Arizona republican., 1916-02-26
CONGRESS HALTS (Continued from Page One)

would postpone inauguration of thelr new policy from February 29 to April | or May. No information of this kind had reached the state department, how ever
 In spite of the prospect of inaction, there really was more evidence of con | cern apparent in the senate today than | before. Many senators conferred | with house leaders, and Senator Stone | held open house in his committee room l for consultation with his colleagues. Some told him that they were opposed to the presidents policy while others | insisted that congress should stand firmly behind the administration and | frankly asserted that they did not be- | lieve any of the proposed measures could get the approval of the senate. One democratic senator, who said he 1 did not wish to be quoted because he | did not desire to do anything to fan the flame of discord. declared he did not believe action in the house could ' be long fOrestalled unless the president | changed his views or there should come
 some development to alter the situation,
 and expressed the opinion that congress would not support the administration
 in any policy that would lead to q sey-
 erance of diplomatic relations. l Senator Stone said he saw no cause
 for immediate excitement and no req son why anyone should get the jim jams.'
 | Staunch support of the presiden, | from the republican side of the senate | came from Senator Lodge, ranking mi nority member of the foreign relations
 committee, who announced that he stood firmly by the executive on his declaration of policy.
 1 Interest in the senate centered chiefly
 on the introduction by Senator Gore | of his resolution to express the sense
 of congress that Americans should | forego their right to travel on armed | belligerent vessels and of another by | Senator Jones, republican, of Wash | ington, to declare the sense of the sen | ate that no ultimatum should be sent | to foreign power on an issue of na- l tional honor or severance of diplomatic
 relations be permitted by action of the
 executive without reference of the mat 1 ter to congress.
 Late in the day when democratic leaders saw general debate might be precipitated on these resolutions to- morrow. Senator Kern moved that the
 senate recess instead of adjourning That was done and will operate to pre- vent any action whatever. Senator
 Gore said, afterwards he had no dispo-
 sition to discuss the merits of the issue
 immediately.
 Save for a few flurries, the house
 was calm after the delegation returned
 from the White House.
 Representative McLemore made per sistent but unsuccessful efforts to in duce the foreign affairs committee t, grant him a hearing on his warnin.
 resolution. Chairman Flood explaine,
 that he believed it would be as well t. throw the subject on the floor of tn
 house as to have an open hearing. La ter, he added, when the situation wa less grave he doubtless would give hearing to all who wanted it. l Twice during the day the subjec came up on the floor of the house. bu it never reached the stage of extende discussion. When Representative Hull burt of New York proposed the print ing of 5000 additional copies of tn McLemore resolution, a wrangle an peared imminent, Speaker Clark shu off remarks with a few words abou settling the matter with the chairma of the printing committee. The speak CT failed to hear demands for recogni ton by Representative Bailey of Penn sylvania. who short time later mad public telegram he had received frol | William J. Bryan indorsing the resc lution.
 Many telegrams reached the Whi House today congratulating the pres
 dent on his attitude. One of them can from Jacob M. Dickinson, secretary , war under President Taft Members