
CABINET MEMBERS ASSERT
VICE-PRES|DENT SHOULD Be
GIVEN NOMINATION AGAIN
Convention Floor War to Substitute Outright
Repeal for Resubmission Plank
Is Believed Certain.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press Stan Correspondent

CHICAGO, June 13.-The fight
for outright repeal of the prohibi-
ton amendment will be led on the
floor of the Republican national
convention by Senator Hiram Bing-
ham of Connecticut.
1t became necessary for Bing-
ham to make the fight instead OF
Dr.. Nicholas Butler OF New York,
the other leader Of the extreme
anti prohibition wing of the party,
because the latter will not be a
member of the resolutions COM
mittee.
Under the convention rules he
is prevented from making mi
nority report.
Bingham will be Connecticut's
member of the resolutions COM
mittee.
New York's member will be
Treasury Secretary Ogden Mills,
who, while he agrees with Butler
on the prohibition issue, does not
feel in position to take a lead
ing role in the struggle because of
his administration position.
Bingham recently gained promi-
nence as champion of the anti-pro-
hibition cause when he fought an
oratorical duel on the senate floor
with the great dry spokesman,
Senator William E. Borah, and
drew cheers from the gallery
which brought stern riprimand
from Vice President Curtis.
He is the author of several 4 per
cent and other modification bills,
but his activity here is directed at
outright repeal.
Drys Hold ParIeys
He, like other repealists, expects
that the Republican platform COM
mittee will vote them down, since
each state has but one vote on this
committee.
They are stalking their chances on
a fight later on the floor of the
convention, where, when the mi
nority report for repeal is forced to
a vote, each delegate will have a
vote, giving the large anti-prohi-
bition eastern states greater voice
in the result.
Meantime, organized drys were
holding conferences, preparing to
60 before the platform committee
in an attempt to hold the party to
it's dry position of 1928.
Still apparently debating their fu-
ture course. the drys adopted reso-
luton at their joint conference for
bidding all participants from dis
cussing the proceedings with the
press.
Militant women drys were out
voted by their male colleagues OF the
prohibition board of strategy on a
project to plump dry challenge on
the White House steps.
Anti-Saloon League men checked
plans of the angry women led by
Mrs. Ella A. Boole, president of the
Women's Christian Temperance
union.
Repeal Plank Is Produced
Mrs. Boole wanted to wire Mr.
Hoover that if he had been informed
the drys would accept resubmission
he was mistaken and that they
wanted unqualified enforcement OF
the prohibition law.
Ernest H. Cherrington, general su-
perintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League, and his colleague, F. Scott
Mcbride, counseled caution.
Some observers saw in this atti-
tude a change from the bold posi-
ton of former days, when any and
all were welcomed by the drys in
test of strength.
New York produced its repeal
plank amid the first boisterous dem
onstration Of the pre-convention
show.
In hotel caucus, Russell Virgins,
former county judge of Port Jervis,
N. Y, brought the delegates up
cheering when the so-called Con
gressiona1 Country Club" repeal
plank recently drafted by a group of
wet Republican senators in the
capital.
Third Party Hinted
With whoop the caucus adopted
repeal unanimously.
The plank stipulated that the is
size should he submitted tn state
conventions whose delegates had
been chosen at special elections.
A hint of a third party bolt was
read by many persons into the
opening speech of Jams Cannon Jr.
before the Illinois state Anti-Saloon
League convention in session here.
Cannon suggested the drys might
meet after the conventions.