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Show HOUSE FAVORS THE NAVAL HOLIDAY PLAN Voto to bo Taken on tho Henslcy Resolution Reso-lution Monday; Views of Party Leaders. WASHINGTON, Dec 0. With only ono or two voices raised against the llenaloy naval holiday resolution, which would authorize tho president to accept tho suggostion of Winston Churchill, for an abandonment of naval construction for ono yoar, tho debate on tho resolution was brought to a close today in the house. A voto will be taken Monday. Most of tho speakers favored the adoptiqn of the resolution because warships war-ships bolongod to a "past era." Representative Rep-resentative tiulings of Pennsylvania fa-vored fa-vored it merely as an expression of changinc sentiment. " KoHOlutions will not bring peace," said Representative Rulings. ''Peace societies will not atop war. Disarmament Disarma-ment 1b a chimera that will only become be-come roal after poaco Is established. The Hague tribunal has broken down ' because It lacks power. Wc will have ft war until the day. romea when inven- K tions make war Tmnosaible. Until the day arrives whon the nations perceive that war no longer pays, we should be ready in case of assault to curl up like a porcupine bristling at every point impregnable im-pregnable to nttack" Representative Mann of Illinois, supported sup-ported the resolution, declaring it would not bo to tho discredit of any individual to offer a proposition that spoke for pcaco nor to tho discredit of any country to propose such a plan ro-cardleso ro-cardleso of'whothcr it should succood or fniL Representatives llofllng of Alabama, Ala-bama, and Slayden, of Texas, also indorsed in-dorsed it. |
