The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-08-19
STORM OF Kisses
in SENATE GALLERY
LODGE WILDLY CHEERED AS
HE ATTACKED LEAGUE. DEM
OCRATS HOWLED DOWN.

WASHINGTON, D. CA remark
able demonstration against the
league of nations occurred in the
senate chamber today, when Sena-
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts,, repub
lican leader of the senate, concluded
the delivery of prepared speech in
which he opposed the covenant for
the league of nation and made an
appeal for Americanism as opposed
to internationalism
Nothing like it had ever been
known in the senate. The crowds
that filed the galleries stood and
cheered fully five minutes, the wo-
men waving their handkerchiefs and
the men their hats. A group of ma
rines who fought at Chateau Thier-
ry and who had been reviewed by
President Wilson earlier in the day
waved their steel helmets and shout
ed their approval of Senator Lodges
attack upon the league covenant.
Vice President Marshall, who was
presiding, was wholly unable to con-
troll the visitors in the galleries and
gave up his efforts to restore order
when the first spontaneous outburst
occurred.
The crowds did not content them
selves with cheering and shouting
their approval of the attack upon the
league of nations. They Kissed just
as loudly as they had cheered when
Senators Williams, of Mississippi,
and Hitchcock, of Nebraska, attempt
ed to reply for the democrats.
Great Crowd There.
The galleries were filled to the linn
it and several hundred persons stood
outside the chamber an hour and a
half while Senator Lodge read his adj
dress in cool, quiet manner. Every
senator who was in Washington was
in his seat and paid close attention
to the opposition leaders demands
for reservations to the covenant that
would protect the sovereignty of the
United States.
When Senator Lodge sat down the
throngs in the galleries arose as one
person. The vice president could not
make himself heard until the first
outburst stopped. When he started to
admonish the galleries the cheering
broke out anew in a demonstration
that lasted two minutes.
Just as order was being restored
one of the few men in the galleries
who had not taken part in the dem
onstration shouted, "Why don't some
of you democrats answer him."
Amid the laughter from the gal
leries that greeted that cry Senator
Williams arose to reply to Senator
Lodges speech.
"Mr. President" Senator Will
liams said, 81 hesitate very much to
undertake to reply to the greatest
possible prepared presentation of the
selfshness of American policy, in an
eXtemporaneous answer made in a
few minutes. l would have to have
more egotism than even / have if |
said l could answer off the bat the
things the senator from Massachu
sets has been cogitating for three
months, more or less, with a view
to capturing the senate and the gal
leries today. 1t is not a new presenta-
ton of the personality of the sena-
tor from Massachusetts. He has al
ways attempted to make show of
himself"
Broke All Restraint.
The galleries broke all restraint
and Kissed Senator Williams so loud
ly that he could not proceed.
The vice president pounded the
desk with his gavel and demanded
that the galleries be in order.
''The galleries violated the rules
of the senate in their applause of the
senator from Massachusetts" he
said, "but the chair was patient
with them. They have, however, no
right to do it and if there is another
manifestation of approval or disap-
proval the chair will order the gal
leries cleared. They are the rules of
the senate. They ought to be asham-
ed of themselves"