The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-02-22
Idaho Senator Attacks Gov
enant as First Move in
Internationalism.
ENDS MONROE DOCTRINE
Says Britain Yields Moth
ing. Yet Has Five Votes
to Our One.
rs CHEERED AT FINISH
Even Administration Leaders
Join in Extending Con-
gratulatiOns.
special pespatcn to TIE Soy.


WASHINGTON. Feb. 21.-with a plea
tor the continued adherence to the doc
trines which have been the guiding
spirit Of Americanism from the days of
the colonists down to the hour when
the giant Of the West sprang into the
worlds arena to add his stupendous
might to the struggle against abso-
lutism, Senator Borah Udaho) de-
nounced to-day the League Of Nations
constitution from preamble to conclu-
sion.
Seldom has the staid Senate risen to
the pitch OF concentrated interest
which marked the presentation of the
opposition to the plans of President
Wilson for American participation in
the questions OF the politics Of the
Eastern Hemisphere which Mr.. Borah
made. Crowded galleries murmuring
in suppressed excitement and longing
TO give vent to their approval a floor
thronged with Senators and Repre-
sentatives and press gallery jammed
as on the occasion of the inauguration
of a President welcomed the Idaho
orator.
Congratulated by Democrats.
His speech was followed closely by
every one present. The Interruptions
were few. For seventy minutes he
held the Senate spellbound.
Al the conclusion of the address Mr..
y, lot fr1y
statesmen From the Democratic side
more than a dozen Senators, including
some of the erstwhile leaders Of the Ad-
ministration forces, came to wiring his
hand
Il was a Borah triumph. In the course
OF mis- speech Senator Borah took occa-
sion to rap William II. Taft over the
knuckles repeatedly. He even went &C
far as to accuse the ex-President OF bad
faith in certain OF his statements. He
met the Taft assertions Of the integrity
of the Monroe Doctrine and other COM
mandatory statements regarding the doc
ument which the Paris conference pro-
duced after almost ten weeks of founder
ing in the morass Of internattonallsn
While the predominant question OF max
ing peace with the Central Empires wal
ANONYMOUSLY showed into the back
ground with the fat statement that th'
league constitution absolutely set thu
Monroe Doctrine aside and substituted
therefor, instead of policy OF tn
american continent for American peo
pies, world participation in the affair
Of the western world just as had existed
in the days OF the conquistadors and be
fore James Monroe was born.
There were other developments In IN
Senate's relation with the internationa
problem to-day. Mr.. Sherman (lll) con
tributed to the general excitement by in
Producing a resolution calling on tn
President to withhold discussion on hi
own part OF the League of Nations con
stitution and to refrain from settin
forth his own%T-ws on tine subject unit
he had placed the matter before the Sen
ae
The Sherman resolution will lie upo
the Vice Presidents table, but may b
called up for reference later.
Fall to Avoid Dinner.
As announced yesterday Senator Fa
IN NJ has determined not to atten
the White House dinner and discussio
Ie1t Wednesday. Senator Fall sent
telegram yesterday to Secretary to tn
President Tumulty, and its text wa
made public to-day. The position take
BY Senator Fall as to the inappropriate
ness of his appearance at the functio
vas practically that adopted earlier b
Senator Borah. The message of Sen;
tor Fall follows: '
Your letter fifteenth containing
paraphrase OF the President's cable
message to you fourteenth forwarded
and received to-day from my office
should be much pleased to hear tbs
President fully and upon each article
Of the proposed League OF Nations.
could not. however agree TO treat a
confidential any such explanation o.
even statement OF fact as basis To-
such argument, and with utmost defer
ence must say as reason for declining
dinner invitation for twenty sixth tina
The statement. in my opinion, shoul'
De made to a joint public session o
Congress to the end that. while re
eeiVing the earnest and respectful at
hntion OF the proper committees tn
various articles and the President
real reasons for advocating sam
might at the same time be considers
~ all members OF the Congress an