Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-11
S5,OOO,OOO LOAN
Continued from PAGE Onc)

marie spectacle of Republican
lec ders insisting that an agreement
of the .lson administration should
BE- carried out with Democrat lead
erJ asserting that the loan to Liberia
was a'3'1orizod in 1918 'in defiance of
law"
Reference to former President Will
son by Chairman F'ordney of the
wa ana mems committee, in charge
of the resolutions which Democrats
declared was "~sulting" started Il
bitter partisan fight which eclipsed
for the moment Interest in the Re-
public"'' claim that the government
was morally ard legally Bound to
step to the aid of Liberia and a unit
cd ncn oratic drnal.
falling to send the resolution back
to the committee which framed it,
Dcmoc'"'r and insurGent Republicans
believed ! time during the long
rel call on its massage that they lad
rail-. sufficient force to defeat II.
There Wcs much comment over the
absence of more than a score of Re-
puh!i"7~~ in and abort cn the roll
nam we're reached.
nile there ere many illusions
to Mr.. Wilson the statement by Mr..
Fordney 'hich aroused Democratic
wrath was made during a sharp pas
sa Q hcarfr on he political make
up of Michigan.
I'VE ere intelligent people uo there
and we know how to vote said
{ Airmon Tordhoy at which tic chair
II, was askcd IF you have any
school teachers up thrre?"
'Qne 20 received their education
in Virginia" Mr.. Tordncy shouted.
The gcntc"'an says t,.at q school
tcach1" much Of man outside
!of his own 3D." said Repre- tatiye
IoWery. Democrat. Mississippi, and
Mf. NJ" Try instantly broke in.
Not unless he has considera bio
training in some other line" the
chairman declared. Take him di-
rect from school to the White House
ana he is glorious misft But as q
political boss he worked well for a
Whlle out he finally overstepped him
SELF. Let me say that in that connec.
tlon In l92O. | made this statement
that the then President was going TO
change his boarding house on the
fourth day of March, and he did. T
SAID we would say to him what 7
nave heard sung at the close OF a
school | attended down in the back
! woods:
Good bye scholars. good bye
school, Good bye teacher, Won
darned old fool"
The Republican side rocked with
laughter
Declaring he resented" the Insult
to Mr.. Wilson. Representative Con
haily, Democrat, Texas. who replied
to the attack" told the House Mr..
fordney would eliminate his state
! ment from the Congressional record
The gentlemen from Michigan. as
is usually the case when he addresses
the House." said Mr.. ConnalIy, "em-
braced the first opportunity he had
TO indulge in the same kind of
coarse, livery stable conversation
about the ex-President of the Uni
ted States, Mr.. Woodrow Wilson.
of course. it does not take any
school teacher to understand that
the gentlemen from Michigan intend
ed by his language nasty fling at the
great ex-President who is not able to
come here 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.
lie lies stricken. ] think 1t is I'M
seemly and unbecoming in the chair,
man of great committee to regale
the galleries and his partisan audi
ence here with these low, mean.
ansty fling at former President of
the United States. -
There was q time when the now
ex-President was able to take care OF
himself In his own proper way and
during that time the gentleman from
Michigan and others who have seen
fit time to time to hurl at his de-
fenseless head the insinuations and
insults would not have dared to use
such language.
There are those. who now gather
about him to view his misfortune
with satisfaction. to hurl their de-
nunciations and insinuations at him
In his defenseless condition"
Chairman Fordney said the resolu-
ton which now goes to the Senate