Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-05-11
LUS|TAN|A LEADS
To HOUSE MOVES
Chaplain Prays That Americans
Should Appreciate the Blessings
of Their Home

Notice was taken of the sinking of
the Lusitania in the House last night,
resolution and prayer being offered.
The resolution came from Mr.. Adams,
Luzerne. who called upon the Presi-
dent to exact reparation. His rese-
lutien aroused a storm of 'noesI and
it was laid over under the rules.
The resolution was as follows:
Whereas on the seventh day of
May the Lusitania, transatlantic pas
senger vessel carrying neither guns
nor other weapons of war, was at
tackled by submarine belonging to
the German nation and without warn
ing or opportunity for escape sent to
the bottom of the sea many hundreds
of defenseless men, women and chill
dren, and among them more than one
hundred American people; and
Whereas such a deed, unknown to
the laws of war or the principles of
civilization. constitutes personal af-
front to the American nation and calls
for such action on the part of this
country as will secure the speediest
reparation and a guarantee against re-
currence: therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Repre-
sentatives of the General Assembly of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
That this House condemns the action
of the German nation as a dastardly
deed worthy of none save a barbarous
and uncivilized people; that the de-
testable act being a personal affront
to this nation calls from the President
of the United States the most drastic
action in securing from the German
nation an apology for its barbarous
conduct, reparation to the fullest de-
gree for the destruction of American
lives and property and an uncon-
ditional guarantee that its heinous con-
duct manifested in this cowardly deed
will never again be permitted by it to
occur: and be it further
Resolved, That copy of these
resolutions be sent to the President of
the United States"
The chaplain. the Rev. F. w. Staley.
offered the following prayer:
Almighty God, we thank Thee that
Thou hast revealed unto us that
heaven is Thy throne and the earth
is Thy footstool and that Thou dost
say unto individuals and nations and
governments and kings and empires
Thus far shalt thou go and no far
ther We thank Thee that some of
us have learned by experience that
war knows no pity, no humanity, no
brotherhood. only cruelty. death and
destruction. as seen in the sinking of a
great ship with its hundreds of passen-
gers, disaster which has shocked the
entire world and the lesson coming
out of that disaster is that the safe
place for the American citizen is upon
American soil, upon American ships
and under the American flag.
I'VE earnestly pray Thee, 0 God,
| tonight that Thou wouldst endow the
President of the United States and his
| advisers with Divine wisdom and ex-
pert diplomacy to solve these critical
and dangerous problems with the
diplomats of the nations. and may he
realize that he has back of him a
hundred million of patriotic, united
and God-fearing people whose prayer
should go UP Father, forgive them
for they know not what they do, and
unto the Father and the Son and the
| Holy Ghost we will ascribe everlasting
praise in Thy world without end,
Amen"
German Resolution i'm Senate
Senator Jenkins presented reso-
luton in the Senate last evening cali
ing upon President Wilson to be firm
in his dealings with Germany in the
| present crisis and pleading the Penn
/ sylvania Legislatures support to any
thing he may deem necessary The
resolution was referred to committee
and the understanding is 1t will not
| be reported out.