Washington, June 20.
On the loor'of the Senate to-day mE. Borah, chait-man of the Foreign Relations Committee and one of the outstanding Mirye" of the United States, declarced that, he will not support, Presi Gent Hoover in his contest for flection if he runs on the present Republican platform. This. plate form, he. continued, was adopted {for Yeasons of "sheer political expedieney." He declared that. the Republican Party was now obvious-favour of repeal of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) Amendment to the. Constitution.
"Phe Senator's remarks were con-
View of the fact that his failure to itiend) the recent Repubi Honal Convention was' supposed to have been due to, failure to obtain mut Hoover's support. in his jon attitude, and to-day' Utterance indicates." an' open di Agreement with the Administration en this question.
'The declaration followed general remarks made about the Republican Platform when Senator." James Hamilton "Lewis, Democrat. of Mlinois, asked on' the floor of the Senate' Whether Senator Borah Would) support. the President" Such a platform." will not" replied Senator Borah flatly, Democrats were of the" opinion that this situation foreshadowed thorough-going split in the ranks of the Republicans on the prohibition is for Borah, speaking in a loud voice, tare the Republican prohibi-Yon plank to verbal bits during the course of his speech. He deciared thatthe Postmaster General, Mr. Brown, and Mr, Ogden Mills, Treasury Secretary, favoured repeal, Tt was after the Anish of his own main Yali and. while he was listening. to the subsequent debate that Sent ah was asked the specific qu tion concerning Hoover support, by Senator Levis, in the course spoach by the latter, 'Mr. Brown later denied that he favoured repeal, and revealed that Senator Borah had himself worked lan for re-submission of the Bighteonth Amendment to the peo-pie, intending to offer it to the con-Yention, but he found himself -unble to' discover a satisfactory me-hod of assuring against return of the. saloon, Senator Borah subsequent! said he would withdraw hi that Postmaster Brown, ed repeal of the, Eighteenth amend. tment, bu he denied Mr. Brown's Allegation thab, he has. ever work= ed on a resubmission plan, Mr." Mills. said Senator Borah misunderstood his position. While hho did not. advocate the Highteenth Amendment, he did not. believe in solution, but rather in
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