Show I c hamp Clark Assails A sails T lit e eal 2 I In Last L Hours of f. f H use Debate To JO HEAR SPEECH l i Democratic Speaker Replies Y i ito to Criticism of His MoS Moi Motives Mo Mo- tives Avoids S Personal Persona 1 i Attack on President President dent Wilson II- II WASHINGTON HINGTON Mar March h. h 31 With With 1 Milleries lI 11 ries rie pa packed ked to the limit and hun bun red unable to secure admission the tho 1 debate on the proposed repeal of he re Panama canal tolls exemption act ded d today G Great at interest centered in the tho speech r t f Speaker Champ Clark who had an an- Juiced days ays ago he ho would attack the of the president and stand by byc bye c e pled pledge e of the thc Baltimore convention he interpreted that pledge ft-A ft A brief and pointed sJ speech cech was also i by Representative Mann Manu the I j publican floor leader His voice trembling with emotion ands andI and s I entire hearing bearing denoting an earnest earnest- cst of purpose tho the veteran speaker of ofie of ie e e iou house hou-B attacked the repeal lie voided aided any ny personal attack on t Wilson wIlBOn and nd in this regard ted rome romo who vho ho bad flocked to the tho V I bu beZ ex expecting vcr verbal al fireworks 1 t the nat nation r i he speaker was vociferously cheered his speech his reference to fact t that we stood ready to face a arid arid a aId rid Id in arms arm tJ pt provoked v Ked long and d 1 applause s speaker answered those who had bad his bis action as due to his pique it t not receiving the presidential nomination nomi nomi- nation atlon and his desire to tOI be the party two years hence by saying hat that in case the Wilson administration as a success no one ono but tho the pre i. i I tnt eat could possibly be bo the tho candidate in but that in case of ot administrative I allure anure the nomination would not bo be 1 the seeking The greatest crowd the tho house has bas een n u in years gathered to listen to the When the janitors arrived at they found people there in ca cats ats of ot vantage t You You will havo have to get Iret out or be bo Locked in it was wa the order given ven Then lock Jock us in in came tho the reply i ind ind nd locked in th they r were ware until the gal gal- l. l eries cries were re regularly thrown open at 10 I elock Many carried newspapers and books o oread read while waiting for tho session to toeK egin eK n. n One gray haired old lady brought rought err knitting and industriously wielded ier er needles to while away the time aunch box boxes milk and pop bottles lined ined be rail and tho the cleaners had to gather Jather hem up for fear they might Y descend on the tho hea heads s of somo some of the lights on tho the floor Representative Humphrey of or Wash Wash- ton started the ball ban rolling 10 in n a wherein he to e otis ical cal blundering and said the Demo Demo- ratie rati position was moro moro le 10 Jc than the English language can ex ex- ress Tess i Ho o l lauded Speaker Clark and Major ity ty Leader Und Underwood who opposed the thc repeal Referring to Speaker Clark he hel laid l by by ever every rule of fairness and onor lonor he lie should be president today Mr Humphrey declared the adminis adminis- ration had been imposed up upon n II t tany to t any arry rry out ont the international confidence fame the me by ly which Japan and En England land ope lope to secure the use uso of the tho canal competition t ce a a. World in Arms WP We want war with no nation said peake I Clark but rath rather r than surender aur- aur ender our right to complete over over- over e every jr square foot root of or our lobe encircling domain we will cheerful cheerful- f and courageously face taco a world In ms to Wilson Vilson in n 19 1916 6 He attacked the attitude of or house houe Democrats rats who hav have ha led the presidents president's fight Ight for the tho toll exemption repeal Referring Re Rn- erring ferring to published declarations that hi late lab Opposition to the prudent pra wa was the ng rag gun un of or his fight for fOI tho the nomination n n 1316 1916 the speaker declared he had told ill ii 11 to whom he had spoken about the 1916 16 situation that If It the presidents president's pr ad- ad were a l success Mr auld he be re elected and If It It were wl a the Uth nomination would not bo orth ha having hains ins tA t to ta his hla own future the speaker p aker in- in lilted he could bo be happy without the residency y the or en even with to private life lICe should his hit con con- to so determine To ro Issue With President l There Is no personal between the resident of ot tho the United States and my- my cit It he said HaM I r I trust there never