Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-25
7PE|hUT POLITICS"
ATTACKED 8 IN SENATE
SeaatSr James Scores Pemose for
Charging Administration With
CO. Incfficicmcy.
AwANsoN DEFENDS CREEL
eGoyertmcnt Censor Target for Cop
perResdism and Sniping"-Pcnn-
IS syiynnia Senator Offers Resolution
for Investigation.

ES swASHINGToN. Jul. Ex-senator
Z renroses to-day fred broadside after
& ,broadside at George Crccl unofncially
the government censor. but officially
4 the chairman of the Bureau OF Public
Information. Incidentally. Penrose
charsed the administration with in
Eeffcieaoy and INDIGESTION which will
brapidlJs become a national scandal"
This. reused the ire OF Ollie James.
who scored P4nrose for using pea
nut politics" ar6 deplored copper
ksheadisn and sniping" in the Senate.
s eff this spirit of attack; and lack OF
eseonfd$nce in the President is con-
tinueds then America is TO be crippled
Eat hope and right here in this cham
h Der" said James m his soundcst tones.
Pcnrose centcrcd his fire on Crecl's
b alleged stortlon of the Glcavcs' dis
s ga tchess reccuntinG the storN of the
might between German U-boats and
+ american destroycrs. In defense Of
h Greei. SSenator Swanson said:
e. II desire, at the beginning of this
h war, to condemn any efforts to ridiculc
Il the American navy"
/ This is not aimed at the American
B navy ~ snapped Senator Lodge. The
American navy has no better friend in
Congress than I. The American navy
in alli history has never failed" he
continued proudly. no one has at
Ii lacked the American navy. No one has
b FidicuIed It. Criticism has been aimed
s at Mr.-Crcel And thank God MIR. Greet
q Is not. the American navy"
q PENROsE STIRS CAULDRON
BY INVESTIGATION DEMAND
Senator Penrose stirred the seething
s eauldrcn by throwing in his resolution
d 10 investigate the Creel bureau
4 Widespread dissatisfaction exists
II all over the country among ncwspc per
S correspondents ard newspaper pub
y slshers with the management of the
y 30 called bureau. which is not a bureau
Isl information. bat a bureau of mis-
said Pcnrose. Instead
OF man, representative of the best clc-
ments OF professional life in journal
ism being appointed to this place. 4
gentleman has been called, who 10 say
sle ieast, does not command the con-
Endence Of the public or the ncwapaper
profession. His publication is not even
considered work of any particular
value
Creel was charged by Penrose with
the Presidents address
w 'net coai dealers. Then Pcnrose be-
gan 10 shoot at the Creel story of the
nubmafine BATTLE" saying press dis
patches alleged no battle" had been
fought
IL Mr.. Crcel has pcrpctratcd a col
|losal fraud in the way of deception on
the american public he should be
called ito account for it,"
Swanson replied TO Penrosc saving.
rms is no time to come here try
Eins b!ia resolution to destroy tho CON
noenca of the country in. the. capacity
ana integrity OF the President OF the
United States"
LODGE STRIKES AT CREEL.
CALLING HIM IRRESPONSIBLE
Here was where Senator Lodge en-
tered The lists He. too, turned his
guns On Creel. calling the censor .ir-
responsible."
Mr. Creel employs men spends large
amounts OF the public's money, and vet
u rs considered an impcrtincnce if we
ask where the money has gone" said
MT Lqdge. stopping a Senate reso-
troops. 'I''N
This knowledge where our shin.
EWouid ne attacked came because there
are spies in this country. Ties in this
Ecry. spies in the department."
GENEROUS tribute was paid by SEN
Netor Lodge TO the press when he said {.
IL mas shown throughout this conn
S!ry a most amazing and fine shirt Of
gnoiding back any information that
Il could possibly do harm to the Amer
fican cause Yet it is meddlcd win
Is and inferfered with by Mr. Crccl. Tbc
thihss, that have co,Hn' outt, like AIR
&$hoot s. party being in. chicago ana
|9the landing Of the first troops. have
h come out through Observation-Disclosures NJ
Dir. Creel's Office"