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Show WILSON GALLS FOR AH EXTRASESSION PRESIDENT WILL PRESENT RECORD REC-ORD OF UNLAWFUL ACTS OF GERMAN SUBMARINES. Congress Expected to Declare a State of War Existing and Clothe Chief Executive With Authority to Use Armed Force. Washington. President Wilson has met with the constantly increasing probability of war with Germany fey summoning congress to assemble in extraordinary ex-traordinary session Monday, April 2 two weeks earlier than the date he had chosen before the latest assaults upon American rights on uie seas. The president's call for an extra session ses-sion was issued on March 21. When the president addresses congress con-gress he is expected to show how a state of war actually has existed foi some time because of the unlawful aggressions ag-gressions of German submarines. Congress: is expected formally to declare de-clare a state of war existing, vote a large sum for national defense, probably prob-ably half a billion dollars, and clothe thn president with authority to use the armed forces of the United States, as it empowered President McKinley in 1S98. .Such action would not be a declaration declara-tion of war except in a technical sense, and whether the United States and Germany actually go to war in the fullest acceptation' of the term will depend on what the imperial government gov-ernment does before congress is assembled as-sembled or after it acts. Dispatches from abroad declaring that the German government expected expect-ed a state of war within the next forty-eight hours placed an ominous aspect on the situation. Much to change the president's present intentions or the course of the government in the crisis may develop de-velop before April 2. The first American Amer-ican armed ships will by that time have reached the war zone. The ruthless ruth-less destruction of 'one of them unquestionably un-questionably would be an act of war. President Wilson and his advisers in. the cabinet and in congress have no intention that war shall be declared de-clared by the United States. By the hostile acts of German submarines they believe the imperial German government gov-ernment is actually making war on the United States and that it shall be recognized as such a state. To meet such a condition the armed forces of the country and all the national na-tional resources are to be put in a state of readiness. Then, whether the nation shall enter the war in its full sense will depend upon how much further German carries her acts of aggression. |