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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 26, 1932—PART ONE. PAY CUT HELD DUE TOLEAVINGA.F.L. Labor Department Official: Answers Ousting for Action to Heal Breach. If the pay cut, or the furlough, or any other legislation detrimental Federal employes is passed by Con- gress it will be due entirely to the im- to] would adequately Democratic Problem on Prohibition Question RANTING in_the first place that it would be beyond human ingenuity to construct a party plank on prohibition that and with complete safety bridge the many pit- | falls awaiting such effort and grant- | G proper action of the national officers |ing that the Republican plank has al-| of the National Federation of Federal Employes in separating from the American Federation of Labor, in the opinion of John Arthur Shaw, who yes- terday was suspended from member- £hip in the Federal employes group be- cause of his efforts to heal the breach between the two organizations. Mr. Shaw, an official in the Labor Department’s employment_service, was among 15 members of the federation suspended because the governing of the organization said it had “found you have acted in a manner detrimen- ial to the best interests of the rank and file of the federation.” Debt to Labor Body. Amplyfying his statement of yester- day thit he considered his suspension from_the federation a “signal honor,” Mr. Shaw, who was an official of the Joint conference on affiliation with the A. F. of L, said: “The National Fed- aration owes its very existence to the American Federation of Labor, which procured the authority necessary for the establishment of a Federal union Last _year, when economic conditions made it necessary for the labor move- ment to present a solid front to the world at large, the officers of the Na- tional Federation illegally and improp- erly dropped their affliation with the labor movement, and became, instead of an integral part of a powerful or- ganization, an impotent federation of & mere 50,000 members.” “Stiffer Opposition.” He pointed out that the result of this “treacherous improper action,” has been apparent in this session of Con- gress, when Federal employes have been faced with “stiffer opposition than ever before in history.” Mr. Shaw closed his statement with: “The suspension of its officers will in no wise affect the work of the joint conference on affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. They will carry on in order that worthy Federal employes may have some in- telligent and powerful interests through which their rights and welfare may bc protected.” TWO IN CALIFORNIA SENATORSHIP RACE Justus S. Wardell, Democratic State Chairman and a Roose- velt Supporter, Files. By the Assoclated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, June 25.—Justus S. Wardell, chairman of the California Democratic State Central Committee, filed today for the party’s nomination for the United States Senate. He will oppose William G. McAdoo at the pri- mery election. Mrs. Annie Riley Hale of Pasadena, mother-in-law of Heywood Broun, New York columnist, also 'filed for the Dem- ocratic nomination for the office. She formerly conducted a health cult here. Wardell is in Chicago as an observer at tte Democratic National Convention, instructed friends by telephone to file Tus declaration. They barely reached the office of Maj. Charles J. Collins, registrar of voters, in time. ‘Wardell is a supporter of Gov. Pranklin D. 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Rates, Skilled Workmen, Prompt Service HEFFRON CO., INC. 200 L St. N.E. > | ages could be obtained by the bushel. -| But to amend it to permit light wines | i | alcoholic content resulting from natural Phone Sterling 9510} LI m23 ready been rendered more or less pre- carious by the hackeaws of such able critics as Senator Borah, the ques- tion now is whether the Lemocrats, | profiting by any errors of omission or commission on the part of their rival | partisans, will be able to do a more satisfactory job. “A more satisfactory job." of course, | depends upon what constitutes a satis- { factory job of platform making by a v | party sbout to go before the people with a bid for ballots. The job is not { politically satisfactory if it "alienates, | at the outset, any large group of voters. | The job would not be satisfactory when it concerns prohibition if it antagonized the dry voters and it would not be| satisfactory L. it antagonized the wet | voters. By “satisfactory” in this case, then, one means a plank that comes ) nearest the desideratum of satisfying the | greatest number of people as to the | sincerity and the ability of the party to deal effectively with recognized evils accompanying the prohibition experi- | ment and of suggesting a method that promises the most acceptable solution. Bishop Cannon’s Analysis. Bishop Cannon has made an analysis of the Republican plank that should be acceptable ®o everybody as a cor- | rect statement of its principles. Up |to