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Show II I IPUBLIGiS TO H If PRESS ACTION TO I m m mi mfSUi f m- WASHINGTON, April 7. Final tie-1 Iff BP termination was reached today by Re-1 in mf' Puulcan leaders In the house to bring i iV lo a vote in that body late Friday thei i ft Ism resolution to declare the state o wni'j 'mmm "with Germany at an end. A special rule IB reported today by teh rules commit-l commit-l tee provides Tor six hours debate ! Thrus and five hours on Friday, after (IB Avhich opponents of the resolution may tB offer only a motion to recomiuiL Completion today of ihe minority re- H port .presenting views of Democratic IpP members of the foreign affairs oom- mSL mittee on the resolution cleared the MB) way for the long debate. Represents!.-1B9 Represents!.-1B9 tive Flood of Virginia, ranking Demo-iBI Demo-iBI cratic member of the committee, pre-iBf pre-iBf senting the minority report, challenged K the power of congress to bring the war PmS legally to an end and characterised see-IB. see-IB. tion five of the resolution as "an at-;B at-;B icmpt to )reserve something out of the :'K- wreck of American rights which ha-ve iV been so outrageously surrendered in 'K former sections of the resolution." mB "From whatever angle this resolu-mk resolu-mk tion is viewed," he continued, "it prc-W prc-W sents Itself as a proposition not only m' ineffective in achieveing its proclaimed B purpose, but as a sure method of con-M con-M fusing our foreign relations injecting 9 new and complicated questions into an already difficult situation and invoh-J ing a surrender of Americans righ'-S and an impairment of American press-j f The minority report took particular Bp evception lo the statement in the res-wjjj res-wjjj olution's preamble that the presidem ,1 informed cdngress the war was aL cn 1m . :i no ume ami unucr no cireum- m stances has the president made any vj such assertion." the report said. "It No true that, on the signing of the arm- iblicc.the president, in the course ofj , B an nddress to congress, used the word3i ff 'The war thus comes to an end.J But .' (X lie spoke of actual hostilities, every-1 jf tne knew, anil not of the technical state of Avar. Jt takes a treaty to ondj p "The drafters of the resolution anUj K the members of the committee on for- l eign affairs, who voted for it, knewj i that this was the case. By quoting' I this statement of the president as the-' basis for this resolution, the authors; of the resolution to lay themselves! open to the charge of insincerity and ! t sharp practice. ; "The supreme court recently de . clared 'That what the president had j done did not announce -the legal termi-, nation of the war, " the report declared i citing the decision in the Kentucky i distilleries cases. Representative Flood, asserted that) sections" -of the resolution restricting i trade viith Germany or seeking- to re- peal wartime legislation were within the powers of congress, but cited manyj i authorities to sustain his contention t "that so far as it seeks 'to direct the - president to issue a proclamation to i ' the German government, it entrenches j upon the treaty making powers and is not within the power-of congress." |