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Show REED CONDEMNS NEWBERRY CASE 'Most Shameless Act in Legislative History,' He Tells Senate WASHINGTON. Jan. 28 The senate sen-ate was told Friday by Senator Reed. Democrat, Missouri, that "dnrinj? all tho history of legislative bodies in the world never has :'0 shameless a resolution reso-lution been adopted" as that approved by the penate in confirming: Senator Newberry, Republican, Michigan, In his scat. "There n not a man who voted for this resolution," Senator Reed aiJ, 'who did not brand in red letters above and over his political record tho' word 'dishonor.' No word of tongue .md no word of pen can describe the , degradation of that resolution ii". '. 1 the self-confessed degradation of thos" j who supported it." ' The tongue is paralyzed in all ef-I ef-I fort to describe a thing like that. Ifj ! he was wrong, whv did you not wipe I out the effect of the wrong and no: ' I adopt it?" Senator Reed continued. j ROl ni,Y CONDEMNED, i "You say: 'This thing that crawls and has a forked tongue and eropked teeth Is a poisoned srpnt. Therefore we will admit It to the family circle and allow it to wind Its folds aboat the nrms f our children.' You say TIiIb is a dog with the rabies. Every time he sinks his fan& into the flesh, they carrj with them deadly disease and therefore we av.'ll turn the dog loose on the community "You say 'This is a thing blank ' wuii in ram y, tnererore. we will spread I it as a mantle over the senate chamber." cham-ber." "You sa : 'This is a deadly leprosy that, introduced into the body politic, will destroy the viitue of the nation Therefore, u e will introduce its victim vic-tim into the senate and byng the disease dis-ease here.' "You say. This office was sold f r money. Therefore, he who nought it shall be confirmed in his title.' "You saj 'The thing is crimson In crime and recking rotten in all Its parts Therefore, it shall be Introduced In-troduced into tho senate chamber to vote on a bill concerning the welfare I of the state.' "You wrote the epitaph of decern y In this body and you have preserved it for all lime in the records of the state. l FERS S l .W WORD, "A new word ought to be introduced intro-duced Into our tongue a word that would describe this sort f thing that has happened i Newberrylsm. It will not serve much use, however, because the thing that I have described never will happen again, for there never will appear upon (he face of thi- earth another band of gentleman, who will write down in cold type,' 'The thing Is bad .Wicked, dangerous to ih-state ih-state and therefore, we do that thing thereforo, we ratify it, we confirm it, we sanctify it," |