ne wille will wll ic e I have havo at no time uttered ono word r if f criticism of or tho time president At t no no Ime no AO o far tar ao as I am Informed or be- be Jc e has the president said one single ord of ot criticism of ot me I have never i or rr r one ono moment entertained the opinion hat pre President l ent Wilson on Is actuated by other has the highest motives motive No Party Breach I 1 do ajo not believe that President nt Wilson 58 s 6 over ever entertained any ammy other opinion aa as asa a the conduct of ot those of or us who find It to differ with him on this eure President Wilson does cloes not riot deto de- de Ire to A breach In the thc Democratic party I not hot desire a l preach r ch In the Democratic rU and there thero 1 is 11 no flU breach In th thu Continued on page 21 i F GALLERIES RIES THRONGED v TO HEAR SPEECH r. r f r r Contin Continued ed from pa page 1 Democratic tic party I would scorn to believe believe be be- lieve that President Wilson countenances countenances for lor one moment th the tho efforts effort of some of t the Jackal press to represent that we e are arB seeking reeking to disrupt the Democratic party With most of oC those who hive have asserted I that I urn am seeking to disrupt the party the wish with is 15 father to the thought Hotly Denies Charge Replying at length to what hat he called alted a scurrilous sc r and elan slanderous trous article in tho the New New York York World tho the speaker said the charge that he had been swayed In his Attitude I toward the bill b by the ship ship subsidy sub sub- sidy Idy tnt Interests interests' re ts was a base and fal false fae e in In In- If If any man believes clI that slander flander shouted tho the speaker let him stand up up here here and now to co o that he may be seen fleen by hundreds of witnesses Not ot a a. Candidate The The newspaper he named he eald said along lonS' with every editor In America who hopes to be b an ambassador minister consul cogent general or In tn some rome other fat and andul juicy ul Jy Job has beon boon endeavoring to place me In fn antagonism to the president ever er since the election These papers declare 1 J am opposing this surrender to Great Britain as an opening gun In my campaign campaign cam eam- pahn for president In tn 1916 1116 It may surprise surprise sur sur- prise these obsequious courtiers to know that I J never hinted to any Rny human being that I 1 would be a candidate In 1916 1316 an and that I t am not a candidate Their slander has been a R gratuitous mental degradation Wishes President t I never er entertained the slightest ill will m toward towar tho the president about the Baltimore Bal convention I wish him well I Idid Idid did all aU I could to elect him far tar more than thant tome Mime t of those who so vociferously and fulsomely praise e him no now and for or whom deep down in his heart he must entertain supreme contempt I have e steadfastly supported him until we e were called caned upon to bolt the platform I absolutely refuse refuse to do any nY such h thing Mr Clark then referred to published reports of a fight on his election re-election to the A Newspaper Candidate The New York Tork Sun practically nominates nom nomi nates nate the gentleman from Kentucky Kentucky y Mr Ir Sherley for s speaker P PIs eaker said aldr he lie Here Is Us its exact language Reports have ha It that already ah the little leaders have o decided that Representative Carter Glass of or Virginia would be a good goodman goodman man for tor floor leader and that Representative Representative Swager Sager SherI Sherley e of Kentucky would make an Ideal speaker I The strange part of that hat paragraph Is 18 that It makes makee no mention of my voluble v vehement and vociferous friend from T Texas Mr Henry for the He Ie has had his eagle eye on OD the speaker speaker- ship for these thele many years cars Fight r. r May End Career I 1 have this to ay say The fact tact that I Iam am m making this fight tight for our platform pledges may end m my public career There Thera are man many things wO worse e than belD being de for congress or defeated for the of oz even worse than to be defeated de de f atoo for the presidency and one of them Is to repudiate the platform on OD which you ou a are re elected If Ir my constituents who who have ha stood by me with Ith Unshaken unshaken en fidelity should retire mo to private life I can still be happy in tho love lo and aid affection of my wife and children In the society of ot my books an andIn and L LIn In cultivating flowers lowers and trees Lets Let's Differ in Kindness A Asserting that ho he had no criticism for his Democratic friends who would vote