Norwich bulletin., 1920-05-25
WASHINGTON AFFAIRS
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Il
 Washington, D. C., May 24.-NeM En- gland will play an important part n the Ssbicaro and San Francisco conventions It- viii be Senator Lodge wlho will pre- ss;sa al inc republican convention as tenn |porary chairman and as such Will sound Nine, keynote of the platform and the |scarnpaign. It will be Speaker Giilert who sUv;,l, nresent, the name of Governor Cool ifIge of Massachusetts to the convention as a presidential candidate Out al san Francisco Senator Walsh Of Massachu sets will head that delegation and ne IS bitterly opposed to the league or nations and treaty as it came rom lhe haiius If the n4ssident, and in, fact, IS regarded l ha,a as an ardent -administr ation. man He will have a strong following and holds his own delegation in the >hoi- low of shis hand.
 s.natoy F.of5re was to have presented the nau,e of Governor Coolidge, but na- ticnal committee officers believe It Will l be far wiser to have the presiding oHlcer lof the convention untrammeied oy presentation speech in favor of any one candidate. SO Mir Lodge willingly yield Ted to their preference and after a friend ily conference with Governor Cooiloge' Speaker GiIlett was asked to present ms Iname The shift from Lodge 10 Gliiett IS | Iselection of Senator Lodge as permanent Ichairrnan of the convention. MT. Gillett lis a devoted Coolidge man and has in I sistently refused to name second cnolce | saving. there will be time enough for I thai if it becomes necessary at the con- t ve1tion.,' In either case the Massa- | cbusetts governor would not have sui Ifered, for no two men in congress equal MT. Lodge and MT Gillett when 1t comes l to saying, the right thing at the rlght time and saying it with eioquence a!lq I force. The position of temporary chair l man is the. highest honor in the power oI I the convention to bestow. As sounder of the key note the presiding officer has tremendous power and influence. In a l few cases the permanent and temporary
 chairman has been the same person, but kusually the honors are divided. This 4 year it is quite likely Senator Lodge VII I be selected for both according to ru mors here.
 It was left with women from the an Iti-suffrage state of. Connecticut to rais' rumpus at the meeting at whicl
 Chairman Hays of the republican na
 tionaI committee addressed the womeI pf Washington or perhaps it were better
 to say at which MT. Hays attempted tt I address them, for when he rose to speal rl Miss Elsie Hill daughter of the lat Congressman Hill of Connecticut, als' rose. and before MT. Hays could d' T more than bow to the audience, Miss Hil
 began a systematic heckling which lasted T pretty much through the talk. In fac | there came near being no address on ac J count of the persistent interruptions O Il militant suffragists led by Miss Hill. Sh q demanded to. know what the party wa s going to do for suffrage and why Della
 ware had not ratified the anlendmen tHud fired question after question. at Nil Hays entirely irrelevant to the subjec ? on which he was attempting to speak The scene sin the great red parlor 0 e the Willard was soon a near riot Wo e men rose and shouted put her out
 while others took up the cry for Mis
 Hill When the latter shouted shrilly "
 am from Connecticut" MT. Hays replie a ''Then why don't you go back there an = ! work for suffrage? If it is ratified u will be in spite of these methods not be causes<of then.'
 al Senator Brandegee will be one of o senatqrial party to go to Chicago fo r. the republican convention. Very few ( y | the senators are to be delegates thi >. year, but there are half score of pres s | idential candidates among them, an( . l many who are not candidates are an1 ' ious to get the news of the conventio II first hand and will be on the spot frol o start to finish. No one here-exeept me u who are active managers of campaigl
 will make even a p-judgment predit e tion as to the outcome of the convention ;-l The soldier bonus proposition is SO If of Now you see it and now you don'1 ia affair. A month ago it seemed assure ' "a week ago it had dropped out of sigl ,, in the face of determined opposition fro ii | the secretary of the treasury, the dem II ! cratic leaders and many of the repu g. liean members of the house. Today it at again holding up it's head and taking n in tice. What it will do tomorrow is pu is guess work. Thousands of letters al
 | telegrams against the proposed cash b
 nus have poured in on congress tn
 week; the ways and means committ At had tacitly agreed to put off the repo K until after the summer recess, when at the noon hour one day recently a ne 1e pact was made-so it is said-by a fe ;h members of the committee whereby ne complete turn of affairs resulted al k the bill was suddenly reported out f ;ni vorably. Then another mixup car -p about when 1t was in the hands of t oe committee on rules, which was not e lg pected to order it's immediate consider es tion, owing to the tremendous oppos CT tion which had developed. Again it W
 
 V. ed the tide and set the bonus bill on =. more in the direction of immediate 6 = tion. The measure has stirred up me ce faetional strife and recrimination tn re any that has come before congress f he years. Charges of broken faith, vc he changing and playing politics fly thi
 and it is absolutely useless to predict t
 outcome. The tide of sentiment agaiI
 a cash bonus, which results in merely
 small pension for a couple of years, ns running strong, but how the votes V ca run is not easily foretold
 Congressman TiIson gave out sor
 good sound common sense when he s: nt to take it up before election will gh suit in recrimination whatever course
 followed. If we wait till after elect
 there can be a non-partisan conside ms tion of the measure and a get-togetl ,p- on it. Now the boys are accused
 holding club over the head of c,
 gress in an attempt to get money g congress is accused of playing the ga l@ for votes. A delay of a few months ' 'll act for the benefit of the soldiers he
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