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Show SENATE INDORSES MifSJEQUESI APPROVES ACTION IN REQUESTING REQUEST-ING TERMS UPON WHICH PEACE MIGHT BE DISCUSSED. Democratic Leader Declares No More Excuses Go and That Peace in Europe is Essential to Peace Here. Washington. Approval of President Presi-dent Wilson's request for a statement of peace terms from the European belligerents was voted by the senate Friday night at the conclusion of three days of stirring debate. Action came "Wtih dramatic suddenness sudden-ness when Democratic leaders decided decid-ed to accept a form of resolution that would not compel the senate to indorsement in-dorsement of the whole of the president's presi-dent's note and ten Republicans of the Progressive group joined the majority ma-jority in making the vote 48 to 17. The resolution adopted was as follows:' fol-lows:' "The senate approves and strongly indorses the request 'by the president in the diplomatic notes of December 18 to the nations now engaged in war that those nations state the terms upon which peace might be discussed." discuss-ed." Senator Lewis of Illinois, regarded as the spokesman for the administration, administra-tion, created a sensation in the senate sen-ate when in closing the argument in behalf of the passage of the Hitchcock Hitch-cock resolution for indorsement of the president's peace note to the warring war-ring powers, he declared that continuance contin-uance of the conflict would inevitably involve the United States in the struggle. strug-gle. He asserted that the United States would not again accept as an excuse for injury to her citizens or their p'roperty through warfare, a misconception mis-conception of orders on the part of officers or an excess of zeal in carrying carry-ing them out. |