Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-03-03

out further delay. In less than an hour
the plan for disposing Of the issue
without debate had been agreed upon
! ihen statement Of the attitude of
Senator Stone and the Republican SEN
| atcrs was sought.
Stone Subsidies
! Senator Stone submitted suggestions
for sub-resolution which he thought
might meet the general approval of
the Senate. The senators who were
seen stated frankly they would not
vote for any resolution which would
embarrass the President or smack of
| opposition to his course in the con-
duct of foreign affaffirs. Democrats ar
| gued that to submit substitute nee
| essarily would open the flood gates Of
! oratory again, and Senator Stone final
| ~ was prevailed upon to give up his
| effort.
| The administration senators then agreed
that motion to table the Gore resolution
| should be made as soon as Senator Gore
| concluded whatever remarks he might
| choose to make in calling it up. With
| this decision reached, Senators Lodge,
| Smoot. Curtis and other Republicans
were Informed of the plan. They at once
agreed to its wisdom, but thought that
some Republicans might. upon principle,
object to shutting off debate by voting
to table another senator's proposal When
they had made canvass of their col
| leagues, however they reported that all
| but few had consented to abide by the
| decision.
I Process in Senate
! Then the Senate was adjourned until
| II o'clock tomorrow. When the usual
morning business is concluded Senator
| Gore will call up his resolution and the
| motion TO table viii, be offered. This will
| bring the issue at once TO a vote. 1t was
/ agreed to adopt the same course toward
the pending resolution by Senator Jones
of Washington, expressing the sense of
the Senate that no ultimatum should be
| sent to a foreign power without consent
of the Senate if the Washington senator
calls it up.
! The storm broke in the Senate at noon
today when Senator Stone arose to make
a statement of his position in the contro.
versy. When the senator had stated tina t
! he differed with the President, but that
he hoped way could be found to bring
/ the executive and Congress in closer az
! cord he urged that prompt action was
4 necessary to rid the President of the EN-
! barra ssment he had complained of be
! cause of congressional agitation.
Stones Opposition
'Distressing as it is TO me to be obliged
! I" disagree with the President as well
as with many Of my colleagues" said
Senator Stone, my opinions have been
/ matured after great deliberation and my
sense of duty is imperative. | cannot
/ but believe that belligerent merchant
: men. heavily armed, no matter whether
, it be called defensive offensive arma-
ment. is in all essential respects the
equivalent of duly commissioned war
| vessel
Lodges Support
Senator Lodge rose on the Republic
can side to defend the Presidents po-
sition He agreed with Senator Stone
in his conclusion that the issue was
by far the most important before Con-
sress and that it should be squarely
met and urged that the President had
a right to ask Congress for a vote on
the precise question of warning en-
bodied in the Gore resolution. In en-
phatic language he upheld the determ-
ination of the President that nothing
should be done to abridge the right
! Of Americans to the freedom of the
seas. a right that had not been chal
lenged for centuries.
AS the Republican leader took his
seat. Senator Williams. almost too i'll
to stand. began to speak. He said there
came a time for the parting of the
ways among all peoples, all admins
trations and all parties and that such
a time had come in the Senate now.
This proposal has not faced us be-
cause Of any action of the President
of the United States he declared, but
because of that he has been compelled
to confront by constant nagging. con-
slant quizzing and constant expression
s. opinion in favor of the negotiations
of foreign power as against our own.
! The time has come when for me
the question states itself this way:
| Shall l exclaim America first or
shall | sing Deutschland Cber AL
lies?''
For the politics in the question Sen
ator williams asserted he had the
highest contempt.
ITO be an 'Anglo-maniac,' he said.
lis so contemplate that it is beyond
expression. There is only one thing
that is more contemplate. and that is
: to be an 'anglophobe.' To be Teuto-
maniac is contemplate. but there is
something more contemplate than
that. and that is to be 'Teutophobe.'
AS Senator Gore asked recognition
! from the Chair. news of the debate
had spread to the House and the Sen
ate chamber was crowded with repre-
sentatives, standing in every available
space on the floor.
| Senator Gore spoke at length on the
issue before reaching the sensational
statements regarding the President,
which precipitated the climax OF the
| day.
The House Problem
In the House now the problem which
administration leaders are facing is
| to frame a warning resolution that the
foreign affairs committee will report.
After receiving assurances today that
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