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Show Senate Sustains President Wilson on I Armed Ship Issue By Vote of 68 to 14 I 1 1). S. TRAVELING S TOWARD WAR i Senator Sherman Declares 1 Road President Is On Will 5 End in War or Hu- h miliation. ? - i SCORES THE SENATE 8 Lodge Defends Vote and Con- a siders Body Has Placed ? Itself on Record as Sus- w taining President. i -,? Washington, March 3. "We are ap- pronching the Issue of peace or war," declared Senator Sherman, Republl- $ can, who voted against tabling the res- 1 olutlons. "Ultimately the way the f chief executive is traveling leads hut ? to one close. It will end in war, or fi national abandonment and humilia- i tlou. There is no escape from the I end of the way he is traveling. The I fiction of this senate today may be parliamentary. It may be justified I by the exigencies of the situation; i but it smacks so strongly of cowar- a dice, evasion and shirking of respon- i sibility that I am justified in apply- f ing to it these critical words." Jl Senator Lewis Defends. Senator Lewis, defending the action ) of the majority, said war with Spain t might have been averted had similar 1 action been taken by congress In I 1S9S. "Had house resolutions seeking to i intrench on the privileges of and du- ties of the chief magistrate been j treated as this one today, there would ? have been no conflict with Spain," he ' said. "The unnecessary, vituperative, I vindictive, malicious and vicious de- ij bale brought on the war," j Borah'Upholds President. 5 Senator Borah in the debate upheld i the right of Americans to go on armed I merchantmen. He said the senate. ij the highest executive body in the t world," had been "Germanized" as "if I directed by the kaiser from the J throne " i" Senator Borah said further that be was In favor, after full debate, of hav- Ing congress go on record as supports' support-s' ing the right of Americans to go on 3 board merchantmen, a right recog-j recog-j nfeeil for 500 years and to tell the t world that any nation which did not recognize that right would be held to I a strict accountability. Denounces Senate's Act. "We denounce Germany because we do not like her system of government nor her militarism," said Senator Eorah. "Yet the senate of the United Unit-ed States, the highest legislative body in the world, was Germanized today. Wo took the same attitude and reached the same result by the same process as the highest German legislative legisla-tive body would, if directed by the IWk kaiser from the throne. 3 "Suppose the president had said to A Representative Pou: 'You will proceed J immediately to conjure up some scheme to stifle debate and then take B the vote on this resolution so that i ! mav have the view of the house what ') would have been the expression ol tne ' people of this country. There would S have been immediate condemnation so severe and so general that there -.o.i?d have been another remarkable a and immediate change of views. I . Vote of No Value. Senator Borah continued that the vote was of no value to the president :' as an expression of the sentiment of i the senate. "It Is most unfortunate that we ' disposed of it as we did," he said. ' "I air. not afraid of war if it is ncceb- sarv to protect American rights, l X am not afraid of sacrifice. We enn-;. enn-;. not hope to play our parLm the world . if we are not brave enough to make I a sacrifice for our rights. h " am afraid of the subserviency ,, ? the degradation of the American scn- i ale in the eyes of the American peo- Pie. This body will fall from the es teem in which it has been held bj ; the American people when, in a great world crisis llko this wjth the ees of the world centered upon us c ! come here and cringlngly crawl to ; our destination under the direction of fcome power without the chamber. I : ouid rather that a baUleship he simK than to have the honor of th s senate r compromised before the worm, . Senator Clarke Protsrh..n. .Senator Clarke. Democrat of Arlcan ' sas, also protested aBOJnst .thrt S ; ate's action, although he voted witn i the majority. , . .,, ,- " ''There is no overlooking tho . ract. ! he said, "that all the Jce toiaUons i of this government have led in a cer 1 -I tain direction; that official America I at least was interested jVhuft i) cess of one of the contestants, and It 1 ;; does not require much Ingcnu t to i determine which. I do not thlnU that , the view of official Washington is : the view of the American people or I of the American congress. "I am out of : Patience witb , those l constantly seeking to ma&"-f tl I insportanco of the utterances of tne I President, who feel that hia ha; ing i. once expressed an opinion . d I opinions must Instantly be para ljzea. I I am perfectly willing to lot a citizen '. of the United States travel as ne , LvantB, but I am unwilling to let him make his travels the subject of international inter-national controversy." Gallinger Desires Debate. Senator Gallinger, Republican, explaining ex-plaining his vote not to table the Gore resolution, said: "I think we arc entitled to debate this question In the open. By our action ac-tion today we have reached no conclusions. con-clusions. I am in favor of doing all wo can to prevent war and I think it wise to advise against Americana traveling on armed Bhlps." Lodge Defends Senate. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts declared de-clared that the senate's attitude could not be confused because of the parliamentary parlia-mentary entanglement "In tabling the McCumber resolution resolu-tion along with the others," Senator Lodge said, "tho senate went on record rec-ord as opposing a direct warning to Americans and against any interference interfer-ence with executive authority. The McCumber resolution slightly modified, modi-fied, is in order but It will go to the calendar and there will be no effort made to pass It." After the senate voted, house administration ad-ministration leaders directed their efforts toward, obtaining a recommendation recommen-dation from the foreign affairs committee com-mittee that the McLemore resolution be laid on the table. This would admit ad-mit of only forty minutes debate on the floor. , |