Trosident Coolidge kas accepted resignation of Herbert from the Cabinet and has appointed as his svecersor to the port of Secretary of Commerce Mr, William F. Whiting, who has been friend and political supporter of President Coolidge for' many years and is the head of the Whiting Paper Company of Holyoake, Mass.'
Reuter, 'AY? Smith's Statement of Policy Albany, Aug. 22.
Minions of people throughout North America to-day listened to Governor] "AI" Smith-brondeast his acceptance the Denrocratie nomination for the Presidency.
Me advocated: modification of the! prohibition law and promised to deal Sith the pebie_o <oerlag He said that neither he nor the Democrat Party contemplated any} iden drastic changes in the tariff.
He advocated "progressive legisla tion for the protection and cave of workmen," and the removal of the: shareh provision in the Immigration! Law which envied the separation of families. Governor Smith opps the principle of restriction of immigration bared on the figures of the immigrant population contained in a census thirty-eight years old.
He reatirmed his stand for public ownership and control of water: purer, and emphasized the neces for inland waterways, reforestation, ard the conservation of natural xe-
Returning, to the subject of pro-Wib: tien, the Governor insisted that} the present de of the alcoholic content of a beverage was admitted Jy inaccurate amd unscientific. He Supgerted that some immediate re-het would come from an amendment to the Volstead Act permitting each State to fit its own standard of ulcebolie content, subject toa pro-vive that that Standard did not exceed the maximum fixed by Cone Referring to the bectlogging which ping on all over the country, ernor Smith said that the people hesavelves should, after eight years 1, be permitted te say whether txistizg conditions should be ret tind er not. He mentioned that. jemer Smith pron: ised ruthless rraption in the als cafersing pro-
Amendment which would: te, after a referendum forte people, the right wholly within its Lerders to import, manufacture snd ceil aJeohol, but ko said that he proud not tolerate the return of Sie promised "that legislation should be framed to sneer just causes of complaint as regards the unwary
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