MR. RAKER: I cannot yield.
MR. WILLIAMS: Just for a question.
MR. RAKER: I cannot yield . . . .
That the President’s political speed left some overcome was clear from a remark of Mr. Clark of Florida when he said:
“I was amused at my friend from Oklahoma, Mr. Ferris, who wants us to stand with the President. God knows I want to stand with him. I am a Democrat, and I want to follow the leader of my party, and I am a pretty good lightning change artist myself sometimes (laughter); but God knows I cannot keep up with his performance. (Laughter.) Why, the President wrote a book away back yonder” . . . and he quoted generously from President Wilson’s many statements in defense of state rights as recorded in his early writings.
Mr. Hersey of Maine, Republican, drew applause when he made a retort to the Democratic slogan, “Stand by the President.” He said:
“Mr. Speaker, I am still ‘standing with the President,’ or, in other words, the President this morning is standing with me.”
The resentment at having been forced by the pickets to the point of passing the amendment was in evidence throughout the debate.
Representative Gordon of Ohio, Democrat, said with bitter ness : “We are threatened by these militant suffragettes with a direct and lawless invasion by the Congress of the United States of the rights of those States which have refused to confer upon their women the privilege of voting. This attitude on the part of some of the suffrage Members of this House is on an exact equality with the acts of these women militants who have spent the last summer and fall, while they were not in the district jail or workhouse, in coaxing, teasing, and nagging the Presi dent of the United States for the purpose of inducing him, by coercion, to club Congress into adopting this joint resolution.”
Shouts of “Well, they got him!” and “They got it!” from all sides, followed by prolonged laughter and jeers, interrupted the flow of his oratory.