Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1917-03-03
,p(sl0ENT WILL RECEIVE POWER REQUESTED
continued from page one.)


 s.,ublican members of the commit
 IVY se1l the leadership in the press pg gnotor m t La Toilette, about whose ,,snde 0sna there has been some uneasi-
 sIs.s sass announced he would talk at
 ne,S, sth m the measure, but had no in leussn s;ar of filibustering against it. teasod mho dramatic features of the situa- ,.r ,nS were augmented by the crowded
 uou umor;es and by the presence of
 ssa,at shnot officers and many represen-
 .aj .styps on the floor. as spectators.
 s,a,u amoY,q those in the diplomatic gal
 huDls ,s.r earlv in the night was Sir Cecll
 ts; Stsny;ng-Rice, the British ambassador:
 'p''' ! All Speak of War. { uore than one speaker declared
 ,,e t'1 massage of the senate bill would
 assn .y war; sooner or later, but almost
 u. ulithout exception they added they
 roro r.. ready to accept war on those
 ,erms @ Few of the speakers failed ,o mention war. None expressed any so1ief hut that the bill will pass and rl1 he accepted tomorrow by the house.
 Answering question by Senator 1ones as to whether the president vi1l under the bill, be given author itv to arm ships of other nations. Senator Hitchcock called attention to inc words vessels of the United States" in the bill.
 Senator Lodge, the ranking Repub- lican member of the foreign relations committee. also said the measure gave the president no right to arm foreign ships, but added:
 T do thing most decidedly, how. ever, that American citizens, in the peaceful pursuit of trade or travel, who are lawfully on belligerent mer- chant ships, have rights which it IS the duty of this government to guard"
 Son Wants Vengeance.
 Senator Lodge then read the cable gram sent to President Wilson bv Austin D. Hoy, whose mother and sister were lost on the Laconia:
 T am an American citizen. living abroad not as an expatriate, but for promotion of American trade.
 T love the flag, believing in it's significance.
 My loved mother and sister, pas sengers on the Laconia, have been foully murdered on the high seas.
 "As an American citizen outraged and as such, fully within my rights as an American son and brother, be- reaved, call upon my government to preserve it's citizens self respect and save others of my countrymen from such deep grief as l now feel.
 q am of military age, able to fight.
 If my country can use me against these brutal assassins, ] am at it's call.
 If it stulifies my manhood and my nations by remaining passive under shall seek q mans chance under another flag"
 < That to me is painful reading" he said "Those two women were law fully on that boat. They did not secure their rights. American ships, torpedoed without warning in the dark, the women perishing miserablv in an open boat! do not think this bill gives the president the power to convoy such a ship unless the united States is at var, but evel without war, the president has some power to assert the rights of harm less, peaceful travellers"
 Gan Gets What He Wants. '. Senator Works asked why the bill nd not give the president authority b protect Americans on vessels of other nations.
 because he has ample general con- s!!ltutlonal power to protect American tltlzens," said Senator Lodge, land If ne needs further authority from con- sfess. ne has only to apply for it and ne will get it."
 Declarlng # means war if the armed ships pursue "shoot on 'isat 'i policy toward German subma- llnes, Senator Reed asked whether 1t wouldn't be more business like to ,a axe our fighting ships and go out iuallng submarines"
 !, senator Husting interjected that ne n method proposed in the bill .''a raves it to Germany whether she ".il ~aa , commit the act that leads to var, anA Senator Walsh reminded ,enator ,;, Reed that "all the power sHen stte the president is to defend, not ,.sack. 'u Senator Reed said he was " of the result of the bill, Gcd to vote for it.
 oeAatOr Lane asked why the ITnited