Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-01-12
SENATE WILL VOTE
ON NE:WBERRY CASE:
BY END OF WEEK
John Sharpe Williams De-
clares Michigan Senator's
Statement to Senate Is
False as HELP

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia move
ment to recommit the Newberry
election case to the senate privileges
and elections committee developed in
the senate late Tuesday while debate
was under way. Those behind the
movement. it was said, desired to
have Senator Newberry examined
by the elections committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. II. - The
faint of corruption adheres to Tru-
man H. Newberry as a result of the
excessive use Of money in his cam
paign for the senate, even though
he may have had no part in the
corruption, Senator Borah, Idaho, -
elared today, in speech to the SEN
ate assailing Newberry's right to his
seat.
Senator Borah declared no man
can escape responsibility because he
was absent from the state or the
country at the time OF the campaign
and election. Study of the case, he
said, leads him to the following con-
illusions:
''1-That the primary is a part
OF the election process, and the i'm
proper use of money in the primary
has the same effect upon invalidat-
ing the election as the use of money
at an election.
"2-That the amount expended in
this election was such as to lead to
the conclusion that it was intended
to and did corruptly affect the re-
suits of the primary.
"3-That no man can be the bene-
ficiary of a corrupt election when
such corruption was had in his be-
half, whether he personally partici-
pated in the corrupt methods or NOT.
"4-That the committee which eX-
pended this money was Newberry's
committee. If not actually selected
by him, it was accepted by him, and
he co-operated with it SO that the
committees acts became his acts.
"5-That Mr.. Newberry had such
knowledge Of the expenditure of the
money and the doings of the commit
tee as to charge him with response
b,Iity for whatever the committee
did.
"6-That the state law was re-
peatedly violated.
THAT the federal law not yet de-
clare unconstitutional was violated.
8-That the election being faint.
ed with corruption and controlled
through the use of money the same
Is VOID and the seat occupied by the
sitting member should be declared
vacant" ~,
Senator Newoerry's fate was to be
decided here today in an informal
conference of half a dozen Republic
an senators.
They were to discuss this ques-
ton: Did Newberry's defense to the
senate yesterday adequatel. answer
T. charges that his seat was virtu.
ally bought by the lavish use Of
money in his campaign?
The group that met tod includ.
ed Willis. Ohio; McNary, Oregon:
Capper. Kansas, and several other
watering" Republicans. They re-
Gently sent word to administration
leaders that unless Newberry spoke
in his own defense they would have
to unseat him.
These senator's have the decisive
yotes-they and George Wharton
Pepper, the new senator from Penn.
,sylvania, who was to be sworn in
to-day, to SUI 2eed Senator Penrose
The possibility was recognized by
party leaders that Peppers vote
might be decisive. Old guard Re.
publican leaders met him almost as
soon as he stepped from his train.
Newberry's opponents also went
after Pepper, whose progressive rec.
ord in the past has made him an oh
ject of more than usual interest in
the senate.
The senate may wind up the case
before the week ends. Now that
Newberry's own defense is in, there
is little further disposition to string
out the talking. Senator Borah
Idaho, was scheduled to speak today
in opposition to seatin., Newberry.
and a few more speeches were
scheduled. But it seemed likely that
the Junior Michigan senator would
know before Saturday night whether
he is to remain in the senate ex-
onerated of all blame by his col
leagues, or is to go back to Michigan
with a vote of expulsion behind
. him.
Several bets were made at the
capitol late yesterday and today that
NewberFy would he seated, One bet
was that he would have a margin of
~ votes. It was made at even
money. Others. that he would he
seated by smaller maiorities were
made at the same odds.
'False" Shouts Williams
Declaration by Senator Newber-
ry, that expenditures and contribu-
tions in his campaign against Henry
Ford were without his knowledge,
was described by Senator Williams,
Democrat. Mississippi. in the senate
late Monday as false as hell"
Holding aloft Senator Newberry' S
original statement, Senator Williams
asked:
"Is there a man in the sound of
my voice who believes it? 1t is a
horrible thing to accuse a man OF
perjury"
Then turning to half the senators
in the chamber and asking> each one
if he believed it, withoul receiving
so much as a nod, the Mississippi
Senator banged his desk and shout.
ed:
You know it's as false as hell"
Senator Williams, standing on the
Republican side of the chamber. de.
clared that Michigan editors received
part of the Newbrry campaign fund
mot paid for advrtising. but to ad.
vocate Newberry's election" He de-
clared some of the editors were "the
billygoats of their localities who
were paid to lead the goat herd"
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