The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-03-07

elSnt 10 touIteen TO table senator
cans against travelling upon mere
should they be armed to resist at
lacks by submarine raiders. Sen
.ator O'Gorman of New York and
Senator Chamberlain of Oregon
were the only Democratic solons
who stood against the program
Of the President in his fight to
uphold the right for Americans
to travel where and how they
pleased without danger, on the
high seas.
Many Of the senators spoke
during the heated debate on the
Gore resolution, but none of them
delivered himself of the scathing
attack upon the opponents of Mr..
Wilson and the freedom of the
seas as did Senator Borah. Stand
ing at his place in the upper
chamber, the western solon de-
nounced the senate as a sort of
ante-chamber for the German leg
islative bodies.
senate Utterly Germanized
: t'This chamber" said Mr.. Borah,
'ttheZ greatest legislative body in the
whole world, has been utterly German
iTed. II has acted as IL directed bv
the German Kaiser, issuing his orders
from his throne, and not as an Ameri.
can law'making body should have act
ed e.
Senator sherman also bitterly and
scathingly attacked the attitude of the
uitper house, but from the opposition
side.
.The action of this senate, - he de-
eiarcl, "may be justified at some fu
ture- time by the developments. aRd tn -
may be In the chamber today men who
believe that their conduct is justified
by the exigencies Of the situation, but
to me it smacks so strongly of ranf
eowardice, sneaking evasion and shirk-
ing Of responsibility that an COMPEL.
ed to make use of this CRITICS u. The
path the President is following, winl
lead the nation close to war or national
humiliation, = he said.
President Sounds Warning
One Of the arguments used to swing
the recalcitrant senators into line WIS
the statement made by President VIII
son early in the day, to leaders of both
h7i-eE who cTllod on him in the exc.
cutive offices, that the action of con-
gTess was vital to his foreign policy.
cd l.. ~
declaration that former Secretary of
State Bryan had so seriously handi-
capped ami hampered the adminiytra
ton in the past that similar action on
the part congress might make it
totally impossible for him to continue
bis fight for the rights of Americans
on the high seas.
Erwin Hampers Negotiations
Bryan s attitude, added tn" Pr,si
dent was a serious hinderancc in the
negotiations with Berlin over the Lusi
taHia affair, and in Wow of it, he ha I
found it almost impossible to maize
Nijfe]mstraSse believe that the admins
tiatioD in Washington is in earnest in
ita demaDds 1t was some months az
ter Bryan hTl dropped ont Of public
life before Berlin could he brought to
a realization of the seriousness with
which PreFident Wilson and his cab
met was dealing with the submarine
sitpatiOn. .-"
tsf- have endured with silence, the
icers aRd rihieule TINT have been heap
I'd upon me for my peace pOlicy,' said
Mr. Wilson, "but | propose to stick
pv that policy at all costs, save only
the honor of the, nRti0n -
Gore Resblption Tabled
Republicans and Democrats Joined
bands in standing ~ President Wilson
in his insistcnce upon the safety of
Americans at sea. The Presidents
ralirY was upheld by, an emphatic vote
ia the senate
exported nv tho President = supporters
md The administration fore -. the sen
ate tall"d tn" resolution offered by
= SH'or Care T5v this action the sen.
~ huts the q'i TINS on the senate aCi-
H. "'I'"h has been embarrassing
~ Pes mt in his n"gotia ions with
fsm1ny concerning Submarine war.
fase.
" an Htt"mrt 10 Strengthen his res
DIT or SGrator Core offered a suhsti,
tire whrh IN "T'"t was that the sense
IS - sa"ate should be that the death
&C., Am"ricPn on ship SINK or at
t'c'al without warning should be a
irst canse for war.
How Voc Lined Up
An Of Senator Cores IA 'iamemtary
efforts wNre defeated at one time on
"a r-Hh"a'l the mOtiG1 for which was
made br Senator Ollie James ~ KIN
tl~'h". III" q 'miri"trat'On "whin"
o.. tk's rO'l"alI forty sovcn Demo.
6rat and twcrtv-nnr Republicans voted
p-e Gins, the Cor" rrsO"ninn- and
twA Drtnocrats ard lively RepuLli ans
NJ - my.
Senator Gore himself voted ave be- ,