Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-13
DECORUM OF SENATE is
SHATTERED BY DEMONSTRATION
Cheers and Kisses Pass Back and Fordrd at Conclusion OF
Senator Lodges Attack League of Nations Covenant

Washington, Aug. 49,. - The tra-
, ditional decorum of Senate proceed
ure was upset yesterday by an un-
usual demonstration of approval
from the galleries following an ad-
dress by Senator Lodge, of Massa-
/ chusetts, chairman of the Foreign
relations Committee, assailing pro-
visions of the League of Nations
covenant.
For more than a minute the gall
lery spectators applauded and cheer
! ed In violation of the Senate rules,
| and then when order had been re-
stores they interrupted with howls
and ,hisses, a speech by Senator Will
liams, Democrat, Mississippi, in re-
| ply to Mr.. Lodge. In spite of sharp
ladmonition from the chair there
were more Kisses mingled with ap-
plause when Senator Hitchcock, Ne
braska, seconded Senator Williams
speech. ..
AS Senator Lodge concluded his
speech there broke out in the cham
ber a demonstration declared to be
| unprecedented in the history of that
Legislative body.
Aroused to a high state of patri-
| otic fever by Senator Lodge, who
closed "a carefully prepared attack
| on the League of Nations covenant
with a peroration on Americanism,
the men and women who packed
every gallery to the doors, rose and
gave him three distinct volleys OF
applause, in violation of the rules of
the Senate.
women gave Chautauqua salutes
to the chairman of the Senate For
eign Relations Committee; men
clapped vigorously and several
United States marines, members of
the Second Division, who stopped
the German drive at Chateau-Thierry
and had been reviewed only a few
hours before by President Wilson
on the eve of their rehabilitation,
cheered and yelled.
Marshall Ignores Cheers
Vice-President Marshall. contrary
to his usual custom, made no at
tempt to enforce the rules against
demonstrations of any kind. AS one
wave of applause passed over, an
other of even greater volume would
thunder forth, and so on, time and
again. AS the third demonstration
died down and Senator Lodge was
surrounded by his colleagues, who
SldopSu HIS llillu anu SHOOK II NlSOr-
ously as they showered him with con-
gratulations, the presiding officer
pounded his desk with the ivory
mallet.
Senator Williams, of Mississippi,
who sat on the Republican side of
the aisle and at the desk directly in
front of Senator Lodge throughout
the Massachusetts members address
was on his feet demanding recog-
milton. On a scrap of paper he had
been making notes industriously OH
every point developed by the Re-
publican chairman.
Il hesitate" said Senator Williams
when he obtained recognition from
the chair, Ito answer the greatest
prepared presentation of American
selfishness ever uttered in this cham
ber.,' These words quieted the gall
leries and the floor of the Senate
which had been in a state of chaos
since the conclusion of Senator
Lodges speech. Men and women
who had risen to go sat down again,
but Senator Lodge retired to the Re-
publican cloakroom, followed by a
number of his Senatorial admirers.
The Senator from Massachu-
sets" Senator Williams continued.
mas been cogitating this for three
months with a view of capturing the
Senate and the galleries. This is not
new manifestation of the Senator
from Massachusetts. He has always
attempted to make a show of him
self"
With the utterance of the last
word, Kisses broke out in every GAL
lery of the chamber. They were
i mi
were general. and they continued
while the Vice-President raped
vainly for order. Senator Williams.
Il fiery Southerner by nature, stood
silently in his place. looking toward