a certain point it might serve as | the standard interpretation. Those who disagree with Bishop Cannon’s inter- | pretation do mot differ from him as to his statement of the principles out- lined by the plank, but on the prac- tical applicability of those principles. As a reminder of what the Republican plank means, therefore. Bishop Can-| Ton's analysis is republished here, as| follows: «]. Tt pledges the party to the en- forcement of the law snd opposes nullification. “2, Referenda _without tional sanction are void. “3_ Prohibition is not & partisan political question, and no public offi- cial, which includes Senators and Congressmen, nor any members of the Rgpublican party, are bound by the colivention action on this ques- tion. “4. The convention does not favor submission on the question of reten- tion or repeal of the elghteenth amendment without a substitute, the substance of which is presented in the plank adopted by the conven- tion constitu- The convention declares that Congress should submit this substi- tute as an amendment to be acted upon by State conventions. This action would give the people an op- portunity to decide whether they will retain the eighteenth amendment | unchanged or will adopt an amend- | ment which will permit the several States to legalize the sale of intoxi- cants as their citizens may deter- mine, such legislation to be subject to the power of the Federal Govern- ment to protect those States where prohibition exists and to safeguard the citizens everywhere from the re- turn of the saloon and its attendant evils. “There are two outstanding Yacts. First, the convention does not pledge any rominees of the party to follow any specific course. It does advise that a certain definite action be taken by Congress which will submit to the people the question of the re- tention of the e?hleenth amend- ment or the adoption of a proposed substitute. It does not declare any preference as between the eighteenth amendment and the substitute pro- osed. o “Thne second outstanding fact is that this question of the retention of the eighteenth amendment or the substitution of the proposed amend- ment. automatically becomes an issue in the Fall senatorial and congres- sions] elections, as only Congress can decide whether it will submit any resolution and, if so, what shall be the exact terms of the resolution to be submitted.” Democratic Plank Possibilities. With Bishop Cannon's analysis thus presented, it may be interesting to take up the points as he enumerates them and to look into the possibilities for variance between this plank and that | to be adopted by the Democratic con- vention. The first point might be accepted| casually at first as mere phrase making. | As a matter of fact, the developments | already tend to emphasize its signifi- | cance. Former Gov. Smith’s arrival in Chicago was marked by his issuance of a formal statement outlining his views on the prohibition issus, and, coming from this source, they will play a highly important part in the considerations of a plank by the Resolutions Committee. Gov. Smith repeated his former decla- | ration in favor of modifying the Vol- stead act immediately by a “scientifi- cally correct” definition that wiil per- | mit the sale of beverages of reasonable alcoholic content. Now, everybody might grant that scientific definitions of what constitutes intoxicating bever- But would they be accepted? And If | they were not accepted, would an at-| tempt to modify the drastic provisions | of the Volstead act—to permit the sale of light wines and beer, for instance— be considered as nullifying the consti- tutional amendment that forbids the manufacture, transportation and sale of | intoxicating beverages? The Voistead law might be amended in such a way as to avoid any ob- ! jection on the ground of nullification. and beer certainly would raise the nullification issue, The alcoholic content of “unfortified” light wine is normally | from 12 to 14 per cent. That is the | fermentation. Light wines, moderately | fortified, would run higher. “Pre- | prohibition” beer had a normal alcoholic content of 4.1 per cent, sometimes found ! to run as high as 5.5 per cent. It is | idle to contend that if light wines and beer—of the alcoholic content given | above—were permitted by amendment of the Volstead la the cry of “nullifica- tion” would not be raised. There might be room for a difference of opinion | whether beer with 2% per cent of alco- holic content, as demanded by the| labor unions, would necessarily be de- | fined as “intoxicating.” but hardly con- | cerning wines of 12 to 30 per cent| alcoholic content. The first issue that is invited by the Smith proposal, therefore, is on modi- fication of the Volstead act, and that issue includes the irsue of enforcing the law as it stands until amended in | such fashion as not to nullify the eight- eenth amendment, or until this law 15 conceled by repeal of the eighteenth amendment. “Referendum” Now Obsolete Term. The second point enumerated by Bishop Cannon