Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-12-07
WAR DECLARATION
GOES THRU TODAY
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is expected to bear principally on the
question OF inserting the names Of
Gemany's other allies.
Senators Lodge OF Massachusetts,
and Boarah OF Idaho, Republicans, led
fight In the senate committee to-
day to extend the resolution to Tur-
key and BulgarYa. They had strong
support but information submitted by
the state department finally resulted
In the unanimous approval OF the
declaration against Austria alone.
Senator Stone conferred late today
with Representative Flood and urged
substitution OF the senate committees
draft for the house document Mr..
Flood objected but promised to dia-
cuss the question with his comembers
tomorrow before house debate begins.
Reasons given by senate committee
mem Tor not adopting the house draft.
altho II was written at the department.
are numerous. The senators contend
that thse recital of reasons in the
house resolution for war with Austri1
furnished unnecessary complications,
particularly as to the statement tha.
Austria had broken off diplomatic re-
lations with this nation might be open
TO dispute.
These technical differences. all
leaders agreed, however, were com
paratlvely minor considerations aud
Npulu NC out, cltner DN pre-
liminaIy action. debate In the senate
and house, or-in n short meeting of
conferees. Whichever house acts fir st
tomorrow, will, under the rules imme.
diatelv tranmist its resolution to the
other body, which will consider sub
stitution> or pass it's own draft and
send the differences to conference.
The report of the committee be-
gins by stating the text of the war
naFfagfaH MI
then goes on
The president has asked for the
declaration that a state of war exists
against Austria Hungary. In his ad-
I dress rclivered at the joint session or
the two houses of congress on De-
cember 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 congress imme~
diately declare the United States in
state of war with Austria Hungary.
| Carries Out Presidents Wish.
| The accompanying resolution car
ries out this recommendation of tho
president The enactment OF this
declaration involves very little read
! justment of the affairs between the
United States and Austria Hungary,
| because a state of war, which this
| declaration declares to exist, actually
has been a fact for many months. Ths
depredations on American lives and
| rights by Austrian naval forces has
been small compared with that of
Germany. but they have been INDUCED
in to an extent to constitute war upon
this country and this fact, taken II.
| connection with other acts OF Austria
| Hungary, has more and more brought
| that government into a position where
| the American people have realized
that she must be included with Ger
many as an enemy.
Austrians Cause Strike.
| "In September, 1915. it was discov-
cred that Ambassador Dumba ami
Austrian consuls in st. Louis and
elsewhere, were implicated in insti-
! eating strikes in American manufac-
| turing plants engaged in the produc.
| ton of munitions of war. An Ameri-
| can citizen named Archibald, travel
ling under an American passport, had
| been entrusted with dispatches in re-
gard to this matter from Dumba and
| Bernstorff to their governments. These
| acts were admitted by Dumba. By
! reason of the admitted purpose ana
| intent of Dumba to -conspire to cripple
| business Industries in the United States
| and by reason of the fragrant viola
| tion OF diplomatic propriety in en-
ployng an American citizen, pro-
| tected by an American passport, as
secret bearer OF official dispatches
| thru the lines of an enemy of Austria
| Hungary, the Austria Hungary gov
| ernment was requested to recall
Dumba.
"The Austrian consuls at st. Louis
and New York were implicated with
Dumba in these transactions, particu-
| larly in the circulation OF strike prop
do In, mi tad in,
curing forged passports from the
United States sfor the use of their
countrymen in going home.
Long before the above activities
were made public our government had
evidence that the Austrian diplomatic
and consular service was being used
| insthis country for Germany's warlike
purposes.
Aid Ruthless Submarine Warfare.
while Austria's submarine war
fare has been of a very limited char
acter they have adopted and adhered
to the policy of the ruthless subma-
rine warfare OF the imperial German
government.
After diplomatic relations with !
Germany had been broken the de- |
partment on February IA, 1917, dis |
patched the following telegram to the |
American embassy at Vienna, survey |
ing briefly the position or the Aus
trian government on submarine war
fare: In the American note of De- !
cember s. 1915, to the Austrian Hun |
garian government in the Ancona
case, this government called attention |
t. the Views of the government of the |
United States to the action of the |
submarines in the naval warfare
which had been expressed In no IN |
| certain terms to the ally of Austria |
Hungary and of which full knowledge |
on the part of the Austro-Hungarian |
government was presumed, In its re-
ply of December Is. 1918, the imperial |
and royal government stated that II |
was not possessed with authchtio |
knowledge of all the pertinent corre- |
spondence of the United States nor
was II of the opinion that such knowl-
| edge would be sufficient to cover the |
Ancona case which was OF essentially |
n different character from those un-
der discussion with the Berlin gov
ernment.
Nevertheless. In reply to the |
American note of December 10. 1915,
the Austrc- Hungarian government III
its note OF December 20 stated:
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