Virginians vs. Pepper

George Wharton Pepper, Senator from Pennsylvania, presented a resolution "advising" the President to call a world conference which should be a spiritual successor of the Hague Conferences of 1894 and 1907. It would discuss armament, law, dissociation of the present World Court from the League.

Before he could expound the wherefores of his resolution, senatorial fulminating began. Two Virginians thrust home as follows:

Mr. Swanson, ironically: "The Hague conferences were so effective in preventing war and so effective in producing disarmament that the Senator thinks they should be reconvened, having been so effective in this respect in the past."

Mr. Glass, measuredly: "I just want to suggest to the Senator from Pennsylvania that it seems to me his reason in its last analysis means just this, that the United States having refused to associate with other nations of the world, is now proposing to extend to other nations of the world an invitation to associate with the United States."