may be passed over. Such proposals as “referendums” and | ‘submission” are practically obsolete in the light of frank recognition by nearly everybody that no referendum or sub- mission is practical or possible, except through the formal steps provided ‘or in the Constitution. Congress by a two- thirds vote may submit an amendment | to the Constitution. But that is all. Shunned as Partisan Issue, SPECIAL. otd, o Iadne Ave: KW refinished like n press-down key cash register cleaned, . OF WASH. e Nat. 3400, The third point enumerated Bishop Cannon is.im; g?m:p’;m- issue, n " right of its members by t. The Re- The G. O. P. Plank On Prohibition epublican party has al- uflpnfifi), d stands today, for obedience to and enforcement of the law as the very foundation of orderly government and civiliza- ticn. There can be no natonal security otherwice. The duty of the President of the United States and of the officers of the law is clear. The law must be enforced as they . el o e. To these CC Fom e pledge our nominees. The Republican party is, and always has been, the party of the Constitution by non-cbservance ndividuals or State action threatens the stabil- ity of governmer e “While the Constitution makers sought a high degree of perma- nence, they foresaw the need of changes and provided for them. Article V limits the propcsals of amendments to two methods: (1) Two-thirds of both Houses of Congress may propose amend- ments, or (2) on application of the Legislatures of two-thirds of the States a national convention shall be called by Congress to propose smendments. Thereafter ratification must be had in one of two ways: (1) By the Legislatures of three-fourths of the several States, or (2) by conventions held in three-fourths of the several States. Congress is given power to determine the mode of ratifica- tion. Referendums without constitu- tional sanction cannot furnish a decisive answer. Those who pro- pose them innocently are deluded by false hopes: those who propose them knowingly are decelving the people. A Nation-wide controversy over the eighteenth amendment now distracts attention from the con- structive solution of many press- ing national problems. The princi- ple of national prohibition as em bodied in the amendment was supported and oposed by members of both great political parties, It was submitted to the States by members of Congress of different political faiths and ratified by State Legislatures of different political majorities. It was not then, and is not now, a partisan political question Members of the Republican party hold different opinions with respect to it, and no public official or member of the party should be pledged or forced to chqse be- tween his party affillations and his honest convictions upon this question. We do not favor a submission limited to the issue of retention or repeal. For the American Na- tion never in its history has gone backward, and in this case the progress which has been thus far made must be preserved, while the evils must be eliminated. We, therefore, believe that the people should have an opportu- nity to pass upon a proposed amendment the provision of which, while retaining in the Federal Government power to preserve the gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow States to deal with the problem as their citizens may determine, but subject always to the power of the Federal Government to protect those States where pro- hibition may exist and safeguard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and at- tendent abuses. Such an amendment should be promptly submitted to the States by Congress, to be acted upon by State conventions called for that sole purpose in accordance with the provisions of Article V of the Censtitution, and adequately safe- guarded so as to be truly repre- sentative. Senator Borah has already exercised his | right of dissent by deciding that, in | spite of what the platform says about | not committing the members of the | party as individuals, he cannot support | the President while he stands on this | platform. The Democrats might attempt to| make a partisan issue of the prohibi- | tion question, But if so, they will have | to silence the objections of such weighty voices as that of Senator Robinson of Arkansas, a dry, the leader of the mi- nority party in the Senate and the arty's choice for Vice President in the t campaign. Senator Robinson has said, in a recent interview, that “if a plank on the subject of prohibition should be incorporated, it should merely declare for submission of the question of repeal and should not attempt to commit members of the party to sup- port of repeal” In other words, Sen- ator Robinson favors the Republican method of phrasing the plank. ‘The Republicans explicitly stated that their plank did not bind their candidates or their members in public office. Yet Senator Borah believes it binds the President and to such an ex- tent that he cannot support the Presi- dent while he stands on that platform Will the Democrats run the risk of