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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 90, 16 April 1917, Page 9

i THE KAISER'S DOZEN , ■■■ •■ . , • | FEELING AGAINST SENATORS. THKEATS OF LYNCHING. ■": , ' American newspapers show that eleven I Senators who opposed the United States Armed Neutrality Bill narrowly escaped j being lynched. In many parts of the i union there were demonstrations denouncing them for their villainous actions. .In Boise, Idaho, Senators Cummings and Kenyon, of lowa, and La Follette, of Wisconsin, were hanged in effigy by former lowans who resented their filibustering tactics in the Senate, when, with others, 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." Because of his stand against Mr. Wilson, Senator La Follette was hanged in effigy by tha students at Illinois University; the dummy was swung from a lamp-post at a street corner near the university campus. ■ ' In Kentuqky, resolutions were carried condemning senators as traitors; -whilst in Lincoln, Nebraska, Senator Norris was roundly flayed/ for his "disgraceful action," and a motion -was passed saying —" We disapprove of the conduct of Senator Norris in his opposition to the Bill, and we denounce same as a. betrayal of the people of the United States, as well as the people of Nebraska." In North Dakota, the lynching of Senator Gronna was suggested for opposing Mr. Wilson. New York was the scene of a remarkable demonstration. The action of the objectionable senators was denounced as treason by, a mass meeting held under the. auspices of the* American Eights League, and Mr. Wilson was urged to exercise his constitutional authority for the arming of American passing through the barred zone " insolently'established by the German decree." The New York resolution declared that the senators who opposed the Bill bad done what they could in the present crisis to weaken the hands, of the. American people and to strengthen flic hands of Germany. • Senator La Follette was for-, tunate to escape with his life from the enraged citizens. In ■connection with the Pe'tone municipal elections, the present Mayor (Mr. .1. W M'Ewan) will address the electors in the Mascotte Theatre to-morrow evening at, 8 o'clock, and at the same hour on Thursday, 19th, Councillor Cox will hold a. meeting- in the Oddfellows' Hall in support of his candidature for the office of councillor* , An . experimental plant that: obtains power from.the.ebb and flow of the North Sc-a tides'has been built at' Hamburg." By a government, tost in Germany sound lumber tlmt i& twenty-Eve years old h»a b««rv proved materially ttioager than new i ■•stack,'