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Show 2 4 2 T 0-1 0 1 - D ALLOT-DOOMS ALLOT-DOOMS DISPUTED DAU Oil WAR GOODS EXPORT Crucial Poll Comes on Amendment to Instruct Conferees to Insist on Retention of . Curb in Neutrality Bill By JOrJ B. BEAL , . WASHINGTON, Nov. I (UP) The house late today five 1U approval to President Roosevelt's demand for repeal of the arms embargo. That bill scrapped the arms embargo em-bargo principle and set up drastic regulations for American traffic with warring nations. It provides that any belligerent may buy anything any-thing it chooses from the United States providing It pays cash and takes the goods away on its own vessels. ( The president Is empowered to declare combat sones 'through which American ships and American Ameri-can citizens may not pass. Stringent Strin-gent controls . are man amlnst loans and credits to belligerents. Prohibitions against American commerce between Latin America and the United States and in the Pacific ocean were removed from the bill. - Barbara Speaks -Just before the rot Sam Ray-bum, Ray-bum, the administration floor leader, told th house that th "United States is not on th verg of war nor la it anywhar near war." Speaker William B. Bankhead, In one of his rare floor speeches, mad th final argument for the administration. Th house chamber cham-ber was packed. Virtually all members were en hand for the first time In years. Cloakrooms wr deserted, and hous employes lined th rail back of th seats. Galleries . were crowded. Lines outside th doors overflowed Into standing room just Inside. Speaker William Bankhead announced an-nounced th vote as 242 to 181. The action, taken In an atmosphere atmos-phere tense with the realization of the fateful Issues Involved, came on-the rejection of the motion, by Representative James A. Shanley (D., Conn.) to Instruct the house conferees to Insist on retaining the mandatory arms embargo in the neutrality bilL . The neutrality bin already had been ordered to conference with the senate, which voted 60 to 33 to lift the embargo. To Appoint Committee Speaker WllUam B. Bankhead was ready to appoint Chairman Sol Bloom D, N. Y.) of the foreign affairs committee and Representative Representa-tive Luther A. Johnson D, Texas), John Kee (D, W. Vs.), Hamilton Fish (R, N. Y.) and Charles A. Eaton (R, N. J.) as conferees for the nous. Th hous action, coming after two preliminary tests of strength, both of which reflected post tire sentiment for repeal, reversed its stand taken the night of June 30 during the regular session, when (CoaUnuns Oft Paa Fowl Column Flu) HOUSE BALLOT KILLSEMBARGO fomimiS Fnei Pass Om) It adopted a modified arms embargo em-bargo by a vote of 214 to 173. The first test this afternoon came on an amendment by Representative Repre-sentative Jesse R. Wolcott (R, Mich.) to ban specifically loans by governmental agencies to belligerents. belliger-ents. That was rejected 228 to 196, an administration margin of 34. The second test showed Increasing In-creasing administration strength when the house rejected an amendment amend-ment by Representative John M. Vorys R Ohio) for a modified arms embargo, 244 to 179, a margin of 65 votes. Mate Meeting The senate ached uled a meeting for S p. m., E. S. T, to appoint conferees con-ferees and this group will meet with the house conferees tomorrow to agree on the final form of the administration's neutrality program. pro-gram. There consideration, if it follows normal procedure, probably proba-bly will be a mere formal approval of the senate version. With forceful gestures, Raybura sought to refute opposition arguments argu-ments that repeal of the arms embargo em-bargo was a step toward war or that It was a dangerous action to change rules in the middle of the game, the "game" being the European Euro-pean war. "I believe that 99 per cent that every patriotic American citizen Is determined to help keep this country out of war," the stocky Texan said.. "The question has been raised of changing some rules during the game," Rayburn said. "Whose game? We have no part in the game that is being played in Europe today." He declared that every country In the world had been "put on no- uce mat cnanges were coming In the neutrality law when the president presi-dent first asked congress to enact new neutrality legislation. No Immorality ' Rayburn told the house he could "see no Immorality" in selling munitions mu-nitions to neutral countries fearing fear-ing Invasion. Discussing the bill's shipping provisions, pro-visions, Rayburn said that "we do have reckless American ship owners own-ers who would send their ships Into danger zones carrying American cargoes and American sailors." "I pray God aa a member of this body that I may never be called upon again to move an army under this flag. But I fear, my friends, that, if we do not enact these provisions, pro-visions, something might happen that would inflame the minds of our country." A wave of applause swept the chamber when he asserted that "the - individual the group the nation that targets and denies God is damned and doomed." Gives View Representative 'William Lemke R, N. D.) described the neutrality neutral-ity resolution as "In reality the intervention resolution." Representative James E. Van Zandt (R., Pa.), former commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said that embargo repeal would mean that in the "eyes of the rest of the world the United States would be committing an unneutral act." He said that repeal would be an invitation for Germany to level reprisals and retaliation at the United States, thus leading to war. |