Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-06

LIZ ENlNG SlAh,
been elected last November If you had
told your constituents you Intended to
vote to send their boys into the
trenches in France"
Says "Hisses'' Speak for Kaiser.
Representative Hefiin evoked Kisses
from the galleries when he began:
IF had felt called upon to make a
speech assailing this government as
did the gentleman from North Caro-
lima (Mr. Kitchin), would then have
resigned from this House and from
the majority leadership"
After the Kisses subsidized Represent
alive Hefin said:
"All who hiss speak for the kaiser
and not for the President Of the United
States.
You who have large German popu-
lation among your constituency-you
think you are playing to them. whereas
you are assailing their honesty.
The miserable filibuster in the clos
ing hours of the last Congress was
| responsible for the situation which
confronts US today.
The kaiser is a mad monarch. He
would Prussianize the world
Representative Sloan of Nebraska
at the President and also at Represent
ative Hetin in his address.
The President was elected last No
vember on the promise to keep us out
of war" said Mr.. Sloan. There has
been no substantial change in the pol
icy of Germany since the President
was elected.
II we go into this war Representative
Hehin will have to serve as boy for a
million American mothers whose sons
Will be in the trenches
Time to Think Only of Country.
mo member Of this House will ever
emn responsibility than he is called
upon to exercise tonight" said Repre-
sentative Lenroot of Wisconsin. speak
ing in support of the resolution.
This is no time to think of oneself.
or ones political ambitions, but only
of ones country" Loud applause greet
ed this statement. Germany has made
good her threat" he continued. land
has sunk our ships and destroyed
American lives. Whatever we may
wish, that is making war on us. When
any nation at the command of its ruler
destroyes American lives, that is max
ing war on US.
"A vote aye tonight means that we
propose to meet the war made on US by
Germany. A vote mo- means that we
will submit to Germany l cannot vote
mol must vote aye"
Mr.. Lenroot, saying that he held no
brief for Great Britain, declared that If
the facts were examined into it would
he found that Great Britain had been
when she placed mines in the North
sea. The Hague convention, he said.
permitted such action. and England had
lived up to the terms Of that conven-
ton when she had given notice of her
action.
All to Have Chance to Speak.
Representative Flood, chairman of the
foreign affairs committee, asked unan-
imous consent that at o'clock gen.
eral debate close. and that the resolu-
ton then be taken up under the five
which Speaker Clark and Minority
Leader Mann both spoke in favor of
keeping the House in session all night
II necessary to vote on the resolution
and to give each member who desired
an opportunity to speak. objection was
made to the request and the debate
continued.
Mr.. Reavis of Nebraska declared that
the speech of Majority Leader Kitchin
against the war resolution had been
courage" he had ever seen. and that Mr.
Hefin and others who criticised Mr..
Kitchen were incapable of understand
ing such action. Mr.. Heflin glared at
the Nebraskan, but remained silent
Mr. Reavis advocated continuance
of the policy Of armed neutrality
which. he said, had not yet been tried
out fairly.
Shores of q. S. Blockaded.
Representative Eagle of Texas read
an extended indictment of Germany,
declaring that nation has effected as
complete a blockade Of our shores as
If her fleet had invaded our waters"
He called the kaiser mad and era
zy." said he Knows not the impulses
of humanity and declared the Ger
with constituencies spies, enslaved free
people, violated sacred promises to the
United States and has fostered in
Washington itself a nest of spies. has
murdered 240 of our citizens" and
committed other ofYenses against civ
ilization. He said that government has
encouraged the keenest development
known Of the human brain to the most
diabolical arts ever witnessed by man
kind"
Representative Browne of wiscon-
sin argued that the resolution spells
an alliance with England, Russia,
France and Japan" and enables the
American government to invade the
sacred precincts Of every American
home, snatch the boys in them and
send them to forein territory to wage
war"
"If the United States enters the
war;" he said, cit means the rest of
the neutrals will be involved"
He urged that armed neutrality be
given a fair trial.
The course of Great Britain and
Germany since the war started, from
the standpoint of international law,
was reviewed by Representative Tenn
Pile Of Pennsylvania. He said that
Germany did not even profess an OBJ
servance of international law, makes
no inquiries of the destination of ves-
sells or of the character of cargoes.
Mr.. Lundeen's New Slogan.
Representative Lundeen of Minnesota
announced: II am not a pacifcist. be-
lieve in defense and preparedness" He
protested against spending the force of
the nation and its money for the allies.
billions for America, but not dollar
for the potentates of Europe" he put
forth as a slogan.
Representative johnson Of Kentucky
read a statement in which he said that
the idea Of involving his countrymen in
! war had been repugnant to him, but
that this was not time to speculate on
what might have been. He said that
since the issue was now before the ma
ton 1t was the time for loyal citizens