The evening leader. (Tarpon Springs, Fla.) 191?-19??, 1917-04-05

1OAloWIliS VIC uS1SdI WItliOuI LOll Cdll
of Senator McCumber's substitution
declaring the existence of a state Of
war upon the sinking of another Am
erican ship, the administration war
resolution was passed by the senate
tonight by vote of Sc to 6.
The senators voting against the res
olution were: Gronna, North Dakota;
LaFollette, Wisconsin; Norris, Ne
braska; Lane, Oregon; Stone Missou-
ri; Vardaman, Mississippi.
House leaders have already agreed
to accept the resolution passed by the
senate and the house will vote tomor-
row morning at 10 o'clock. y
Vote Came at IL O'clock After Debate.
The vote came just after II o'clock
upon the conclusion of a debate that
had lasted continuously since 10 o'clock
this morning.
| Both the senate floors and galleries
were quiet as the vote was taken. The
senators responded to the roll call in
voices vibrant with emotion. Hardly
a murmur of applause was heard
wien the vote was announced.
Seated in the diplomatic gallery
were Secretary Lansing, other official
heads, several ambassadors, ministers
and other foreign attaches.
!
The closing hours of the senate de-
bate were marked by addresses of
more than score of senators. The
keynote Of nearly all utterances being
that America will go to war not for
aggression, dominion nor gain of any
sort, but for American honor, rights,
| liberty and justice and because peace
full American citizens have been muir
dered wantonly with impunity while
engaged in legal, legitimate business.
Many senators said that the Ameri-
can people want peace, but not at the
expense of American honor and not
if peace brings only the scorn and
contempt of other nations.
The senate adjourned Immediately
after passing the war resolution, until
noon Friday.
House to Meet at 10 a. m. Today.
BY unanimous consent the house
agreed today to begin discussion OF
the war resolution tomorrow morning
at 10 o'clock. No special rule limiting
debate will be brought in and the
house will remain in continuous SEES
sion until the resolution is passed.
The house foreign affairs commit
tee accepted the senate war resolution
for passage in place of it's own and
favorably reported the resolution for
passage.
Rep. Shackleford, Missouri, demo-
crat, and Rep. Cooper, Wisconsin, re-
publican, were the only members of
the committee to vote against the res
olution.
Immediately congressional authority
is given, the administrations plans
for conducting aggressive hostilities
against Germany will be put into ex-
ecution.
While the leaders in the house had
given no definite indication how long
debate would be allowed to continue, it
was plainly evident the house was in
no mood to permit undue delay.
Most of the pacifsts, finding their
efforts to prevent war were fruitless,
went home today. The few who re-
manned continued to seek the votes of
the members of congress against the
resolution. The ranks of the pilgrims
of Patriotism" were augmented by ad-
ditional arrivals who urged congress
men to stand by the president.
Military, economic and financial
measures were gone over in detail by
the president with his cabinet. Most
of them require congressional action,
no doubt is felt that this will be forth
coming Immediately.
Wilson's Address Distributed to Ger
mans in Trenches by Aviators.
London, April president Wilson's
war address, translated into German,