offending such influential members of their own party as Senator Robinson, and many others for whom he speaks? They will, of course, if they attempt to make prohibition a party issue. Sen- | ator Robinson and those for whom he speaks would be placed in an impos- sible position of fighting for the vic tory of a party which promised some- thing that they, as individuals, were against. Freedom of Members. ‘The Republican platform reserves specifically to the President, Senators, Representatives and all Republicans, official and unofficlal, the right to think, speak and vote as they please for or | against prohibition, irrespective of the | recommendations or suggestions of the | platform plank, with the exception, | however, that the President is pledged to enforce the Constitution and laws | as they stand or as they may be amend- ed, and to exercise the veto power to prevent nullification. | It is not clear whether or not Re- publican Senators and Representatives | are under obligation to vote to submit | to the States the Constitutional amend- | ment proposed for submission by the | platform plank. If they are under obligation to vote to submit and their freedom to vote as they please serves only when the amendzment goes to the States for ratification the anti-prohtbi- tionists have gained a distinct ad- vantage. The final obstacle to be sur- mounted by the wets is the requirement of the Constitution that a two-thirds vote of both Houses must be cast for submission of an amendment to the States. If the platform plank binds dry Republican Congressmen to help make up this two-third vote, a dripping wet spot Is discovered in the Republican platform. The important question in this third | point, however, is whether by its wom-} ing of the platform plank the mg:!:— lican party can be said—as Bishop . non puts it—to have voiced no prefer- ence as between the and the | | | substitute. Will They Favor “Law Enforcement” or Face the Chxfrge of "Nullification”? Will They Declare for Modification or Naked Repeal of the Eighteenth Amend- ment? Will They Seek to Make a Party Issue of Liquor Control? Will They Offer a Guarantee Against the Return of the Saloon? peal or modification of the eighteenth | | amendment. In other words, the Demo- crats might say in their plank that the Constitution “should be” amended, in- | stead of saying, as the Republicans did, that the question of amending the Con- | | stitution should be submitted. But to do | that commits the party in favor cf a| matter that many of its members can- not suppor The Real Batile. But it s in Bishop Cannon’s fourth and fifth points that the real battle will be fought by the Democrats. Will the Democrats declare for an amendment nakedly repealing the eight- eenth, or for an amendment which amends the eighteenth amendment by Pproposing a substitute? Until a few weeks ago there were only a few advocates of the wet cause who openly suggested naked repeal of the | eighteenth amendment, that is, a re- peal that was not accompanied by some A few persons, like Dr. Butler of Columbia University and Gov. Ritchie of Maryland and ex-Senator Reed of Missouri, have been for repeal from the very beginning, But the ma- jority of wets, who looked at the prob- lem from the point of view of the man who wanted the right to have his drink or leave it alone, who recognized the evils of the saloon and was not par- | ticularly concerned with the principle or theory of constitutional prohibition, was willing enough to have the eight- eenth amendment “modified” to give him what he wanted, but not *“re- pealed” to bring back all the evils of the saloon. In Chicago the ranks of the repeal- ists, however, were suddenly swelled to such strength that the movement for substitutionless repeal threatened to run away with things. The adopted plank obviously represented a compromise. And now the Democrats are about to meet, with the same demand for “re- peal” overshadowing everything else. Senator Borah has contended, in sub- stance, that the battle between “modi- fication” and “repeal” is a mere battle of words and that both mean the same thing, which Is “repeal.” The real issue, however, is whether the proposed change of the eighteenth amendment would sweep away all Federal control of liquor traffic, or whether it will leave in the Con- stitution a measure of national control sufficient to protect the dry States against the wet States and to protect the people of all the States against the return of the saloon. The Republican plank favors this latter method. It says that the amend- ment, “while Tetaining in the Federal Government, power to preserve the gains already made in dealing with the evils inherent in the liquor traffic, shall allow States to deal with the probiem as their citizens may determine, but subject al- ways to the power of the Federal Gov- ernment to protect those States where prohibition may exist and safeguard our citizens everywhere from the return of the saloon and attendant abuses.” Senator Morrow's Plan Recalied. That