Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-05-11
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AUTHORIZED BY
HOUSE 8 ACTION
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| w lbllI 1'e'S
1.-The United States of $5,000,O00 10
1.-The republic Of Liberia was author
lied in a resolution passed tonight
by the house. The vote was taken
after the house had defeated a mo-
ton to recommit the resolution 10
tae WAYS and means committee with
to report 1t forthwith
with an amendment providing that
| no part of the amount loaned
should be used in paying the in.
debtedness of Liberia incurred
prior to August /, 1914.
The resolution was passed l4S
to 1879 with six members voting
present The motion to recommlt
was defeated 16S to 1913.
About forty republicans voted
against the bill, although many re-
lpublicans in and around the cham
Der did not vote. The democrats
opposed it solidly.
An All-day Wrangle.
Tn the all-day wrangle, charaH-
terized by Representative Tincher,
republican, Kansas as the most
diabolical political right in 'hs
house in the last two years." there
was what some members describ ID
as the remarkable spectacle OF re-
publican leaders insisting that ar
agreement of the Wilson admins
| tration should be carried out, with
democratic leaders asserting that
the loan to Liberia was authorized
in 1918 "in defiance of law"
Reference to former President
Wilson by Chairman Fordney II
the ways and means committee IN
charge of the resolution, whiHa
democrats declared was insult
ing" started a bitter partisa I
fight which eclipsed for the mo"
ment interest in the republican
claim that the government was
morally and legally bound to aid
Liberia. q
Democrats Aroused.
The statement by Mr.. Fordney
which aroused democratic wrath
| was made during sharp passage
bearing on the political makeup Of
Michigan.
eve are intelligent people ZIP
there and we know how to vote
said Chairman Fordney, at which
the chairman was asked IL "You
have any school teachers up
there"
None who received their edu-
cation in Virginia." Mr. Fbrdney
shouted.
"The gentleman says that a
school teacher is not much of a
man outside of his own job" said
Representative Lowery, democrat
! Mississippi, and Mr., Fordney in
stantly broke in:
mot unless he has considerable
training in some other line ne
! chairman declared.
Good Political Bo,ss.
take him direct from school 70
the White House and he is glori-
Gus misfit. But as a political boss
he worked we'll for while but ne
finally overstepped himself Let
me say that in that connection in
1920 | made this statement-thai
the president was going to change
his boarding house on the fourth
day of March, and he did. said
we would say to him what I have
heard sung at the close of a schoo
I attended down in the back
woods:
Goodbye s1,iS, scholars goodbye
Goodbye teacher. you darnad
old fool"
The republican side rocked WITT
laughter.
Declaring he resented the IN
suit to Mr.. Wilson. Representative
Connally, democrat, Texas, who
replied to "the attack" told tht
house Mr.. Fordney would elimi
nate his statement from the con
gressional Record.
Livery Stable Conversation.
"The gentleman from Michigan
as is usually the case, when he ad
dresses the house." said Mr.. Con
nally. embraced the first oppor'
tunity he had to indulge In tn;
same kind of coarse. livery stable
conversation about the ex-presl'
dent of the United States, Mr.
Woodrow Wilson.
"Of course it does not take any
school teacher to understand thai
the gentleman from Michigan m
tended by his language NASTY
fling at the great ex-president who
is not able to come on this floor
and defend himself against the
coarse insults that are from time
to time heaped upon his head
That great man is i'll. He lies
stricken. I think 1t is unseemly
and unbeeoming in the chairman
of great committee to regale tho
galleries and his partisan audience
here. with these low, mean, nasty
filings at former president of the
United States.
There was time when the
now ex-president was able to take
care of himself in his own proper
way, and during that time tn =
gentlemen from Michigan and
others VINO nave seen fit from
time to time to hurl at his d.
fenseless head the insinuations and
insults, would not have dared TO
use such language.
Hurl Denunciations.
There are those now who
gather about him to view his mis-
fortune with satisfaction, to hurl
their denunciations and insinua-
tons at him in his defenseless con-
dition."
Chairman Fordney said the res
olution which goes now to tn :
senate, would be passed speedily
and sent to the president.
REDUCED RAILROAD FARE.