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Show BUILDING OF ROAD INTO UINTAH BASIN LAUNCHED nrTP SjL cere bLlDjjSDtlD Galleries Upset Traditions Tradi-tions and Approve Bay State Senator's Speech; Warned by Marshall. Hitchcock and Borah Join in the Wordy Exchange; Ex-change; Treaty Inquiry In-quiry Is Continued. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 The traditional tradi-tional decorum of senate procedure "wn? upset todny by an unusual demons! ration ra-tion of approval from the galleries following fol-lowing an address by Senator Lodyc of Massachusetts, chairman of tho foreign relations committee, assailing provisions of tho league of nations covenant. For more than a minuto tho gallery spectators applauded and cheered, in violation of senate rules, and then -when order had been restored, they interrupted inter-rupted with howls and hisses a speech by Senator Williams, Democrat, Mississippi, Mis-sissippi, in reply to Mr. Lodge. In spite of sharp admonition from Ihn chair, thcro were more hisses, mingled with applause, when Senator llitchcoel-, Domocrat, Nebraska, seconded Senalor Williams's speech. MARSHALL CAUTIONS NOISY GALLERIES. Vice President 'Marshall mauc mi attempt at-tempt to check the first demonstration until it had be'm to die out, but later he twitto threatened to clear the . lories unless order wan preserved. Senator Lodge's address, itself uniu termptcd, was aimed chiefly aaiusi. league provisions which lie said would make the United .Stales ' ' a subject, nation' and ended with an appeal for tho preservation of Americanism. 'J in; covenant in its present form, he as scrted, would not eslablish a. league of pence, but would destroy I he Monroe doctrine and give other naiions the power to decido domestic, American questions and to order American (roups into foreign service. BITTER ATTACK IS MADE BY WILLIAMS. Senator AYilliums bitterly assailed the foreign re I at ions eha i rm;ia, declari ng that in three months of preparation he had wonb'd his address to serve republican re-publican political ends and to play lo the galleries. There was no appeal in Sijia t or Lodge's address for rejection of the league altogether, nor vns there ;niy mention of the program of reservations proposed hy seven Kepii M i ca n sen a I o r , as a basis of its acceptance. It learned, however, that thin program had been discusser! with him by some ni' its spen ors, and that a con ferenee o Republicans would be h-dd wilhiri a fer. day. at which an attempt will be mad'- (Continued on Pato 1, (Julinim ,) ington's policy of no entangling allia nces. I '"I wan: no ir-ague." said the Ida no s.-n- i ator. "You can't have any leagu-- wkh- i o:t a compromise of these itvo How can you have a league without sa-ri-f icing i he policy of Washington '.- Ami does any man think that once we arc fa-tangled fa-tangled in European a Hairs, the .uuiu-uu ; doctrine can be preserved? i "In these things compromise is urrn- , dation and conf-'s-don is ruin. I'pon mese questions I want no compromise auu no reservation. I do not propose to uo uu-luded uu-luded by reservations." LODGE fffllS 6? SOUTHERNER Mississippi Senator Attacks Colleague for Speech on Treaty Covenant. (Continued From Pago One.) to brin' tho Muwa'thusi-lts senator and Heveral o'Jiers into agreement on such a plan. It was understood the reservation Kroiip J'clt I hey had k'Ood ground for l)clii:vinj that thi;ir proposal would be aerified y Mr- l.odtjc, and that enough Kcpuldicans then could be lined up to insure success of the movement should !ho 1 'emucrat ic leaders give their assen t . LODGE ASSAILS TREATY-COVENANT. Lodge, dc, -hired that there wore features of the league covenant which, "as an American," he never could accept. Creating, not a league of peace but an alliance embracing many "provisions for war," the covenant, he assorted, would kill the .Monroe doctrine, nullify any possibility pos-sibility or" withdrawal from membership, impa ir the sovereign power of deciding diin..stic questions and "plunge the United States Into every controversy and conflict on the face of the globe." "I am as anxious as any human being can be to have the United States render every possible service to the civilization and tho peace of mankind," he said, "but I am certain that we can do It best by not putting ourselves in leading strings or subjecting our policies and our sovereignty sover-eignty to other nations. "I can never bo anything else hut an American, and I must think of the United States first, and when I think of the Uui ted States first in an arrangement like this, 1 am thinking of what is best for the world, for, if the United States falls, tho best hopes of mankind fall with it. SAYS HEALTHY MIND REVOLTS FROM SCHEME. "Wo are told that we shall 'break the heart of the world' if we do not take this league just as it stands. I fear that the hearts of