Connecticut western news., 1916-03-16

tion Forces In Fight, While Mann
 Pilots the pposition-Gernany In
 New U-Boat Note Offers to Observe
 Law if Britain Will.
 By vote of 276 to 143 the house tabled the McLemore resolution of warning, thus sustaining the right of the president to conduct foreign af fairs without interference by congress
 Representative Pou who was in charge of the debate on the rule for the majority side sounded the rallyfng cry for the supporters of the president who had addressed to him as the act ing chairman of the rules committee his letter asking for a vote of conf aence
 1sIt IS said" declared Pou. speaking slowly, while the rustic of excitement in the galleries subsided, that the president is for war; All the imps of hell never devised more infamous lie No president save Lincoln ever went through what Woodrow Wilson has in the past twelve months to avoid war" Representative Campbell of Kansas. who was allotted the forty-five min utes allowed the minority. replied briefly by stating that he and the forces arrayed behind him demanded an opportunity to vote on a simple res olution warning Americans to refrain from taking passage on armed ships of beiligerents.
 The resolution, he said, had come be- fore the house not on its own initia- tive, but on the demand of the presi- dent, whose constitutional duty is to dispose of the question it involves. He Insisted that the warning should be issued to the country.
 A Difference of Opinion.
 The issue having been thus joined spokesmen for the antagonists in four and five minute speeches plunged into the debate and vehemently attacked and defended the positions that had been taken. In some respects there was divergence of opinion as to the point involved in the first phase of the controversy, divergence that perse- vered in some extent into the close of the struggle.
 Representative Mann took up the cudgels for the opposition and defined the issue which would be fought out if the administration forces were routed on the motion for the previous ques- tion.
 ''If the previous question should be defeated he said. 'the gentleman from Kansas. Mir. Campbell. will offer to amend the rule by providing that both the preamble and the resolution shall be stricken out and that the fol- lowing resolution shall be considered as the amendment pending:
 Resolved, That in the opinion of the house of representatives citizens of the United States under existing conditions and irrespective of their legal rights ought to refrain from taking passage on armed vessels of belligerent nations ex- teept in case of imperative necessity.
 Be Fair to Wilson.
 ~Let us be fair to the president" he continued, ito ourselves and to the country to meet the issue and express the opinion which we have and thereby endeavor to prevent war. which we all hope will not come"
 A volume of cries from the Demo cratic side greeted Representative Gardner of Massachusetts when he arose to- make a brief appeal to the house to vote for the rule and against the resolution as a patriotic duty.
 Speaker Clark called for the yeas and nays on viva voce vote Both were given with a volume of sound that echoed down the corridors of the capitol A demand for the calling of the, roll followed. While it was in progress the excitement of anticipation fell to lower pitch, and muff1ed un- dertone of whispered conversation arose in the galleries as well as on the foOT.
 By vote of 68 to IA administration forces in the senate tabled Senator Cores resolution to warn Americans off the armed ships of the European bAfsfgerents and thereby finally quelled tn the senate an agitation which has embarrassed President Wilson in the submarine negotiations with Germany r Gernany's U-Boat Stand.
 The German government in memo randum handed by Count von Bern storff to Secretary Lansing outlined ill detail it's position in regard to armed ships.
 It reviews events leading up to it. decision to torpedo without warming al armed merchantmen of it's enemies comedies that international law as a present constituted makes no provision for the use Of submarines and express es willingness to operate its subma rines in accordance with internationa law prevailing prior to the war on tn condition that Great Britain does no violate the same laws.
 The memorandum is friendly in ton and renews the suggestion that con sessions by the allies regarding tn arrning of merchant vessels might mol fly the German order This suegestio fs taken to indicate that German VT,,5faI cstufoe may TnS.f1 m