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Pepper Placed on Grill
After Newberry Speech
Pennsylvania Senator Discovers Address
Didn't Please Democrats.
to Indiana Daily Times
and Philadelphia Public Ledger
BY ROBERT BARRY.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.— Senator
George Wharton Pepper returned to
Washington to learn he had become the
center of a political storm because of
his references at Albany, N. Y., Wednes
day night to Democratic opposition to
the seating of Truman H. Newberry as
Senator from Michigan.
Before he reached the Capitol, Mr.
Pepper had been placed alongside Mr.
Newberry by Democratic orators and the
pair of them denounced. There had been
rather a stirring debate.
Mr. Pepper walked right into the
teeth of it. His senatorial inexperience
he counted as nothing. He yielded privi
leges in which older colleagues might
have sought refug.e He stood squarely
by his Albany speech and the press re
ports thereof added new charges of ••per
sonal dishonor” against his Democratic
associates in the Senatd. For a maiden
speech, that of Mr. Pepper hail many
novelties.
Standing in a far corner of the. Senate
chamber —on the Democratic side, be
cause novice Republicans must serve in
the Cherokee strip which cares for those
—an overwhelming Republican majority
cannot accommodate on its own side
of the aisle—the Junior Senator from
Pennsylvania declared the Democrats had
elected to make of Newberry an issue
of honor or dishonor, and he hod chosen
to accept the challenge. He had refused,
he said, to become a party to a political
by-play which Judged a man not on the
merits of his case, but on ais politics.
COWBOY SENATOR
rSPPERS PEPPER.
Senator Henry L. Ashurst, a Democrat
from Arizona, a former cowboy and
Jack-of-all-trades in the new country ol
the Southwest, undertook a Senatorial
catechising of Senator Pepper. He did
It in the picturesque language of Phoe
nix and Tucson.
“The Senate will remember that the
morning the papers carried an alleged
report of a speech made by the able
junior Senator from Pennsylvania,” Mr.
Ashurst began, "and the speech or al
leged or purported speech reflected so
severely upon the Democratic members
of the Stale and, as I construe It, upon
the eight Republicans who voted not to
seat Mr. Newberry, that out of simple
fairness I feel if the Senator from Penn
sylvania will not consider it offensive
on my part or presumptlous to ask him
if the report in the various papers re
garding his remarks on the Newberry
case is true.
"I have no desire to be offensive in
propounding that question, and. if the
Senator will not consider it as pre
sumptlous, I should like to ask him if
that be true, if he was correctly re
ported ?”
“Os course I do not regard the ques
tion as in the least offensive,” Mr. Pep
per replied. "I have not seen the re
ports in the papers to which the Senators
refers, but I have every reason to be
lieve that they are accurate, because
what I said was advisedly, and a copy
of my remarks was given to the papers;
so I assume they correctly quoted me.”
“Mr. President, during the absence of
the Senator,” Mr. Ashurst countered, “1
took the liberty of saying he would man
fully avow or disavow that -speech when
he came into *he chamber, and I see I
was not mistaken and did not underesti
mate or overestimate the Senator. I
have been handed from the press gallery
the purported report of the Bpeech al
leged to have been made by the Senator
before the Albany County Republican
Club: the Senator is alleged to have said,
after some other parts of his speech:
“ ‘I now mention an example of indi
vidual courage. I refer to the action
of those Republican Senators who stead
fastly refused to be terrorized into vot
ing to expel from the Senate the man
who had been sent there by a clear
majority of the voters of his State
■When you realize the success attained by
Senator Newberry's implacable enemy in
misstating the issue to the public—when
you realize how millions of good people
In this country have been fooled by
Ford’s Insidious publicity into believing
that not they themselves, but the-Mlchi
gan electorate had been duped—you will
understand that it took no small degree
of courage to face public moral condem
nation which was ns vehement as it was
unjust. And in this test of moral cour
age every single Democrat in the Senate
was found wanting. Not one soul was
man enough to vote in accordance with
his convictions. They mouthed about
the honor of the Senate and the Integrity
of the individual; and then they pro
ceeded to tarnish that honor and impair
that Integrity by voting like a flock of
sheep. Every single Democrat voted
slavishly to dishonor his own colleagues
for what an unimpeachable majority of
the people of Michigan had done when,
with full knowledge of all the facts they
freely registered their preference to Sena
t< r Newberry.
PEPPER ASKED TO
VERIFY SPEECH.
“Now, will the Senator advise us as to
whether or not that is a reasonably cor
rect report of his speech?”
