New-York tribune., 1922-02-26
Harrison Joins
Senate Critics
OF Col. Harvey
Mississippian Declares he
Rescnts Ambassadors NJ
lusions to Harding and
Lodge i'm London Speech
Comment L. Sal;ricnl
Comparison of President 30
an Elephant l. Utilized
for Purposes Of Sarcasm

from IIr ribRHC 81 WASH IiluiDF H,tt "nu
WASHINGTON Feb -. Colonc
George Harvey, American Ambassador
to Great Britain, was the target oi
further attack IN the Senate to-day
Following the speech of Senator Reed
OF Missouri yesterday. wherein recall
OF Colonel Harvey was demanded, Sen
ator HARRISON, IN speech filled with
satire ana sarcasm. took up uticrances
of Colonel Harvey at the dinner in
London last Monday night and ridi-
culed them
Senator Harrison sand he took spe-
cia oh'ense at characterizations hy
Colonel Harvey Of President Harding
and Senator Lodge. Republican leader
OF the Senate. He said nobody had
risen in defense of the President aud
Mr., Lodge consequently" he CON
tinued, 4 am rising above partisan
ship and, as an Amcrican am myself
coming to their defense'
lie quoted Colonel Harvey as saving
Of President Harding that he bore "a
striking resemblance to Inc elephant
which symbolizes his political partv.'
and also OF saying: "llc tests with
painstaking caution every plaak in
crossing bridge, but. when convinced
OF firm footing. over he goes"
Harvcy's Simi!c Ridiculcd
- suppose. said Senator Harrison.
'hat Harvey IN his imaginatiun saw,
the first plank the elephant va lo
s'ep on. ferhaps 1t was the promise
made to the people Of a new ta,1n'
law, perhaps with tho American valia-
tlon scheme included, and as soon as
TINS elephant saw how dangerous this
was and heard the cries froM cvorv
section ol the country that Il was a
Oahgerous plank, thi great massive in
oNldual of the animal kingdom threw
back his ears and stalled. So taat
plank probably was removed. and thc,.
shot another one into its place. and
on"' mac 'hc promise, perhaps, printed
on IL that was made TO the soldier
o9SS IN thc last campaign, telling them
S'a,, Mna' Il lmend he would be TO them.
now ne, by the force of his great pcr-
SoAality, the influence he would wiold.
would give to them immediately the
enactment OF law insurinr thcta
adjusted compensation.
ml&ht enumerate case after case
whore he has been cautious. afrald to
step upon the plank for fea, bis GREAT
Weight might go down with ii. as wclI
as his political party
lie SAID he had thought; after tho
great avalanche of woes in 1920 THAI
rhardlng would not be an elephant
put would drive the elephant.'
heaoing the definition OF an elephant
and describing it. he said:
an elephant; it is the only animal in
the fore part of whose head von car
hnd wood and the only value which has
ever been found in an elephant is the
sold ivory of its tusks
Solicitous for harding
so resent this Character zatjon Of
my President, went Oh Senstor Nar-
rlSon. | resent his being called an Gle
phant. have risen today out Of H.
realm of partisanship to plead as am
American to Americans for them not
to believe it.
Senator Harrison, after picturinq
Colonel Harvey as portraying Mir Bal
tour on the highest pinnacle. said he
portrayed Mr.. Root as closely approx
mating but not reaching that pinnacle
which Mr.. Balfour occupied"
He then quoted Colonel Harvey ON
senator Lodge. he said Colonel Har-
vey referred to Senator Lodge as
"erudite in cloistcred aloofness" and
dashlng as knight of old in political
ray Ridiculing these charactcriza-
tons, Senator Harrison observed:
we recall how he has dashed from
one position to another on SO many
questions that have confronted thc
American Senatc.'
lie depicted Senator Lodge as dash
ing from one thing to anotherwith re
spect TO an association OF nations
esolutlons and the Interpretation of
the four power treaty.
Taxing up Colonel Harvcy's descrin-
ton of Senator Underwood. senatol.
Harrison quoted Colonel Harvey as
thus alludlng to the Alabama Senator:
"A blend Of the fine spirit Of the old
South and tho high spirit Of the new .
Blends" Blamed by Norris
When Senator Harrison was dealinc
with the reference Of Colonel Harver to
Senator Lodge, Senator Norris. into
rupting, asked:
Does not the senator thinA that
that expression came to the distin-
guished Ambassador naturally because
nc had just before been speaking Of a
"Probably So answered Senator
Harrison.
And at this banquet continued
Senator Norris, Il presume he ha,