tho vast majority of mankind would beat on steadily and without any quickening if the league were to perish altogether. "Ideals have been thrust upon us as an argument for the league until the healthy mind which rejects cants revolts from them." Likening the league to the ill-famed holy alliance, Mr. Lodge emoted the covenant cove-nant provision giving the assembly authority au-thority to "deal at its meetings with any matter affecting tho peace of the world," and continued: "There is no such sweeping or far-reaching far-reaching provision as that in the treaty of Paris, ' and yet able men developed from that treaty the holy alliance, which for thirty-five years "was an unmitigated curse to the world. England broke from the holy alliance because English statesmen states-men saw that it was intended to turn the alliance and this league is an alliance alli-ance Into a means of repressing internal revolut ions or insurrections. " 'Any matter affecting the peace of ! the world" is a very broad statement, l which could be made to justify almost ! any Interference on the part of the league with the internal affairs of other countries. coun-tries. ARTICLE TEN HAS BITTER OPPOSITION. "In article X the United States is bound on the appeal of any member of the league not only to respect but preserve its independence and its boundaries, and that pledge, if we give it, must be fulfilled. ful-filled. There is to me no distinction whatever what-ever in a treaty between what some persons per-sons are pleased to call legal and moral obligations. A treaty must rest upon Europe and keep Europe out of the Americas. It Is as important to keep the United States out of European affairs as to keep Europe out of the American continent." con-tinent." When Senator "Williams, Democrat, of Miss.ssippi, beginning a reply Lo Senator Lodge, declared the Massachusetts senator sena-tor "always had made a show of himself," he was interrupted by loud hisses from the gallery. Senator Lodge had been applauded ap-plauded for a full minute when he ended his address. Senator Williams bitterly attacked the position of the foreign relations chairman as "partisan and narrow." "I hesitate very much," he said, "to undertake un-dertake to reply to the greatest possible prepared presentation of the selfishness of American policy in an extemporaneous answer. It is not a new presentation of the personality of the senator from Mas- . sachusetts. He has always attempted to make a show of himself." i It was at this point that hisses and "boos" came from the galleries and dro?iied out the Mississippi senator's ! voice. ! Vice President Marshal, after restor-: restor-: ing order, warned that if the senate rules were again vio.'ated he would order the galleries cleared. Senator Williams continued con-tinued that Senator Lodge "has always attempted to make a show of himself as peoples of the earth seeking popular power shall fail? "The senator can stand there and read I his carefully prepared sentences with the view of controlling politics in America, j but he cannot blot out the fact that while I am a citizen of America, 1 am also a citizen of the world." 1 ; Referring to Senator Lodge's assertfon j i that the covenant would oblige the ; J United States to send troops to aid Hed-jaz Hed-jaz in defending her integrity, Senator Williams declared the Massachusetts I senator knew when he said it that there i was nothing of that sort provided. "But it pleased the galleries," continued Senator Williams, "it tickled the ears of the groundlings.' It was idle, the speaker said, to say that the United States might be forced to accept Japanese immigration . under the league. "Who would force us to do that?" he asked. "The decision would have to be unanimous, unani-mous, and would Great Britain join in 1 forcing us to do this? If she undertook to force Japanese immigration on Canada or New Zealand she would break up the British empire." Hitchcock in Debate. Senator Hitchcock, Democrat, Nebraska, moral obligations. The pathway or dishonor dis-honor is always open. But whatever the United States agrees to, by that agreement agree-ment she must abide. "Under article XII, if King Hussein (of Hedjaz) appeal to -us for aid and protection protec-tion against external aggression, we should be bound to give that aid and protection pro-tection and to send American soldiers to Arabia. This illustrates the point which is to me the most objectionable in the league. I know the answer well that, of course, they could not be sent without action by congress. Congress would have no choice if acting in good faith. "Let me now briefly point out the Insuperable In-superable difficulty which I find in article XV, It begins 'If there should arise between be-tween members of the league any dispute dis-pute likely to lead to a rupture' . 