ote for Cor the rep repeal al tho the speaker that If U we must differ let us diner differ In kindness kindness kind kind- ness nen and then launched Into an argument argument ment on the tho merits of oC the tolls Issue He contended first that tho the transcontinental transcontinental railroads would be the chief chic beneficiaries of a rep repeal RI Abide by Arrangement Further referring to President Wilson's Wilsons Wilsons Wilson's Wil Wil- sons son's attitude Speaker Clark said Mid that 1 If we h have o l entered Into an arrangement which forbids us to manage our own on affairs af at affairs tat fairs then we must abide by It ft however foolish or unnecessary that engagement ma may have e been Honest Honest o opinions inions he said differed Whatever may ma may be the differences of ot opinion respecting tho the merits of the case cas he said I 1 do President nt Wilson II on honor for his act But I do o not and cannot cannot can can- not Indorse his Judgment I 1 think he Is wholly in the wrong at least leut so o far tar as the treaty b bears rs on our own domestic situation situa situa- situation tion end and consequently ron offers no Just cause for tho the bre breaking ng of a w well 11 considered considered consid- consid ered ered party pledge The repeal he said laid m means means the practical abandonment nt of the Monroe doctrine doc doe trine which the American people will maintain at all aU hazards Those Thole who as assert assert as- as fi sert rt that the Monroe doctrine is dead reckon without their host After discussing the Monroe doctrine the speaker concluded with I this appeal I A Prayer for tor Guidance Now No may the God of our out fathers who nerved three millon backwoods Americans Amerl Ameri cans eans to fUngo flin their gage of ot battle batUe Into the face of the the mightiest monarch In the tho world orld who I guided the hand of ot Jefferson in writing the charter of liberty who sustained Washington and his hll ragged l and starving arm army amid the awful horrors of ot Valley Forge and who gave gae them complete complete complete com com- victory on the blood stained heights of Yorktown ma may he lead members to vote so 80 a as to prevent this stupendous folly this folly this unspeakable humiliation o of the American republic Leader Manns Mann's Speech Re Leader Mann Ma n said three questions nest ons were involved in a repeal oft of oi t the tho o Panama tolls toUs exemption treaty rights moral rights apart from froth treaty construction and the economic policy involved The Tho economic question mi might ht be eh changed n ed at any time he a said but a dec decision ioD on treat treaty rights must be a ala la lasting tin one ono He maintained ned that no construction of the Hay treaty compelled the United States to char charge e a the same samo tolls tolIs on its own ships or t those ose of Panama as were levied on ou I those of other nations A reading of the rules to be observed ob observed 00 served b by nations to receive a equal ual treatment treatment treatment treat treat- I ment ment menthe he a said plainly disc discloses oses that the they are not applicable to the United States State's or Panagia En land s 's attempt t her construction of the treaty treaty-at this is not for its present ef tt ee It Tt is for forthe tho the long lone distant future If we con con- the treaty treats according according- to the English Eng Eng- lish Ush claims it ie is is' sure to rise and embarrass embarrass em em- barrass barn us whenever we have war with other countries War is not desirable but it is inevitable Wo We cannot always maintain peace If H we a agree re now to the English construction constructions it is is certain that in the future when we tc have a war ar with Japan or China or somo other countr country questions questions questions ques ques- will wiil arise in regard to t their use and our use USA of th the canal especially as at asto asto to war vessels and in that time of stress we ire will be met with frith the contention conten conten- tion by England the thEl present ally of Japan or by some ome other country that we have already construed that treaty in such euch a away way that we e cannot protect the canal canal without bringing a protest from England or other countries which will embarrass if not defeat us in the war warT warI I T I want to treat En England land la-hI la fairly airly but butI I believe that under the be construction of the treaty we have the ri right bt to do doas doas as as we yve a please in this thi matter and that it itis itis is isn is n unfriendly act ac o of England now at this late ate date to data to insist on any other construction J |