Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-04-22
SEN, HARRISON STAGES BITTER
ATTACK AGAINST COL. HARVEY
WHILE COLLEAGUE reed DEFENDS
Nssissippian Fears Appointment of New Ambassador to
Great Britain Will Disturb Supporters of Wison-ConJures
Up Divers Other Grave ssibities-Mssouri Senator o.
KS Colonel Declares Sem Harrison "Had Burned the
Midnight Oil to Light His Taper at the Fires Of Venom

praised him as IAN American through
and through"
Subjects which had been brought
into the discussion by Senators Har-
rison, Reed and Lodge ranged from
publication during the last political
campaign in Harveys Weekly on the
immaculate conception cartoon to
the League of Nations and tho break
of 1911 between Col. Harvey and Wood
row Wilson.
Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama,
eulogized Mr.. Wilson, discussed the
last political campaign and ended with
a tribute to the League Of Nations
which brought scattered hand clapping
from the galleries and a resultant
warning from Vice President Coolidge
that the galleries would be cleared
in event of another demonstration.
Senator Norris of Nebraska, the
sole Republican who voted against
confirming the Harvey nomination, ex-
planned his vote as due to his belief
that the nominee lacked fitness for a
diplomatic post. The long and free
discussion thend ended as the hands
of the clock pointed to four, with
Senator Ashurst, Democrat. Arizona,
reading from some ponderous book
the correspondence between Mr.. Will
son and Col. Harvey after their break
in relations.
Declaring that the country had a
right to know about Colonel Harvey's
nomination, Senator Harrison in his
RI ri
comprising more than 5000 words, de-
scribed the new ambassador as one
whose whole life has been one of in
consistency and vaccilation," who
never remained true to any purpose,
loyal to any friend or steadfast to
any conviction. "a writer of the
most cunning and dangerous species
and a past master in fomenting trou-
BILE and aggravatig delicate situa-
tios." He declared that for these rea-
sons Alone Col. Harvey was unfit for
1.-The hard and difficult task" devolv-
ing at this time upon the American
representative at London.
Then turning to Col. Harvey's at
tacks on President Wilson. Mr.. Har-
tfson declared that mot content in
heaping personal abuse upon the pres
, ident in health, he Mr.. Harvey pur-
sued him with his scurrilous attacks
to his sick bed, trying to create the
! impression that the president had
| lost ihs mind" He added that
| through the application of his pen
he entered the sacred precincts of the
home to misrepresent the wife of the
president"
Senator Reed, on the other hand,
praised Mr.. Harvey as lone of the
great intellects of the country" and
declared President Harding, in view
of his announced stand would have
practiccd deceit had he appointed a
| pro-Leaguer as ambassador. Refer
ring to Mr.. Harvey's opposition to
the League, he inquired of his Demo-
cratic colleagues amid laughter from
the Republican side:
| "Why shouldn't he be against it?
/ Why should any one but an idiot &c
! around hugging corpse to his bos-
ON? If the 46 nations members of the
league can not stand up unless the
| United States puts it's arms around
them and takes them home like a
i drunk at o'clock in the morning,
then it doesn't deserve to stand up