The Elbert County tribune., 1916-03-10
VOTE AVALANCHE KILLS McLE-
MORE WARMING RESOLUTION
IN STORMY DEBATE.
HOUSE VOTE 276 TO 142
WILSON WILL NOW DEMAND A
GERMAN GUARANTY OF AMER
IcANs' SAFETY AT SEA.
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Western nNewspaper.Uf,ior, News Service
Washington, March S.-President
Wilson Tuesday completely and decis-
lively won his long fight to have
Congress acknowledge that 1t stands
behind him in the submarine negoti-
ations with Germany.
To the rallying cries of Stand by
the President" and is it Lansing
and Wilson or Won Bernstorff and the
Kaiser?" a big Democratic majority
and nearly half the Republicans in
the House rolled up overwhelming
votes against the movement to warn
Americans off armed ships of the Eu.
ropean belligerents
The celebrated McLemore resolu-
tion around which the anti-adminis
tTation forces centered their fight;
was tabled-in other words, killed
just as was the Gore resolution for
similar purpose in the. Senate yestei-
day. From the very outset of the
fight yesterday the Presidents sup
porters, without regard to party
swept over the opposition. On the
first vote, parliamentary proposition
to prevent opening the McLemore
resolution to amendment and unlim-
tied debate, administration forces
wen the day, 256 to 100
On that, 1872 Democrats. SO Repub
licans and 1 Progressive voted to sup
port the administration: 81 Demo
Gratis, 132 Republicans, Progress
ives, l Independent, and Representa-
tive London, the lone Socialist of the
House, voted against it.. This was the
crucial vote OF the fight; the one
point on which administration leaders
were uncertain. With victory in hand
they moyed on to the next proposition,
the adoption of a special rule for four
hours discussion of the McLemorP
Again they carried the day, this
time 271 to 1873. and then pushed their
victory to a conclusion by tabiing the
McLemore resolution, 276 to 142.
In seven hours of tense, turbulent
session, in which the administration
opponents charged that the President
vas contending for doubtful lega
right and was shifting the responsi-
bility of diplomatic negotiations to
Congress, the House swayed back and
forth in the most sensational speech
spectacle of decade. probably un-
equaled since the eve of the declara-
ton of war with Spain. President
Wilson. calm, and confident, heard the
early results of the voting in the Cab
inet room at the White House with
some of the Cabinet grouped about
him. He told them he was much graf
flied with the support of Congress.
Released from the bonds of embar-
rassment forced upon him by the dis
sensions in Congress which have
been represented in foreign capitals
as indicating that he was making his
demands on Germany in direct oppo-
sition to the sentiment of the elected
representatives of the people. Presi-
dent Wilson now stands prepared to
go on with the submarine negotia-
tions with the central powers.
The next step probably will be an
answer to Germany's last proposal to
settle the Lusitania case in which
the United States probably will ask
for such further assurances as it con
siders sufficiently broad and complete
to guarantee that the new submarine
campaign which began on March l
and in which notice has been given
that all ships carrying guns will be
sunk without warning, will not en-
danger Americans travelling the seas
on merchant vessels.