Norwich bulletin., 1916-03-08
President Wins
 Decisive Victory
HOUSE TABLES THE mLEMoRE
 RESOLUTION.
FINAL VOTE 276 TO 142
One of the Surprises of the Day Was
 the Failure of the So-calIed Bryan
 Influence to Develop Any Strength.

Washington, Mrch 2. - President Wilson today completely and decisive ly won his long and sensational fight to compel congress 10 acknowledge that it stands behind him in the sub- marine negotiations with Germany.
 To the rallying cries of Stand by the president and '1s it Lansing and Wilson. or vOn BernstOrff and the kaiser" a big democratic majority and nearly half of the republicans in the house three times rolled up overwhelm- ing votes against the movement to warn Americans off the armed ships of the European belligerents.
 The celebrated McLemore resolution around which the anti ti-administration forces centered their fight was tabled in other words killed, just as was the Gore resolution for similar purpose in the senate last week.
 Party Lines Disregarded.
 From the very outset of the fight today the presidents supporters, with out regard to party, swept over the opposition.
 Test Vote 25s to 16o. On the first vote, which was a parliamentary proposition to prevent opening the McLemore resolution to amendment and unlimited debate, the administration forces carried the day, 256 to l6O. On that lg2 democrats 63 republicans and 1 progressive voted to support the administration. Twen- ty-one democrats, 132 republicans | five proEressiveS, one independent and ! Representative London, the lone sO- cialist of the house, voted against it. | This was the crucial vote of the fight | the one point on which administration leaders were uncertain. With victory | in hand they moved on to the next proposition, the adoption of a special | rule for four hours discussion of the | McLemore resolution.
 Again they carried the day 271 to | 13S and then pushed their victory to a conclusion by tabling the McLeomre | resolution. 276 to 142.
 Turbulent Seven Hour Session In seven hours of tense. turbulent | session in which the administration | opponents charged that the president | was contending for a definite legal | right and was shifting the responsibil- | ity of diplomatic negotiations to con gress, the house swayed back and | forth in the most sensational con | gressional spectacle of a decade. probably unequalled since the eve of the declaration of war with Spain.
 Wilson Calm and Confident | President Wilson, calm and confi- | dent, heard the early results of the | voting in the cabinet rooms at the | White House with some of the cab | inet group about him. He told them he was much gratified with the sup port of congress.
 | Released from the bonds of embar- | rassment forced upon him by the dis | senions in congress, which have been | represented in foreign capitals as in | dicattng that he was making his de- | mands on Geramny in direct opposi- | tion to the sentiment of the elected | representatives of the people, PrcsI- dent Wilson now stands prepared to go | on with the submarine negotiations 1 with the central powers.
 Will Proceed With Lusitania Case
 The next step probably will be an answer to Germany's last proposal to | settle the Lusitania case. in which the | United States probably will ask for | such further assurances as it consid- CTS sufficiently broad and complete to guarantee that the new submarine
 campaign which began on March 1 and | in which notice has been given that all ships carrying guns will be sunk without warning. will not endanger
 Americans travelling the seas on mer- chant vessels.
 The president and his advisors re- gard the action of the house today as a sufficient answer to reports circulat- ed in Berlin sent from Washington | that congress stood two to one against
 him in the crisis.
 Bryan Showed No Influence.
 One of the days surprises was the | failure of the so-called Bryan infiu-
 ence to develop any appreciable
 strength against the president.
 McLemore Alone Spoke for Resolution In all the fight nobody. except Rep | resentative MCLemore himself, had a good word to say for the resolution about which all the storm Centered. The republicans who fought tabling
 it did so only because they wanted a chance to substitute aonther drawn by Representative Campbell of Kan sas. Once Chairman Flood of the for
 eign affairs committee did say that
 the MoLemore resolution was as broad
 and as good as the Campbell resolu- ton but he was against that. to.
 Good Feeling Prevailed. | The long debate, lasting from II
 o'clock in the morning until well af-
 ter o'clock tonight, almost without | interruption, was conducted with the
 utmost good feeling.
 1 The galleries were packed through
 out the day and hundreds were turn
 ed away.