New Britain herald., 1927-01-18

calling attention that 'the illustrious Bibb Graves. grand cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan," yesterday was in- augurated governor of Alabama, the Maryland senator continued:
 Notwithstanding the ties that exist between me and my fellow Catholics of Maryland, not one sin gle Catholic prelate. not one single official of the church ever has ap- preached me, or uttered to me sin gle word in regard to my attitude on the Mexican situation.
 We have in Maryland one of the greatest Knights of Columbus or ganizations ill the country. l almost scorn to say that they are body of as highly patriotic men as are to be found in the commonwealth.
 "Who was nearer to the firing line in the World war than the mem bers of the Knights of Columbus?"'
 Responding, Hefiin said he had been attacked outside of this chamber by those who favored war;" but never before had he been attacked on the senate floor.
 "I have been accused of intoler- ance," he continued. If my de- termination to keep my country out of war is intolerance, let the sena- tor from Maryland make the most of it."
 A demand that American foreign policy be "demonetized' was made in the house today by Representa- tive Connally, democrat. Texas, in critical analysis of recent events concerning Mexico and Nicaragua
 Mahogany concessions in Nic- aragua and oil wells in Mexico are not worth the lives of American SOL diers nor the loss of American in fluonce abroad" he said.
 "The time is here when the peo- pie of the United States must come to grips with the sordid powers who seek to use the instrumentalities of government for their own profit"
 Recalling the revelations of the senate oil inquiry, Mir. Connally called on the president ito use the great powers of your office to pre- vent greed and money from using the powers of this government in it's foreign relations to bring upon us the odium of the rest of the world and the hatred of those nations with which we deal.' He declared it significant that the Nicaraguan sit uation reached a crisis just as the Gil dispute with Mexico became cri- tical. Defending the Mexican oil laws, he said they did not discrim- mate against American citizens, and that the Mexican courts were open to American oil companies desiring to test the constitutionality of the new regulations.
 Appealing for patience In dealing with the Mexican situation, Mir. Con- nally said withdrawal of American recognition would precipitate a rev olution in Mexico resulting in 'inmeasurably greater danger" to American lives and property than threatens them now"
 Mir. Connally disputed the right of Adolfo Diaz to the Ncaraguan presi- dency and said that former President Solorzano. if not the liberal leader, Sacasa, was entitled to the place.
 "The people of Nicaragua should be allowed 10 settle their own 1 domestic disputes" he said. "They a entitled f0 hai ernment."
 Berger Launches Attack After a two-day lull, the Nic- araguan controversy was revived in congress today by Representative Berger, socialist, Wisconsin, who made public a speech he had pre- pared for delivery in the house dur ing the day criticising the Central American policy of President Cool idge and Secretary Kellogg. The Wisconsin socialist leader de- clared that instead of employing the "bolshevik bugaboo" to support the administration policy. MT. Kellogg would have been more candid" had he said the government intends to protect the interests of American capitalists" in Mexico and Nicaragua even at a sacrifice of American lives.
 That statement" he said, would have at least been true and also or ieinal. while the statement as to the communist propaganda is neither"
 People Oppose War
 Asserting that fully 95 per cent of the American people are opposed to war with Mexico" Mir. Berger said this country is headed toward war with other nations through present