The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-11
S5,OO0,OO0 LOAN ID L|bEpl.s' WEN ,, ';'''t APPROVAL
Foknley's Sur at Wilson
 Draws Hot Reply From :, Democrats in Sharp Or N atoricaI Exchanges
By Associated Press

aShlngton, May lO.--Boan by the United States government of s5,o00,- 900 to the Republic of Liberia was authorized in a resolution passed to- night by the House.
 The vote was taken after the House had defeated d motion to re- commit the resolution to the ways and means committee with ipstruc- tions to report it forthwith with an amendment providing that no part of the amount loaned should be used in paying the indebtedness of Liberia incurred prior to August 1. 1914
 The resolution was passed 14s to 1ss, with six members voting pres ent. The motion to recommlt was defeated 16S to 123. About 40 re- publicans voted against the bill, ai- though many republicans in and around the chamber did not vote. The democrats opposed it solidly
 In the all-day wrangle. character ized by Representative Tincher, re- publican, Kansas, "as the most dia- bolical political fight in the House in the last two years there was what some members described as the remarkable spectacle of republicaa leaders insisting that an agreement of the Wilson administration should be carried out, with democratic lead . CTS asserting that the loan to Li- beria was authorized in 1918, "in de- fiance of law"
 Remarks Declared Insulting
 Reference to former President Will son by Chairman Fordney of .he ways and means committee, in charge of the resolution, which democra $ declared was insulting" started a bitter partisan fight, which eclipsed for the moment interest in the reput : lican claim that the government was morally and legally bound to step to the aid of Liberia, and united dem ocratic denial.
 While there were many allusions to MT. Wilson, the statement by MT. Fordney which aroused democratic wrath was made during sharp pas sage bearing on the political make up of Michigan.
 We arc intelligent people up there and we know how to vote" said Chairman Fordney. at which tho chairman was asked if you have any school teachers up there" None who received their education in Vir- ginia,'' MT. Fordney shouted. The gentleman says that a school teacher is not much of man outside of his own job" said Representative Lowry, democrat, Mississippi, and MT. Ford ney instantly broke in.
 Made Good Boss
 "Not unless he has considerable training in some other line" the chairman declared Take him direct from school to the White House and he is glorious misfit. Bpt as pol litical boss he worked well for a while, but finally overstepped himself. Let me say in that connection in 1920 I made this statement That the then President was going to change his boarding house on the fourth of March. and he did. I said we would say to him what l have heard sung at the close of a school l attended down in the backwoods;
 ".Good- by. scholars, good-by school
 Good-by teacher. you darned fool !"
 The republican side rocked with laughter
 Declaring that he resented the in- suit to Mir Wilson. Representative Connally. democrat. Texas, who re- piled to "the attack" told the House Mir. Fordney would eliminate his statement from the Congressional Record.
 .The gentleman from Michigan, as is usually the case when he addresses the House." said MT. Connally, "em braced the first opportunity he had to indulge in the same kind of coarse, livery stable conversation about the ex-President of the United States. Mir. Woodrow Wilson.
 Resents Low Filings
 "Of course, it does not take any school teacher to understand that the gentleman from Michigan intended by his language a nasty fling at the great exPresident, who is not able to come here on this floor and de- fend himself against the coarse in suits that are from time to time heaped upon his head. That grSat man is i'll. He lies stricken. I think 1t is unseemly and unbecoming in the chairman of great committee to re- gale the galleries and his partisan audience here with these low. mean, nasty filings at former President cf the United States.
 "There was a time when the now ex-President was able to take care of himself in his own proper way, and during that time the gentleman from Michigan and others who have seen fit from time to time to hurl at his defenseless head these insinIa- tions and insults would not have dared to use such language.
 There are those now who gather about him to view his misfortune with satisfaction, to hurl their de- nunciations and insinuations at him in his defenseless condition"
 Chairman Fordney said the reso- lution, which goes now to the Sem ate, would be passed speedily ana sent to the President.