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Senator Glass's harsh, tired, old voice took on volume, rasped with anger, shook with emotion as he went on. He pounded his desk with clenched fist until his knuckles bled. "It now would be appropriate," snarled he, "for the Senator from North Dakota to offer for the consideration of the Senate a resolution of apology to Germany for our declaration of war. From time to time it has been suggested in the newspapers that the members of this committee were going to present to the country shocking revelations. It remained until day before yesterday to present anything of a shocking nature; and that was the unspeakable accusation against a dead President—dirt-daubing the sepulchre of Woodrow Wilson.
". . . Oh, the miserable demagogy, the miserable and mendacious suggestion, that the House of Morgan altered the neutrality course of Woodrow Wilson! ... I will never vote another dollar to anybody or any committee any one of whose members is so insensible to every consideration of decency as to stand on the Senate floor and bitterly assail two dead men who are honored by this entire nation. . . ."
To many an observer last week it seemed likely that the passions loosed by an irrelevant fighting word about a dead President had not only killed the Committee's chance of continuing its investigation, but also might sidetrack indefinitely Senate action on a permanent U. S. neutralitv bill.