Senator Glass sat as chairman of
the sub-committee and his advocacy
of administration policies was sec
onded by Secretary Colby. A major
ity of the other members were re
garded as administration supporters
and the chief objector to the blanket
endorsement of the League of Nations
desired by the administration was said
to be Senator Walsh of Montana, who
voted in the Senate to take the Re
publican reservations.
Some administration members were
said to be for outlining directly in
the platform the sort of reservation
that should not be considered as nulli
fying the league covenant, while
others wanted merely a blanket de
claration for ratification without de
structive reservations. Those who ar
gued for a bill of particulars declared
one easily could be found in the
speeches of the president last fall
when he told many western audiences
he would not object to reservations
re-stating what he considered already
was in the covenant.
The platform committee members
considered most likely to start trou
ble in the full committee were W. J.
Bryan, Senator Walsh of Massachu
setts, and W. Bourke Cochran of New
York. All of them were left out of
the little circle of nine, and all of
them had ideas that they said tha
full committee and perhaps the con
vention itself would have to consider.
Bryan's principal fight was to be
waged for an affirmative dry declar
ation which he already had drafted
but declined to submit to the sub
committee. A league plank omit
ting any pledge to ratify the treaty
was to be the vehicle of Senator'
Walsh's fight and recognition for the
Irish republic was to be asked by
Cockran.
