The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1922-05-11
EX-PRESTDENT
EALLUDED TO
Reference Made to Wilson by
Chairman Fordney of Ways
" and Means Committee.
LOAN OF S5,O0O,0OO is
AUTHORIZED BY HOUSE
Vote Taken After House De
feated a Motion to Recon-
NIT to the Committee.
~ Ths AssoeIated prsssl

WASHINGTON, May 10.--Loan by
the United States Of $5.oOo.oo to the
Republic Of Liberia was authorized
in a resolution adopted tonight by the
house.
The vote was taken after the house
had defeated motion to recommit the
resolution to the ways and means COM
mittee with instructions to report it
forthwith with an amendment provid-
ing that no part Of the amount loaned
should be used in paying the indebt-
edness Of Liberia Incurred prior to
August T. 1914.
The resolution was passed las to
lS9, with six members voting present
The motion TO reconmit was defeated
1853 to 1928. About 40 Republicans
voted against the bill although many
Republicans, in and around the cham
ber did not vote The Democrats OPP
posed It solidly,
In the all day wrangle, characterized
by Representative Tinche, Republican,
Kansas, as "the most diaboHcaA po-
litical fight Ia the house in the last
two years there was what some
members described as the remarkable
spectacle OF Republican leaders insist
ing that an agreement of the Wilson
administration should be carried out,
with Democratic leaders asserting that
the loan to Liberia was authorized in
1918 lin defiance OF law"
Reference to former President vii
son BY Chairman Fordney of the ways
and means committee, in charge of the
resolution. which Democrats declared
insulting" started bitter partisan
fight, which eclipsed for the moment
interest in the Republican claim that
the government was morally and le-
gally bound to step to the aid of LIZ
beria and united Democratic denial
While there We're many illusions to
Mr. Wilson. the statement by Mr.
Fordney which aroused Democratic
wrath, was made during a sharp pas
sage bearing on the political makeup
OF Michigan
eWe are intelligent people UP there
and we know how TO vote" said Chair
man Fordney, at which the chairman
was asked ~ you have any school
teachers up there"
None who received their education
in Virginia" Mr.. Fordney shouted
"The gentleman says that school
teacher is not much or man outside
OF his own job. said Representative
Lowrey. Democrat Mississippi, and
Mr.. Fordney instantly broke IN.
mot unless he has considerable
training IN some other line" the chair
man declared take him direct from
school to the White House and ne is
a slorious misfit. But as a political
boss he worked for a while, but he
finally overstepped himself Let me
say that in that connection IN 1920 &
made this statement--that the new
president was going TO change his
boarding house on the 4th day OF
'saiarch, and he did. / said we would
say to him what I have heard sung
al the close OF q school / attended
down In the back woods;
GOOD bye, scholars, good bye
school.
Good bye teacher you darned old
Wfhe Republican side rocked with
laughter
Declaring that he resented the in
suit to Mr. Wilson. Representative |
Connally. Democrat Texas, who re-
NNEGN 10 tine ANAAIh ANAtt AAN 4A0NaG
Mr. Fordney would eliminate his state
ment from the Congressional Record. |
eThe gentleman from Michigan. as
Is usually the case when he addresses
the house" said Mr.. Connally, 'em-
braced the first opportunity he had to
indulge in the same king OF coarse,
livery stable conversation about the
ex-president Of the United States, Mr..
Woodrow Wilson.
"Of course. It does not take any
school teacher to understand that the
gentleman from Michigan intended by
his language a nasty fling at the great
ev president. who Is not able TO come
here on this floor and defend himself
against the coarse insults that are from
slime TO time heaped upon his head
That great man is Ill. He lies stricken.
] taingdt Is pnseemly and unbecoming
IN the chairman OF great COMMITTEES
80 reg0le the galleries and his partisan
audience here with these low. mean
nasty filings at former president Of
The United states