Show r. r END WAR AR T TO J CONTESTED y V otc ote on oil Termination of t Hostilities B Between U. U S. S and Germany Forced b by E House G. G 0 O. P. P Lead Leaders By A. A Associated d rr t W ASHINGTON April 7 Final Filial d determination was gas reached today to to- day by Republican leaders lenders in tho the fiT POUSO r to brin bring b to a n noto vote voto in that body late lato Friday the resolution to de declare laro iho state of oi war 1 with Germany at an and lind nd A special rule reported today by bythe the rules roles committee pro provides for six hours hours debate on Thursday and five hours bOurs on Friday after which C of the resolution may offer only a a motion to recommit minority report representing re- re Completion today of or tho the port ort presenting views Mows of or Democratic affairs com com- members of or the foreign on the tho resolution cleared the tho I debate way dray for the long IonS Flood of or Virginia ranking Democratic Demo Demo- I cratic member of ot the committee presenting pre seating the minority report challenged the Dower power of of C Congress to bring the war war legally to to an end md character character- zed section five fiva of tho the rc resolutions re asan na as naan an an attempt to preserve something out of the wreck of ot American rights which liae been so outrageously surrendered I Informer former sections of or the resolution Conf Confuses s Foreign Relations Relation From whatever angle this resolution Is If viewed he continued it presents Itself as a proposition not only in achieving ing its proclaimed purpose pur pur- pose Just as a sure method of confusing confusing confusing con con- fusing our forel foreign n relations injecting new and complicated questions into an already difficult situation and involving involving In ing a surrender of American rights and aid an Impairment of Amerl American an prestige prestige pres pres- tige and honor The minority report took particular exception to tho the statement In tho the resolutions reso reso- preamble that the President had Informed Congress the war was at atan atan atan an end Tr Treaty Aty to End n War r rAt At no time and under no circum circumstances stances has the President made any such Fuch assertion the tho report said sald It Is true that on the signing of ot the armistice armistice ar ar- tho President In the course of or an address to Con Congress ress used the tho 1 words the war thus comes to an end But he lie spoke of actual hostilities as ever every one knew know and not of the technical technical technical tech tech- state of ot war It takes a treaty to end a warThe war Tho The drafters of the resolution and th the members of or the ho committee on foreign for for- eign affairs who voted for it It knew that this was ws tho the case B By quoting this statement of the President as the basis for this resolution the authors of or the resolution lay themselves open to the charge of ot Insincerity and sharp tice Supreme me Court D eLoD The s supreme court recently declared r- r ed that what the President had done did not announce the legal termination tormina- tormina tion of or the war the tho report declared d. d citing tho the decision In the Kentucky distillerIes distilleries dis dis- cases Representative Flood asserted that sections of the resolution restricting tra trade e with Germany or seeking to re repeal repeal reveal re- re peal veal wartime le legislation were cre within the powers of or Congress but cited many authorities to sustain his contention that so far as it seeks to direct tho the President to Issue a a. proclamation n toto to the to German government It entrenches upon the tho treaty making rs powers and I not tit within the tho power of Congress |