New-York tribune., 1922-01-28
Reed Bitterly
Assails Seating
OF Newberry
Missouriau Tells the Senate
Those Who Cast Vote for
Resolution Branded Word
'Dishonor' Over Records
Called Worse Than Pirates
Action Most '<Shameless''
Ever Adopted i'll Legisla-
tive Body, He Declares

From The Tribune & Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.-Speaking in
the Senate this afternoon in ccnnec-
tion with the bill to fund the foreign
debt, Senator Reed, of Missouri. Demo
crat. made the bittcrcst attack yet
heard on the resolution declaring Scna-
tor Ncwbcrry entitled to his seat
Senator Reed addressed himself par
ticu.arly to the Willis amendment TO
the resolution, which condemned the
large expenditure of money in the
Michigan campaign. lie called the
resolution the most "shameless" ever
adopted in a legislative body.
Senator Willis, Of Ohio, author of
the widely discussed amendment, sat
in the chamber through the attack but
old not reply. Senator Reed said he
referred to tho action IN tho New
berry case because IT, showed therc vas
no use submitting nny argument to the
majority of the Senate
.$fter referring to the resolution
adopted in the Ncwberry case as con
ocmnlng the expenditure Of money, but
commencing the result Of the election.
as "a plea in confession and avoid
ance. Senator Reed said:
There is not a man who voted for
this resolution who did not brand In
red letters above and across his poiti-
cal record the word 'dishonor.' There
is no language human tongue can ut
ter that will adequately express the
degradation Of that resolution and the
self-confessed degradation of those who
supported it.
ASKS Prayers for Majority
"1 wish that the Newberrv resolution
could be printed in 11O,OO0OOo copies
and posted on the foothoard OF every
bed IN America. so that every man,
woman and child, when they awoke in
the morning and got through saying
their prayers for the rest of creation
might invoke Almighty God to forriye
by Newberry were Of kind calculated ID
to endanger the Republic and then
voted to ratify his acts and seat him
in this body.
Il repeat-and | intend often to re-
peet in this body-that it is the most
stupid piece Of business that he's ever
diseraced any body Of men, whether
they were pirates sailing the seas under
q black flag or we're dignifed states
men seated in this chamber to protect
q great country; for The black flag cen
t'eman at least had a philosophy and
was consistent"
He said. I'VE follow still the good old
rule. the simple plan that they should
take who have the power, and they
should keep who can" He made his
victims walk the plan, expecting also
to wslk the plank when he vas can't
'ired. He did not intend to be anything
hnt pirate: ne ran up his black fac
with the skull and crosshoncs, he
ground his saber, he took to the high
ways as marauder and a criminal.
But here is DISTINGUISHED bodv Of
men who solemnly resolve that thing
Is wrong, and protest to the high
Heaven that their conscience is out
ragged and their souls are narrowed by
the very thought Of what has happcned
and who then, having INDUCED in that
sanctimonious, hypocritical recitation,
proceeded TO ratify ali that was done.
Miserable, ldiotic, He Says
"What miserable, stupid, diotic
thing that was. The tongue is para
lyzed in an effort to describe a thing
like that. II he was wrong, WHY did
you not wipe out the effect Of the
wrong and not adopt it? You saw.
This thing that crawls and has a
forked tongue and crooked teeth is q
poisonous serpent. Therefore. we will
admit it to the family circle and allow
It to wind It's folds about the arms OF
our children
"A new word ought to be introduced
INTO our tongue--a word that would
nescrlhe the sort OF thing that has
happened--a Newberryism. 1t will not
serve much use, however, because the
thing I have described has never how
pened before and will never hannen
again, for there never will appear npon
the face of this earth another band Of
gentlemen who will write down in cold
type that the thing is bad. wicked.
dangerous to the state. and therefore
we do that thing. Therefore. VIC ratify
1T, We confirm it. we sanct;f,, i4,n -