The sun., 1917-08-10
MEET
IN CAPITAL AND
ATTACK DRAFT
BY Trick DenOunce Law in
Room Where Numbers
Were Drawn.
DEMAND LAWS APPEAL
Threaten Congress and Talk Of
Impeaching WILSON
Verge on SeditiOn.
DEMAND LAWS APPEAL
Special Despatch 10 The Sun.

WAsHINGToN. Aug. 9.--Impeachmeut
for President Wilson was urged and the
selective conscription law, it's pro-
ponents and the national legislatures
which enacted 1t were denounced and
excoriated in the Capitol to-day at
meeting of pacifsts held in the audi
torium OF the Committee on Military
Affairs Of the Senate Less than
month ago this same apartment was the
scene of the drawing of the draft under
which the national army is being
created. The pacifists demanded that
Congress stay in session until it has re-
pealed the conscription law.
In obtaining the use Of the committee
room to indulge in a series of scathng
attacks on the President and Congress,
the promoters of the meeting, who call
themselves the Peoples Council of
America for Democracy and Peace, are
alleged to have deceived Senator Cham
beTlain Of, Oregon, chairman of the
Military Committee. Isaac Mcbride,
formerly private secretary to the late
the room from Senator Chamberlain on
the excuse that he wanted to have
some friends meet q few Congressman"
Cham he rlain Indignant.
Senator Chamberlain was exceedingly
angry over the method employed to
secure free use of his committee room
for a potentially seditious gathering
Notwithstanding, however, that to-day's
spectacle was enacted in the presence
OF Senator Chamberlain and other
Senators who dropped in out of curiosity,
not a protest was raised at what was
being said. although there was plain
amazement on the part of many at the
character of the meeting. In the opinion
of some who listened the speeches came
close to treason. The opinion was ex-
pressed that II it had been held in New
York the police would have stopped IT.
Condemnation of the selective con-
| scription law, the policy of sending
! Americans abroad ito fight Europe s
battles" and the whole war programme
| of the Government was in every line of
| every speech. More than once the fervid
! speakers promised that unless repeal OF
| the selective conscription law is at
| once enacted, Congress VIII De turned
| out OF power
| One OF the btterest attacks on the
| Governments policy was launched by
! Louis Lochner of New York. who was
! prominent in the Ford peace mission.
! Lochner was in Washington and exceed
! ingly active last spring when the dis
cussion of the declaration OF state OF
war was before the Congress. lie said
l..
! were opposed to ConscriptiOn and that
| Congress must listen to the voice of the
people rather than the mandate OF the
| President of the United States
La Toilette and GrOnnn Praised.
Unless it repeats this obnoxious law
the people will defeat every man now in
| Congress-" said Lochner Then in stem
torian tones he shouted Let Congress
take warning -
Lochner was followed by r. ]. Lemkt
| OF North Dakota, Republican State chair
man, who asserted that Senators La Fol,
lette' of Wisconsin and Gronna of North
| Dakota accurately represented the senti.
ment Of the Northwest with regard tC
the war.
| president Wilson and Congress ought
to know what the country thinks OF thi.
war" said Lemke, 81 don't think this
Government ought to have the power tC
force the whole nation tt arms wher
10 10 SO per cent. OF tho body polite I,
opposed to entering this world struggle
Congress ought not to adjourn unit
this infamous law is revoked" asserted
Frank Stephens of Arden, Del. Stephen,
since the death of Henry George. Jr., /,
regarded by advocates of the single taD
theory as the leading exponent of activ,
single tax propaganda in the UnteI
States. stephens concluded his some
what fiery address with the statemen
that the President ought to instruc
Congress to repeal the draft law and |
he did not he should he impeached,
Daniel Kiefer. chairman of the Ma
tional Single Tax League, called the Sc
lective draft IAN organization for mur
der"
II am opposed to any form OF con
scription," he shouted. Il am oppose
to the organized resistance whcl
dra sged this country into war"
other Radicals Talk.
The other speakers were Prof Paul Fl
Dana OF Columbia University, Max East
man OF New York. editor Of the Masses
T. n. Lundy OF Chicago and several rep
resentatives of organized labor.
While the meeting was in progress
Senator's Chamberlain, NeWlands, Hitch
cock, Kirby, Gronna, owen, Jones o
Washington aud Johnson of Califorp,
dropped in f& a few minutes. Onl
Senator Gronna remained Throughout
| the meeting.
Representative Heating OF Colorado
one OF the most active paclfsts in tn
| Democratic party in Congress was III
only member of the House 10 sit throug
tho series OF anti-draft diatrbes.
|