The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-27
GREAT DEBATES IN
SENATE EXPECTED
DISCUSSION OF THE PEACE AND
LEAGUE PACTS WILL DRAW
THRONGS TO GALLERIES.
TICKETS MAY BE NECESSARY
Republicans Will Endeavor to Keep
These important Matters From Be-
coming Party lssues-May Urge
Immediate Disarmament of Army.
By EDWARD q. CLARK.

By EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington. Washington officials
voice their belief that the debate In the
United States senate on the question
of sanctioning the pacts OF peace and
the league Of nations will be more in
tensely interesting than any debates
which have occurred in the upper
house since the days Of Webster, Clay,
Calhoun. Sumner and some Of the
other elder statesmen.
The Republican endeavor today is
to prevent any indications that the
great matter is to be made party is
sue. There have been conferences Of
Republicans in New York and else
where and correspondence has passed
between them and men all over the
United States on the subject soon to
be in hand. The insistence Of the
party men generally seems to be that
every senator must act as he individu-
ally feels and must grip his tongue
lest 1t utter something which would
make It appear that the MISTER under
discussion is being approached from
the standpoint of party.
The Democratic senators also have
been conferring and It II to be their
endeavor to prevent In % far % they
can any utterances ON the part Of the
Democrats In opposition which would
make It appear that the party itself
II split even factionally. -
May Issue Tickets - 0aiSesaeA
Il is predicted In Washington that
It will be necessary to issue tickets for
the senate galleries on the days Of the
debates in order to prevent confusion
and overcrowding. Since the war
started there have been many occa-
sions when tickets Of admission to the
galleries of both houses were neces-
sary in order to prevent confusion and
even danger. When the president has
addressed the two houses he has done
1t in the larger house hall. Each SEN
ator and sreprsaentetive was allowed
one gallery ticket and It can be read
lily understood how great WAS the DE-
mand fer thu coSstsd cardB. II
The debate in the senate on the
league Of nations. Of course, will Be
held In the senate chambers, the gal
leries Of which seat comparatively
few auditors. about 600 people can
hear the debates daily, and It is prob
able that some 10000 viii make IN
effort to hear them. Every precaution
IL taken on occasions Of this kind to
prevent trouble, and especially to pre-
vent the entrance Of some lunatic who
might want to work trouble. No one
is allowed to carry any kind Of a pack
age into the gallery Of either house or
senate.
Washington is interested today In
report OF a possible attempt OF the
Republicans Of both houses early In
the extra session to secure the passage
OF a resolution which shall direct the
war department at once to order the
discharge from the service of all SOL
diers who may be in camp at home or
abroad. II the Republicans should go
to this extreme, responsibility for the
continuance of our soldiers In the ser
vice would rest upon the secretary OF
war and on the president 1t would
be shifting of responsibility and the
Democrats say that It would be bad
politics for the Republicans to do this
and that therefore they do not think
that they will attempt 1t.
Quick Dlsbandino May Be Unwise.
OF course, IL the treaty Of peace and
the league covenants are not ratified
By the senate in fairly short order, II
will be necessary to keep our soldiers
n Europe to meet any contingency
which may arise there. The Repub-
licans say the Democrats are depend
Ing upon this argument as means to
secure immediate ratification OF the
pact or pacts,
There are some Republicans who
urge that to pass resolution disband-
ing the armies would put the party IN
4 false position. II ratification did not
come and 1t Yves known that while 1t
was hanging In the air the Republicans
desired the return Of all the American
soldiers the instant argument would
be that the Republican party is willing
to leave France and Belgium and other
countries to their fate and Is indiner'
emit to the future of the world.
Both great parties as represented N
the senate are forming plans today Tor
the conducting Of the debate. It 10 a.
most impossible for either party to NJ
on. 4 definite plan because. with things
shifting as they are daily on the other
side OF the water. 1t il impossible to
tell how the changes in the treaty and
the covenants win affect the opinions
OF individual senators. Men who to
day are opposed to the pacts as they
Stand may be In favor Of them tomor
row., and 20 II II virtually impossible
to predict with any certainty what Is
Going to happen when the senate final
II gets the pacts in concrete form. The
general prediction Is that the senate
vim sanction the pacts.
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