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Show REED Si BV MARSHALL FOR HIS STYLE OF LANGUAGE v . WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 Senator Reed, Democrat, Missouri, declared in a treaty discussion in the senate today to-day that senators favoring reservations in place of amendment amend-ment had closed their minds like snapping turtles and now had been caught and held fast like dogs trying to crawl through a crack. He was interrupted by Vice-President Marshall, who declared his language was out of order and beyond the prescribed limits of senate debate. "A reservation," Senator Reed said, "is the last resort of cowardice. It is the crack in the fence through which j a hound dog always 3eeks to escape. The mastiff turns at bay and fights or else he takes the fence at a jump. He does not go cringing and crawling and whining, and with some of their heads stuck in the crack now they do not know whether to back up or go ahead." Pounding for order, Mr. Marshall interrupted: "if tfat is not imputing to senators' conduct or motives unworthy or unbecoming, the chair does not know what t is. "I think the voluntary calling to order by the chair is very unkind," said Senator Reed. "The chair does not mean to be unkind." replied the vice-president, "but he charged a body of senators with being snapping turtles and dogs and things of that kind." "No, I have not charged them with being dogs or snapping snap-ping turtles," returned the Missouri senator. "I used a comparison to express an idea. When I say that men close their minds like a snapping turtle, I do not call them snapping turves." |