'Any dispute" covers a dispute over tariff duties and ovor immigration. Further Objections. "An immigration dispute or a dispute over tariff duties, met by the procedure set forth in article XV, comes before the assembly for a decision by what is practically prac-tically a majority vote of the entire assembly. as-sembly. There should be no possibility of other nations deciding who shall come into the United States, or under what conditions condi-tions they shall enter. If a nation cannot say without appeal who shall come within with-in its gates and become a part of its citizenship, citi-zenship, it lias ceased to be a sovereign nation, and it makes no difference whether It is subject to league or to a conqueror." con-queror." The senator said the British delegate. to the peace conference, in a statement regarding re-garding the Monroe doctrine, had asserted that should a dispute arise as to the meaning of the doctrine, the league is thero to st-'ttlo it. "The Monroe doctrine was the corollary of Washington's injunction against permanent per-manent alliances," he continued. "It reiterates re-iterates and reaffirms the principle. We do not seek to meddle in the affairs of being non-partisan and impartial." Scores Argument. "But the senator refers," continued Mr. Williams, "to the fact that we must render ren-der service of our own free will to the world service of our own free will. How can any nation render service of its own free will? 1 cannot render service to Mississippi of my own free will. I must consult the other people who are my neighbors. Mississippi cannot render service ser-vice of its own free will. "All the crossing of t's and all the dotting dot-ting of i's that the senator from Massachusetts Massa-chusetts has recourse to does not make me forget that he has neglected the weightier matters of the law. Leave out his crossing of t's and his dotting of i's and in his finally carefully three months' prepared peroration intended to appeal to the senate and the galleries has he shown the slightest heart sympathy with the desire of the world to have peace? Has he shown any sympathy with the desire de-sire of the mother that her son shall not dio uselessly upon the battlefields? "It is easy for the senator to scorn and cast obloquy upon the sentence of the president when the president said, 'If you defeat the league of nations you will break the heart of the world.' With an absolute, cold-blooded New England cynicism that invites the scorn of every honest, human, loving man, he merely made fun of the phrase. It is a slight thing to break the heart of the world provided Republican policies in the senate sen-ate of the United States are at stake. Continues Flagellation. "The senator goes back in history and he tells us of all the brave dreams that brave men have ever dreamt, and then he makes fun of it all. The holy alliance alli-ance came from autocrats seeking the perpetuation of autocratic powtr. It failed. Does it follow necessarily, therefore, there-fore, that an agreement between the 1 who followed senator v uiiams, said the latter had been "a little severe in denouncing" de-nouncing" Mr. Lodge for criticising the league of nations plan. Senator Hitchcock Hitch-cock read from an address by Mr. Lodge in 1915 favoring the idea of a league, and added: "It is for the senator from Massachusetts Massachu-setts to explain why he now denounces the league and glorifies nationalism." Some applause and hisses from the galleries gal-leries ensued, and the vice president again warned spectators of the rule against demonstration, declaring that the rule was made presumably to Insure freedom free-dom of debate. "There has been a shocking spectacle of hissing in the galleries of the United States senate," said Mr. Marshall. "I am not personally responsible for the rule. As far as the chair is personally concerned, you can cheer all you want to, and throw all the stale vegetables you want to, hut I ask that you observe the rule that has been made." Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, replied re-plied briefly to Senators Williams and Hitchcock. Regarding Senator Lodge's former address favoring a league. Senator Borah said "great men often change their minds," and reminded the semi te that President Wilson, in books and addresses, had approved George Washington's foreign for-eign policy of American political isolation. isola-tion. "But I am only defending the Republican Republi-can leader," said Senator Hitchcock. "Defending the President." "And I am only defending the president," presi-dent," replied Mr. Borah. The remark was followed by laughter ln the gallery, drawing still' another admonition ad-monition from the vice president, who said ttie visitors should be "at least courteous." cour-teous." Senator Borah said whatever might be thought about various features of the league, it was certain that it would destroy de-stroy both the Monroe doctrine and Wash- |