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Show Sbue to ira EXECUTIVE VETO KNOX PEACE RESOLUTION SUPPORTERS SUP-PORTERS FAIL TO MUSTER REQUIRED MAJORITY. Seventeen Democrats Join With Republicans Re-publicans In Attempt to Override Presidential Veto, the Vote Being 220 to 152. Washington. I. ..eking twenty-nine votes of the necessary two-thirds, the house failed on May 28 to pass the Knox resolution to end the war with Germany and Austria, over President Wilson's veto. The result was not unexpected. The vote was 220 to 152, seventeen Democrats joining with Republicans Re-publicans in attempting to override the veto, while two Republicans voted with the Democrats to sustain it. Before Be-fore starting the fight on the floor, Republican leaders predicted that the veto would stand by a margin of ten, but nevertheless announced their determination de-termination to make the fight just the same and let the vole go to the people. Predicting final action, which again ended efforts to establish peace, there was an hour of debate in which the president's position was assailed by Republicans and defended by Democrats. Demo-crats. Attacking the Republican leadership lead-ership of congress, Representative Connally, Democrat, Texas, challenged the party in control to present a straight-out resolution for repeal of all wartime legislation and promised Democratic support in an effort to pass it in the event of a presidential veto. Declaring that passage of the Knox resolution would fix the time of repeal re-peal of wartime laws, Representative Mondell, Republican leader, came back with a challenge to the Texas member mem-ber to give proof of his ability to "deliver "de-liver Democratic help," but the answer an-swer was lost in a howl from both Bides of the chamber. Later in the day, however, Mr. Connally, Con-nally, without comment, threw into the house hopper a joint resolution providing for repeal of every bit of war-time legislation, effective on the date of the resolution's passage. |
