Evening star., 1936-01-18
Democratic Indignation on
Wilson Accusation May
Halt More Funds.
MISS0URIAN PARTIALLY
BACKS NYE'S CHARGES
Glass Hurls Coward" "Dema'
gogue" at North Dakotan in
Denying Falsifcation.

sion, committee placed J. p. Nor
gan and associates on stand last
0eek. Questioning turned up little
OF sensational nature
On Wednesday Senator Nye,
North Dakota Republican and COM
mittee chairman. spoke OF "talsif-
cations" by former President VIII
son. Fireworks Immediately COM
nlenced as tUo Democratic COM
mittee members quit in protest
iuhile others attacked committee
on floor OF Senate.
BY the Associated Press.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis-
souri, was believed to be ready today
for an attempt to rescue a munitions
inquiry that is laundering in a ses
of Democratic indignation in the
Senate.
The son Of the late Champ Clark
famous Speaker of the House in by.
gone days, had indicated he woulo
seek to speak to the Senate today ir
the aftermath of a row that flamec
to a climax yesterday when Senator
Glass, Democrat, of Virginia shouted
coward" and "demagogue" at Sena.
tor Nye, Republican, Of North Dakota
Nye, as chairman Of the Senate
Munitions Committee, which is in.
vestigating World W2r trade anC
financing with 6 view to drastic new
neutrality legislation, had charged
that Woodrow Wilson "falsified" &
major point of war history. Clarl
had backed him up to the exten
of saying there were Inconsistencies
in published records and secret docu.
ments
Fund Denial Is Indicated.
So widespread was anger that Nye!
charge aroused among powerful Dem.
ocratic Senators that there were fres
predictions the Nye committees In.
uuiry was about "all washed up," tha
1t woulG get no more funds.
But Clark, when asked if the muni-
tions investigators would change theil
course, said shortly:
why should we?"
Nye insisted documents showed Viii
son did not state facts when he told
a Senate committee he did not know
until after the war that the allie,
had secret treaties to re-partition Eu-
rope. These treaties have beer
stressed by those who attack thu
allies motives and say the Unitec
States should have stayed out of the
conflict.
Pounding his desk, Glass assailec
"the unspeakable accusation agains
a dead President, dirt-dsubing tn.
sepulcher Of Woodrow Wilson"
"Oh, the miserable demagogy, tn,
miserable and mendacious suggestion
that the House Of Morgan altered tn,
neutrality course of Woodrow Wilson,
he cried.
Nearly Wrecked Life"
why" he said at another point
everybody knows, except the Senator
from North Dakota, that Woodrow
Wilson came near wrecking his life al
Versailles in his protestation against
carrying out terms of certain secreI
treaties"
Glass and other Senators indicated
they would not vote another dollar
to Nye's committee, which is practi.
cally out of funds But Nye indi.
Gated he would 60 ahead. investigator,
working without pay. J. P. Morgan
and partners are scheduled to return
to the stand next Thursday.
Nye said he was not surprised a
what he termed a concentrated eff,
fort" to stop his committees work
He said he apparently had trod OF
sacred ground" by summ&ning tn,
House Of Morgan.
"If it were permissible in the Sen.
ate," Glass said at one point, hi
voice hoarse and low, ito say that an,
man who would asperse the integrit,
and veracity Of Woodrow Wilson i
q coward, If it were permissible t,
say that his charge is not only ma
licious but positively mendacious, tha
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