Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-08-13

: the chair, and when the oelnon-
stration of disapproval had been
hushed, the presiding officer said:
You have violated the rules. OF
the Senate. You violated the rules
when you applauded the Senator
from Massachusetts, and you have
violated them again now. Any fur
ther demonstration of approval or
disapproval, will be followed by an
order from me to clear the gallery.
You ought to be ashamed of your
selves"
Never Equaled I'm History
But the precedent-making demon
stration was then a matter of his
tory. Old attaches of the Capitol de-
clared that never in their long years
of service had they ever witnessed
anything that approached it. Sena-
tors discussed the affair with abso-
lutte amazement. The most kindly
suggestion made as a possible eX-
planation was that the galleries had
been packed with anti-League spec
| tators. but in view of the fact that
! they were open to the public, this
theory was not generally accepted.
Senator Williams continued,
nevertheless, on the same line of
criticism. He asserted. that years
ago when the Force bill, intended
to give to the negroes of the South
the right to vote, was before the
Senate, Senator Lodge then, as now,
paid a high tribute to himself as be-
ing the only man devoted to Ameri-
canism and the United States.
/ The speech of Senator Williams
closed an eventful day in the Senate.
By a strange coincidence just at the
moment Senator Lodge said, Il have
loved but one flag and L cannot
! share that devotion and give affec-
ton to the mongrel banner invented
by the league" the light streamed
through the skylight and the cham
ber, which had been in semi-dark-
ness, was flooded with mellow gold.
Lodge Pledges Amcricanism
Just before this spectacular ef-
feet, Senator Lodge had declared,
You may call me selfish, if you
| want. conservative or reactionary,
or use any other harsh adjective you
see fit to apply, but an American I
was born. an American I have re-
mained in life. l can never be any
thing else but an American, and
| must think of the United States
| first, and when 1 think of the United
States first in an arrangement like
this, 1 am thinking of what is best
for the world, for if the United
States fails the best hopes Of man.
kind fail with it.
Whether he will go to the extent
of advocating rejection of the entire
peace treaty with the League of
Nations covenant, which is carried
as part of it. is not made plain by
n h n nirfon To
it plain that even though all the
reservations suggested were adopt
ed. he still believes that other pro-
visions would bind America in a
manner that most of the reserva-
tionists are seeking to avoid
1t is known that Senator Lodge
leagues he has enough votes in his
committee to report the peace treaty
to the Senate with theLeague of Ma
of the Republicans not members of
his committee are urging that that
action be taken.
But If such n step were taken by
the committee the Senate certainly
would order the treaty recommitted
with instructions to the committee
. to report it back with the league
covenant incorporated. 1t was dem
! onstrated to the satisfaction of all
Senators favoring a separation of
the league covenant from the treaty
that such a plan could not muster
majority of the votes in the SEN
ate.
Knox Never Forced Vote
Senator Knox, who proposed such
a plan in the committee and OBJ
tanned favorable report from that
body on his resolution, calling for a
! separation, never pressed his reso-
luton for a vote because its defeat
was known to be certain.