The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-03-07
IN CONGRESS

House.--After many days delay, the
House Rules Committee finally broke
the deadlock today and reported
rule which will be brought in tomor-
row, whereby the McLemore warning
resolution will be brought before the
House with four hours permitted for
general debate.
Although it was unanimous consent
day In the House, with a number OF
bills coming up on this calendar, Rep
resentative Gardner, OF Massachusetts,
brought up the McIemore matter dur
ing general debate on a bill of minor
Importance and touched of the fuse.
Representative Mann. the Republic
can leader. stung by an implication
in Mr.. Gardeners speech that he. Mr..
Mann, was trying to avoid having the
warning resolution question brought
10 a vote before the House, replied
! in a speech which brought much ap-
plause Mr.. Mann declared in favor
| Of not tieing the Presidents hands. but
also in favor of not going on record
In such a way that some fool" ven
turing on an armed ship, would plunge
the entire country into war.
Representative Swagsr Sherley. OF
Kentucky, defending She President
declared that the Constitution clearly
defined the duties OF the executive and
legislative branches of the government
and that II WAS not the place of Con-
gress to attempt to tie the hands OF
the President in the midst of the
present foreign negotiations.
Representative Adamson, of Geor-
ala. made a speech along the same
lines, urging that the President be
given a free hand and declaring that
! the approval of warning resolu-.
ton" would give foreign nations
wholesale license TO murder Ameri-
can citizens on any ship"
Anticipating a long fight over the
rule and the resolution tomorrow,
Majority Leader Kitchin, just before
adjournment, asked unanimous con-
sent that the House meet at II o'clock
tomorrow instead of at noon, and the
Speaker ordered 1t.
In the Senate.
Senate.-A brief but spirited re-
newai OF the debate over the subma-
rine issue marked the opening of to-
days Senate session. Senator NC
| Cumber, OF North Dakota, read a
/ newspaper editorial attacking the mo-
| tives of the fourteen senators who
voted Friday against tabling the Gore
resolution warning Americans off arm
! ed merchantmen.
Senator Jones. of Washington. BIT
terly attacked the Citizens League
/ for America and the allies, quoting
/ from an address by Professor Josiah
| Royce, OF Harvard University. at Ire
/ mont Temple. Boston, on January 30.
! to show that the purpose of the league
was to force a diplomatic rupture be-
! tween the United States and Ger
many.
| Senator Gallinger, the minority
/ leader. again urged a direct vote on
! the issue OF warning Americans off
| armed ships. He declared such a
! warning to be as reasonable as the
Presidents warning to Americans to
keep out of Mexico
Senator Pomerene, of Ohio, read q
] letter addressed to him by Secretary
OF State Lansing. stating that the
British government denied 1t warned
| it's citizens of armed belligerent ves-
sells during the Russo-Japanese war.
Senator Shields. OF Tenn assee. brought
sistnR upon a vote on an amend
ment to his general dam bill.
! DIR. James Cannon, Jr., chair
man Of the Legislative Commit
/ tee of the Anti Saloon League of
America, appeared before the
/ Senate Judiciary sub Committee,
to protest against the oonfrma-
ton OF Louis ID. Brandefs as Su-
prone Court Justice because
Brandeis once represented liquor
etts Legislature.
The Senate spent the entire after
noon debating the Shields general
dam bin with no prospect of reach
ing vote on the bin proper.