COL.  HERBERT:  “I want to hear that reread.”

SECRETARY WOOD:  “What I have read, and what I am about to read again, is the first paragraph of the report of the Resolutions Committee.  There are many other paragraphs.  The second one, for instance, is an endorsement of the Victory Liberty Loan.  If you lay the whole report on the table we have to wait until later to consider resolutions as a whole.  The first paragraph is as follows:” 

Secretary read first paragraph.

MR. MILLIGAN:  “I wish to make a further amendment that the entire report be laid on the table until after the constitution has been adopted.  I don’t believe it is the sense of this meeting to hear the report of this committee in fragments.”

COLONEL LEA (of Tenn.):  “If this report, or any part of it, is laid on the table it means final disposition of it under the rules of the House of Representatives.  I don’t think we want to do that until the report is read.  As a substitute for the pending motion and amendment, I move that further reading and action of the report be suspended until after the report of the Committee on Constitution and By-Laws.”

Seconded by Mr. Black of New York and carried.

THE CHAIRMAN:  “The Secretary will now proceed to read the resolutions.”

SECRETARY WOOD:  “Endorsement of the Victory Liberty Loan.

“’WHEREAS, The Government of the United States has appealed to the country for financial support in order to provide the funds for expenditures made necessary in the prosecution of the war, and to reestablish the country upon a peace basis, therefore be it

“’RESOLVED that this caucus emphatically endorse the Victory Liberty Loan, and urges all Americans to promote the success of the loan in every manner possible.’”

THE CHAIRMAN:  “What is your pleasure with regard to that resolution?”

MR. SULLIVAN:  “I move the adoption of the resolution.”

Seconded by Mr. Wickersham of New York and carried.

SECRETARY WOOD:  “Conscientious Objectors.

“’RESOLVED, that this caucus go on record as condemning the action of those responsible for protecting the men who refused full military service to the United States in accordance with the act of Congress of May 18, 1917, and who were tried by general court-martial, sentenced to prison and later fully pardoned, restored to duty and honorably discharged, with all back pay and allowances given them, and as condemning further the I.W.W.’s, international socialists, and anarchists in their effort to secure the release of these men already pardoned, and those still in prison, serving sentence, and be it further

“’RESOLVED, that this caucus requests a full and complete investigation by Congress of the trial and conviction of these parties and of their subsequent pardon.” (Applause.)

COLONEL HERBERT (of Mass.):  “I move you, sir, that this convention substitute the word ‘demand’ instead of ‘request’ where it says ’We request Congress.’  We are a body large enough and representative enough and powerful enough to tell Congress what we want (applause), not to ask it, and I move the substitution of the word ‘demand’ instead of ‘request.’”