Show PRESIDENT BUS REAL AUTHORITY FAILURE TO PASS ARMED NEU BILL LEAVES EXEC HELPLESS Extra extraordinary ordina ry session no cu cure re unless senate A amends m ends rules so that will of majority cannot be do defeated cited ei ted washington president ident wilson informed the country in a statement issued sunday night that lie ho may be aitho without ut power to arm merchant ships a and take ther steps to meet nieca the german submarine menace in the absence of 0 authority from congress an extra session ot of congress the president preside ht says Is ili required to clothe him with authority but it Is useless to call one while the senate works uni un der the present rules which permit a small minority to keep an overwhelming majority from acting tho the president proposes therefore that tile the special session of tile the senate which ho he called to domeet meef meet march 5 revise the rules to supply the means ot of action and save the country from disaster A little group of at wilful men says the president in ills his statement representing no opinion but their own hay have 0 rendered the great government ads 1 1 1 1 MW it |