Show S NATE S APPROVES ACTION IN REQUEST ING TERMS UPON WHICH PEACE MIGHT BE DISCUSSED Demo democrat crato leader declares no more excuses go and that peace in europe is essential to peace here washington approval of prest dent wilson s request for a statement of peace terms from the european belligerents was voted by the senate friday night at the conclusion ol 01 three days of stirring debate action came dramatic sudden ness when democratic leaders decad ed to accept a form of resolution that would not compel the senate to in dor of the whole of the dent dents s note and ten republicans of the progressive group joined the ma bority in making the vote 48 to 17 the resolution adopted was as fol lows the senate approves and seron strongly gly indorses the request by the president in the diplomatic notes of december 18 to the nations now engaged in war that those nations state the terms upon which peace might be discuss ed senator lewis of illinois regarded aa as the spokesman for the adminis tra tion created a sensation in the sen ate when in closing the argument in behalf of the passage of the hitch cock resolution for endorsement indorsement Indor ot of 0 the president presidents s peace note to the war ring powers he declared that contin bance of the conflict would inevitably involve the united states in the gle he asserted that the united states would not again accept as an am excuse tor for injury to her citizens or their property through warfare a mis conception of orders on the part of 0 officers or an excess of zeal in carry ing them out |