The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-04

sion prevailed that we were divided people. Let them come to know that there may be division on questions of economic and administration policies, but that on questions involving the honor and integrity of the republic, this nation is as indivisible as the seas.
 Let all of them understand once and for all, that when the President of the United States exercises his constitutional powers in conducting his negotiations with them, he speaks not for himself, not for his party, but for all the people of his country who are prepared to back him with their lives in an insistence on American rights
 Senator Thompson defended the policy of the President and said he had no doubt but that if the President were left alone he would succeed in this contro- versy as he had in others since the war legan.
 Senator Norris accused tie senators who had spoken during the day of explain ing their votes in an effort to satisfy their constituents, after voting to sat isfy the President, whom he termed ''the head of the pie counter sIf few more confessions are made here, the President will have a real ex- pression of the sentiment of the Senate, ' he said If you count the confessions, you will find the senators believe in warn- ing citizens from armed ships, if you count their votes. you will find they SUD- port the President"
 Senator Norris added that friends of the Gore resolution are the hopes for peace for the nation and the only dan ger of war comes from the policy of the President in opposing warning resolu- tion.'
 VOTED IN IGNORANCE
 Senator Cummins declared that few in the Senate knew the meaning of the Gore resolution or the way it had been amended when they voted. "It was the most indefensible interference with the right of debate and opportunity for in- telligent consideration I have ever seen, he said. There are two ways of shutting of discussion, one a motion to table, as witnessed this morning. and one for the senators to absent themselves
 Most of the senators had forsaken the Senate floor for the cloak rooms and Sen ator Cummins brought them back by ask ing a call for a quorum. Then he ended the discussion by moving to call up his amendment to the Shields water power bill. Senator Vardaman moved to table the motion but the Senate voted him down
 Senator Fall, republican, assailed dem- ocrats for their maneuvering when they had a warning of today's action before hand.
 By your action today you have sent to the Kaiser if you have done anything notice that the upper branch of the Con- gross of the United States will look upon his sinking of armed merchant shipping and the death of an American citizen probably with some degree of regret, but that no action would be taken against him."
 Senator Vardaman of Mississippi gave notice he would discuss the question of warning Americans from belligerent ships as soon as the Shields wat(4 power bill, now the unfinished bushes" "of the Sen ate was disposed of.
 Senator Broussard declared he voted tc table the resolutions because of the crit ical moment and his eesire to stand by the President In the crisis. He would stand by the President just as long as he could avert war.