The Washington herald., 1914-04-02
REPEAL PRICE
OF BRITISH AID
Exacted for Help in Mexican
Situation, Declares SEN
ator Jones.
ATTACKS THE PRESIDENT
Says Mr.. Wilson's Address on Tolls
Was Schoolmaster's Lecture
to Young Pupils.

Senator wesley L. Jones. OF Washing
ton, an intense Republican partisan, at
tack the President in the Senate yes
terday. He complained that the Foreign
Relations Committee ha6 not reported
his resolution calling on the President
for information as a protests by foreign
governments on the tolls question.
Efforts 70 shut of Senator Jones failed.
Senators Hoke Smith and Hitchcock
raised points of order. but the Vice presi-
dent overruled them, holding that
Senator once recognized may talk about
anything under the sun
The Democratic platform mad ap-
proved this exemption said Senator
Jones. "the President had rejoiced in its
passage. The representative OF the
British government practically had ad-
mitted in writing that we had the right
to do It.
Slowly. quietly. subtly. conditions
changed. The Mexican situation became
more gloomy. For some unaccountable
reason. Huerta held on. In some way
he continued in charge of the only or
ganized government in Mexico. We would
not recognize either faction or recognize
the oelligerency of both. Governments
that had recognized Huerta were getting
impatient at our waiting policy. Visits
10 the White House of foreign ministers
and agents, and especially England. be-
came more and more frequent Repre-
sentatives of transcontinental railroads
conferred with Cabinet officers.
Everything Else Forgotten. p
AN Englishman was wantonly mur-
dered by the insurgents and Immediate
ly something was doing. The admins
tration's policy OF one thing at a time
was thrown to the WINDS Trust prob
law
suggested that EnEland's aid IN sustain
ing the Monroe doctrine. in dsposing
Huerta and in pacifying Mexico was to
be secured by the repeal of the tolls
exemption. and suddenly il was an
nounced that the President had decided
to appear again before Congress and
urge its repeal"
e Mr.. Jones declared the Presidents ad-
dress was a schoolmaster's lecture TO
pupils. He said the Senators marched
like obedient school boys through the
corridors of this historic Capitol to the
hall of instruction"
We returned to our chamber" said
Mr.. Jones. mot. wiser but sadder men.
II il had not been so serious it would
have been lauGhable. II it had not been
humiliating il would have been ridicu-
lots Amazement displaced curiosity In
dignation supplanted acquiescence and
shame overshadOwcd conscious integrity.
Cannot Be Driven.
THE American people cannot be driven
or scared to give up what they believe to
be justly theirs. We don't want war.
We want peace, but we don't want peace
at the expense Of our sovereignty over
an inch of our territory. We want peace,
but we wont buy it at the expense of
our rights and our honor"
Complaining of the failure Of the Sem
ate committee TO act on his resolution
Senator Jones said:
The committee is not going to report
ii. II will not be passed. You confess
that there is no fact or condition that
Mil justify the position of the President
II there was, you would be glad to pre-
sent it, If it were passed and answer
made what would be shown? 1t would
be shown that no nation on the face of