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Show B n m Hk B, Chairman Flood Offers j Resolution to Authorize H: President to Act. Bti ' WASHINGTON, April 2. Spenker Hl Clark was re-elected today by a vote R j of 217 to 205 over his Republican op- BfV ! ponent, Representative Mann, as the r ! first step in organization of tho house H'j of representatives the necessary pre- HP-ilj liminary to the delivery of President Hft.1) Wilson's war address. Bwi ' With the re-election of Speaker Hl' i Clark It seemed certain that President HI'I ( Wilson would deliver his, address late HE this afternoon. Bj It is expected that he will ask con- BryT gross to declare that a state of war Hxt i exists between the United States and Hfi) Germany. Kx This seemed so certain that Chair- Kl man Flood of tho house foreign affairs Htt committee, the administration spokes- Fj man there, prepared a resolution to de- Hhj clare a state of war and authorize the Hfii; ' president to act. Hl l The resolution follows: Hf7 "Whereas, the recent course of tho HfTJ imperial German government is, in HEi fact, nothing less than war against PEfyt the government and people of the m Ki ' United States; M v Mr "Resolved, by the senate and house H B! of representatives of the United States B ,Bj. of America, in congress assembled, Jill "TEat tho state of belligerency between Mfff) the United States and tho imperial Hftji German government which had thus Hfijl been thrust upon the United States is H hereby formally doclarcd; and, HHr, "That the president be and ho la Hgc'l hereby authorized to take immediate HSi steps, not only to put the country in Hn thorough state of defense, but also to PHH exert all of Its power and employ all of vHly'' Its resources to carry on war against rjHc ' tho imperial German government and ',M". to' bring the conflict to a successful ter- Hr mination." Hiv 00 |