The New York herald., 1922-06-21

/ Williams (Miss).
I Senator Robinson (Dem., Ark.)
charged that the President was at
tempting to usurp the authority of
Congress by influencing sentiment
ciple of executive interferepce' was
vicious.
Senator Lenroot (Rep., Wis., charged
that the Democrats were manufacture
ing specious arguments to delay both
the tariff and bonus bills.
Several of the Democratic Senator'S,
| including Hefiin (Ala) and Ashprst
! (Ariz.), made log rolling speeches
charging that Wall Street influences
were conducting extensive propaganda
against the bonus
Senator Watson Ind.). one of the
new Republican managers of the
bonus and tariff, attempted to stay the
cascade of oratory by offering a mo-
ton making the bonus special order
10 be taken up Immediately after the
/ tariff.
! For the first time the Senators of
both parties who are opposed to the
bonus took a hand in the scrimmage.
1 Senator Underwood objected to the
motion on the ground that 1t was a
violation of the rules of the Senate to
impose arbitrarily new rules without
unanimous consent or agreement. He
bluntly declared that he would oppose
any motion designed to give preference
to the bonus at any time.
Senator Williams i'm Action.
This declaration brought the VEN
cradle and picturesque John Sharp
Williams into the action. CARRIED in a
baggy linen suit and clutching a briar-
wood pipe in his fist, the Mississippi
Senator proceeded to express his opin-
ion of the bonus project. In doing so
4 he delivered one of the most impress
sive speeches heard in the Senate in a
long time one that was vibrant with
\ earnestness and pitched in lofty, pa
triotic key. Shaking his finger at the
bonus Senators on both sides, he said:
| Mr. President, I do not know
whether there is any deliberate at
tempt to bulldcZe or intimidate Sena-
tors opposed to the bonus bill or not !;
but if there be any such intent in Sem
ators' minds so far as / am concerned
it falls hurtless from a, very honest
intent. / am opposed to the bonus bill.
Il l am opposed to commercializing and
capitalizing patriotism. I was opposed
to it when the Grand Army Of the Re-
public was doing it. / was pretty
nearly accused of being opposed to it
then because l was Southerner. That
bill levied tribute on the South in
order to contribute TO the pocketbooks
of other parts of the country.
Sometimes almost doubted whether
my enemies who said that were not
quite right. J am very proud now
when find an attack upon the United
States Treasury of similar eharac-
ter-the first charge to be followed
A later by similar charges for the next
fifty years-that l have discovered
that 1T was not because / was a South
:. erner or the son of Confederate SOL
der, but because / was opposed to
capitalizing and commercializing pa
triotism.
Il Il got letter this morning from a
man who said: L heard you cheering
the soldiers on. ] heard you trying to
vitalize the war. and now here you are
OppOSiHS the DOnuS Dill.
, II replied to him: Yes, | cheered
the soldiers on. ! cheered them on be-
cause thought they were fighting for
an ideal. l thought that they realized,
! as / did. that the object of that war
was as far as possible to end war; that
the object of it was to relieve the
common people of burdens through out
the world which hao been imposed by
an autocracy. prepared for war and
waging war al the time.
Now if | am told, when / am get
ting old, that my boys and other boys
did not fight fof an ideal, that they
fought merely because they had to
; fight, and that after they were through
fighting they proposed to come back
and put their hands into the United
States Treasury up to their shoulder
: if they could, plead that because they
had saved civilization and democracy
; and the English speaking race from
, Continental usurpation and tyranny,
, therefore they must be rewarded in
vulgar dollars after it was all over,
, then I would not have cheered them
/ on. If behind the late war there had
lain in my mind selfish or a capi-
talistic purpose l would not have
, cheered on the soldiers.
Il did cheer them on. / once said
: to my friend from Alabama there.
: when we were talking about our boys
who were in France, that IL mine died
there would not wear black / would
dress in white. like a bridegroom: not
because he died but because of the
thing for (which / thought he was
dying. If l am to learn now that one
of the things he was fighting for was
money / would not have said that. ]
would never have thought 1t, l would
never have felt 1t. On the contrary. /
would have felt sorry that my boy was
: in the service"
Refuses to Yield Floor.
senator Williams refused to yield to
Senators Ashurst (Ariz) and Watson
Qnd.). and proceeded.
Mr.. President, there are, after all
is said and done, two classes of people
In this world-one class Of ideals and
OF vision. seeking all the time. how
ever sinfully weak they may be in
their conduct. in their thoughts al
any rate in their feeling. to approach
nearer to their God and TO the God in
history who controls the destinies of
mankind. who controls them not Sc
much by arbitrary act of His but nv