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Show IWARTIWiE ACTS Republican Majority Joined I By 22 Democrats in Sup-' Sup-' porting Resolution Which Now Goes to Senatae BOURBON LEADERS CARRY ON OPPOSITION Measure Declares State of War With Germany At An End WASHINGTON, April 9 The Republican Re-publican joint resolution declaring tho state of war with Germany at an end j end repealing most of tho wartime leg-' leg-' islation was adopted today by the ' house. It now goes to the sennte. Twenty-two Democrats joined with tho Republican majority in supporting j tho resolution and two Republicans f voted against its adoption. Democrats voting for tho resolution were: . Ashbrook, Caldwell, Dooling, Cullen, Gallivan. Ganley, Goldfoogle, Huddles-j Huddles-j ton, McKinirle. McLane, Mahr, O'Con-n( O'Con-n( 11, O'Connor, Pell, Hammill, Olnoy, Sherwood, Sullivan, Tague, Carew, Ev-1 Ev-1 ans, (Nevada), Mead. I" ' Republicans opposing it were: Fuller, Full-er, (Massachusetts), and Kolly, (Michigan). (Mich-igan). Vote Down Substitute Before adopting the resolutions, the I house voted down a tnoilon by Represt- I sMJve Flood of Virginia, ranking Dem-1 Dem-1 ocrat of the foreign affairs committee, to send C'e resolution back to that P committee with Instructions to report out a substitute repealing all wartime acts. Tho vote on that motion was 171 for and 221 against. On the Democratic substitute offered off-ered as a motion to recommit the only vote other than that on adoption of the L I resolution permitted umlcr the rule, I three Democrats lined up with tho Re-I Re-I publicans, while tvo Republicans I joined the minority, Tho greater I break in the Democratic ranks came 1 on tho fiy.l vote. 1 Chairman Porter of the foreign af- P rairs committee claimed after the roll I Call that twenty more votes would car-1 car-1 ry the resolution over a presidential I Aeto, Democratic members, however, I ' raid a vote on that question would see j pTty alignment virtually intact, I The debate began at 11 o'clock yes- I terday morning and occupied all the I time of the house for more than 12 M lmnrc Tf v.'nc tnnH.-rwl f Jirrv.ifr!rmf hv I sharp partisianship except for those on trch side who broke away from party lines to join tlie opposition. ,! Greet Party Leaderc. ttJ Former Speaker Claric, and Repre-1 Repre-1 I sentative Kltchln of North Carolina, I took a leading part In the fight on t j the Democratic side while Representa-! Representa-! live Mondell, Republican leader, who -' ! closed the debate, received a warm I ! greeting from his party colleagues. I ! Representative Kitchln's speech aroused the Democrats to an outburst of cheering as he assailed the Repub- lican membership, charging them with) 'hypocrisy," and challenging them to present a straight out proposal for repeal re-peal of wartime legislation, If they were sincere. At the close of his speech, Mr. Kltchln suffered a cot-lapse, cot-lapse, resulting from what was said by ills physicians to be a 3llght stroke o paralysis. Representative Mondell later lat-er expressed the sympathy of tho house with Mr. Kltchln, tho members standing while he spoke. ; Representative Longworth, Republi-j Republi-j can, Ohio, was particularly sharp in j his references today to President Wll-f Wll-f son's attitude on the league of nations which he described as an "un-Ameri- can monstrosity." I The debate was unusual in that it consisted largely of a symposium of prepared statements, few members speaking extemporaneously. There , i was little attempt at applause from i the crowded gallery. At one, point today, as yesterday, ! party support suddenly shifted. When y Representative Kelley, Republican of l Michigan, was recognized to oppose : the resolution, Democratic seats were ' filled as the Republicans were massed . ' yesterday when Representative Hud-dlcston, Hud-dlcston, Domobrat, Alabama, declared his Intention to vote for the measure. Cries of "'go on," greeted Representative Representa-tive Kelley and was accoi'ded addition al time by the Democratic leaders, concluding his address with an assertion asser-tion that the resolution proposed to strike hands with Germany and say "It's all over, let's call it square." "Not with my vote," he. shouted, as he took his seat, and a roar of cheers came from the Democrats. Toward the close of debate, both sides were reduced to speeches of a half minute's length in order to givo opportunity to all who wished to get : into the congressional record. The house derived much pleasure apparently apparent-ly from the bang of tho speaker's ga-el ga-el as it cut off man after man in the middle of a rolling oratorical sentence. Ironic cheers and handclapping came Trom the opposing faction in each case. i; oo |
