The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1916-01-07
Upper Chamber Of Congress
Breaks Restraint Over Foreign
Relations and'M Members Divide
As Projections and Pro-AlIies
AMERICAN SUBMARINE
VICTIMS ARE BLAMED
BY SENATOR o'GoRMAN
Works, OF California Assails Ad-
'mlnisFation For Munitions Poi
10y and Others Declare Against
All Such European Commerce
ASSOCIATED Press BY Federal wirelss. ,

W/AsH1NGToN, January 6.-An
w bonds of restraint regarding the
IA open discussion of the foreign
relations CT the nation were broken in
the senate yesterday and in heated de-
bate the members of the upper cham.
Der DIVIDED into pro- Teutons and pro.
Allies, the discussion provoking angry
challenges and quick retorts.
Senator Jones of Washington precipi-
tated the war debate by denouneiue
those American citizens who persist on
travelling on the passenger ships Of the
belligerents as "unpatriotic, ;; know.
ing that the dangers they run endans-
ers the peace Of the nation. This let
loose the hoods OF, oratory, in which
the general attitude Of the administra-
ton was discussed and criticized.
Senator O'Gorman Of New York de-
clared that Consul MeNeeley, who was
drowned in the sinking of the BriL,A
liner Persia in the Mediterranean, hat
been one who had persisted in tra,,i.
ing under a flag which he knew. WIS
subject to attack.
Advice Deliberately Disregarded
In attempting to reach his post Mt
Alden Ly the British shi p he had deKn-
erately dic-egarded the advice nv,n
him by Consul General Skinner Of Lun.
don, who had advised that he sail Oh
neutral Dutch liner
~ Governor Works of, California m.nl.
a violent attack Hpon the adniinistfn.
tion. He said that the American GOV
ernment is "hypOcritically elaim.tr,
to be neutral, when as matter of ia, t
It is participating in the war o. I'll.
side Of the Allies by allowing mum
tons OF war to be manufac tured Ia ths
United States for sale 10 the Allies.
The government knew that inc
Lnsitania was loaded With munitions Ut
war, and yet 1t allow ed that liner fl
sail from New York harhYr vita man
hundreds of passengers, When that
liner was attacked and sunk, the muI al
responsibility for the lives lost rrst,i
upon the government of the I;ntrl
States, - he declared.
Embargo Grossly Unneutral
This brought Senator Lodge of Mass.
achusetts to his feet, who replied to tnr
Californian by reminding him that II
the United States should place an EN-
barge upon the sale and expectation of
| munitions to the Allies il would b,.
equivalent TO furnishing Germany with
an additional army Of u million men.
"Such an embargo" shouted the
Massachusetts senator, ''wonId be
grossly unneutral and would make of
the United States an ally o: Germany. .
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska au-
nounced that he desired to 20 on reco:I
as being in favor Of such an embarg !,
nevertheless, an announcement viii, Ii
Senator German stated that he Il -
sired to endorse. Each senator advised
the government to institute such an
embargo.
Germany Was American Clicpt
Senator Reed of Missouri asked Sen
atOr Works If he knew that rGerm.tt v
made her first war loan in the UnitcI
States, raising $25,000,000 from Ame,.-
lean subscribers after the war, broke
out, without protest from anyone, ard
that Germany bought arms and annu
milton and other supplies in the Intel
States just as long as there was any
possibility of having them Transported
to Germany"
Senator Lodge reminded those Mho
were demanding an embargo on mlni
tiOns that "the markets of the United
States are open to all the world TO buy
in,' and that the question of traDs~
pOrtatiOn was one for the purchaser,
not the puTVeyOr, to settle.