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Show 'WILFUL' SENATORS GIVEN LHiSTl Swanson of Virginia Denounces De-nounces Opponents of Armed Ship Bill. WASHINGTON. Feb. 26. senators who pert ioipa ted in the iliibuiM or which resulted re-sulted in the defeat of the armed ship bili Inst session were assailed by Senator Swanson of Virginia, an administration leader, in a speech today, as having destroyed de-stroyed "the last chance for pea.ee" be-t be-t ween the United Stales and Germany. Bv this action Germany was convinced, he said, that we did not have the course to defend our rights and that no injury she could inflict would result in warfare. "This 'Sinn 11 sroup of wilful senators.' .Senator Swanson declared, "were responsible re-sponsible for the creation of this belief in Germany, ami deserve severe condemnation condem-nation for misrepresenting and thwarting at tins critical time the will of the American Amer-ican people. Convinced by defeat of the measure for, armed neutrality that the, United States was too craven to fish'., hardly had congress adjourned before: Germany commenced the enforcement of extended submarine warfare." Senator Swanson, after reviewing the causes which !d to America's entrance into the war, declared that there is an "insidious and treasonable propaganda now heinfe conducted in this country designed de-signed to produce dissatisfaction and patriotic lethargy in order to secure a German-made peace."' Unpaged in spreading this pernicious propaganda, lie sanh "is a motley crew composed of fanatics. German spies and persons corrupted with German gold and promises, officered by a few selfish politicians politi-cians who foolishly think they see an opportunity op-portunity for self-advancement, although it may result in the wreck ot" the conn-try." conn-try." The activities of former German ambassador am-bassador voii Eenistorft" and ot Iter German Ger-man agents, despite our neutrality, in attempting at-tempting to cripple our Industries, instigate insti-gate plots and to influence the congress in the interest of the German empire, also were denounced by Senator Swanson. |