Show Fin FEVE PLANKS IN PLA nORM Text As Fixed Up in the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House for the National Convention ALL ARE IN CONTROVERSY SURE TO BE MODIFIED OR ELIM ELIMINATED ELIMINATED ELIMINATED Chicago June Juno 15 The rhe five moat important important Important tant planks of the Republican platform formulated by II President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft and drafted by Wade Yade H HEllis HEllis HEllis Ellis attorney general of Ohio and now In the possession of prospective members of the resolutions committee of the na national convention for or consideration are here given They The are the planks on trusts railroad rate tariff re reo revision revision vision and currency Trust Resolution The trust plank follows The Republican party passed the Sher Sherman Sherman Sherman man antitrust law Jaw over oer Democratic op position and enforced It after Democratic dereliction It has been a wholesome in instrument Instrument Instrument strument for good In the hands of a wise and fearless fe administration But experience experience has shown that its effectiveness can be strengthened and Its real objects better bettel attained by such amendments as aswill aswill will give to the federal government greater supervision and control over and secure greater publicity in the manage management management management ment of that class of interstate corpora corporations corporations having power and opportunity to ef feet fed monopolies and that the same will not interfere fere with the existing associations among business men farmers and wage earners so long as their conduct or opera tion results in a positive benefit to the public The Rate Law Lawe We e approve the enactment of a rail rall load toad rate law and the vigorous enforce enforcement enforcement ment mont by b the present administration of the statutes against rebates and as a result of which the formerly possessed by the large shipper over the small shipper have sub substantially substantially substantially disappeared eared In this connection we commend the tie appropriation of I by the present congress In order to en enable enable enable able the Interstate commerce commission I to thoroughly investigate and give gle pub publicity 11 11 to the accounts of interstate roads road Ve We believe however that the Inter Interstate interstate Interstate state commerce law should be further amended so as to give railroads the right to make and publish traffic agreements I subject to the approval of ot the commis commission j slon sion but maintaining always the prin principle ciple of competition between naturally competing lines and avoiding the com corn common common cornmon mon control of such lines by b any means whatsoever and we specially favor the enactment of ot such legislation as will pro provide provide provide vide for or federal restriction against the i of stocks sto ks and bonds by inter interstate interstate interstate state carriers Text of Tariff Plank More or less serious Inaccuracy has hils characterized the reputed textual publications of the plank relating to the tar tariff tarIff iff The exact text of that plank as aswell aswell aswell well as of the plank concerning anti injunction legislation follows The Republican party part declares un an for a revision of ot the th tariff I Ia b ba Ia a special lal session of ot congress immediate immediately ly Iy after the inauguration of the next pres presIdent Ident Went and commends the steps already I taken to this end to work assigned to t the appropriate committees of the two I houses houseH which are now Investigating the th I operation and effect of ot existing she ache schedules I dules dales In all tariff legislation the true j I principle of protection Is best maintained j I Iby by the tile Imposition of such duties as will equal the differences between the cost east of production at nt home homo and abroad to together together gether gather with witt a reasonable profit to Amer Anier American AmerIcan ican lean industries and the benefits that fol follow follow el ellow low are best secured by b the establish establishment establishment establishment ment of maximum and minimum rates which shall be applied automatically to the trade of other countries in accord accordance accordance ance anee with their treatment of our trade The minimum should represent the nor normal normal normal mal measure of ot protection required for forthe forthe forthe the benefit of our own Industries The aim and purpose of the Republican policy Is not only to preserve without excessive duties that security against foreign com oem competition petition to which American manufacturers ers era farmers and producers are entitled but also to maintain the high standard of living of ot the of this coun country country country try who are the most direct beneficiaries of ot the th protective system s stem Between B tween the United States and the Philippines we favor a free frei interchange of products with such limitations as to sugar and toBacco as will avoid injury to domestic intErests interest Limitation of Injunction We Ve declare for such an amendment of the statutes of ot procedure In the fed federal federal federal eral court with respect to the use of the writ of Injunction as will wm on the one hand prevent the summary Issue of such orders without proper ni nion l on the other will preserve the power of ot courts to enforce their pro process cess ce to the tile end that justice may ma be done at all an times and to all aU parties Emergency Currency The currency plank contains this lan language language language guage i t iThe The Republican R party part approves the currency bill but only as an on emergency emergene measure We e declare for fora a thorough and new system of currency laws that will be b In accord with the need of the times and which will be more adaptable to the demands of business and more elastic in Its character as a circulating circulatIng circulating ing medium Continued on Page 2 FIVE FIVE PLANKS IN PLATFORM Continued From Page 1 The fight tight over the plank promises to be the feature of the sessions ses sessions of the committee the first of which has been called for tomorrow The rhe pre pro preliminary preliminary skirmish on this plank has In fact waged with intensity from the mo moment moment moment ment the provisions of the plank became known Speaker Cannon has directed the I fight against the provision throughout the day from his quarters at the Union League club Just Ju t what progress has been made by the friends and the opponents of the provisions is one of the questions which will not be ascertained until the plank Is ia finally passed upon in the com committee committee committee Senator Hopkins who it is said is to tobe tobe tobe be chairman n of the committee is 18 known to favor the elimination of the plank from the platform Failing in this it Is understood he lie will favor a much more mild expression on op o the question qu It was waR reported to Speaker Sp aker Cannon to today today today day that the delegations