The Sentinel=record., 1910-02-08
PROTEST AGAINST LoANiNG GOV. EMINENT TENTS TO VETER-
 AN SOLDIERS BY NORTH.
Southern Senators Hold a Conference and Bloody Shirt Epoch Comes Near Being Realized in
 Senate Again.

against loaning government tents for the use of the Confederate Veterans at their annual reunion in Mobile. Ala, next April, Senator Heyburn of Idaho in the Senate late today made the sharpest comment upon the issues of the Civil War that has been heard in congress in twenty years. He inveighed against men in "rebel' uniforms being permitted to occupy government property, or the "rebep' flag being allowed to float above 1t. Finally he drifted into the question of honoring men by placing their statues i'll the congressional hall of fame l and by unmistakeable inference con demned the action of Virginia in send ing the statue of General Robert E. Lee to Washington.
 Take it away and worship it, if you please" he thundered, but don't intrude it upon the people who do not want it."
 Democratic senators moved uneasily about the floor conversing with each other, or sat, frowning and angered, listening to the speech, which contin. { ued for nearly an hour.
 Finally, when Senator Heyburn had concluded, Senator Bankhead said:
 T am sure the senator from Idaho feels much better and I ask for a vote"
 By roll call shouted a dozen or more senators and hands went up In second to that request i'll every part Of the chamber. When the vote was had on the tent loaning measure, all of the Democrats and all of the Re- publioans, except MT Hepburn voted for it.
 His negative vote was uttered in a loud, defiant tone
 The senate had been drowsily con sidering it's regular calendar during the greater part of the day and when, towards the close of the session, after almost everything else had been dis posed of, this measure was reached in it regular order. MT. Heyburn was prompt to raise an objection, and mr. Bankhead just as alert in moving the considering. regardless of the objec- tion.
 It immediately was evident that the objection had aroused some feeling, for with flushed face animated voice. Mir. Bailey, who sat near MT Bank head, declared that if this measure ws to be ruled out of order, no other business could be transacted. The Bankhead motion, being unde. bateable, the senate immediately pro- ceeded to an aye and no vote on me question as to whether the resolution should be taken up and it was adopt ed unanimously, Mir. Hepburn himself refraining from voting With the res olution adopted, MT. Hepburn took the floor and spoke for probably forty minutes, in which he went over many of the issues of the war and declared himself as much patriot now as he had been in 1862, 63 and GA There were no material Interruptions, but all senators listened with evident inter. est.
 The southern senators held a hur- ried consultation. while the Idaho sen ator was proceeding, and decided to make no reply.
 Accordingly when MT. Hepburn concluded, they contented thmselves ] with allowing the question to go to vote after the laconic remark of MT Bankhead.
 It so chanced that Mir. Heyburn's colleague. Senator Borah, was the first of the Republicans to be reached in the roll call. Without a awitch ol