Norwich bulletin., 1920-10-25

congress.
 The congressman referred to bis pleas ure in coming to Norwich. where his fa- ther and mother lived 45 years ago, where some of his brothers and sisters were born. and where his uncle lived and died.
 As to the league of nations, he said he favored going in with such reservations as would preserve the sovereignty of the United States, and he denied that this could be called a Wilsonian league be- cause he said that Mfr. Root, MT. Taft and MT Hughes had all made suggestions to President Wilson which had been in corporated into the league. Senator Lodge had at first declared in favor of the league fad said that a separate peace would brand us with dishonor, but then he votes for the Knox reservations with Senator Nevbury, the same man who was tried for buying his seat in the senate.
 Senator Borah, he said. was an honest and courageous man and he wanted every ene to go to the rally Monday. night to hear the Idaho senator's argument
 It is not so, declared Congressman Lon ergan, that our one representative in thes council can rlungesthe country into war. It is provided that the vote of the council must be unanimous and our one repre- sentative thus has the veto power. He predicted that if the United States did not join the league it must become military power. with the largest navy and army 1 and the highest taxes in the world. The 1 reduction of armaments. the prohibition of the construction of munitions and war vessels were two of the effective meas udes for the prevention of future wars. he said. and the provision for a commer- eial embargo against any nation was the Rhswer ito whether a decree of the league could he enforced against any nation dis ebeying such decree.
 Under the Monroe doctrine, he said. the United States could have been obliged to | furnish armed forces to protect Senth American countries. Cuba or Panama but the league is trying. to end for all time the necessity for such doctrine He
 explained that Article x is to protect
 weak people from external aggression
 and that under Article XI the door was iopened for dependencies. like Ireland. tc
 obtain self-government. H the peace oi
 the world were disturbed by the condi.
 tion the parent government would bs
 obliged to take notice when this condition
 was brought up under Article XL
 Congressman Lonergan read the Hitch
 cock resolutions on the Lea gue of Ma
 tions, one by one. and said that each o
 these had been asked for by the. ob
 jecting senators and when they had bee
 granted had been voted down. Taking up the official record of Sena
 " NSSe' tiS -spSdher SAlu that thi
 showed the senator had not voted fo . one piece of progressive legislation i
 fifteen years. He named the same lis that had already been mentioned b, Miss Heineman. and he read severs
 newspaper clippings, saving that tn
 newspapers are asking for the defeat C Senator Brandegee because he is makin Connecticut one of "the bitter-end" state ? He said that Senator Brandegee had rt fused to meet him in public to discus the senator's record and had also d. clined an invitation to discuss the COT
 gressman's record. It is time, he declare for Connecticut to get out from this il d fiuence.
 a The rally concluded with an sddre, by MT. Butler