New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-04-09
Peace Measure
Wins, 2l3-l55,
In Test Vote
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and conditions that pertain to peace.
1t is the duty Of Congress to withdraw
from the President the powers granted
to him in time Of war.
No one has suggested a possible
justification for resuming a state of
war powers In the President. He is
left with the utmost freedom to nego-
tiate treaty with the advice and con-
sent Of the Senate, as provided in the
plain terms of the Constitutions"
Representative Campbell criticized
President Wilson for opposing the
proposed move for peace.
"He first kept US out of war, and
now he would keep us in war, although
the war has long since ended" said
Mr.. Campbell. He added that the
Presidents course in opposing the res
olution was unreasonable" since tt c
President told Congress on November
IL, 1918, that war thus comes to an
Jeers From the Galleries
Representative Pou. Democrat. of
North Carolina, asserted that the
House of Representatives had no power
to take any step toward peace.
This House has no more power to
propose peace with Germany than any
serted. eve have no more authority
than the Board of Aldermen in my
home town of Smithvlle."
The Democratic members cheered
Mr.. Pou when he addressed the Re-
publicans, asserting:
"Whatever you may think of the
President, he won his fight for the
league of nations, and that alone, with
out anything else Of his great career,
was enough to win immortality"
When he concluded his speech by
shouting to the Republicans that "the
damnation of history will be upon you
and the damnation of the American
people is near at hand" cat calls and
the Republican side of the chamber.
Representative Cantrill. Democrat, Of
Kentucky, opposing the resolution, de-
nounced the Republicans for attacks
upon the President while he was
stricken.
81 hope the House will keep dignifed
and not place itself in the same posi-
ton MS another branch of Congress in
the eyes Of the people," he said
Aimed at Wilson's War Powers.
"The Republicans would have been
glad to have had the President bring
about peace at any time if only he had
done it." said Representative Tess, Re
publican, of Ohio. 1.-THE President could
have ended the war technically any
time if he had been willing to do so.
He was not willing, and is not now
willing, and it is up to Congress- to
act"
Representative Porter. Of Pennsyl-
vania, chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee OF the House, in calling up
dow, y Il xl.o4
Congress act for peace
at is now upward OF seventeen
months since the signing Of the armi-
stice," said Mr.. Porter. "The President
still retains his war powers and refuses
to surrender them unless the Senate
yields to his arbitrary views as to the
terms and the conditions Of the treaty
OF peace"
Repre- sentative Porter spoke at length
in support Of the constitutonality OF
the pence resolution, ard declared that
passage Of the resolution would not
disturb in any way the status Of the
treaty negotiations.
Representative IIuddlcston, Demo-
crat, of Alabama, made an impassioned
appeal TO his Democratic colleagues to
vote for the resolution.
1.-The treaty is dead" Mr.. Huddles-
ton declared. "The Senate twice
adopted substantial reservations that
it believed were necessary to safe
guard American interests, and the
President in his recent letter to Sen
ator Hitchcock said he would not &C
ccpt those substantial reservations.
"Thcrc is a deadlock, and the treaty
is dead We might as we'll recognize
that fact and meet the situation. The
American people want peace, and they
cannot get it By having this dragged
through the political campaign. be-
cause there would still be a deadlock
at the end Of another twelve months ~
LET US refuse TO he rubber stamps
this one time. at least" urged Repre-
sentative Rogers, Republican,, Of Massa-
chusctts in advocating adoption Of the
resolution.
Representative Newton, Republican
of Minnesota, replied to assertions OF
Representative Connolly, Democrat, of
. Texas, that the resolution was pro
posed to embarrass Pres dent Wilson
By saying:
"lf we must embarrass either the
President or the American people, who
viii be embarrassed if peace is not
restored. for ore prefer to embur
rass tho President"
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