The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-04-28
SENATE DEBATE
AMUSES WILSON
SMILES BROADLY AS REPCBLd-
CANS SONIERSAULT.
Opponents Sustain
Colombian Treaty Ratified BY Men
Who Bitterly Opposed Former
President.


publicans have eaten their crow, and
Woodrow Wilson is more amused
than any other man in the United
States.
In the ratification of the Colon
bian treaty the senate, by a two
thirds majority, withdrew its crltl-
-cism aimed at Wilson two years ago,
and after profoundly apologizlng'
proceeded to do as he told the SEN
ate to do.
There is no question in non-partl-
san minds that President Harding IN
demanding of his party the ratlnca-
ton of the treaty rose above pol1tl-
cal consideration in a determined ef-
fort to act justly toward a weaker
republic. It required considerable
courage, because it was necessarily
tn be followed by sharp and bitter
division in his own lines, and IN ex-
cessive embarrassment to Republican
partisans who stand against Demo-
cratic administration, always, and for
a Republican administration, always
-partisans in other words, OF the
Senator Lodge type.
In the speeches of Senators Borah,
johnson, Poindexter, Kellogg, and
Watson Of Georgia, Woodrow Wilson
found intense satisfaction. He did
not agree with their sentiments ex-
pressed against ratification. But their
assault against the Republicans who
changed views respecting the treaty
in response to the direction Of the
president, served as most palata pie
morsel.
Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, an ideal
ist the variety generally regarded
as "sweet though impractical,' some
times constitutes a thorn in the side
of his party. For instance in argu-
ing against ratification of the treaty,
he expressed the hyporicy of the Re-
publican politicians who deceived
the. country into returning a Repub-
lican congress in 1919. He said:
sIn the campaign of 1918 I heard
many excellent addresses Of leaders
of the Republican party. Nearly
every one I heard denounced the Co.
1ombian treaty as the crowning in
fanny in the attempt Of Woodrow
Wilson to slur the life and character
of Theodore Roosevelt The people of
the country were not for the Colon
bian treaty. They did not believe
that Theodore Roosevelt had done a
wrong act, and it is most extraordi-
nary and amazing that three years
later after that issue had helped to
win campaign for the Republicans,
Republican leaders have now turned
a complete somersault, and what was
an Infamous crime under Woodrow
Wilson becomes very divine pro-
ceeding under the administration Of
the Republican party.
During the last campaign, the peo-
pie believed what we said, regarding
our intentions-about economy. Yet
our very first act as Republicans in
power is to vote SIS, 100000 to set
of bandits by a treaty that was de-
nounced in report signed in 1917,
by Republican leaders, as black
mail proposition!
81 do not want to hear much more
about economy in this congress. 1
have been receiving letters from
farmers on the brink of bankruptcy
who urge US, if we have money to
throw away, to lend it to them
And it is said that Woodrow Will
son smiled grimly when the Kenyon
rebuke was uttered. But Kenyon
had no effect. Neither had Borah.
The Idaho senator, haying heard the
Republican leader, Senator Lodge, de-
clare that he did not regard the Ian
guage Of the treaty as an apology for
the rape of Colombia by Roosevelt,
offered an amendment, so stating, to
the treaty. 1t was voted down. An
other Borah amendment which Lodge
and his colleagues, who formerly de-
nounced Wilson for advocating the
treaty. voted down, follows:
s'That neither said payment nor
anything contained in this treaty
shall be taken or regarded as an ad-
mission that the session of Panama
in November, 1903, was in any way
aided or abetted by the United States
Of America, its agents or representa-
tives, or that said government in any
way violated it's obligations to Co.
lombia.''