The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-04
How Senators Voted

Ayes: Ashurst, Bankhead, Beckham, Brandegee, Broussard, Burleigh, Chiffon, Clark, Wyoming Clarke, Arkansas Colt, Culberson Curtis, Dillingham;, Dupont Fletcher, Gore, Harding, Hardwick, Hitchcock, Hollis, Hughes, Husting, James. Johnson, Maine; Johnson, South Dakota Kern, Lane. Lee. Mal,yland; Lewis, Lodge, Mclean. Martin, Maritime, Myers, Nelson, Newlands, Oliver Over man. Owen, Page. Phelan, Pittman, Poin- dexter, Pomerene, RansdeIl, Reed, Shaf- roth, Sheppard, Shields, Simmons, Smith, Arizona; Smith, Georgia; Smith, Mary land. Smith, Michigan, smith, South Car olina Sterling, Stone, Swanson, Thomas, Thompson, Tillman. Underwood. Varda- man. Wadsworth. Walsh, Warren, Weeks, Williams. Total, 6S
 Nays: Borah, Chamberlain Clapp Cum mins. Fall, Gallinger. Gronna, Jones, La- Toilette, McCumber, Norris, O'Gorman, sherman, Works. Total, 14.
 Administration forces are confident of a full fledged victory.
 At the White House satisfaction was expressed with the Senate's action
 Senator Gore, who voted for the mo- tion to table, declared he considered the administration victory mixed one.
 The debate which followed the Sem ate vote was sensational Senator Lewis, the democratic whip pleading with senators for moderation in their remarks, declared the Spanish war
  Congress in similar to that taken today and that the war was brought on by vituperative debates. Senator Clarke, democrat of Arkansas who voted with the administration fofNes declared their action did not represent the real sen timent of the Senate. Senator Fall, 8 republican, said:
 FALL RAPS SENATE
 By your action today you have sent to the Kaiser if you have done any thing, notice that the Senate of the United States will look upon his sink ing of armed merchant ships and the death of an American citizen probably with some degree of regret, but that no action would be taken against him."
 Senator Borah of Idaho arraigned the Senate for what he characterized as it's evasive action. He said he would rather have battleships sunk than to have the honor of this Senate com promised before the world"
 On the other hand. Senator Kern, the majority leader upheld the action, as- serting that it would proclaim to all nations that the President in exercis- ing his constitutional powers in the conduct of negotiations with the central powers, spoke mot for himself, not for his party but for all the people of his country who are prepared to back him with their lives in an insistence on American rights"
 NO CONFUSING ISSUE
 Emphatically asserting that there could be no confusing of the. Senate action be- cause of technical parliamentary en- tanglements, Senator Lodge of Massa- chusetts, ranking republican member of the foreign relations committee, said the Senate had gone on record as opposing a warning to Americans and against in- terference with the executive" Sena- tor Hardwick of Georgia issued state inent saying that the President had sue ceeded in preserving peace with honor and should be supported.
 Senator Broussard said The voted to table because he wished to stand by the President in crisis. He would support the President as long as he could avert war.
 The action which effectualIy disposed of the Gore resolution was complex one. Senator Stone moved to bring the resolution before the Senate and Senator Gore then obtained permission to change his resolution. Retaining the original
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