The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-06-03
CHALLENGED TO
 MAKE REPEAL OF WAR LEGISLATION
Republicans Are Asked to Bring Their "Camoufag-
 ing'' to An End

Washington, D. C., June 3-A chal- lenge to the Republican majority of the House to bring in resolutions re- pealing war legislation, instead Of 'camounasing'' by the adoption of peace resolutions which are unconsti- tutionaI, was made In stirring speech by Representative Tom Con nalfy, of Texas-
 Representative ConnaIly, who aroused great applause on the Demo- cratic side, referred to the disorgan- ization existing in Republican ranks and asserted that Representa- tive Monden, the G. o. P. floor leader. wears a crown of paper"
 You bring your family squabbles on the floor day after day and ex- pose them to public view" said Rep man of your appropriations commit tee, MT. Good, and your leader. MT. Nondell. do not properly mesh All day yesterday you had a f1libuster engineered by one of your factions and today we have symptoms of 1r again because now we have both a majority and a minority on the Republican side of the cham ber You meet yourselves icom- the legislative road. You have some two hundred and odd Headers"
 'swhat you are interested in is not the repeal of these wartime statutes. but the creation in the public mind of the belief that you want them re- pealed- If you want them repealed simply introduce a resolution. It can pass the House and pass the Senate"
 Representative Connally referred to the Presidents veto of the Knox
 TyI- Ros1 fn override the veto and the position of the President was sustained. MT. ConnaI1y said the Republicans knew all the time that the making of peace by simple resolution was unconstitu- tfonaI as well as that it was unfair and dishonorable treatment of the allies of the United States in the world war
 'You knew the President under his oath of office is required to veto that resolution" said Representative Con- naIly. why do you make this pre- tense of thus repeating war meas uree? You do not want them re- pealed.''
 The last statement was greeted with laughter and jeers on the Repub- 1ican side, and Connally replied:
 Well, then, why do you not re- peal them? Why do you not bring fin a repeal resolution You have had a full year in which to repeal war measures
 '"The Republican side of this House has had one year in which to repeal every measure upon the statute book which was imposed by the necessities of war. But you chose to fritter away away the time that was yours in playing petty politics. You chose, instead of bringing in resolutions re- pealing these measures one by one, or by bringing in a joint resolution repeating them all, to try to keep the country under the fiction or belief that you were hampered by the Presi- dent: that you were prevented by the President from resunfng pre-war conditions. and from going back to pre-war legislation. An. you may try to fool yourself, but you will not fool the American people, because even 1aymen know that any piece of legislation which can be enacted by Congress can be repealed by Con- grsss. challenge the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Porter) and the gentleman from Wyoming (Mr Noudsl1 to bring in now a resolution repeating war statutes, I want to show you, though. that you are not sincere, I want to expose the fraud of this prete.ee that you are pra'c- fiNiug."