“I believe it to be a reasonably cor
rect report,” Mr. Pepper replied,' “and
In answering that question perhaps the
Senator will permit me to include this
observation as a part of it:
"When I, as a member of this body,
approached the consideration of the
Newberry case, I assumed the question
would be considered as a Judicial ques
tion upon which Individual Senators
would make up their minds upon the
merits as disclosed by the record and as
elucidated by arguments on tbe floor.
As far as I have observed, Mr. Presi
dent, that was the spirit in which Re
publican Senators approached the ques
tion, because I observed a number of
them voted on one side and a number
'on the other, and I wish it understood
I have made no comment or criticism
upon what seemed to me a perfectly per
mlesible difference of opinion, but from
what occurred on the floor I inferred,
rightly or wrongly, that the Senators'on
the Democratic side thought the ease one
suitable for treatment as a party ques
tion. That gave rise merely to a ques
tion of taste, and I should like it under
stood that I made no comment or crit
icism upon that.
“But Senators on the Democratic side
went further. They saw fit, through re
sponsible spokesmen on the floor, to
make the vote in the Newberry case a
question of personal honor. There are
pages in the Congressional Record to
which I can refer in which it is stated
by responsible spokesmen of the Dem
ocratic party that Senators who voted
against the resolution of expulsion dis
honored themselves and wrote dishonor
across their political record.
"I assumed that the Senators were
within their rights in making the vote
a question of honor; in assuming that
question of honor was properly raised by
them, and being conscious of undimmed
honor myself and of unimpaired per
sonal integrity, I chose to accept the
issue, only I revert the sides, sir, and
put my friends upon the defensive, be
cause I, sir, iu the language which has
been properly attributed to me, delib
erately chose to stake my honor and my
Integrity against that of the Senators on
the other s:de; and that issue cannot be
decided by the Senators in question. I
am content to leave it to the decision of
all who know ns both.”
Mr. Ashurt replied:
"AKer a very brilliant eulogy upon
bis pn honor, the Senator from Penn
sylvania does not see fit to retract any
thing he has said respecting the honor
that be will be here with for some time.
Being a man of such punctilious honor
and seeing in it matter of honor where
possibly dull and obtuse men might not,
I will advert to the record in the case.
“On the 12th day of January the case
came up, and the age is dead and over
so far as I am concerned. I have not
brought up this matter. If the Senator 1
from Pennsylvania had not seen fit to
make this speech I never would have
mentioned the Newberry case, certainly
not here, but a resolution regarding tbe
Newberry case was proposed, and an
amendment was adopted and the resolu
tion then read, and I ask the Senator
from Pennsylvania to bear with me while
I read it:
“Resolved, etc: Third, That whether
the amount expended in this primary
was $195,000, as was fully reported and
openly acknowledged, or whether there
were some few thousand dollars in excess,
the amount expended was in either case
too large, much larger than ought to
have been expended. The expenditure of
such excessive sums in behaif of a candi
date, either with or without his knowl
edge and consent, being contrary to
sound public policy, harmful to the
honor and dignity of the Senate, and
dangerous to the perpetuity of a free
Government, such excessive expenditures
are hereby severely condemned and dis
approved.”
“Tfiis knight of the common people,
who has lifted many a lance and hurled
it forward, and shot out many whizzing
Javelins in behalf of the common people,
entered the Senate. A record of 2,000
pages of testimony was before him. I
would not be so offensive as to pre
sume that he voted without reading those
2,000 pages, although he had but two
days in which to do it.
SEES NO MORAL
ISSCE INVOLVED.
“The Senator from Pennsylvania saw
no moral question involved. He saw no
difficulty, he found no obstacle in voting
that the expenditures in the Newberry
case were contrary to public morals and
derogatory to tbe best interests of the
Senate and were undermining the
foundations of the republic. He put his
blessing, his seal of; approval upon the
method by voting to seat the member,
and then charges all of the Democrats
with having violated their consciences
and stained their own honor in voting
to deny a seat to a man who procured
it by methods that he says undermine
the republic.
“So, I will now, again disclaiming any
desire to be improperly contentious or
offensive, ask the Senator into what
category he puts William S. Kenyon,
William E Borah, Arthur Capper, Edwin
F. Ladd, Howard Sutherland and Wes
ley L. Jones of Washington? I cannot
remember them all.
“Did those eight men who voted hap
pen to vote and do it as the minority side
viewed the case? Did they violate their
honor, or ore they absorbed from all
blame because they happen to be Re
publicans? Or did they give this a Ju
dicial cast? Did they look upon it Jv
dlcally, or is the Senator excusing them,
or is he condemning them? What is his
answer to that?’
