Show A fAIN DEFEA 00 neutrality NEUTHA LITY BI L 4 Jb foentes ENIES PRESIDENT AUTHORITY ita TO art MER CHANT SHIPS twelve senators Se natora led by lafollette and encouraged by chairman stone refuse to ao allow vote to be taken in senate wash washington angton twelve senators led by senator lafollette LaFollett el and encouraged by bir senator stone democratic chairman of the foreign relations relational committee in ai filibuster denounced by byl pres ident ent wilsons Wl Wil leons sons spokesmen as the M most oat reprehensible in the history of any civilized nation defied the will of an overwhelming majority in congress up to the last minute on march A 4 and denied to the president a law authorizing him to arm american merchant ships to meet the german submarine menace unyielding throughout twenty six hours of continuous session to appeals that their defiance of the president would be humiliating to the country uncompromising in a crisis described to them as the most serious to the nation cation since the civil war La lafollette Pollette and his small group of supporters refused a majority of their colleagues an opportunity to vote voie on the armed neutrality bill and li it died with the sixty fourth congress lit at noon sunday to fix responsibility eforo before the country seventy six senators thirty republicans and forty six democrats signed a manifesto proclaiming to the world th that i ae they favored passage atthe of the measure this ahls decla declaration ratio n embodied in the t record cord of the senate referred to the he fact act that the house thursday night march 1 had passed a similar bill by a t vote of to 13 and ilso also recited that the seh senate ate rule permitting unlimited debate gave a small minority opportunity to throttle the will of the thirteen senators declined to sign the declaration but senator penrose republican of Penn pennsylvania sylvani a announced that he would dha have v e voted tor for the bill had bad the opportunity been afforded him 1 the twelve who went genf on record with the thirteen members of the house against granting to president allon the authority he asked from i congress in the crisis were republicans cla clapp ap pp minnesota cummins iowa gronna north dakota kenyon iowa lafollette wisconsin norris nebraska works california seven democrats r kirby lAr arkansas kansas lane oregon dregon ogorman newyork new york stone missouri vardaman mississippi five |