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answer regarding the real issue. They say Americans are being killed by German submarines We have not a leg to stand on, in support of this declaration.''
 That the United States did not pro- test more vigorously against the British mine field blockade, was the administrations greatest mistake, the senator said, and the real and pri- mary cause of an American declara- tion of war.
 We have widowed in the mire at the feet of Great Britain, and have submitted in silence to her dictation," :" he continued. Because we have acquiesced, we have legal and moral responsibility to Germany Thus we have been actively aiding her enemy in starving German women, children and old men. Germany waited three long months for this government to protest. In principle, therefore, Ger many had the right to hlindly destroy ships buy submarine and mines. In her own blockade zone, Germany is only doing what England is doing. Germany has been patient with us, standing strictly on her right to be accorded the same treatment as Eng land by us"
 Williams Arraigns LaFOllette.
 When Senator LaFollette had been speaking for more than three hours, Senator Williams rose to reply.
 "The speech of the Wisconsin sena- tor would better have come from Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg than from all American senator" said Will Hams. "In fact he has gone farther than von Bethmann-Hollweg would ever have gone. von Bethmann- Hollweg said the use of the subma- rines could be justified only on the ground of necessity. The sensator from Wisconsin puts it on the same footing as Great Britain's interfer- ence with our commerce.
 'T fully expected the senator from Wisconsin, before he took his seat, to defend the invasion of Bel gium, the most barbarous act ever committed" he continued. "I heard from him speech that was pro-Ger- man, pro-Goth, pro-vandal, and which was anti-president, anti-congress and anti-American. While pronouncing his eulogy on the German people, he might have eulogized much greater, better and more intelligent people, the Americans.
 s'His speech was exactly what might have been delivered. in the German reichstag by von Bethmann-Hollweg, if von Bethmann-Hollweg had had the audacity, but von Bethmann-Hollweg has too much sense, to much know. ledge. to make that speech" LaFo]lette Leaves Senate Chamber.
 At this point Senator LaFollette left the senate chamber, but remained in the cloakroom while, within hearing distance.
 Continuing, Senator Williams de- clared that he heard in imagination the groans of men, women and chill dren sent to watery graves by Ger man submarines.
 "Rut the senator from Wisconsin" he declared, "hears none of them. have no patience with any man who stands up in the senate at this time, applauding the common enemy, who also is the enemy Of the human race, and with not a word in praise of an American president or the American people.
 eff the American people can not be aroused now in patriotic fervor, they are degenerate sons of worthy slres. We are involved in this war, not by congress, but by the German kaiser
 Senator Cummins. in announcing that he would vote for the resolution, declared that he believed there was no way to meet the situation, other than war, and that he desired ito have united nation back of the president against Germany in the war which is inevitable"
 Kirby Explains Position. \
 Senator Kirby of Arkansas, who voted against the armed neutrality bill, announced early today that ne would vote for the war resolution, "that it may appear we are together, and because ito vote against Il" ne felt, "would be futile"
 "I have felt from the beginning, he said, "that the policy we were pur- suing would result in war as It IS to- day. For that reason, l voted against the armed neutrality bill, which it's friends now say is lnef- ficient. I do not believe that a ma iority think we should be forced inso war under existing conditions, but l am for my country, right or wrong"
 Americans Are Assassinated.
 eve must announce to the world that patriotism in America has not departed,ss said Senator Borah tf Idaho. "More than 800 Americans have been assassinated within sigat of our flag and hearing of our border We have submitted with patience Shall we now be charged with lm- patience, if we announce that from whence the challenge comes, America will protect it's own?"
 Senator Shoot made the last speech, a short prayer that God would "hasten the day when liberty shah be enjoyed by all the people of the earth" ,,
 Before the vote was taken on the resolution, a substitute, offered ny Senator McCumber, which would de- clare the existence of state Of war upon the sinking of another American shin by Germany, was defeated, .wf1h- out roll call. Senator Hitchcock ana Senator Poindexter both demanded a