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Show Embargo Repeal-Bill :y '7 C h at m p i p n e by Burke Erstwhile Administration Toe Says Larger National Na-tional Considerations Draw His Support WASHINGTON, Oct 11 (AP) Senator Burke D, Neb.) announced to the senate today that he was supporting the administration's ad-ministration's neutrality legislation, not because he" considered it to be in any tense a "real neutrality"-measure, .but because he thought it would insure the peace and safety of the United States. v ' , Burke, who has often fought the administration over domestic legislation, legis-lation, took the floor to advocate passage of the arms embargo repeal re-peal bill after Senator Clark (D., Mo.) had contended that President Roosevelt already was exercising emergency powers properly exercised exer-cised only when the country Is at war or when war Is imminent Clark opposed the administration measure. "No good end can be served by closing our eyes to the reality of the situation," Burke thundered in opening his address. "It becomes be-comes clear that the present neutrality neu-trality act does not place this country In a position of neutrality." On the other hand, he said It was perfectly clear that the administration ad-ministration bill was "in no real sense a neutrality measure." "May I say at once." he added, "that the time has come when it is Imperative that we apply ourselves our-selves to a task of far greater importance im-portance than the Impossible effort ef-fort to maintain a strictly neutral position. The clear duty of this congress Is to legislate for the safety and the security of America. "Neutrality has Its Importance, (Coattttu, on pc Two! tColumw Etsho (BURKE DEFENDS ARMSJEPEAL (CoatfcraeS from Put On.) but only as It affects the larger problem, the welfare of eur com mon country. To be faithful to the trust Imposed In us we must . disregard the sentimental pleas of 1 well-meaning people who have not had the opportunity to consider the subject in all of its aspects, reject organised clamor, lay aside preconceived notions, and with firm hearts steel ourselves to whatever action and sacrifices may bo necessary to protect the fundamental funda-mental rights of America." Clark sharply criticised some of the president's emergency actions. Assails Johnson Arguing against lifting the ban on arms sales to belligerents, Clark also accused Louis Johnson, assistant as-sistant secretary of war, of trying to "inflame the people as to the safety of our own shores," and said policies of the president himself him-self had not been "reassuring." "It Is a proclamation of national emergency without any limitations whatever," he asserted. "Under It the president can exercise all of the powers of a national emergency emer-gency which he can exercise without with-out specific authority of congress The president's executive order, transferring control of the Panama Canal Zone from the governor of the Canal Zone to the army, Clark said, was far more Important and disquieting. The Canal Zone code, he continued, vests authority In the president only when there is a state of war . In which the United States is engaged or when war Is Imminent. King Predicts Change Senator King (D., Utah) predicted pre-dicted 'after a conference with President Roosevelt .that prbvl-slons prbvl-slons of the neutrality bill which would restrict operations of American Amer-ican ships would be modified. "I don't want to destroy our merchant marine," King told reporters. re-porters. "We are making sacrifices sacri-fices enough of our neutral rights." He expressed opposition especially especial-ly to restrictions on shipping from west coast ports. The Pacific he said. Is outside the sphere of belligerent bel-ligerent activities. The senator suggested there was little or no reason why United States trade should not continue with territories of belligerent nations na-tions not In the actual combat zones. |
