The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-02-29
TWO TO ONE IN HOUSE FOR FREE
 SEA ADVOCACY
Presidents Stand Has Ample Support in Lower Section
 Of Congress

Washington, Feb. 29.-Congress was as serene as a miHpond yesterday. There were only faint echoes of the l 'fbrainstorm'' that last week plunged the most tirnid of the members into panic over the possibility of war with Germany
 Fear that the administration forces l might assume the aggressive and force a vote on the resolutions intro duced by Senator Gore and Repre- sentative McLernore warming A1ner1- cans to stay off the ships of belliger- ent nations disturbed the advocates 1 of the proposition good deal more than apprehension that the United States would beplunged into hostili- ! ties.
 No move was made by the support CTS of the President in either House to compel the opponents of his foreign policy to show their hand, although l tion and declare that there Is not the 1 slightest doubt of the result.
 Senator Lewis, the Democratic whip, and Senator Lodge, speaking for the Republican minority, after a. canvass said last night that overwhelming majoTity/of their associates would vote i to prevent any interference with the plans of the President for adjusting differences between the United States and a foreign country.
 1 Senator Gore apparently is as de- sirous of avoiding a. lineup as any of his associates. He appears to have been deeply impressed by the speech delivered by the President at the Grid iron club on Saturday night.
 Speaker Clark, in accordance with his promise to the President on Fri day, had the situation in the House well in hand yesterday. The active supporters of the administration. led by Representatives Glass, Hef1in, Sher- ley, Harrison and Slime, checked up their first canvass and expressed the of Den1ocrates would vote for the Mo Lemore resolution even if the Foreign Affairs committee let go of it.
 The mails played an important fac tor in promoting an attack of "cold feet'' among the men who last week were clamoEing for the passage of the McLamore resolution. A large per Il centage of the letters received on the I House side related to the projected attack on the President and reflected the universal unpopularity of such g project. Several Senators and mem bers showed the letters received bS them from constituents. These with out exception urged them to stand b3 the President.
 Il One letter received by a Southern Congressman advised him not tC ''break into cold sweat every time you would see a DOCK beer sign. The people of the country are not as scared of Great Britain or Germany now any more than they were in the Revo1u- tionary War, and don't you fellows ir Congress forget it!''
 Representative William Sch1ey How ard of Georgia returned from his dis trict yesterday morning and will cal on the President today to tell him that the people of Georgia are square ly with him.
 'tI spoke to an audience of 4,50O or Saturday night said MT. Howard ''and when announced that I would vote to uphold the hands of the Presi- dent, the crowd arose as one man and shouted it's approval for five minutes.' ?
 Leaders of state delegations volun- tarily took a canvass of their asso7 ciates with these results: The nineteer l Democrats from New York would vote with the President, the seven from South Carolina, eight ffom Louisiana six from Maryland, seven from Vir. ginia, five from Mississippi, four from Florida, nine from Tennessee, Il from Kentucky, 12 from Indiana and si1 from North Carolina. Any Legislative undertaking intended to reflect upo1 the President would probably be de feated by more than two to one.