Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1920-06-03
women HECKLERS
az DISTURB CONGRESS
Sympathizers With Irish Free.
dom Create Disturbances /,
Both Houses Until They A,c
Elected

Washington. June both the Sell
ate and House we're thrown into q up-
roar to-day by an outbreak of womoi
sympathzers with Irish freedom.
There were evidently two parties 10
the demonstration, which started fir I
in the Senate during delivery Of .
speech by Senator BrandeEee. repur-
ilcan, Connecticut, opposing acceptan .
of mandate over Armenia Later. Y
woman eluded guards at the House
chamber door, and with friends in tie
gallery, shouted a challenge to rneil-
bers to deny their appeal in behalf e
Ireland.
Answering demand from the flor
that they be thrown out and locked III,
the women deficd the entire House D.,
attempt 1t, and as guards started NJ, =
them they raced around the gallrrv
creating great disorder, until thy
finally we're subdued and elected.
Although the offenders were escort ID
to the capital guard room no charg $
were lodged against them and tho
were permitted to go their way
Breaking suddenly on the proverbial dr.
nifty of the Senate Just after Senator
Brandegee had referred to "the ravish ,
or the Hum a woman's shrlit-voice from
the gallery startled senators and at,en
ants alike. AS the woman shouted "Nlv
not eject the English Hun from Ireland.'
gallery guards. astounded by the unex1,er-
ted proceeding, quickly recovered tn, -
wits anc made n rush in her direction
while tho strident command from VIC.
President Marshall to 'put her OUT l.,
instantly to hecliling from other parts Of
! the gallery.
swept down from the galleries. while IL,
vice-i re sident. L,y,,s aside his gavel too;
| charge of the sit'I1.ion and shoI: ] shar'.
| peremptory orders [, the attendants q
! remove the women. Meanwhile, Senat,
Brandecee, still .old'rg his ground, wait,
piiently for ordar Spectators who tooE
| no fart in the outbreak. were mote star.
2 ! tran the members and some whn we
ar osted by the sra as denied tt tat tl,e--
| were among tn .'Acklers. Orde" ,,nail.-
was restored and the Senate back to II
work.
Word that the hackers had invade /
the Senate reached the House before ths
women started the second performance.
| II did not serve, however, to keep theil
out for one young woman, wearing n
| broad. dove Colored hat. slipped throug +,
| the cloak room door planted herself in
| the main aisle and suddenly scream &C
| "Cowards."
| That was all she said, but It was
| enough. Instantly. her companions in the
| gallery began screaming a voley of qucs-
tions, all relating to the 1rsih situation.
The shout from the floor was the sigma
| to those above, and for a few moments
| they seemed to control the activities o.
the House. Speaker Gilletts gavel kept
| up an insistent tapping, and there were
| shouts of Throw them out" with an
answering yell that the job was too big
for all the House.
As the guards dashed after the gallery
heckers. a wild race started around tho
benches, with everybody standing until
the picket brigade finally was captured
| and put out.
| Daniel T. O'Conncn. director of the
Friends of Irish Freedom, declared in a
statement tonight that the hecklinc was
| wholly without authority and without
the knowledge of any responsible officer
or representative of the national council
of the Friends of Irish Freedom OF as
sociated orga niZations.