The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-04-13
PRESIDENT HAS SIGNED
DECREE Of CONGRESS
AFFIXED TO WAR MEASURE
AT l:ls O'CLOCK TODAY
Conflict Between Democracy and Auto.
cracy Is On; United States Has Be.
come An Ally of England, France and
Russia; Battle to Crumbie the Throne
Upon Which Sits the Emperor Of
All Germany
UNITED Press Dispatch.]

| UNITED Press Dispatch.l
From Fridays Daily.
Washington, April Gin a state
ment approving the army plan as pre-
scented to congress by the war de-
partment, President Wilson today said
the 'hope of the world is that when
the European war is over, arrange
ments will have been made, compos-
ing many of the questions which have
hitherto seemed to require the arm
ing of nations"
Washington, April 6.-Four of the
congressman of Minnesota voted
against the war resolution. These were
congressman Charles r. Davis, Carl
c.. Van Dyke, Harold knutson and
Lundeen. 80 '. Eit -.
| Washington, April 6.--At lib
o'clock this afternoon President Will
son signed the declaration of war,
passed by both houses of congress,
against Germany Vice President
| Marshall, as president of the senate,
had signed the resolution an hour
before. The United States is now an
| ally of England, France and Russia
| ina war for democracy as against
autocracy.
| Scene in Senate Chamber. as
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Washington, April cit was 1913
o'clock this afternoon, when Vice
| President Marshall affixed his sigma
ture to the resolution declaring the
existence of state of war between
this country and Germany. There
was breathless excitement on the part
/ of all in the senate chamber, both on
| the floor and in the galleries, when
| the house messenger appeared, and
is was announced that he had doc
ument from the house of representa-
| tives.. Everybody within hearing
| knew we'll what that document was.
| The document was handed to Vice
President Marshall. He looked it
| over carefully for about three min
utes, deliberately wet his pen with
| his tongue, dipped the pen in the ink
! and without tremor or hesitation
| wrote his name, Thomas r. Marshall.
Senator La Toilette did not turn as
much as glance on the vice presi-
dent, while the latter was going
through the necessary Formally for
the, perfection of that momentous res
Olution. Senator Stone gaZed absent
mindedly into the galleries. 1t
seemed that all of the other senators,
as we'll as the other spectators, had
their eyes glued on the vice presi-
| dent. -. 80
An Emergency War Fund.
| !. p. ASSOCIATED Press DIsnatch.l ~
| Washington, April 6.-An appropria- :
tion of $100,000,000 for an emergency
| war fund to be used at the presidents
| discretion, similar to the "$50,O0O,O0O
given President Mckinley for the
prosecution Of the Spanish war, was
attached by the senate appropriations
committee to the general deficiency
| bill. %v7- -"t ".r' e~ .' hn
Signal to Navy Department.
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| Washington, April 6.--Immediately
after President Wilson affixed his
signature to the war resolution in the
library of the state capitol early this
| afternoon, Lieutenant Commander
McCandless motioned a signal across
| the street ito the office of the navy
department. announcing that the full
| formality of the declaration of the
existence of state of war had been
completed. From the navy department
| wireless messages were instantly
flashed out to all the naval stations,
to all forts and to all other military
and naval centers in the country and
likewise to all the war vessels.
Messages Sent Out. HHr
| Messages at once were sent form
ally.-to all of the Washington diplo-
mats, announcing what had been done.
| A special message was sent to the
Swiss ambassador who represents
the German diplomatic interests in
! the United States. He at once took
the necessary steps to have the news
communicated to his home govern.
ment at Berne, whence it will be
sent to the Berlin government 1t is
expected that the formal announce.
ment will have reached the American
embassy at every national capital
within the coming twenty four hours.
,, Resolution Filed AWAY. .
Washington, April 6.-The. war
| solution, after it's signature by the
president, was sent to the office of
| the department of state, where it was
filed amid hundreds of thousands of
! others. Yet this resolution will ever
| be a historic document. AS Presi-
dent Wilson says, it marks an epoch
in the struggle to decide the ques-
ton whether the world shall be gov,
erned by democracy or by imperial
4 ism.
Opinion of George HuIe.
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st. Paul, Mimi, April 6.-Major
| George Hule, in command at Fort
/ Smelling, today expressed the opinion
( that if the United States should send
million men to help the Russians,
this would be doing greater service
| to the allies than to send that number
1 to the western front.
1
! Warling Committed Suicide.
The mystery surrounding the dis
! appearance of George Warling of St.
( James has been cleared by the find
ing of his dead body on the farm of
liver Olson, mile from St. James.
| Warling had committed suicide.
| Air ship Sent to Mill City.
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