Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-03-05

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ators, led by Senator La Toilette ana
encouraged by Senator Stone, demo
cratic chairman of the foreign rela-
tons committee, in a filibuster de-
nounccd by President Wilson's spokes-
men as the most reprehonsiblc in the
history of any civilized nation. deficd
the will of an overwhelming major
ity in congress up to the last minute
today and denied to the president q
law authorizing him to arm Ameri-
can merchant ships to meet the Ger
man submarine menace.
Unyieldng throughout twcnty-siX
hours of continuous session to appeals
that their defiance Of the president
would be humiliating to the country;
uncompromising in a crisis described
to them as the most serious to the
nation since the civil war, La Folet' Q
and his small group of supporters r
fused n majority of their colleagues
an opportunity to vote on the armed
neutrality bill, and it died with the
siXty-fourth cohgress at noon.
The Majority Firm
To fix responsibility before the
country, seVenty-siX senators, thirty re.
publcans and forty-slx democrats
signed manifesto proclaiming to the
world that they favored passage of
the measure
This declaration, embodied in the
record Of the senate, referred to the
fact that the house, Thursday night,
had passed q similar bill by a vote of
403 to 13, and also rected that the
senate rule permitting unlimited de-
bate gave small minority oppOrtun-
ity to throttle the will of the majority.
Thirteen senators declined to sign
the declaration, but Senator Penrose,
republican, of Pennsylvania, an
nounced that he would have voted for
the bill. had opportunity been afford
ed him, The twelve who went on
record with the thirteen members Of
the houses against granting to Presi-
dent Wilson the authority he asked
from congress in the crisis were:
The Recalcitrants.
Republicans: CIapp. Minnesota; I;
Cummins, Iowa; Gronna, North Da-
kota: Kenyon, Iowa La Toilette,
Wisconsin; Norris, Nebraska; Works,
California;.
Democrats: Kirby, Arkansas; Lane,
Oregon; O'Gorman, New York; Stone,
Missouri; Vardaman. Mississippi--5.
Associated with them i'll opposition
to the armed neutrality bill were the
following representatives who voted
against the house bill Thursday night;
Republicans: Benedict. California;
Cary Wisconsin, Cooper, Wisconsin;
Davis, Minnesota; Helgesen. North
1pl to- kT.,1
son, Wisconsin; Stafford, Wisconsin;
Wilson, Illinois,.
Democrats: Decker, Missouri;
Missouri; Sherwood,
Ohio--3.
Socialist London, New York;.
Members Who Stood Square.
The sevcnty-six senator's who signed
the manifesto were:
Democrats: Ashurst, Bankhead,
Beckham Broussard, Bryan, Cham
berlain, Chiffon, Fletcher, Hardwick,
Hollis. Hughes, Husting,
James, Johnson, South Dakota Kern,
.ea, Lee, Lewis, Martin, Virginia; Mar
tine, New Jersey; Meyers, Newlands,
Overman, owen, Phelan, pittman,
omerene Ransdell, Reed, Robinson,
Salisbury Shafroth, Sheppard,
Shields simmons, Smith. Georgia;
Smith, Maryland; Smith. South Caro-
lima; Swanson, Thomas. Thompson
rillman. Underwood, Walsh and Will
iams--46
Republicans: Borah, Brady, Bran
legee, Catron, Clark, Colt, Curtis, Dill
lngham, Dupont, FAN, Fernald. Hard
ng, Jones, Lodge. McCumber, Nc
lean, Nelson, Oliver, Page, Poindex
er, Sherman, Smith, Michigan;
Smoot, Sterling. Sutherland, Town
send, Wndsworth, Warren, Watson
md Weeks-30.
Seven Abscntces.
OF the seven senator's not record /
"a, three, Gallinger and Goff, repub- |
leans, and Gore, democrat, were alb
tent on account OF sickness
Senators Lippitt, republican. and |
Johnson of Maine, and Smith of Ari-
ona, democrats, were absent from
he city. Senator Culberson demo ,
rat, did not reach the senate in time ,
o be recorded.
Hours before the end senators who |
ought throughout the night to arnak |
own the filibuster conceived n way |
0 thwart La Follette's we'll aid |
lans to occupy the center of the q s
slative stage at the climax Of the b I
er fight. It's execution brought tt /
essiOn to dramatic end. with La
gillette fighting vainly for a chance
0 deliver a speech on which he had
'orked many days. He saw friends
f the doomed legislation inflict the
cath blow which he had planned
Instead of La Toilette Senator