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Show 100T TELLS WHY HE FAILEDJO VOTE Does Not Believe Any Foolhardy Fool-hardy Citizen Has Right to Jeopardize Country. SUTHERLAND ABSENT Returns After Roll Call and Announces Himself on Side of President. Special to The Tribune. WASHINGTON. March 3. Neither Utah senator voted on the motion to table the Gore resolution. Senator Sutherland was absent from the senate sen-ate on official business, and Senator Smoot, in view of the confusion, asked to- be excused from voting. "I would have voted on the original Gore resolution if j;iveu an opportunity to do so," said Senator Smoot. . "But I was not willing to vote under the circumstances that arose. After Senator Sen-ator James had moved to table the original Gore resolution, and after tuo yeas and nays had been ordered, Son-ator Son-ator Gore offered a substitute for his resolution that was the direct opposite to the original resolution. The substitute sub-stitute was read, and I venture to say that not one-fourth the senators present pres-ent heard what was in it. It was not explained nor debated. Still Has Hopes. "I stated, when my name, was called,! that not being ablo to vote directly ; on the Gore resolution, on which the president had requested a vote, and not being; able to discuss or hear discussed dis-cussed the substitute offered by Senator Sen-ator Gore at the last minute, I asked the senate to excuse me from voting. I did not feel like I wanted to be put in the position of voting on one resolution reso-lution when, in fact, the senate was voting on an entirely different proposition. propo-sition. 1 did not want to have to explain ex-plain a vote of that kind. I am in hopes that the majority members of the senate will allow a vote to be had on the subject direct, for the vote today to-day has settled nothing. The senate dodged a question it had no right to dodge." Holds With Gore. Asked how he would have voted if the original Goro resolution had been under consideration, Senator Smoot said: "Under the circumstances, and in view of the request of the president that a vote was desired to enable hi to carry on diplomatic relations with Germany so there would .be no question ques-tion about the position he was taking, I would have voted to uphold his stand at this particular time and under the conditions existing today. If the subject sub-ject matter of the resolution had been presented when there was no international interna-tional question involved, I would in- dorse, the theory of the Gore resolution. resolu-tion. 1 do not believe any foolhardy or adventurous citizen has any right to jeopardize the liberties of 100,000,-000 100,000,-000 people. But considering the circumstances cir-cumstances and the international conditions con-ditions in which we find ourselves, 1 would have been glad to have voted to support the president, so Germany could have taken no advantage of what sho considered the position of the United States." Senator Sutherland reached the senate sen-ate later in the day, and on arrival announced an-nounced that had he been present he would have voted to table the resolution. resolu-tion. In a brief speech defining his views, Senator Sutherland said he believed be-lieved under well-settled rules of international in-ternational law that a merchantman of a belligerent nation had a right to arm for defense; that ho further believed our citizens had a right to carry their goods or to travel if they saw fit upon a vessel armed in that way. He said he was opposed to passing any resolution resolu-tion that would interfere with or forbid for-bid the exercise of that undoubted right, but said he would not go into a further discussion of the matter at this time, but gave notice that on Tuesday net, after the speech of Senator Sen-ator Stone, he would submit to the senate sen-ate his views in detail on the general bjcet of armed merchantmen and the ghts and duties of neutrals. |