Show PRESIDENT LACKS REAL AUTHORITY FA FAILURE TO PASS ARMED NEU BILL LEAVES EXEC HELPLESS Exira extraordinary ordinary session no cure unless senate amends rules so that will of majority cannot carmit be defeated washington president wilson informed the c gantry in a statement issued I 1 sunday n night ight that he aay may be without power to arm merch merchant ant ships chips and take othera steps to meet the german submarine menace lathe in the absence of authority i from congress an extra extra session of congress the president says is required to clothe him with authority but it is useless to call one lethe senate senaie works under de the present rules which permit a small minority to keep an over overwhelms overwhelm whelm 1 tag ing majority froni from acting the president proposes therefore that the special session of the senate which he called domeet to meet march 5 revise sethe the rules to supply the means of action and save the country from dis disaster asier A little group ot of wilful meri men says the president in his statement representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the united states helpless and contemptible temp tible 1 |