Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-08-13
GALLERIES CHEER
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anu never udQ any experience In mueE
national negotiations until he was
given a position in the state department
in 1917.
It was the opinion Of committee MEM
bers that Mr.. Miller would not be re-
called and that no further witnesses
would be asked to come before the
con- mi.tee in its consideration Of the
treaty.
Senator Williams bitterly attacked
the petition Of the foreign relations
committee chairman as partisan and
narrow"
81 hesitate very much" he said. ito
undertake to reply to the greatest pos
sible prepared presentation of the self
ishness of American policy In an ex-
temporaneous manner. 1t is not a new
presentation of the personality Of the
senator from Massachusetts. He has
always attempted to make a show Of
himself"
It w-s at this point that Kisses and
''boos'' came from the gallery and
drowned out the Mississippi senator's
voice.
Vice President Marshall, after restor-
ing order. warned that IL the Senate
rules again were violated he would or
der the gallery cleared.
Senator Williams continued that SEN
ator Lodge has always attempted to
make a show Of himself as between
non-partisan and fair and impartial"
But the senator REFERS" continued
Mr.. Williams. ito tie fact that we must
render service of our own free will
to tn, world-service of our own free
will. How can any nation render ser
vice of its own free will? I cannot rem
der service to Mississippi Of my own
free will. must consult thes Other
people who are my neighbors. Missis-
sippi cannot render service of it's own
free will.
IAN the crossing of is and the dot
ting Of is that the senator from Mass
achusetts has recourse to does not
make me forget that he has neglected
the weightier matters Of the law. Leave
out his crossing of the is and his dot
ting of is and his finally carefully
through months pr spared peroration in
tended to appeal to the Senate and to
the galleries has he shown the slightest
heart sympathy with the desire Of the
| world to have peace.
TT is easy for the senator 20
scorn and cast obloqy upon the
sentence of the president when the
president said IF you defeat the
League of Nations you will break
| the heart of the world With an alb
solutely cold New England cynicisia
| that invites the scorn of every hon
est. human. loving man, he merely
made fun of the phrase. 1t is
| slight thing to break the heart OF
the world provided Republican poll
cies in the Senate of the United
States are at stake.
1.-THE senator goes back in history
and he tells US of all the brave
dreams that brave men have ever
dreamed, and then he makes fun OF
it all The Holy Alliance came from
autocrats seeking the perpetuation
of autocratic powers. 1t failed
Does it follow necessarily. therefore,
that an agreement between the
peoples of the earth seeking popular
power shall fail?
THE senator can stand there and
read his carefully prepared senten-'
ces with the view Of controlling poll
| tics in America but he can not
| blot out the fact that while l am
citizen Of America I am also citi-
zen of the world"
Referring to Senator Lodges as
sertion that the covenant of the
League of Nations would oblige the
United States to send troops to all
har nj
| Senator Williams declared that the
| Massachusetts, senator knew when
I he said it that there was nothing Of
| that sort provided.
! But it pleased the galleries.
continued Senator Williams. at
tickled the ears of the groundlings."
1t was idle. the speaker said, to
say that the United States might be
| forced to accept Japanese immigra-
| ton under The League.
WHO would force us to do that"
he asked. 1.-THE decision would have
| to be unanimous, and would Great
Britain join in forcing US to do this?
If she undertook t. force japanese
| Zealand she would break up the
British empire"
| Senator Hitchcock. Democrat, Of
! Nebraska, who followed Senator
Williams, said the latter had been
little severe in denouncing Mr.
Lodge for criticising the League OF
/ Nations plan. Senator Hitchcock
read from an address by Mr.. Lodge
| in 1915 favoring the idea Of 4
| League Of Nations and added:
'It is for the senator of Massachu-
ssetts to explain why he now de-
nounces the league and glorifiies ma
| tionalism."
Some applause and Kisses from the
| galleries ensued and the Vice Pres
ident again warned spectators Of the
| rule against demonstrations, declar-
ing that the rule was made presum-
ably to insure freedom Of debate.
There has been q shocking specta-
Gle Of Kissing in the galleries Of the
United States Senate" said Mr..
Marshall. IT am not personally re-
sponsible for the rule. As far as the
chair Ii personally concerned, you
| can cheer all you wish to and throw
all the stale vegetables you want to,
but ask that you observe the rule
that has been made"
Senator Borah. Republican, of Ida.
no, replied briefly to Senator's Will
liams and Hitchcock. Regarding Sen.
ator Lodges former address favor
ing a league. Senator Borah said:
Great men often change their
minds, and reminded the Senate that