The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-04-26
CONSPIRACY TO SCARE CONGRESS BY ANTI=WAR
 DEUCE IS SUSPECTED
Senators Representatives Flooded With Teegrams Pro German Origin and Officials Inquiry is Likely Indignation at Attack Upon U. s. Government.

When the Arms Embargo Confer ence' was first organized William Jennings Bryan expressed his sym pathy with the movement and agreed to make some speeches favoring it's purposes.
 Agents of the general 'conference" and of the peace societies subor- dinate to it have been numerous and unusually. energetic of late at the na- tionaI capital. Some Of them have openly declared it to be the purpose of their organization to promote out breaks among their Congressional synpathizers and to organize opposi- tion to President Wilson and members of Congress who are supporting his policy in dealing with Germany.
 Minority Leader Mann declared on the floor of the House today that he opposed the breaking off diplomatic relations with any nation
 q believe said he, that we ought to. restrain ourselves and even stand insult and injury, but there is a limit to which no one goes. do not be- lieve we have reached that limit hope we will restrain ourselves, so as not to reach that limit
 The House approved of this .senti-
 nent and received it with great ap- plause on both sides of the chamber Previous references to, a large stand ing army on the part of MT. Mann had been taken with cold indifference on account of the fact that most of the advocates of preparedness believed he was only endeavoring to carry out g fllibuster in order to prevent the Ad- nninistration's program from being carried out
 But his declaration against any break in the relations between this country and a foreign nation made the members forget fer the time being I@r7E purely political motives in the re-
 marks he had made.
 The State Department yesterday re- ceived from Am bassador Gerard at Berlin and-Ambassado Penf1eld at Vienna reports indicating that the people of the Central Powers are strongly opposed to break with the United States. These cabled reports are based on public sentiment as out lined in the Berlin and Vienna news papers.
 While the Berlin papers are temper ate in their autterances,, they indicate clearly desfre of the German people to avoid a break if possible% The report from Ambassador PenfeId indicates an even stronger desire on the part, of the Austrian people to avoid a break
 Secretary Lansing, in a conference with newspaper correspondents, depre- cated the publication of reports that O11C194 aaeSpAlcQSsS-sl lLa2fe I11e aSttle =41e=- Epartment from Ambassador Gerard in ddcated that Germany might make concessions to the United States in re- ply to the note. He said official des- patches to the department from Berlin contained only quotations of newspa-z per opinions
 The last~despatch received from MT. Gerard. Secretary Lansing said. was dated before the Imperial Chancellor, pr. von BethInann-Hollweg had re- turned from a visit to the Emperor at the front, and had conferred with the ambassador.
 It is understood here that one of the objects of the various conferences known to have taken place between. officials of the Berlin Foreign ORce and Ambassador Gerard has been to make it plain to the ambassador that there would be no avoidab1e delay in responding to the American note Press despatches from Berlin have in-i dicated that reply would not be made until after the chancellor had another opportunity to confer with the Emperor