The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-04-03

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congress on the presidents war mes
sage has been postponed till tomor
row il not la.n~ through the dilatory
tactics of Senator LaFollette of Wis
consin.
The senate foreign relations com
mittee this forenoon reported reso
luton that a state of war exists with
Germany. Senator Martin asked for
immediate consideration to which
Senator Lafollette objected and the
resolution was passed till tomorrow
The resolution was as follows:
Whereas, the imperial government
OF Germany has committed repeated
acts Of war against the government
and the people of the United States OF
America, 1t is therefore
Resolved, By the senate and
house Of representatives assembled
that the state of war by the imperial
government of Germany which has
been thrust upon the United States is
hereby formally declared; and that
the president be and is hereby au-
thorized and directed to employ the
naval and military forces of the Unit
ed States and other resources If
necessary to carry on the war against
the imperial German government and
TO bring the conflict to successful
termination
The resolution introduced in the
house following the presidents mes
sage was as follows;
Whereas, The recent acts of the I'M
perial German Government are acts
of war against the Government and
people of the United States:
Resolved, BY the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress as
sembled, that the state of war be-
tween the United States and the I'M
perial German Government which has
thus been thrust upon the United
States is hereby formally declared;
and
That the President be, and he is
hereby authorized and directed to
take immediate steps not only to put
the country in a thorough state of de-
fense but also to exert all OF its power
and employ all of its resources to
carry on war against the Imperial
German Government and to bring the
conflict to successful termination.
Washington, April 3.-President
Wilson last night urged Congress, as
sembled in joint session, to declare
state of war existing between the Uni
ted States and Ger. many.
In dispassionate but unmeasured
denunciation OF the course of the i'm
perial government, which he charac-
terized as crchallenge to all mankind
and a warfare against all nations,
the president declared that neutrality
no longer was feasible or desirable
where the peace of the world was in
that armed neutrality had be-
come Intellectual enough at best and
was likely to produce what it was
meant to prevent, and urged that Con-
gress accept the gage of battle with
all the resources of the nation.
81 advise that the Congress declare
the recent course of the imperial Ger
man government to be in fact nothing
less than war against the government
and people of the United States said
the president that it formally accept
the status of belligerent which has
thus been thrust upon it and that it
take steps not only to put the coun-
try in a more thorough state of de-
tense, but also to exert all its power
and employ all its resources to bring
the government of the German en-
pire to terms and end the war"
When the president had finished
speaking, resolutions to declare a
state of war existing were introduced
in both houses of Congress, referred |
10 appropriate committees, and will |
be debated today. There is no doubt |
Of their passage.
The objects of the United States in |
the war, the president said, |
we're to vindicate the principles OF |
peace and justice against selfish and
power" Without selfish |
ends, for conquest or dominion, for no !
or material compensa- |
tons for the sacrifices it shall make, |
the United States must enter the war, |
the president said, to make the world |
safe for democracy. as only one of the |
of the rights of mankind. |
and would be satisfied when those |
rights were as secure as the faith and