“Without specifying individual Sena
tors,” Mr. Pepper replied, “I think I can
fairly answer the question addressed to
me by saying my remarks had no ap
plication to any Senator who dissents
from the following statement on page
2020 of the Congressional Record, but
were directed to any Senator who re
affirmed those remarks. The remarks to
which I refer are these, and I quote
from the speech of the senior Senator
from Missouri (Mr. Reed).
REED SAYS FAVOR
MEANT DISHONOR.
“ ‘Their is not a Senator who voted
for this resolution who did not brand
in red letters above and over and across
his political record the word 'dishonor.’ ”
“I answer the Senator by saying that
my remarks have no reference to any
Senator who dissented from that view,
and they are applicable to any Senator
wbo subscribed to it.”
“Then why did not the Senato* say
that in his speech before the Albany
County Republican Club?” Senator Ash
urst inquired.
“I am not sufficiently familiar with
the procedure in the Senate to be aware
to what length a catechism of this sort
should be carried,” Senator Pepper an
swered. "I am quite ready to answer
any questions that the Senate will be
patient enough to have me answer but 1
am not desirous of continuing the matter
further."
“I want to thank the Senator.” Mr.
Ashurst responded. “He has answered
the questions I propounded. I do not
wish to pursue the matter any further.
The Senator has avowed the speech and
sa® every Democrat stained his soul
with dishonor, but that the eight Repub
licans did not.”
The discussion might have gone on fur
ther, but Senators Lodge and Brandegee
obtained the floor and put an end to it.
There were promises, however, the de
bate might be resumed at a later date.
The Democrats wish to keep the New
berry case before the public. They regard
it as their best political card in the
forthcoming campaign.—Copyright, 1922,
by Public Ledger Company.
French Plan Honor
for American Woman
PARIS, Feb. 11.—Coincident with the
election of Mme. Curie to the Academy
of Medicine, an American woman, Mrs.
Anne Murray Dike, president' of the
American committee for devastated
France, was proposed for election to the
French Academy of Agriculture as a re
ward for her remarkable work in the
devastated egions. Howeve, the Prince
of Monaco was elected to fill the va
cancy, but inasmuch as there now is an
other vacancy, Mrs. Dike’s name again
will be put forward.—Copyright, 1922, by
Public Ledger Company.
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of the Women's Department Club, Seven
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Mary Fowler, the “Baby-Vamp” of
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Miss Fowler's portrayal of the third
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Hear Chemist Talk
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That the day’s output at Muscle Shoals
nitrate plant, located in Alabama and on
the Tennessee River, would amount to
sufficient nitrate to provide charges for
five hundred thousand three-inch shells,
or sufficient explosives to wreck the city
of Indianapolis, was the statement of Dr.
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mal discussion of the plant made before
tbe Indianapolis chapter of tbe American
Chemical Society in the Chamber of Com
merce last night.
Dr. Buch described the process by
which nitrate is obtained and the enorm
ity of the proposition the Government has
started at Muscle Shoals and declared
that it was the fact that America had a
plant that could produce such an amount
of high explosives in such a short time
that was one of the controlling factors in
tha World War. He refused to discuss
the question of the wisdom of the Gov
ernment accepting the proposition of
Henry Ford to take over the Muscle
Shoals plant, saying, to do so, would be
unethical on tbe part of one in bis posi
tion.
KEITH NEWS
E. F. Albee has established a perma
nent school of classical dancing in tha
Coliseum Theater, located In tha Bronx
This school Is the direct result of the
extraordinary Interest manifested In the
movement headed I y Gertrude noffmnn
to organize an American ballet. Inaugu
rated as part of the B. F. Keith third
of a century anniversary, and which has
now assumed such proportions that a
headquarters was required. Mr. Albee
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chosen because of Its large stage. From
time to time, as noted dancers appear
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De Lyle Alda, former Zlegfeld beanty,
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an actress in an unusual sketch called
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hicle, and gives Miss Aida a chance to
show that she is much more than just
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audience of a large party of her co
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Houdini has the honor of making the
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for two weeks.
Ella Retford, English comedienne is
playing the last engagement of her
American tour at the Palace this week.
Miss Retford's return to England may
be expected to be the signal for an
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the little singer declares her intention of
telling everybody she meets in “dear
old Lunnon,” that she has never exper
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on the B. F. Keith Circuit, to which she
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The Cameo Theater on Forty-Second
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