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Show HOUSE STIES OUT BfEfSjEliS Orders Reference to Gardner's Gard-ner's Loyalty Expunged From Record. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. Over the protest of Representative Gardner of Massachusetts, the house today, by a vote of 167 to 126, ordered stricken from the record the declaration of Representative Rep-resentative Bailey of Pennsylvania that Mr. Gardner was more loyal to Great Britain than to the United States. Bailey, a pacifist, generally regarded as William Jennings Bryan's friend on the floor, made the charge, replying to an attack on Bryan and pacitists generally gen-erally by Gardner last Thursday. Praising President Wilson's efforts to maintain peace, Representative Bailey Bai-ley charged Mr. Gardner with attempting attempt-ing to plunge the United States into war "as au aid to King George in his struggle to destroy Germany.'" "He is placing 'loyalty to" Great Britain Brit-ain before loyalty to his own country. He would sncrifieo the peace of a hundred hun-dred million Americans in his anxious desire to promote British success in the present bloody enterprise. " said Bailey. When Representative King, Illinois, Republican, demanded that Bailev 's remarks re-marks be expunged, Gardner replied he did not care to have them stricken out. On the insistence of Representative King, however, the house did it. |