The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1920-04-02
REPUBLICAN HOUSE LEADERS HAVE
COMPLETEDPLANS FOR DECLARING
WAR With GERMANY IS AT AN end
Cummings Characterizes Act as
Lowest Point of Moral Ca
pacity of Republicanism.
COMES UP NEXT TUESDAY
Chairman National Democratic
Organization Discusses Gen.
eral Situation and Outlook

Washington, April 1. Republican
Haders in the house today completed
tkeir plans to put through a week
from tomorrow a resolution declaring
the state Of war with Germany at an
end. The measure was favorably re-
ported today by the Foreign Affairs
Committee by a strictly party vote of
~ to and will be taken up next
Thursday under a nine hour debate
rule.
Homer s. Cummings, Chairman of
the Democratic National Committee,
today termed the Republican action
about the lowest point of moral capa-
city to which Republican leadership
has descended. 1T is an attempt" he
said, Ito use the treaty of Versailles
without first accepting it, and prob
ably will lead TO complications "the
seriousness of which it is difficult at
this time to conjecture"
Discussing the general political sit
uatinn Cummings indicated Demo-
cra@am @aders expected to have the
aid of President Wilson in the coming
campaign, II not in speeches then in
writings.
Il hope the president will be able to
participate actively in the campaign"
Cummings said. He is improved IN
health and while he may not be able
take the stump, he can still write
ind can always be heard through his
writings"
Asked for the Democratic view or
the announ cement of Herbert Hoover
as a candidate for the Republican
nomination Cummings said: 1T is
always a bad thing to see an essentia1
Democrat attempt to liberalize a
standpat party. Suppose we let that
stand.' Cummings said he assumed
the question of a more liberal con-
struction os the Volstead prohibition
enforcement act will be before the San
Francisco convention, and also the Chi
cago convention.
Republican leaders said the more
important wartime acts and powers
which would be repealed automatically
with passage of the resolution in
cluded:
Wartime prohibitions; Lever food
and fuel control law with provisions
against profiteering; Espionage act;
elective service law; authorization for
loans of ten billion dollars to allies;
complete control over all shipping;
Authorization for president to use
armed forces to prevent interference
with interstate or foreign commerce;
licensing the use of explosives; auth
orization OF a system of priority ship
ments; authorization of an employ
ment service in labor department; con-
troll over patents; war housing act;
a moratorium protecting civil rights
of men while in the service; and auth
orization OF an embargo on imports in
the discretion of the president.
The trading with the enemy C t
would be continued until Germany
agrees to provisions of the resolution.
The emergency shipping act, the
Overman act giving the president the
power to distribute executive powers
as he desires and the act creating the
war finance corporation and the capt.
tai issue committee expire six months
after declaration of peace.
The resolution viii be taken up in
the house Monday and Democratic
members of the committee said that
the fight against it would be con-
tinued there.
AS reported by the committee the
resolution was in virtually in the form
il was when introduced yesterday af-
ter a conference between Republican
leaders and members of the Foreign
Affairs Committee.