Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1916-03-10
MOST SENSATIONAL
DEBATE IN DECADE
Opposition I'm House swept Aside On
Every Proposition an Seven Tur-
bulent Hours-Wilson Much
GIatified at Result.

President Wilson Tuesday CON-
pletely and decisively won his long
and sensational fight to compel Con-
gress to acknowledge that it stands
behind him in the submarine negotia-
tions with Germany.
To the rallying cries of stand by
the President" and rs it Lansing
and Wilson or Won Bernstorff and
the Kaiser" big Democratic major
ity and nearly half of the Republi
cans in the House rolled up over
whelming votes against the move
ment to warn Americans off the arm
ed ships of the European belliger-
ents.
The celebrated McLemore resolu-
tion, around which the anti-adminis-
tration forces centered their fight,
was tabled---in other words. killed
Just as was the Gore resolution for
a similar purpose in the Senate last
week.
From the very outset Of the fight
Tuesday the Presidents supporters,
without regard to party. swept over
which was a parliamentary PROPOSE
tion to prevent opening the McLe-
more resolution to amendment and
unlimited debate, the administration
forces carried the day, 262 to 100.
On that 1872 Democratic, So Republi-
cans and l Progressive voted to sup
port the administration. Twenty-one
Democrats, 1872 Republicans. Pro-
gressives, Independent and Repre-
sentative London, the lone Socialist
of the House, voted against ii.
II was the crucial vote of the fight,
the one point on which the admins
tration leaders we're uncertain. With
victory in hand. they moved on to
the next proposition, the adoption of
special rule for four hours discus
sion of the McLemore resolution.
Again they carried the day, this time
271 to 1873, and then pushed their
victory to a conclusion by tabling the
McLemore resolution, 276 to. 142.
In seven hours of tense, turbulent
session, in which the administration
opponents charged that the President
was contending for a doubtful legal
right and was shifting the responsi-
bility of diplomatic negotiations to
Congress, the House sweyed back
and forth in the most sensational
congressional spectacle of a decade,
probably uneQualed since the declar-
alton of war on Spain.
x1rgloo. ool,.,
dent, heard in the Cabinet room the
early results of the voting, with a
few OF the Cabinet grouped about
him. He told them he was much
gratified with the support of the
Congress.
Released from the bonds of embar-
rassment forced upon him by the
dissensions in Congress, which have
been represented in foreign capitals
as indicating that he was making his
demands on Germany in direct op-
position to the sentiment of the rep
! Iresentatives of the people, President
Wilson now stands prepared to go
on with the submarine negotiations
with the Central Powers.
The next step will probably be an
answer to Germany's last proposal
to settle the Lusitania case, in which
the United States will probably ask
for such further assurances as it
considers sufficiently broad and COM
plete to guarantee that the new sub
marine campaign which began on the
first of March and in which notice
has been given that all ships carrying
guns will be sunk without warning
will not endanger Americans travel
ing the seas on merchant vessels.
The President and his advisers re-
gard the action of the House as suf-
ficient answer to reports circulated
in Berlin sent from Washington that
Congress stood to / against him
in the crisis.
One of the days surprises was the
failure of the so-called Bryan influ-
ence TO develop any appreciable
strength against the President.
stand by the President. and do
not embarrass him in his diplomatic
negotiations with foreign countries, .
was the whole burden of the argu-
lment of the administration leaders
They paid little attention to the in
ivolved legal phases of the situation
1t was enough. they argued, that the
President had said that the reported
latitude of Congress as opposed to
his policy was embarrassing him
abroad, and to that they stuck.