Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-12-13
Wild Scenes Enacted at
Peace Gatheringin Car
negie Hall.
NO ARRESTS AS YET
Resolution of Approval Fails of
Adoption-Conspiracy With
England Alleged.

New York, Dec. 1S-No arrests thus
far have followed the disturbance
which broke up the peace" meeting
iii Carnegie hall last night. Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, who made an ineffec-
tive attempt to stop the disturbance.
declared today that those in charge Of
the gathering told the police to let
every one present have his say. The
rolice say that they could have put
out the disturbers and let the meeting
go on, but that they acted on the COM
mittee's orders.
NOT PREARRANGED, CLAIMED.
Alphonse G. Keelble. president of the
New York state branch of the German
American Citizens league, who intro
duced the amendment opposing the ar
bitration treaties and started the up
roar, denies the disturbance was prear-
ranged. After the meeting broke up,
Keelble made speech on a street cor
i
are nothing more or less than a con-
spiracy against Germany. England is
back Of it, and We German-Americans
don't propose to allow this country to
be hoodwinked. We know England's
plans"
New York, Dec. 13.-An organ
lied demonstration by disaffected
Irishmen and Germans stopped the
i mass meeting held In Carnegie hair
last night under the auspices of the
citizens national committee in sup
port of the ratification Of the gen.
eral arbitration treaties with Great
Britain and France.
The manifestants routed Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise, who took the field
against them in a vain attempt to
restore order and finally shut down
the meeting with Andrew Carnegie
and Frederic R. Coudert yet to be
heard from on the subject of the
treaties.
) 1t was the widest night Carnegie
hall has known in long time and
the man whose name the hall bears,
sitting in the front row hearing the
peace policies of which he has been
so ardent an advocate, was hooted
by gallery full of rioters, with more
or less assistance from other parts
of the house.
= The meeting trailed half its length
in the most orderly and prosaic man
:, ner imaginable. Ex-Ambassador Jo-
seph H. Choate made his speech as
chairman of the meeting to a per.
), fectly respectful and quiet audience
. "Marse" Henry Watterson of the
= Louisville Courier-J ournal delivered
: rather extended address under
, equally encouraging conditions.
STARTS WITH BUTLER's SPEECH.
Y President Nicholas Murray Butler
a of Columbia university then took the
a floor and after short preliminar,
g talk on the purposes of the treaties
q offered resolution, or, as he term.
ed it, a declaration" that the mass
meeting was in accord with the OBJ
ject of the treaties and urged the
senate TO approve them.
AS DIR. Butler called for the vote
s. man who had been sitting in the
second row on the platform, littlt
to the left of DR.. Butler and Mr.. Car
% negie and Mr.. Choate, got up. DR.
70 Butler was still talking, but the
IL man who had risen to interrupt
e didn't wait for formalities. Shout
y ing as loud as his luSgs would per
y nit, he launched into a motion tha
e sounded about like thfs:
5. 81 propose as an amendment tha
u this meeting urge upon the senate O
IS the United States the adoption Of tn,
y majority report of the foreign re1a
8. tions committee, opposing the ratif
le cation of the treaties on the grouns
that they are breeders of war ant
not makers of peace The riot fol
IN lowed.