Show I i I I I I I ATSON CHARGE AROUSES SENAT Debate Hot on Question of I Unbridled Speech ch By FRASER EDWARDS United Press Staff Correspondent W WASHINGTON ASHIr Nov Noy 3 While 3 While Senator Senator Sen Sen- Sen ator Watson Vat on t today day sought further further- evidence evidence evi evl- de dence w to support his sensational charge that American soldiers were hanged without trial in France a dispute over unbridled senatorial speech and the re responsibility responsibility re- re of a senator for his re remarks remarks re- re marks developed in the senate The extent to which a senator could be held responsible for what he says in debate was argued by Watson Watson's s 's friends and opponents while the fiery Georgian reiterated his refusal to go before the committee appointed ed to investigate his charges CHARGE DENIED CINCINNATI 0 O. Nov r 3 Captain Captain W V. M M. Larner Lamer post quartermaster at Fort Thomas Ky said Thomas E. E Vatson Watson of Georgia was mistaken about twenty-one twenty soldiers having been hanged without proper trial In France during the war Senator Watson Vatson has been misled by men with hectic imaginations or an In Inordinate Inordinate inordinate In- In ordinate craving for publicity said Lamer Larner I Larner Lamer at one time was quartermaster ter of the American camp at France He said he understood it was there the alleged hangings referred to toby toby toby by Watson Vatson were supposed to have taken place I can say positively there was only one lone hanging authorized or unauthorized I at said Larner Lamer |