is the general policy that has been advanced, up to this time, by most of those men classified as wets. It is not unlike the plan proposed by the late Senator Morrow, who, in opening his campaign for the Republican sena- torial nomination in New Jersey, stated Jpis position as follows: I believe that the way out of the present difficulty is to recognize clearly the fundamental difference between the nature of the Federal Government and the State govern- ment. I believe this involves a re- peal of the eighteenth amendment and the substitution therefor of an amendment which will restore to the States the power to determine their policy toward the liquor trafic and vest in the Federal Government power to give all possible protection and assistance to those States that desire complete prohibition against invasion from the State that does mot, % ¢ o I do not believe that the funda- mental difficulty can be reached by an amendment of the Volstead act. So long es the eighteenth amend- ment and the statutes thereunder are the law of the land, I favor gen- erous appropriations for their en- forcement. I favor the use of such appropriation in the first place for that portion of enforcement which is pre-eminently the duty of the Fed- eral Government. This means that the Federal Government would first direct its efforts to keeping liquor from coming into the country and to keeping liquor from passing into interstate commerce, * '+ * In the battle for a great social re- form there was wisdom in the old system of experimenting in 48 labora- tories rather than in one. * i * * * 1In the foregoing discus- slon T have tried to avoid the words “wet” and “dry.” It does not help much in a solution of a problem to label men. Men labeled wet may be as much opposed to the saloon as men labeled dry. The saloon must not come back. ‘The people of the United States are rid of the saloon—and well rid of it. But in the process of ridding our- selves of the saloon a wholly un- regulated liquor trafic has grown up in this country. One group blames it on disobedience of the law. It 1s not in such a spirit that a so- lution will be found. The solution will be found when we realize that the issue before us is a Government problem. * * * “Personal Liberty” Not Involved. Senator Morrow disposed of the “per- sonal liberty” issue that is so o’{):!n raised in the prohibition discussion. “The control of liquor has for a long time been one of the difficult problems of 21l governments,” he said. “There are people who believe that the prohibition of intoxicating liquors under any cir- cumstances by any government is an infringement on the right of the indi- vidual to lead his own life in his own way. I do not share that view. It has been generally recognized that all gov- ernments may protect a man against his own propensities if the injury to the community is sufficient to warrant the | interference with individual liberty. The prohibition movement is a recognition of this principle. It is not & new movement. * * Senator Mc.row's plan could easily have been the basis for the Republican plank. His plan at the time won com- mendation from the same element that now condemns the Republican plank for not going far enough. Ex-Gov. Smith's Former Plan. For that matter, it is interesting to compare the Republican plank with former Gov. Smith’s statement of pro- hibition principles in accepting the Democratic nomination four years ago. He sald: Some relief would come from an amendment to the Volstead law glving a sclentific definition of the alcoholic content of an Intoxicating beverage. * ¢ ¢ Each State would then be allowed to fix its own stand- ard of alcoholic content, subject al- ways to the proviso that that stand- ard could not exceed the maximum fixed by Congress. I belleve, moreover, that there should be submitted to the B‘mfll the question of some change in the P ns of the amend- or sell a e ade auly by the B aels and not for consumption in any public place. Gov. Smith also favored aid to States which should vote dry under his plan and any return of the saloon. Three Plans Compared. In these three plans, then—the Repub- lican platform pian, the Morrow plan and | the Smith plan—there is disagree- ment in the fact that while the Re- publican platform plank does not advo- cate the new amendment as against the eighteenth amendment, the Morrow plan and the Smith plan were put for- ward by champlons of their adoption. Another notable difference is that while the Republican platform and the Morrow plan emphasize enforcement of the Volstead law and suggest no change in it, former Gov. s#uh is an out- | | spoken _advocate of modifying the | | Volstead act before the tedious process of Constitution amending runs its course | and makes no committal in respect to enforcement. As noted above, Gov. Smith, on his | arrival in Chicago last Wednesday, re- | peated his suggestion that the Voistead act be emended “at once” in order to | permit the sale of beverages of “rea- | sonable alcoholic content. The people | of the United States are entitled to this | relief, which would divert the profit of | the bootlegger into legitimate taxes.” And it is es interesting to note, in ad- | dition, that whereas he advocated | amending the eighteenth amendment | four years ago, he has now become an | out-and-out _repealist, and while he {laid emphasis four years ago on his opposition to the return of the saloon and endeavored to point out how that could be prevented, he does not men- tion the saloon in his Chicago state- ment, contenting himself with amen ment of the Volstead act and repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Gov. Roosevelt’s Plan. | Gov. Roosevelt’s proposal, as made | known in a letter to Senator Wlkner" September 11, 1930, was that: The sale of intoxicants through State agencies should be made law- ful in any State of the Union where the people of that State desire it, but conversely, the people of any State should have the right to pro- hibit the sale of intoxicants, if they 50 wish, within its own borders. * * * The control of any sale of any in- toxicants should_be wholly in_the hands of the States or of State agencles. * * * It must remain not only the right but the duty of the Federal Govern- ment to protect States which con- tinue to prohibit the sale of in- toxicants. * * * Finally, there should be definite recognition of the extension of home rule to the lower subdivisions of Government—in other words, & recognition of the right of citfes, villages or towns by popular vote to prohibit the sale of intoxicants with- in their own borders, even though in- toxicants may be soid in other parts of the State through State agencies. Gov. Roosevelt's proposal, therefore, differs from the others mentioned here mainly through his extension of the option on prohibition to political units within a State, approving the old local option system among the counties of a State and by reason of his failure specifically to mention any specific substitute, thus indicating his belef in repeal modified perhaps by his state- ment that it must remain the right and the duty of the Federal Government to protect the dry States from invasion by the wet. Gov. Ritchie, one of the original re- pealists, in an interview published in the New York Times September 21, 1930, said: ‘The eighteenth amendment ¢ * ¢ ought to be repealed. I do mot favor changing the provisions of the eighteenth amendment or the inser- tion of a new or modified or sub- stitute amendment in fits place. Rather do I think that each State ought to be free to settle the ques- tion in accordance with the wants and the needs of its own people, and I believe that the people of the dif- ferent States can be trusted to do this in & way which will promote the cause of temperance. * * * I think further that the principle of local option ought to apply to the governmental units within each State and that it would be the duty of the Federal Government to protect States which wish to be “dry” against shipments from other States which would contravene their laws. Plans for Repeal. Gov. Ritchie’s plan and Dr. Butler's plan are in all fundamental respects identical. Dr. Butler believes that the amendment should be repealed; that the Federal Government through con- trol of interstate commerce should seek to help the dry States preserve their dryness, and that the people of each State would select the liquor control system that each preferred. Through such State control, Dr. Butler has be- lieved, and the education of the peo- ELE in temperance, the saloon would prohibited. ‘There are, of course, ma other plans. But, as may be judged from the samples quoted above, they group themselves into three general classes. ‘The first of these now includes the prohibition plank of the Republican party. It declares against nullification and against submission to the people of the proposition of repealing the eight- eenth amendment; but declares for submission to the people of an amendment to the eighteenth amend- ment which retains control of the liquor traffic with the Federal Gov- ernment in order to protect the dry States from the wet States and the people of all the States against the return of the saloon, but othi gives to each State the right to “deal with the problem as their citizens may determine.” ‘The second of these is the proposal, as first advocated by Gov. Smith, but modified by subsequent utterances, to amend the Volstead act by liberaliz- ing the allowable alcoholic content of beverages, such as beer and wine, and substituting for the eighteenth amend- | ment & new amendment resting con- trol of the liquor_problem with the | States, giving the Federal Government authority to protect dry States against wet States and protecting all the peo- ple against the return of the saloon. The third of these is the proposal, as advocated all along by Gov. Ritchie and other repealists, for out and out repeal of the eighteenth amendment, with the Federal Govarnmcnt protect- ing the dry States against the wet States through