Oxford eagle., 1918-02-07
OPPOSES THE WAR
CABINET SCHEME
Wire Kaiser Your Opinions" :"
He Demands of Measures
Supporters, in Reply to Hitch
cocks Pleas.

The text of the reply of Senator
John Sharp Williams Of Mississippi
TO Senator Hitchcock follows:
Jeremiah and his lamentations are
not in il with the senator from Ne
braska. He begins away back beyond
and tells US We have no ships, not
this, nor that, nor the other thing
that we need, and that every one OF
Us know we need.
lie has drawn an indictment
against the executive department Of
the federal government that is very
strong and said he might be accused
OF giving information useful to the
enemy, if he disclosed all he knew.
lie has disclosed about all he does
know and he gave information very
useful TO the enemy.
The human memory is treach-
erous and a foolish thing. Ii leads
a man whiteher il viii: and mine
leads me right now back 10 Il da!
in this Senate when men were
standing here wanting TO stop the
shipment of munitions and food to
Great Britain and the allies.
This was about as foolish as tins
aulic counsel now suggested. OF
course. if we had stopped the mum
ticns and food from going To Great
britain. she would merely have said.
said:
Very well. find your own ships. you
nave none We viii take ours out OF
the North Atlantic trade. If you can
not send us munitions and cannot seno
Us food. there is nothing else we want
from you
German Game Now il Undertaking
President"
My memory gies back almost ir-
resistibly TO that day. That was the
German game then. The German
game now Is undertaking this admin.
stration. II the senator from Ne
braska IL right in what he has said
sc az whipped already. We are oui
Of this war game right now, becaus'
he has drawn and attempted to prove
an indictment against the executive
authority Of the United State GOV
ernment that shows not only ineffici
eney. but il proves stupidity.
He comes here with a measure I,
invest the President with more power
In order 10 prove the President car
become efficient with more pOwel
when he has been inefficient in his
opinion with less power.
These aulic council proposition.
have been tried from time TO time. eve
rywhere. Even the Austrian empire
that runs riot, had sense enough {,
do away with the aulic council. Ma
poleon BonapaTte forced that.
Asses Periled Lincoln and Grant in
Civil War"
The senator might 20 back little
fuTther in history and find that Car
thage came very near running Han
nibal-and il finally ruined him witt
a CarthaginIan senate. The senator
could 20 back less further and finC
the Continental Congress came vers
near running George Washington witt
a committee upon the conduct Of the
war.
"lf the senator can follow il. h,
can find that of all the asses that
ever existed the typical council Of
asses that came very near running
Lincoln and Grant in the Civil Wal
was such. He can 20 below the Ma.
son and Dixon line and find that the
Confederate Congress came very neal
running Robert r. Lee and Jefferson
Davis. while they were carrying or
war.
IF there is anything any mar
ought 20 know, who has any sense al
all. Is that Congress. or a committee
cannot carry on war and cannot fuin
ish the brains to anybody else Il
carry u on.
Question of Ability Goes Rack &,
President.
Here j. this stupid bill. A stupie
thing, demanding three distinguiShe,
men Of demonstrated ability. to b,
appointed By the President Of III,
lnited States to acrIy on the war-s
sc-called war cabinet.
Distinguished by whom
Ability demonstrated befor.
whom?
After you are through with il. 4.
the senator just confessed in answe'
TO a question, Il goes back to tn.
President of the United States. Tn.
President has TO distinguish the mer
and their ability has TO be demon
strated' before the President.
And here is the President. alread,
not only armed with the duty bui
charged with the responsibility Of dis
unguishing men and of recognizing
demonstrated ability.
If the President is a fool. how ar,
you going 10 give him brains By al
act Of Congress? If the President
Of the United States is not a fool
what is the need of your legislation :
The senator quoted from somebod,
back in the Bible. | have forgotter
Just how il did go. Thou art not abl.
TO hold up thy hands by thyself alon,
and they hold up his hands. one on
one side and the other on the other
who win do this holding ms tn.
senator from Nah,.,e -.