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


OF the House and in the galleries.
Little Applause at Vote.
When the vote WAS finally announced
there was applause. but tho House and
the guests in the galleries seemed TO
realize that the gravity of the action
lust taken did not call for usual DEM
constructions.
Speaker Clark with a firm hand i'm
mediately signed the resolution and
Ennourced his signature 10 the House.
The most dramatic incident OF the
roll call was the vote OF Miss Jean
nefte Rankin of Montana the first
copgresswoman. On the first call Miss
Rankin failed to answer. She seeming,
ly was unable to make up her mind
what to do, sitting in one of the seats
In the rear OF the House chamber.
The insstent voice of the reading
clerk repeating Miss Rankin" on the
second call found her nervous in her
seat, and finally brought her to her
feet. Her face was deeply suffused.
u want to stand by my country, but
7 cannot vote for war;" she said in
broken accents.
Vote. VOTE shouted some of the
members, and in a low tone Miss Ran
kin voted no"
The anti-war members broke into
loud applause.
Jerry South, chief clerk of the House,
hurried to Miss Rankin to make GER
tain how she was to be recorded, for
the reading tellers had failed to catch
her response. Miss Rankin left the
chamber almost Immediately.
ii Anti-War Votes.
The members of the House who voted
against the resolution were:
Democrats. sixteen-Almon. Alabama :;
Burnett. Alabama; Church, California;
Connolly. Kansas; Decker, Missouri;
Dill. Washington; Dominick, South Da-
kota; Hensley, Missouri; Hilliard, Colo
RADIO: Igoe, Missouri; Heating, Colo
RADIO: kitchin, North Carolina; Melee
more, Texas: Shackleford, Missouri;
Sherwood, Ohio; Van Dyke, Minnesota.
Republican thirty-two-Bacon, Mich
igan; Br!tten. Illinois: Browne, Wiscon-
sin: Cary, Wisconsin,: Cooper. Wiscon-
sin: Davidson, Wisconsin; Davis, Mime
sofa; Dillon, South Dakota; Esch, Wis
censin: Frear, Wisconsin; Fuller, 1lli-
nois; Haugen. Iowa, Hayes, California;
Hull, Iowa; Johnson, South Dakota
King. Illinois: Knkaid, Nebraska, Knut-
Son Minnesota; La Toilette, Washing
ton. Little, Kansas; Lundeen, Mime
sofa Mason, Illinois; Nelson, Wisconsin;
Rankin, Montana; Reavis, Nebraska;
Rodenberg, Illinois: Sloan, Nebraska; ;
Stafford, Wisconsin,; 'Foigt, Wisconsin,
Wheeler, Illinois; Woods iowa
Prohibitionist, one-Randall, Califor-
MIA.
Socialist, one-London, New York.
Six members were announced as pair
ed-Hill and Webb. Fields and Meeker
and Lee and Powers
{, Speaker Clark did not vote. Repre-
sentatives Capstick of New Jersey and
Helgesen of Minnesota were absent
owing to illness. Representative Bleak
ley of Pennsylvania has resigned With
the two vacancies in the House due to
no
Amendments Voted Down.
All attempts to amend the resolution
were voted down. Representative Brit
ten of Illinois, offered an amendment
which would have forbidden the send
ing of American troops to European,
African and Asiatic battlefelds unless
on further action by Congress, except
in the case of those who volunteered
particularly for service abroad: Rep
resentatiye McCulloch of Ohio offered
substitute for the Britten amendment
emitting the volunteer provision. Both
were voted down viva voce, the noes
rolling out in thunderous refrain.
Representative Sloan of Nebraska
then offered a substitute for the entire
resolution, which was designed to re-
which this country has suffered and
placing the country in state of de-
Tense. This, too, was Overwhelmingly
defeated.
2:35 o'clock this morning. At 2:40. on
motion of Representative Flood, chair
man Of the foreign affairs committee.
the resolution was reported from the
committee Of the whole, to the House.
Mr.. Britten than made another effort
to get his amendment adopted, movin g
TO recommit the bill with instructions
to insert the amendment. 1t was de-
fA0t Ad Ia Ht hfs.ty1 roll
call on his motion.
More Than Hundred Speeches Made.
At PAS o'clock, after sixteen hours
and forty five minutes of continuous
session, the final vote began. The call
proceeded without interruption except
that of Miss Rankin, which was against
the rules of the house, but Speaker
Clark did not seek to interrupt her
statement. More than a hundred mem
bers spoke on the resolution.
Throughout the long hours the gall
1eries remained crowded. and not until
the final vote had been taken did the
spectators go. so intense was their in
terest in the proceedings. During the
day pacifists worked among the mem
bers of the House. seeking particularly
to get delay of the final vote until
the interval some action on the part
OF Germany might have done away
with cause for declaring war. The
House was determined. however, to
vote before ad adjournment.
After its work had been COMPLETED
the House, on motion of Majority Lead
er Kitchin, adjourned until Monday.
Temper ran high at times during the
debate, but for the most part the House
was in a good-natHred mood
Mace Called Into Action.
The mace was in evidence for the first
time during the discussion of the war
resolution. when Representative Burnett
ofAlabama. smallest in point of stature
of. the House members. engaged in a
verbal alteration with his colleague
Representative Helm, one of the larg-
est men, physically, on the floor, be-
cause of the latters suggestion that
Representative Kitchin resign the
House majority leadership.
Representative Burnett challenged Mr.
Hefin to go back to Randolph and