Evening star., 1922-05-11
S5,o)0,O(O LOAN
VOTEDFORL LIBERIA
Passage of Resolution by
House Shifts Issue to
- the Senate.

tion authorizing a loan by this coun- |
try of s5.OOO.OOO to the Liberian re-
public had shifted the issue to the |
Senate today. Following the vote in |
the House last night, which was 14S |
to 139, Chairman Fordney of the
House ways and means committee
predicted the resolution would be put |
through the SAnate speedily and sent |
to the President.
The final vote in the House. in |
which about forty republicans joined !
with solid democratic opposition
and many others of the majority MEM |
bership did not vote, was taken after |
the defeat of a motion to recommit, |
with instructions to amend the reso-
luton so that no part of the loan
should be used in paying the indebt-
edness of Liberia incurred prior to
August 1. 1914.
Bitter Partisan Fight.
Debate on the resolution occasioned
bitter partisan fight, and, at the
same time, furnished what some men,
bers described as the remarkable
spectacle of republican leaders In
sisting that an agreement of the VIII
son administration should be carried
out, with democratic leaders assert
iilS tHdt TIE lOdN 10 lsiDeTld dS du-
thorized in 1918 in defiance of law"
While there were many allusions to
Mr.. Wilson. the statement by Mr..
Fordney which aroused democratic
wrath was made during sharp pas
sage bearing on the political makeup
of Michigan.
I'VE are intelligent people up there
and We know how to vote" said
| Chairman Fordney, at which the
chairman was asked, "if you have any
| school teachers up there"
| "None who received their education
in Virginia MIR. Fordney shouted.
| "The gentleman says that school
teacher is not much of a man outside
of his own job" said Representative
Lowery, democrat, Mississippi, and
Mr.. Fordney instantly broke in.
| Goodbye Song Sung.
training in some other line" the
| chairman declared. Take him di-
rect from school. to the White House
and he is a glorious misfit. But as
a political boss he worked we'll for
a while. but he finally oyerstepped
nection in 1920, 1 made this state
! ment-that the then President was
going to change his boarding house
on the 4th day Of Match, and he did.
| said we would say to. him what l
have heard sung at the close of a
i school 1 attended down in the back
| wood:
| Goodbye scholars. goodbye school,
| Goodbye teacher. you darned old
The republican side rocked with
! laughter
Declaring that he resented" the in
| suit to Mr.. Wilson, Representative
Connally, democrat, Texas, who re-
| 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 Mr.. Connally, "eh-
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,
Mr.. Woodrow Wilson.
Wilson Ii Defended.
! "Of course. it does not take any
| school teacher to understand that the
gentleman from Michigan intended
| by his language nasty fling at the
great ex-President, 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 great
man is ill. He lies stricken. I think
it is unseemly and unbecoming in the
| chairman of great committee to
| regale the galleries and his partisan
l auulence mere WIN tneSe low, mean,
! nasty filings at a former President of
| the United States
| There was g. 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 insinuations
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 denuncia-
| tions and insinuations at him in his
defenselesS condition."
| Chairman Fordney said the resolu-
| tion. which goes now to the Senate.
| would be passed speedily and sent to
| the President.