FEELING AGAINST SENATORS.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 April 1917, Page 2

FEELING AGAINST SENATORS.

THREATS OF LYNCHING. American newspapers .show that cloven scnf.tars who opposed the Unite.) Stat»* Armed Neutrality Bill narrowly escaped being lynched. In many parts of the union there were demonstrations deno'incing their, for their villainous actions. In Hoisc, Idaho, Senators Cummins and Kenyon, of leda, and La Follettit of Wisconsin, were hanged in effigy by former Towans who resented tlioir filibustering tactics in the Senate, when, with ffthcr?, they succeeded in blocking the President by holding up the Bill to arm merchant, vessels. The Idaho Legislature passed resolutions condemning in unmeasured terms "the -filibustering of insurgent senators at. a time when the nation was faced with an international crisis,-' Yiecause of t'his stand against Mr. Wilson, wit*. tor. La Follette was hanged in effigy by the students at Illinois University;' the dummy was swung from a lamp-post at a street corner near the university caw. pus. In Kentucky, resolutions were carried ■condemning senators as traitors; whilst in. Lincoln. Nebraska, Senator Norri'.i was roundly flayed for his "disgraceful action,'' ami .a .motion was passed saying; "We disapprove of the conduct of Senator Norris in hj,» opposition to the Hill, and we denounce same as a betrayal of the people of the United States, as well as the people of -Nebraska." In North Dalcnlai, the lynching of Senator Gronna was suggested for opposing -Mr. Wilson. New York was the scene of a remark, able demonstration. The action of the objectionable senators was denounced as treason by a mass meeting: 'held Under the auspices of the. .American Rights League, and llr. Wilson was urged to exercise his constitutional authority for the arming of American ships pa'ssin" through the barred zone "insolently ~ s ° tablishod by the German decree." The Xe,\v York resolution declared that the senators who opposed the Bill had done What, they coald in the present crisis to weaken the hands of the American people and to strengthen the hands of <.,ennany. Senator La Follette was fortunate to escape with his life from the enraged citizens.