its control of interstate traffic, but trusting only to the wisdom | | for with the suggestion that the States, or | the people of the States, will by, referendum prevent the return of the saloon. Another group advocates transfer of | all power to the States and promises to | appeal to the States to prevent the re-l turn of the saloon. And another group urges retention | of the full control by the Nation that is given through the eighteenth amend- | ment, declaring that in no other way | can return of the saloon with its at tendant evils be prevented. % Senator Borah. spokesman for this latter group, outlines his reasoning a: follows: Senator Borah's View. 1 “Of course, all are opposed to the saloon. This institution. with its rec- ord of crime and disorder, has nu] defender. The enemy of good govern- ment and of clean politics, the ren- dezvous of every crime with which society has to contend, the nursery of those stupid, slimy vices which de- grade and destroy the souls of men. | it is by common condemnation Te- | jected by both those who stand for and by those who stand against the eighteentin amendment. Any plan to| be proposed to the American people | the control of the liquor traffic should, in the interests of good g ernment, close every avenue agailst! its return to American life. It wonld be a betrayal of American manhood | and womanhood of our country to leave a chance, the slightest chance, for its return. But I ask again, Where are the specifications? How are we going to do it? How will we execute the will of the National Government? Once the sale is admitted there is no possi- ble way by which the National Gov- ernment can control the method, man- | ner and place of its being sold “What is a saloon? A saloon, in legal contemplation, is a place where intoxicating liquors are retailed and drunk. The State might say, ‘This' place where we have authorized liquor | to be sold and drunk is not a saloon.’| The National Government would say, | ‘We think it is a saloon.’ Then the| State might modify its position to some | extent and the National Government would be powerless. The place whera it was retailed and where it was to b, drunk would still be a saloon for alf! practical purposes. If we admit the sell- ! ing, we must admit that they have a: right to have a place where it is to be sold and drunk.” ! ‘Will the Democrats offer a guarantee ! against the return of the saloon, which | everybody deplores and nobody, appar- ently, knows how to prevent? WEST VIRGINIA CALLS SPECIAL SESSION Emergency Tax to Balance Budget and $500,000 for Jobless Aid Among Subjects. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va, June 25— A special session of the L:gislature was called by Gov. Conley toaay to convene | at noon, July 12. Eleven subjects for cousideration cf | the Legisiature were contained in tie proclamation. One of them proposed -an emergency | revenue measure by indirect taxation to raise approximately $1,750.000 to balance the State budget zrd an addi- tional $500,000 for unemployment re- lief. The Governor recommended that | the revenue be raised by a special tax| on cigarettes and other forms of to-| bacco and other luxuries. Another subject was consideration of | an amendment to the taxation section of the State Constitution “so as to pro- vide for a constitutional limitation of levies and the necessary legislative ac- tion to submit the same to the voters at_the general election of 1932.” He also recommended a statutory limitation of levies to become efiective from passage and to appiv to the levies of 1932, An enabling act to authorize re- ceivers of closed banks to negotiate loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation on other sources for distri- bution among creditors and stock- holders of the banks,” is among other subjects. FARMER-LABOR PARTY PLATFORM “ALTERED” Chairman Lawson of Committee at Omaha Calls Attention to Campaign Bulletin. By the Associated Press. NORWALK, Conn,, June 25—Frank Lawson of Washington, D. C., who was chairman of the Platform Committee at the National Farmer-Labor Party Con- vention at Omaha April %6, charged to- night the platform printed in a cam- paign bulletin showed alterations from that adopted by the delegates. Roy M. Harrop of Council Bluffs, Towa, national chairman, is editor of the bulletin, Lawson said. He also attacked Harrop's refusal to issue credentials to Col. E. Webb of San Francisco, the party’s presidential nomi- nee, declaring Webb was innocent of accusations that he was a “Hoover spy.” “Col. Webb is justified in resigning the nomination,” Lawson said, “rather than be made a party to perpetrating a fraud on the American people.” DOHENY LEFT $14,803,910 Estate of Oil Magnate's Son Ap- praised in California. LOS ANGELES, June 25 (#)—The estate of the late Edward L. Doheny, jr., son of the oil magnate, has been appraised at $14,803,910. A petition filed in Probate Court to- day by the widow, Lucy Smith Do- heny Battson, who remarried some months ago, asked jon to pay a