Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-01-08
International Questions Ex- citedly Thrsshe'd Out in
 Senate and House.
SENATOR O'GORMAN
 ATTACKS ENGLAND
Representative Gardner of Massachu. setts Arrafgns Proponents of Elm. bargo on Arms, Eliciting Out
 burst of Protest,

washington, Jan. S.-The storm Of excited discussion of the foreign sit uation broke again today in congress. Despite the efforts of administration leaders to head off the debate on in- ternational questions, both the house and senate threshed over the foreign problems confronting the government.
 Senator O'Gorman attacked the British orders in council, charging that they had kept 200 neutral ships off the seas. He elicited a reply from Senator Nelson of Minnesota, who said the German submarines and mines were to blame for damage to commerce.
 In the house Representative Gard ner of Massachusetts evoked an out burst of protest when he attacked the German submarine warfare, German American activity in this country and the demand for an embargo on the export of munitions. Representatives Stanford and Cooper of Wisconsin and Longworth of Ohio, son-in-lsw of Colonel Roosevelt, rushed to the de- fense of the German-Americans.
 Fight for Spotlight
 All efforts of the administration the rising tide of oratorical discus sion, failed utterly. It became ap- parent that congress proposes to have at least talking part in the direc- tion of the nations foreign affairs. Opening the debate In tho sei1ate, Senator O'German said:
 "More than 200 vessels belonging to neutral countries have been taken out of commission by virtue of a policy which has been pronounced by our state department, and correstly SO. as violating established prin- ciples of international law and disre- gard of the rights of neutral nations" :" Senator O'Gorman referred to the action of England in blockading the North sea neutral coast, and in stop ping American and other neutral ships, carrying legitimate cargoes to those ports.
 Senator Nelson took issue with Senator O'Gorman's statement. He said that an examination of the re- ports of the commissioner of naviga- ton would show that next to Great Britain the largest amount of ship ping is by Norway. and that Norway and Sweden, with Denmark, exceeded every other country but Great Britain in merchant marine.
 Senator O'Gorman, replying to Sen ator Nelson, said he did not intend to
 he understood as saying that 200l vessels had heen held up continuous "For long years" he said, "the right to search a vessel suspected Of car rying contraband had been exercised immediately and on the high seas where the vessel was stopped. Under the now condition and under it's own interpretation of its assumed rights. the nation complained of has seized the vessels and taken them hundreds of miles to home ports."
 Scores Embargo Advocates. The particular invective with which Representative Gardner aroused the house was:
 sThe German-American demands the embargo out of love for the fath- erland, the cotton king joins m 1ne course out of love for Mammon, ana the pacificist adds his hallelu1ah out of love for God. I think the German American is the best man of them all. His motive may be hyphenetic, hue they are not neurotic. His per formces may skirt of treason, but they are not shabby. Frankly. he de- mands that we shall balance by legis- lation an inequality achieved by Great Britain's triumph over Germany at sea. His reasoning is simple. and from his point of view it Is sound. Ammunition. says he. helps the al- lies. 80 by hook or crook. by laws or by strikes, by gold or by dynamite, by torpedo or by mine. let us 10 what we can to keep ammunition rom reaching our enemies
 Arkansas POstmasters. Washington, Jan. 8.-President Will
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