legations df from New York New Ne Jersey Pennsylvania Indiana and Illinois had formally declared against the thein thein thein in junction plank and that efforts to have some action by other delegations gave promise of success Compromise Provision The compromise measure which the op opponents opponents opponents will urge if it becomes evident that a pronouncement on the subject is isto Isto isto to be included in the platform has been determined upon It will be a simple I statement that the party believes the fed federal federal I eral court procedure should be so amend amended ed as to provide against t arbitrary orders being made by a court but at the same time that nothing should be bt done to in interfere interfere with the authority of the court over its own orders Those who are arguing for the elimina elimination eliminAtion elimination tion of amendment of oC the provision main maintain maintain maintain tain that their policy If followed would net the party many man more votes than to tomake tomake tomake make an Injunction declaration For no matter what the tho Republican party declares res on the subject the Demo DelDO Democratic Democratic cratic party will surely go them one bet better better t ter was the way It was expressed From this viewpoint It is claimed to he tie better to say nothing than to put forth fortha a weak or meaningless declaration No Longer Under Suspicion The trust plank which at first aroused arou od some opposition is now understood to be he acceptable to all elements in tho the party The explanation of this is III that upon reading the plank seemed to be bf an exemption exemption exemption tion extended to labor unions and ami farmers far farmers farmers mers associations a from responsibility re un under under under der the law This was not the intention as was soon discovered dl and the language of the plank upon closer cl scrutiny was passed as un unobjectionable unobjectionable objectionable The plank intends to pledge the party to establish affirmatively the doctrine that a labor union or farmers association or in fact any an duly organ organized organized organized aggregation atlon of f Individuals Is not from the simple fact of Its organization and existence illegal This declaration Is considered necessary to avoid the con conflict conflict of opinion which Is to said to now ex exist x 1st on this point Recent decisions havo been bet n interpreted by some labor leaders leader as aswell aswell aswell well as by a portion of the legal le al fraternity fra fraternity fraternity as establishing this tills doctrine of ot Illegality In the existence of such organ organizations organIzations No Exemption for Illegal Acts While it Is the intention of the framers Cramers of this plank to clear up this point It Itis ItIs itis is decidedly not their Intention so it Is explained to go further or to the ex extent extent extent tent of declaring exemption to such or organizations organizations organizations for over the Illegal acts How However However However ever In this connection it Is not to be organizations for illegal megal acts How Uon tion to fix the price at which the labor of it its members may be sold But It is held to be illegal for such stich organizations to enforce this fixed price of their labor through boycott blacklist or other meth math methods methods of force Opposition to the tariff plank seems se ms to have disappeared absolutely on the ground that the party has Irrevocably Irr voca l pledged Itself to tariff t revision at a certain certain tain tamp time and along Indicated lines As to the railroad rate plank the op opposition opposition 1 position will be keen on the dedla declaration In favor of federal supervision of the th is issuance nuance of or stocks and bonds but this phase of the fight has as yet remained under cover The currency plank pledges the party to continue development on that subject and this pledge It will be claimed Is la al already already already ready In process of fulfillment in the ex existence exIstence existence of the currency commission Many Conferences The Important conferences on the plat platform platform platform form situation today embraced first that held In the morning between Speaker Cannon and Senator Hopkins followed by b a four hours conference at the Audi Auditorium Auditorium Annex participated in by Senator Hopkins Senator Long of Kansas Wade WadeH H Ellis and Frank B Kellogg Still fur further further further ther conferences were held during the evening These conferences do not take Into account the work being done by b many members of congress against the plank lank which work went wenton on unceasingly trough through the day da and night Its object is declared to Ito o be to present pr I such a strong showing to the commit committee committee tee when It meets that there may be bl no doubt of the wisdom from the standpoint I of the good of ot elimination of tin the th I plank Demands of Labor President Gompers accompanied pled by b I Iother other members of the the executive e council I I of et the American Federation of Labor I paid paid their respects ice to Mr Elite Ell during the t Jay day ay and gave notice that a ll definite d marul mand would be laid before the com committee committee committee What hat propositions are contained in this demand the labor leaders le ders refuse to di dl divulge divulge It is known however that labor laboris laborio is io most emphatically in favor of the strongest declaration against the use uee of the injunction which can be obtained A vigorous protest against th the anti antl injunction plank was filed flied with Mr El Ellis Ellis Ellis lis by George E Corey Core president of the National Commercial and Industrial league representing commercial travelers manufacturers and employers of f traveling men The plank in question que Uon the protest ea sets forth would constitute a sinister re reflection reflection reflection upon the highest courts court Administration Controls That the friends of the th administration and Secretary Taft will have a good work workIng workIng working Ing majority on the resolutions commit committee tee was assured today by the action by byman many man of the state delegations in choosing their members The final tins I touches to th the resolutions ns will willbe willbe w be he made by b a subcommittee which has as already been practically decided upon It will be composed of nine i members have and It Is said at lea least six of ot them firs have be been n selected They are Senator Hopkins chairman ir Senator Long of Kansas ansas W Wade ade Ellis Senator Crane Crano of Massachusetts Representative Payne of New York and Representative I Dalzell of ot Pennsylvania It Is intended that at the t subcommittees mm mmes ef shall be composed of representatives p es of the various arlous states but u it i will be so earn com composed posed J ed to make sure of the protection of the central Idea that t the president presidents pol policies I I Il Icle es shall shan be enforced and a indorsed indor ed In 10 Inno n no halfhearted way waya a |