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Show HASTENING WAR PREPARATIONS. ! Congress Working to Put Nation in i State of Preparednes- n Washington. Congress beg Aim-estly Aim-estly on Monday to pave the wb.-iin legislation " that may be demanded b? any development in the international crisis. Still hopeful that the break with Germany will not involve the United States in war, leaders of both parties . recognized that preparations should not be delayed, and there was i unusual activity in the naval, military : and revenue committees, while the , judiciary committee of the senate worked all day on a series of- measures meas-ures relating to conspiracies against the government. The senate, as the co-ordinate j branch of the government having to : do with foreign relations, prepared to i give its official sanction to the sever- j ance of relations with Germany. j |