promissory note claim of $1,618,299. The estate will be divided among Mrs. Batt- son and her five cl Doheny died in February, 1929. LANDSCAPING of the people in the States to prevent the return of the saloon. This is su stantially the position also of the p form plank proposed by the minority at the Republican nominating conven- tion. No control whatever is to be left to the Federal Government, but the people of the States are to be persuaded to prevent the return of the saloon. Methods of Preventing Saloon. Another summary of the various pro- posals as they relate to the question of preventing the return of the saloon car be made as follows: The Republican platform, in sugges! ing submission to the people of the question of turning over liquor traffic ; control to the States, Specifically reserves the power of the Nation to protect the dry States against the wet States and to prevent the return of the saloon. Another group advocates trans- ferring &ll power from the Nation to the States, and Implies a reserved power | in the Nation to protact the dry tes and to prevent the return of the saloon. Another all power from the Nation to the Stetes, and Jetter Funerals at the Usual Cost Are Donme by CHAMB Largest in the City A Whole Funeral for as your Address. 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Clark, shown above, on Friday became commander of the | Sccuting Force, with the rank of vice admiral, when he assumed his new duties at San Pedro, Calif., aboard the U. S. S. Augusta, heavy cruiser. Admiral Clark has just relinquished duty at the Navy Department, where he was director of fleet training. He made his home here in the Dresden Apartments, Connecticut avenue and Kalorama road. + ¢ Admiral Willard will become com- mandent of the 5th Naval District, with headquarters at Norfolk, Va. : BLAINE T0 OFFER B.L.F.AIDREDRAFT Senate Tomorrow Will Get Bill Providing for Food, Shelter and Travel. A redraft of the Costigan bill to pro- vide funds out of the Federal Treasury for relief of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces in Washington will be intr duced in the Senate tomorrow by Sena- tor Blaine, Republican of Wisconsin. Blaine announced his plans yester- day after being defeated in an attempt to get unanimous consent to a motion to discharge the Senate District Com- mittee from further consideration of the Costigan bill. Bicentennial Fund Scored. Blaine’s plea for funds for food, shel- ter and transportation of the veterans followed a bitter attack on an item in the independent offices appropriation bill carrying $200,000 for the George Washington Bicentennial Commission. Appropriation of funds for the com- mission to stage parades and pageants which Blaine sald “nobody ever goes to * was described as a “foolish Contrast With Misery. “It is a sad spectacle to see bands, uniforms and horses in all their glory on one hand,” he said, “and on the other to see these men who went over- seas in all their misery right here in the Nation's Capital.” Senator Jones, Republican of Wash- said he believed the events staged thus far in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the birth of Wash- ington “almost a farce.” Lexington, Va., Plant Burns. LEXINGTON, Va., June 25 (#).—The main building of the Goshen Furnace Corporation was destroyed by fire to- day. The loss, estimated at $15,000, was partly covered by insurance. . Some domestic servants are receiving as much as skilled men with horses on farms in Ireland this year. POTTED ROS N A-3 iSIIMSUN DENIES | U.5. DEBT MOVES ! Terms Negotiation Reports From Great Britain En- tirely False. By the Associated Press. | Secretary Stimson yesterday denied | published reports that the United States | has been negotiating with European | governments concerning debts and rep- arations. He said: “It ought to be unnecessary to re- peat that there have been no negotia- | tions, discussions, or conversations be- | tween this Government and the Euro- pean governments on the subject of | debts or reparations. Scores “Everlasting Gossip.” “There is no foundation whatever for the everlasting gossip telegraphed from Europe that these topics are being ne- Kotlfllbed %l’ Ln any way disguised here or abroa )y representativ United States. 9 . . “I categorically deny reports from London by one press association that the United States and Great Britain have reached an unwritten gentlemen's ;.z;:emdg:t that they will follow the e rmament poli - arations must ceascp? st “I give further categorical denial to the allegation that any agreeinent “‘pro- vides for the United States to grant g‘::ésrhsxped.] ::bu reductions, or a m, to be announce United States elections.’ e ! e Branded Entirely False. “There is no foundation for these re- | ports and the statement made in trk:e | report referred to that negotiations be- tween Sir John Simon and Ambasasdor Mellon on the subject of debt and repa- rations have been ‘proceeding for some time’ etc., is absolutely false. 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