Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-08
SENATOR'S CLASH
 WHEN LAFOLLETTE DEFENDS RUSSIAN .DOLSHEV|kI NOBS
Wisconsin Leader Demands Explanation of Americans in Russia; Says Soviet Gov ernment Not Pro.German
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WASHINGTON, Jan. '. Senator LaFollette of Wisconsin, republican. speaking today in the senate, criti- cized the sending of American troops to Russia and denied that the soviet government of Russia is pro-German. He said mass of information with documents attesting the reliability of the bolshevists had been brought out of Russia last spring and repeated ef- forts to present them to the American government have been without sue cess.
 T don't know how other senators feel" Senator LaFollette declared, but I would be false to the people in my state if I did not exhaust every means within my power to ascertain definitely and ultimately what right there is that hundreds of men from Wisconsin have been sent upon such an enterprise"
 Calls for Resolution
 Senator LaFollette was interrupted by Senator Kenyon. republican of Iowa, who asked what had become of the resolution introduced by Senator Johnson of California, asking the state department for information rela- tive to the status of relations be- tween this government Ssd Russia.
 Senator Swanson, democrat, of Virginia, a member of the foreign re- lations committee, interrupted to reply that the resolution was to have been considered by the committee tOmor- row, but that the meeting was post poned because senators will be absent attending the funeral of Theodore Roosevelt.
 The Virginia senator said that from information in his possession, allied troops, including about 2500 Amer jeans, were sent into Russia to protect supplies and prevent Germany from establishing a submarine base in the vicinity of Archangel. The allied troops, he said, now number between l5,0O0 and 10000 men.
 Senator La Toilette said that while this might explain the sending of troops into Russia, he had information in his possession which denied that the Russian soviet government was pro-German.
 Defends Russian SoViets
 ''I think the proor is overwhelming" he continued, If it ever is permitted to come before the American people. that the soviet government exerted It. self to enlist the sympathies and sup port of the United States government to the end that it might be strong enough to resist the German govern ment."
 An official statement from the ad- as to the right and req son for presence of American troops in Russia was demanded by Senator LaFollette, who declared that whether the American government approves or disapproves of bolsheviki rule that fact establishes no right for hostility with Russian forces without a declara- tion of war
 Whatever comes to the American people through censored channels of the press regarding the soviet govern ment," Senator LaFollette said. ought to be subjected to careIui study and reflection before being talk en as stating the whole truth.
 The great organized wealth of all the established governments of the world fear above all things on earth the principles attempted to be estab- lished by the soviet government and it is not to be expected that there shall be permitted to reach the ears of the masses of the people of the world, so long as the news channels are censored, anything approximating the truth as to that government or what is taking place there today.
 "So I say that If the bolsheviki gov ernment of which we really know so little, is the sort of government that the 14O00O,OOO people of Russia want, that's their business nor that of any government on earth. And under this pretext or that pretext no government should intrude itself into their affairs.
 "The war is ended and there can be no pTetext that the troops of the United States are operating in fight ing Germany or fighting anybody else but the Russian people. There have been no grounds presented upon which a declaration of war could be predicated. But battles are being fought. American blood is being shed,
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