East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-22

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armament of the world | consider II
our duty now to accept every offer
that may bring about the consumma-
ton OF that ideal.
Not pacifict.
81 believe that this nation should Oh
ficially inform those who belong TO an
organization seeking disarmament that
they will have our hearty concurrence
and approval in any efforts that may
nc made looking to lifting the burdens
of war from the backs of the people
of tho world
That speech of Umderwood's was
typical of his oft-expressed desire for
n limitation of armaments, for world
peace of his willingness ito take ana
trv" the Treaty of Versailles and the
League of Nations covenant, or any
other means offering any hope at all
of relieving the peoples of the world
from the crushing, grinding weight of
warfare and the weapons OF warfare
And yet Underwood cannot be call
ed n Little Navy" man, nor a pacitist'
His record in the senate clearly shows
that he believes in preparedness. he
was found on June 1 last voting with
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and other
renublican senators against move 10
recommit the then pending navy ap-
propriations bill to the senate naval
affairs committee. with instructions TO
deduct $500, 100000 from its general
total.
The move was blocked by a vote OF
43 nays. rs yeas. Senator Borah, Oh
Idaho, then fighting to have his orig
inal disarmament proposal adopted as
an amendment to the bill, supported
the move. Other republican senator's,
like Capper of Kansas; La Toilette oil
Wisconsin; and Norris of Nebraska,
did likewise. A number of democratic
senators joined them, but Underwood
without uttering q word during the
debate which ensued swung, with a
few other democratic senators, to
side of Senators Lodge, Poindexter and
other republican members of the sem
ate naval affairs committee in helping
to prevent a Bigger Navy" appro-
Ipriations bill from being killed.
Underwood fought the adoption of
1.-THE Knox peace resolution which
brought about the present German
American peace treaty. He accused
the republican majority of saying to
Germany. without our ratifying the
Treaty of Versailles, without our be-
coming party TO it, you must accept
its terms and its burdens"
Tilt With Harding.
He charged the republicans with
building wall of paper,' of resort
ing to a camouflage, in seeking to
make separate peace with Germany
by congressional resolution.
Republican senator's must believe
1.-THE American people very, very blind
| if they thing the smoke clouds of this
resolution are going to fool the Am
erican people, he added.
That was ON May 5, 1920. and I'm
derwoods utterances brought from
Harding, then a senator, the follow
ling response: THE significance of the
KnoX resolution lies n IFS re-estab-
| ,ishmcnt of the constitutional powers
of the American congress. 1t not cniy
does that but it particularly emphu-
sizes tic powers of the senate as a CO.
OF dmate body in the making of trca-
tiles l like to think the Knox restlu-
ton is going to do for America what
the world war did for the autocrat uf
IGormany The world war demonstrl..
cd that no one man aud that no ore
power can rule the world, and inc
Knox resolution is going to be a cor-
NAL demonstration that no one ma
can rul the United States of America"
Is Presidential Timber.
This from Harding less than year
before he entered the White House.
! lUnderwood's reply was that the Knox
resolution was merely a political
play Harding's contention was that
Fit was the restoration to the senate ct
its constitutional prerogatives in the
making of n treaty which Woodrow
Wilson had attempted to deny it.
Underwood is as ripe as Lodge in
congressional experience. as adroit in
parliamentary maneuvers, as gifted i'm
reading the minds and motives Of men
land in impressing them with his view
point. He is perhaps more tolerant of
Opposition than Lodge more given to
.compromse and conciliation. better
satisfied with half a loaf than none.
Underwood served as member of
.sixty-third congress. inclusive and rs
chairman Of the house ways and means
committee his name became a house
hold one as the author of the present
Underwood tariff law. which a repub-
lican majority is now yainly trying to
snccassfnllV revise