| Show LET WILSON VILSON ALONE SAYS REPUBLICAN LEADER 1 M Mann ann Opposes Bringing Up of Warning R Resolution solution I II I in th the House Houser POLITICS OUT OUT OF IT McLemore Resolution Will WillI I Come Up f for Action n oP on Special RuI Rule W WASHINGTON ASHINGTON March 6 The h house use rules s today agre agreed d upon and will bring into the house tomorrow v a special rule f for r four hours hours' debate on the resolution resolution warning warning W Americans Americans' off arm armed d ships o of the European belligerents This action puts the much discussed discussed discussed dis dis- cussed resolution into a parliamentary position where administration l leaders aders are confident they can kill it I The debate will Jill b be bg evenly divided between the administration forces and those opposed to it Jt and will be preceded preceded pre pre- ceded by an hour and a half of debate on the adoption of the special rule The rules comm committees committee's action today is a preliminary ary victory for the administration administration ad ad- ministration forces Republicans Republican's on rules tules commit rule te tee voted ll Ii nt the Ule specially special while while-mo Deya Dem Ia ly supported it The special rule will provide that that after the four fo hours' hours debate the McLemore Mc- Mc McLemore McLemore Lemore resolution will be bit before belore the Uie house for for action Teh program Is t to table as was done with the Gore reso resolution resolution reso reso- lution lulion in the senate When Representative Gardner declared declared declared de de- in the house today that there should be a clear vote on the subject Republican Leader Mann announced that he was against bringing the matter matter matter mat mat- ter up in the house at allI all I I have believed Mann said In in letting the house attend to its constitutional constitutional constitutional con con- duties and letti letting g the president president dent attend to his constitutional duties dulles Leader Is Cheered The house resounded with cheers when Mann took the floor and ass a sailed Americans who might involve Continued on page 3 3 lET WILSON ALONE NE Continued from page g 1 1 in war by traveling on armed ships r hr hope our citizens never will be the test of having mg to fight be- be ause some fool has involved us by upon a joy ride he shouted gentleman from Massachusetts Mr Gardner said Mann has barged that the membership of the loUse muse in la this matter has been ac ac- first by reasons and ande e ond by fear of the votes at home rhe be gentleman from Massachusetts is to speak for himself but not notor notor or anyone else on either side of this louse This is too grave a question o or orthe the patriotic men of this house to by base motives as sug- sug ested rested by the gentleman from froIn Mas Nilson son Makes Appeal President Wilson appealed directly o Representative Bennet and Lenroot Republican mem mem- ers rs of the house rules committee oday to consider the armed ship issue partisan bias and assist in insetting setting etting a vote on a resolution warn warn- ng Americans of off armed ships For he discussed the foreign sit tilt lation with the two Republican mem mem- ers lers and told them of the necessity f that reports abroad hat the majority of congress was not i rUb him are erroneous erroneous tAfter After the conference Lenroot said he Republicans Republicans' had no intention n of ringing party considerations into the Both he and Bennet refused the details of the confer confer- nee flee They left the White House to a meeting of the rules commit commit- ssT Is Active I While the rules committee was mas wasa a Representative Bailey Baily of telephoned invitations and representatives to with William J J. J Br Bryan an an at 3 clock at a hotel near near the capitol I bout about twenty members of congress vere invited most of whom are arc strong of a warning resolution were opposed to preparedness declined to make a public his Invitation list but some of hose Invited were were- Senator Kern Representatives Till Till- nan can Vardaman Callaway and Slay Slay- len en of Texas Helvering and Ayres of ansas Steele of of Pennsylvania and lensley ensley of or Missouri Stephens Lobeck nd of Nebraska Dill Van Dyke of ot Minneota Minne Minne- Minneota ota Sisson of Mississippi Tavener and Gordon of ot Ohio Friendly IF were made not only to m mite in- in ite rte men regarded as particularly to Bryan but also to draw from as many differ differ- nt sections of the country as as' as le le Thus leaders in the movement a better general view of the might be obtained Bryan insisted that the luncheon as as only a friendly gathering Rep TIep- Baileys Bailey's view at the same ime was that It was a meeting of ot lose opposed to preparedness and fa fa- to warning passengers against aking passage on armed ships He Heas as vas especially emphatic in his decla- decla anon atlon that no conspiracy was on TOt I t. t M t IbI I wont won't say that I shall not dis dis- ass warning American citizens I g taking passage on armed tIps hips Bryan said but I will say lat I have s said id nothing about it thus lor r Declines Majority Leader Kitchin who hares lares many maby of Bryans Bryan's views in- in luding those on and arid arning of or armed ship passengers as as' invited but declined on the round that lie be had bad an engagement spent the greater part lIart of or the lorning corning in conference with Shackleford the unofficial ader of the warning resolution ad ad- oca tes en the tile senate convened Senator of North Dakota author of pending resolution of warning again ook iok occasion to discuss the subject the water power bill was up inconsideration consideration The country while ever ready to tend fend the rights of ot its citizens does its citizens to lead us heed- heed said True esly Into war he merican patriotism demands that no o merican should by any heedless act a peaceful settlement nor a grave crisis |
