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yeuAtor was violating a rule in attack
NnG. tho motives of Senator'S

s$repNed Senator Williams. 1T IS re-
Sported." he continued, that tee Re-
sSEpuelicans are hlihustcrins to force an
S&eStra session because they do not wan,
ITO. leave President Wilson TO handle
IN foreign situation. just as the copper
Aheads didn't wan, 10 trust President
e5Linooln.
81 However that may be. l DO not
,%shink 1t is the real reason for this
Siflibuster. The real reason. think is
::TTthat you Republicans have received
from the muniiion nlanufac-
turers saying that heretofore they have
Sscontributcd generously to the Repuh-
& 1icAn party. and tht YOU should re-
lSmcmber that nov
sSEoNATOR TNADDLES IN FACE
s,s. OF THREATENING SiTt ALTON
w TT has been said that Nero Hddied
ESwhile Rome was burning. ono Sem
sator has twaddlcd for five hours in the
ssTace OF a threatening foreign situation
land another has been sitting here
aitwidd!ins his thumbs.
So You have seen the Kaiscr's ukase,
siand yet you gentlemen arc talking
s..here about pos,mastcrs and surgeons
lin the navy"
81 Senator PoindeNtcr, who had been
discussing putting pos,mastcrs in the
lcivil service and about tho promotion
8gof Or. Cary T. Grayson. the Presidents
sNnaval aid 20 he rcar-ahmiral.
had allowed ";h;g dcplorahlc in;crna-
s. tional situation 10 continue"
Ei "Thc principal reason" replied SEN
sator Williams us that Ills advisers in
Tfthe Senate and House arc nddling all
No F-,, I,.,, ln
sscan't help that fac; II plcbiscte
sfwere taken to-day among the Amer
lean people between Woodrow Wilson
and the Congress OF the United states,
stten out OF eleven would vote for the
president against Congress and against
SITS inef7ciency. ineptitude and waste OF
sitime and waste OF words"
sfy What does the party in power or
aSthe President, want OF power that it
has not already asked Senator Poin
Z! dexter.
1T wants Congress TO do business;
Eto provide the revenue necessary for
the government; it wants Congress to
stand bona fde behind the President
while he faces grave international
situation
Senator williams said the danger lies
in the Interpretation put on the Amer
lean attitude in Germany by those
who rule that empire and the feeling
there that Americans are not united IN
their stand against foreign agSres-
sion.
REASONS WHY GERMANY
GAINS SUCH IMPRESSIONS
Asked what there had been in tn.
last few months 10 give Germany this
Impression. the Mississippi Senator re-
piled;
oh thousand things, from Bryan
down"
Il want America To unfool Germany
on this point" Senator Williams con
tnued If we do that. we Will avoid
An expensive and perhaps bloody con-
hict. II We can't untool Germany we
won't avoid il.
IL were President would give
American shippers guns with which
TO arm their ships, and l would give
them money
II wish 70 God the Senator were
President il he would do that" inter-
jected Senator Sutherland Republican,
of Utah. II am very glad and the
American people may bc very glad
that am no; President returned
Senator Williams. because there is
and wiser than J. who has demon-
strated his greatness to the nation on
more than one trying occasion.
The American people may he glad
too, that Bryan WAS not President, with
his idea that he could o,e rcomc a Euro
pean tornado by pouring sweet oil on
its turbulent waves, They may be
glad. too, that Roosevelt is not Presi-
dent, for we would already have been
in war with Germany and England and
France and Russia and Mexico"
II the P.es!Gem, Of the United States
will act" declared Senator Lodge, Rv-
publican, Of Massachusetts. he viii
have the country and Congress behind
him IS he did wh%t rhs sbreak came
with Germany Eut when he hcsitates
and disputes and discusses and lets
things go by We ar. bound TO have
differences IN Congress and in the
country. We arc bound TO have dis
trust There is bound to be a feeling
that j; would he safer and better for
the country that the Congress OF the
United States should remain IN ses-
sion"
DENIES CoNsrmA,l
AMONG REPt BI.ICANs
He denied that there was CON
spiracy among the Republicans and
added:
II Will support the President 70 the
utmost when lie takes stand against
foreign nation, bu, viii no, he Jed
under the black,nan OF threa, Of wal
10 support objectionable treaty. L,
is true, re said, that Germany ha,
"blackmai!ed' the United States bu,
"a