Show RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE FAVORS Qi SUFFRAGE BUT MAY RECONSIDER IT COLISEUM June 8 Extended S.-Extended discussion discussion dis- dis of many provisions provision sought to tobe tobe tobe be Incorporated In the platform of the Republican party marked the session of the resolutions committee of the Republican national convention to to- day I Committee approval of the principle of woman suffrage by a vote of 26 to to 21 was hailed with joy in the suffragist ranks A call for absentees an an hour later however was wag waS interpreted as as' indicating ing lug a possible reconsideration of ot the suffrage ge plank which ha a a subcommittee had h ad ti boilY Up held Prohibition as a party plank was rejected without the formality of a roll call and nd an n effort to put the Republican can party on record in favor of a war munitions embargo was voted down with only one vote cast in its favorA favor A neutrality plank in support of a strict and honest neutrality with all nations was adopted The Mexican question came up for much discussion and it was thought that the committee would decide on a plank broader than the Fall provision which promised protection to American Ameri Ameri- can citizens along both sides of the borderA border A plank was inserted in the Re Re- publican platform affirming the Republican Republican Re Re- I publican position that the Philippines should be kept under the guardianship of the republic until its citizens should be ready for and capable of ot self government gov gov- The plank denounced the Democratic party for its willingness to cut the islands adrift and give them independence Several of oC the absentees arrived inthe in inthe inthe the resolutions committee commIttee- room in response re re- response rasp sp I se to the call sent out after atter woman woman wom wom- an suffrage had been approved It was as then discovered that tf n mi raigh inight h not affect the result It was whispered red that though most of seven even were were credited with being op opposed I posed to suffrage recognition several several several sev sev- eral committeemen who had bad voted against the suffrage plank were unwilling unwilling un un- willing that it should be defeated on reconsideration and were prepared to toI I swing their voles votes to the the- support ol or orthe the suffrage principle should a reversal reversal reversal re re- versal of the committee action appear probable The pro proponents of universal compulsory compulsory compulsory com com- military training failed to obtain the insertion of or their plank by a a. vote of 19 to 23 Joseph G G. Cannon former speaker of the house visited the committee room but took toole no part in the discussion discus discus- sion |