Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-04-06
Passage of the Resolution Is
Assured and Then Only
Signature Is Needed
MAKE PROVISION FOR
WORK OF CAMPAIGN
] Departments Submit Their
Estimates on Cost to
Garry Out Plans

Washington. T.. c.. April 5.-Debate
on the war resolution dragged along in
the house through the day in such a
perfunctory manner that scarcely at
any time were the floor or galleries
filled.
It's passage a foregone conclusion.
the debate was prolonged only by the
plan of the administration floor lead
ers to give every opponent his oppor-
tunity to speak Passage of the reso-
luton before adjournment tonight
was assured and then, with the presi.
dents signature, state Of war be-
tween the United States and Germany
will be a formally accomplished
fact
While the house was hearing the
speeches the first concrete act to make
provision for the >onSa-' OF the war
came from the war and nav. depar.-
lalI11 which. submitted estiIhates ftyF
is IONS -f 81 $3,40s. 900. 10 He
spent within year.
III was the first ohicial manifesto.
fion OF the presidents determination
that the nation must enter the war
whole heartedly and with all its force;
that II must not be a half war"
Chairman Of the military commit.
tees in house and senate went over the
war departments army bill which
provides for raising an army of 2,O0O'
900 - the first million by expansion
of the regular army and national
guard, and the remainder by universal
service.
Springs Sensation.
Representative Miller of Minnesota,
republican member Of the foreign af-
!. fairs committee, sprung sensation
\ during discussion Of the war resolu.
!. ton in the house today by declaring
than an unpublished paragraph Of the
! Zimmerman note offered to establish
q submarine base In a Mexican port,
supply Mexico with unlimited quanti-
ties of arms and ammunition and send
German reservists in the United
States to Mexico.
Representative Miller further said
he understood three German schoon.
ers had landed on the western coast OF
Mexico and that Villa was surrounded
by German officers who had taken
charge OF the drilling OF his men, Re.
liable information, he said, also was
that the Carranza army was mot
MUCH USIlcI. IL HAS UCtIl uuucIcIOOo,
but never oficially announced, that
the full text of the Zimmerman in
etructions to German minister Won
Eckhart was not published with the
main portion which revealed the at.
tempt to ally Mexico and Japan in war
against the United States. Members of
the foreign affairs committees in con.
gress, however had been supplied with
the full text and with other evidences
of German intrigues against this gov
eminent.
The unpublished portion OF the Zin-
norman note, Miller quoted as fol-
lows:
"Agreeably to the Mexican govern
ment submarine bases will be estab-
lished at Mexican ports, from which
will be supplied arms, ammunition
and supplies. All reservists are order
ed into Mexico. Arrange to attack all
along the border"
Lansing Denies Il.
When Representative Miller's quota.
tion was submitted to Secretary
Lansing, however the secretary Of
state, declared the zimmerman In.
structions Contained nothing Of the
sort"
Only One Course.
"War is being made upon our coun-
try and It's people," Representative
Flood said in opening. Our ships are
being sunk Our non-combatant citi-
gems including men. women and chill
dren are being murdered, our merchant
men are denied the freedom of the
seas There Is no choice as to our
course. We are compelled by the acts
! of the German government to enter in
to this most colossal war
"The time for argument has passed !:
the time for heroic action Is here and
our people will rally to the support of
their government In this high and pat
riotic hour and meet wars sacrifices
and wars perils as brave and patriot
ic people should"
Representative Siegel Of New York,