The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-12-13
DISORDERS INTERRUPT
MEETING ON PEACE PLAN
Joseph H. Choate and Others
Hooted Down by Organized
Band in Carnegie Hall.

NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Scenes Of
disorder. accompanied by a wordy
warfare between speakers and what
Appeared 10 be an organized band OF
disturbers I'm the audience broke up
the Peace meeting In Carnegie hall
last night before Andrew Carnegie
and the other prominent speakers had
chance TO be heard and necessitated
calling out the police reserves. HAIR
a dozen of the disturbers were thrown
ont By the police, but no arrests
were made.
The outbreak occurred when Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler. OF Co
lumbia university, moved adoption OF
a resolution urging ratification by the
senate of the arbitration treaties with
England and France, proposed by
President Taft A man in the center
OF the top gallery. who appeared to
be acting in concert with a man on
the ground floor OF the auditorium,
howled something in derision of the
resolution. II seemed TO be an agreed
on signal, for howls and boots and
Kisses from all parts OF the hall, which
ceased only when Alphonse G.
Koelble, who was on the platform,
stepped forward and said:
II move the adoption, as substi-
tute for this resolution. OF the major
ity report OF the committee on foreign
relations of the senate which opposes
the treaties as breeders of war and
not makers of peace
A storm of applause greeted his
motion, lasting fully a minute, while
Joseph III. Choate, former ambassador
TO England from the United States.
who was chairman OF the meeting,
tried 10 restore order. His words only
Increased the tumult and what ne was
saying could not be heard in the front
row OF the audience. Men and even
women in the audience stood on the
seats, and the gathering on the plat
form was thrown into confusion.
Jacob III. Schiff, Andrew Carnegie,
Oscar S. Straus, Rabbi Stephen s.
Wise, Colonel Henry Watterson. Fred
erick r.. Coudert. and others who had
attempted to lend by their presence
and words encouragement TO the OBJ
ject OF the meeting. gathered in little
groups discussing the unexpected turn
OF events and trying TO find way out
OF IL.
The yelling, kissing and hooting i'm
creased in volume. Rabbi Wise step
ped into the breech. but his words,
evidently intended to restore peace,
made the disturbers more excited than
ever
Colonel Watterson referred a mo-
ment ago to the fact that in this coun-
try there are Christians and Pagans,"
he began.
Get out" shut up" sit down."
and other EXPLANATIONS, some of them
accompanied with profanity came
from the galleries.
Mr. Choate then stepped forward
and remarked amid the first silence in
nearly half an hour:
Those that have tried to break up
the meeting here tonight have done
more for the ratification of these
and all the speeches that could have
been made or held.
The resolution offered by Presi-
dent Butler having been unanimously
adopted (Cries OF mo, no." and
hisses1 by authority invested In me
as chairman, | declare this meeting
adjourned
Cheers greeted the announcement.
anu the SatnerlnB ulSDanueu. MT.
Carnegie was to have been the next
speaker and Frederick r. Coudert
was on the printed program to fol-
low him.
DIR. Ernest Richards of Columbia
university, who was on the platform.
denounced the suggestion that any
Germans had anything to do with the
disturbance. Dir. Koelble declared he
had been delegated by the German
American Citizens league of New
York state to attend the meeting and
offer his substitute resolution.
For half an hour groups stood in the
street outside the hall discussing the
events of the evening, and personal
encounters between the supporters
and opponents of the treaties were
prevented only by the presence of the
police and the cooler heads.
Mr.. Choate, Col. Henry Watterson
and DIR. Butler were the only ones of
the announced speakers who got
chance to speak. having made their
addresses before the resolution was
offered.