Bisbee daily review., 1917-02-08
SENATE VOTING 78 ID ]
 LOYALTY BACKS WILSON
 IN BREAK WITH GERMANY
Works of California and LaFoette Are Among the Five Objectors But Loyal Republicans and Democrats Stand As One and Snow Under the Dssenters- Senators Kirby of Arkansas and Vardaman Fall Short Democrats.

' strongly supported in his address be- fore the joint session.
 'I think it both wise and advisable for the Senate to signify officially that it accepts and approves this action of the nations chief executive"
 Kirby Again It"
 Senator Kirby made his first ad- | dress to the Senate. an impassioned declaration that he would not support the resolution.
 "I regard it as a preliminary de- claration of war;" he said. If the re- solution shall be voted upon favorably today. do not believe the time has come in the history of this country when we shall side with Germany or when we shall side with the allies. The time has not come in my opinion when we should commit ourselves by the adoption of this resolution to any policy that the. President may here after pursue. Under the constitution and the law he has no power to de z - s-f--Af ~s the DOW
 s war and
 @-ecessary for congress to ,-~.<, and he has almost ,.1Ae so."
 Forget Party Lines, r Senator Lodge, ranking Republican member of the foreign relations com mittee led the discussion in favor of the resolution. He asserted that the President had taken grave action and that he felt it his duty to support him ito the utmost of my power He also appealed to the Senate against divisions in the crisis as the best guarantee to preserve peace.
 Ny earnest hope" said Senator Lodge, is that al this time personal feelings, political feelings, political enmities will be laid aside. that we remember only that we are citizens of common country, that we are all Americans, and that our first duty is to stand together in this controversy, which has unhappily arisen with an- other nation, and let that nation and the world know that when the Presi- dent speaks, as he has spoken, he has the congress of the United States and the people of the United States, no matter what their race or origin on his side"
 Three "Wise" Men.
 Senators Vardaman, Gi3nna and Works declared they could not SUD- port the resolution because they did not believe the Presidents course wise or justified by the facts. All feared what it might lead to. Senator Lafollette made no address bu; an. nounced he would do so later
 One of the stirring addresses was delivered from the Democratic side by Senator Underwood who deprecated the presence of the resolution before the Senate although he voted for it. He drew from Senator Stone the ad- mission that the President had not been consulted regarding introduction of the resolution. The President reached his room near the Senate chamber while the debate was going on, but left immediately without con. sulting any senators as soon as he learned what was under considera- tion.
 Senator Sherman, Republican, pro- nounced the German declaration of ruthless submarine warfare the most unjustifiable proclamation to the na- tions of the world since the days of the Corsairs, since Drake and Frob- isher, when pirates sailed the seas"
 Senator Borah. Republican, declared the Presidents course was taken sole
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