The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1917-12-06
Committee Reports Favor
ably on Resolution With
No Dissenting Votes
WILL PUT TIME
LIMIT ON DEBATE
Only Objections Heard Are
From Those Who Would
Include Other Allies
(By Associated Presa.l

Washington, Dec. 6.-With a
formal report from the foreign at
fairs committee the resolution to
declare war on Austria Hungary to-
day was brought into the house Of
representatives.
There were no dissenting votes in
the committee and at the request of
Chairman Flood the house gave its
unanimous consent to take up the
resolution tomorrow at the beginning
OF the session and pass 1t before to-
morrow night.
The house foreign affairs commit
tees report on the war resolution
declares that the United States
probably soon will send troops to
Italy.
Chairman Flood told the house
amid enthusiastic applause that the
President would ask congress to
declare war against Turkey and Bull
garia later If he deemed IL expedi-
ent but that the President and his
advisers regarded it unwise at this
time.
Representative Miller, Of Mime
sofa, the only member Of the COM
mittee who was disposed to insist
on including Turkey and Bulgaria,
told the house he favored war on
those two countries but was willing
to wait. He voted, however, in favor.
of the resolution as it was reported
today.
Turkey And Bulgaria.
Chairman Flood briefly answering
Representative Miller stated that the
United States had not yet broken
relations with Bulgaria; that Bull
garians were not fighting against
American soldiers and that this gov
ernment had no reason to declare
war on her. The Turks, he stated,
had committed no act OF war against
the United States and should not
be included I'm the resolution.
The statement that Bulgarians
were not fighting against Americans
was challenged by Acting Republican
Leader Gillett who said he had
information he considered reliable
that Bulgarian officers were fighting
with the enemy on the western
frontga
At the conclusion of Mr.. Floods
statement the house adjourned until
tomorrow. The report Of the COM
mittee begins by stating the text OF
the war resolution as perfected yes
terday and then goes on:
THE President has asked for the
declaration that state Of war exists
against Austria Hungary. In his ad-
dress, delivered at the joint session
of the two houses OF congress on Dec.
4, he uses this language:
"One very embarrassing obstacle
that stands in our way is that we
are at war with Germany, but not
with her allies. therefore very
earnestly recommend that the con-
gress Immediately declare the Unit
ed States in state Of war with Aus
tria-Hungary.'
Carries Out Recommendation.
"The accompanying resolution
carries out this recommendation Of
the President. The enactment Of
this declaration involves very little
readjustment Of the affairs between
the United States and Austria Hun
gary because a state of war which
this declaration declares to exist
actually has been a fact for many
months. The depredations on AM
erican lives and rights by Austrian
naval forces has been small COM
pared with that OF Germany but they
have been indulged in to an extent
to constitute war upon this country
and this fact, taken in connection
with other acts Of Austria Hungary
has more and more brought that gov
ernment into position where the
American people have realized that
she must be included with Germany
as an enemy.
EN- September, 1915, it was dis
covered that Ambassador Dumba and
Austrian consuls in st. Louis and
elsewhere were implicated in
instigating strikes in American
manufacturing plants engaged in the
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