The Morgan County press. (Wartburg, Tenn.) 1916-1926, 1921-11-18
RUSH B0NUS,I IS
LEGION DEMAND
Harding, Mellon and Ambassador
Harvey Are AssaiIed BY
Convention.
SECRETARY'S NAME JEERED
Resolution Scores Envoy to England,
Saying His Speech In London
Doesn't Represent Ameri-
can Opinion.

congress, criticized President Harding
and Secretary of the Treasury Mellor
i and asserted George H. Harvey, am
bassador to Great Britain, did not ex
/ press the views of the legion.
An attempt was made to demand
the recall of Ambassador Harvey, but
the resolution was defeated, 576 to
440, after bitter debate
When Vice Commander james f.
Scrugham read the report of the com
mittee on legislation urging passage
| Of the bonus bill he. said:
zone of the greatest factors In the
defeat of this law was a man who
was one Of the worlds greatest war
profiteers."
Cries Of Mellon, Mellon" came
from all parts Of the hall.
1.-THE failure to pass this measure,
Scrugham continued, twas the result
of small group controlling major
ity. Let the American Legion show
congress it is disguised with the back
door politics to which it has been sub
jected."
The report urging the passage of
the bill as now before congress and
without further delay was passed with
one dissenting vote, j. J. Harrison of
Arkansas, member of the legislative
committee in 1919 which voted against
soldier bonus.
Kisses were heard from thousands
when the name of Grover Bergdoll was
heard in a resolution indorsing the
action of the alien property custodian
in confscating the Bergdoll property.
An amendment passed called upon
the American government to bring
Bergdoll back to America immedi-
ately.
Another resolution scored radical
ism. Another opposed the pardoning
of Eugene Debs and any person con-
victed of treason.
Hanford Macnider Of Mason City,
Ia, was elected national commander.
The convention Immediately ad-
journed.
Mr.. Macnider is thirty-seven years
old and rose to lieutenant colonel in
France.
The report of the resolutions COM
mittee was adopted after the verbal
battle on Harvey was ended.
In the report was a resolution
which, after reciting the need for adj
justed compensation, says:
"The American Legion reiterates its
position in favor of the adjusted COM
pensation for discharged soldiers, and
deplores the request of President Hard
ing to delay passage by congress of
a measure providing for same, and &C
quiescence of congress in that re-
quest"
The action dealing with Ambassador
Harvey came after brisk fight .on the
floor, in which Colonel Harvey was
severely arraigned and defended by
delegates.
1t stated that Mr.. Harvey's remarks
did not represent the sentiment of the
American Legion and was amended, on
motion of South Carolina, to omit the
title colonel" in referring to Mr.. Har-
vey.
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 3.-Made
welcome by the leather lungs of 5O,-
600 fighting men, Marshal Foch, COM
mander in chief of the allied armies,
spoke a comrades greeting to the
buckos of the American Legion in con-
vention here.
He praised them for their heroism
in the Argonne and the Meuse, and
Endorsed the purposes of their post
war organization. In answer they
just howled and threw their hats and
pressed into the hall until the walls
bulged. 1t was the maddest moment
Of gloriously mad reunion.
General Pershing had introduced
the marshal to the convention as "our
commander, honored not only for the
relationship of other days,
but also for the unity he represents,
the unity which has grown out Of war
time associations and now sustains
the ideals of our republic"
He reviewed admiringly the Amer
can contribution to victory, speaking
in praise of the rapidity with which
he great armies formed, the skill of
he navy, the stupendous efforts Of
American shipbuilders. Then he
.urned to the last weeks of the war.