Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-09-22
N,Y,ASSEMBLYBARS
THREE SOCIALISTS
Expelled From Membership by
Vote Of 90 to As; Other
Two Resign.

In the debate the fve Socialists denied
They wcrc ever committed TO policy OF
force or violence Asscmblyman Claessens
declared that since he was ousted last
spring the action of the assembly had
won for him international recognition.
"You are determined on another
o,istcr," he charged. alt is only SIX weeks
10 election and we will be back again
and like the cat, with kittens. Go to itp'
Soon after the assembly adjourned the
Socialist delegation issued statement
which declared the action of the assembly
was n brazcn disregard of constitutions
safeguards of the Liberties Of the people.
Albany. Sept. 22.-After debate which
at times was stormy and kept the assem-
hlv occupied all day TO the exclusion of
practically all other legislative business,
that body last night voted to expel anew
three of the socialist assemblymen ousted
at the regular session but reelected at the
special election held in their districts last
Thursday.
LOUIS Waidman of the Eighth Man
haitian Assembly District, August Claes-
sens Of the Seventeenth Manhattan and
Charles solomon of the Twenty-third IN
BROOKLYN were those ousted, Assembly
men Samuel Orr and Samuel A. Dett
of the Third and Fourth Assembly Dis
tricts IN the Bronx, respectively, were
sustained IN the tenure of their seats by
vote Of the assembly, but resigned Inn
mediatcly after the fate of their three
comrades had been announced.
Both De Witt and Orr denounced the
majority of the Assemblymen as ''un-
American" and declared they could not
sit with them in the assembly.
"lnasmuch as the Assembly, by
msjority vote, has decided that we are
unfit to sit here. | have the right now to
sit in Judgment on the qualifications of
the men who Judged US, and | refuse to
ST in a body that Is SO un-American,
declared Dewitt II resign
His resignation WAS accepted with
cheers from some of the members.
Orr followed De Witt and declared
that Socialists had agreed that there
could be no compromise on the question
~ their fitness 20 serve as legislators
We will not stand To have the Social
IS made the football of political parties,
he said. This question Is one of politics.
You have proven yourselves un-AmerIcan
and this opinion Will be held by the cleo
tnrate OF the entire country Until this
House purges itself of the un-American
men now in tins body | viii refuse to SIT
with them.
More applause greeted Orr's remarks.
The Socialists then left their seats and
walked out OF the chamber.
The vote by which Waldman, Claes-
sens and solomon were expelled were 9
% as On the question OF expelling the
other two sS votes were cast In favor
of such action and 81 against,
After the result had been announced
Assemblyman Martin G.. McCue a Tam
many Democrat, who has been most
jealous in his denunciation of the FIVE
Socialists and in his insistence that they
al bs barred from the Assembly, charged
that political considerations had swayed
the Republican majority IN drawing q
line Of demarkation between the first
three and the other two. He moved for a
reconsideration of the vote by which
WMdman had been ousted, declaring
that IL De Witt and Orr were seated the
other three had as much right to their
seats in the assembly.
do not let us make fools of our
selves" MoCue said, wrathfully. "You
well know that politics has entered into
this work. As long as two have been seat
ed let us seat all five"
When a vote was taken on the motion
Of Mr.. McCue, il was lost by 50 to 81.
Then followed the resignation of Messrs.
Dewitt and Orr.