Show SENATOR WAlSH TEllS OF CONVENTION ACTION ON TOllS WASHINGTON May 16 The 16 The statement statement state tate tatem m ment nt that William Jennings Bryan deliberately dellb approved the tolls exemption plank of tho the Democratic platform as a member of the subcommittee on resolution resolutions tion which prepared the tho platform was as made mado in the senate toda today b by Sena Senator Senar r Walsh of or Montana secretary of or the sub sub- committee Senator Walsh d declared an open re repudiation repudiation re- re of ofa a a. solemn covenant by a po political political political po- po party would cause all to recoil from rom It with horror were wre it proposed b by any other man than the president president of or th the United States Slates For myself its Hs moral aspect assumes no different hue because he Ite commands It H It added the senator As a substitute for tho re repeal al bill Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator Walsh urged d the adoption of former President Tafts Taft's proposal to submit the tho c controversy ers to the supreme court OGorman O'Gorman Official Plank The Montana senator took up at length the Baltimore platform because e he said It had been Intimated the tolls plank had hadI I been een inserted surreptitiously and h ho he declared de de- de- de dared his belief that the subcommittee e of eleven elected to draft the platform r re received received re- re th the proposed toils plank from Senator Senator Senator Sen Sen- ator There w was no doubt on it ft simply be because because be- be cau cause e it Was waR generally generall approved or acquiesced acquiesced acquiesced ac ac- In said Senator Walsh Says Bryan Approved H He lie said ald Mr fr Br Bryan nn and Senator OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman OGorman O'Gorman man were asked d to put the platform in inappropriate inappropriate appropriate language langua e and that the they In Invited invited In- In Sena Senator tor and himself to assist When the tolls plank was T as presented said Senator Walsh Mr rr Bryan Bran ex expressed ex- ex pressed his approval al but said it should ho ae accompanied by another plank declaring ing against the admission o of railroad owned ships to th canal a Mat and ando vo 10 the tho 1 platform plat plat- a form reads after the declaration d concern ing ings tolls toll We also note also l note the also O fa fa favor vor Ol 01 legislation forbidding the use of oC tho the Panama canal b by ships owned o or 0 controlled controlled controlled con con- trolled h by railroad engaged d in transportation competitive with mth tho the canal S Senator Walsh said taid he had bad no temptation temptation temptation tion to escape from the trammels of the platform on tho the suggestion Us that the plank was contradicted by another against subsidies sub sub- Why y in that t view tho the canal Itself Is Isa isa a R subsidy to the shipping Interests he declared Why Vh did cUd we BP spend nd to build it it except to aid the shipping Interests Interests in interests In- In |