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VOLUME XIV.
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Fleeing Turks Pursued by Brit
ish Cavalry—All Positions
From Sannaiyat to Kut-el-
Amara Have Been Captured
,By Associated Press.)
I.6XDOX. Feb. 26.—Kut-el-Amara has
been captured from the Turks by the
/British forces, according to a statement
in the house of commons today by An
drew Bonar Law.
The Turks on the Tigris river front
are in full retieat towards Baghaila.
twentv-four miles to the w*st of Kut-el-
Amara, says an official statement issued
today by the British war department, t
The fleeing Turks arg being engaged by
• pursuing British cavalry?
Mr. Bonar Law announced that as a
result of the operations on the Tigris
river front all of the Turkish positions
from Sannaiyat to Kut-el-Amara have
been secured and that the town of Kui
-el-Amara automatically passed into the
hands 8f the British.
German Line Withdrawn
Three Miles in the West
‘ BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, Feb. 25.—(Via London. Feb
ruary 2 8 (From a Staff Correspondent
of the Associated Press.) —On one por
. tien of the British front at least the
war today pgcame a war of movement.
S Under cover of fog and mist, which have
been particularly heavy in the past
• * forty-eight hours, the Germans carried
out the greatest retirement they have
made on the western front in the last
. two years, and the British have swept
in o possession of Pys. Serre. Mirau-,
qaont and Petit Miraumont. including the :
famous Butte oe Warlencourt. which has ;
* been the scene of some of the fiercest
fighting of the war. and in places is ,
deep with the bones of dead men.
The exact extent of the German re
tirement is not known, but it is esti- •
mated that it approaches a depth of threej
miles at some points. British patrols |
are out in all directions, harassing the
Germans and keep.ng in touch with their
movements. Until they report it will (
not be possible to say just where the
German, have determined to fix their
next line of resistance.
BAPAUME IS NEXT.
Nevertheless it can be staled that the ''
British now are. or soon will be, in a *
im ution possibly to force the cvacuu-'
‘ti n of Bapaume. which has been the key j
v to the German position since the begin
rii3 of the battle of the Somine. The ,
fio.tit which already have fallen intot
he Bills h hand* have stood out in tae
i. of the lighting on this front, and ,
had been most stubbornly defended, only •
a week ago when the British attacked on j
a •wo-rniie front east and south of,
Miraumont and Pys. the German resis
tance was bitter and the high ground de- i
sired was won only after desperate hand- 1
to-hand encounters .and the taking «f j
mere than SCO German prisoners.
The 8.-ilieh had been waiting for a
clearing of the foggy weather before
pressing the advance, but meantime it
is a pi-a rent that the Gertnan com
mand decided to retire without any fur
ther lighting to strong positions pre
pared well to the rear. Friday night
ffraa were observed in the German front
line tienches. They were only dimly
visible through the thick mist of the
particularly black night, but it was
discovered that the flames issued from
burning ground dugouts. Patrols sent’
forward reported the evacuation of the
German-outposts. Similar reports came
ffcrn north-of the Ancre. and by night
fall yesterday the British had estab-1
li-hed themselves in Petit Miraumont
and advanced all along the line, meet
ing only with sniping resistance here
:nni there.
Today the British patrol pressed for
ward. keeping in close contact with the
Germans who had retreated a further
j. yards during the night. Thus the
way was opened to the ground which for
months had been contested.
There were bursts of stiff resistance
from German obstructing parties which
had been scattered in the rear of the
retiring columns. Early tbday a big
mine was exploded in the main street
of Miraumont just before the British
advance patrols entered. .
• It is evident now that the Germans,
taking advantage of the last days of
the recent heavy frost and hard ground,
moved a great many of their guns well
to the rear, leaving others forward to
keep up a show Os resistance. This
they had been valiantly doing for the
past three or four days, firing more
rounds than any German guns in re
cent months. The reason for this is
considered as probably a desire to shoot
up store- 1 of ammunition which there
was not time to remove.
The foggy, misty weather was ideal;
for the >eginning of the German re
’ iremenl, as it completely hid the pur-:
pose of the movement of the prying
eyes of the airplanes, which otherwise
would have daily searched out the Ge"-!
man pos i t
Germans tpa>le prisoner yesterday
and today said they had been left be
hind to walk about and fire their rifles
and make as much noise as possible
They were delighted to be relieved from
their thankless task.
STATE TD MAKE NO
B' MOVE TD BLOCK
PARALLELING W. & A.
•
Governor, Attorney General
and Judge Hart Agree That
Decision of State Supreme
Court Is Final
The state of Georgia will not. it is
believed, make any further fight to pre
vent the Louisville and Nashville rail
road from carrying out its plan to par
allel the Western and Atlantic (the
state railroad» by building a line from
Atlanta to Cartersville, which will
there connect with its line to Knox
ville.
This was the attitude shared by Gov
ernor Harris, Attorney General Clif
ford YValker and Judge John C. Hart,
after they had held a conference Mon
day afternoon to discuss the decision
rendered Saturday by the state supreme
court in which the anti-paralleling laW.
passed at the extraordinary session of
the general assembly in November, 1915,
was held to be unconstitutional.
The state officials are of the opinion
that there is no appeal that the state
can take from the supreme court's de
cision; that even if an appeal was taken
to the United States supreme court that
tribunal would be certain to hold that
the matter was one of purely a domes
tice nature and Shat it was up to the
state supreme court to construe the
statutes of the state.
These officials also entertained the
opinion that so far as the new lease on
the state road is concerned the statute
now declared to be unconstitutional and
void had served the same purpose as if
it had been sustained as a valid, law.
They point out that while the case’ wae
pending ii\ the supreme court the state
has been enabled to lease the Western
and Atlantic for fifty years at an ad
vanced rental and that even if the lessee
had been inclined to hold the proposed
parallel line over the state as a club to
beat down the rental price in the new
; lease it had been unable to do so be-
I cause of the act.
Discussing ether features of the case,
i Governor Harris said:
| -If the legislature had passed the
I constitutional amendment prohibiting
I the issuance of a charter to build a par
‘ allel line, and if the people had ratified
I the amendment, as they very proba
bly would, then the state would be pro
tected today.
I -This constitutional amendment was
a companion hill to the anti-pa:alleling
bill. It should have been # passed when
ithe anti-paralleling bill was passed, ft
: failed to pass at the extra session of
*1915. when the anti-paralleling bill was
I passed, and came over to the regular
session of 191«, It passed the senate
lin 1916. but failed to come to a vote
■in the house.
-If the legislature should now go
ahead and pass the constitutional
amendment, it could not he submitted
to the people until the general election
i.n 191 and that would probably be too
• late to stop the issuance of a parallel
: charter.”
That the Louisville and Nashville rail
road will go right ahead and renew the
i application for charter for the building
of a parallel line, notwithstanding the
fact that a fifty-year lease for the West
and Atlantic has been closed, seems
. certain.
HEADN'OTES OK DECISION.
The headnotes of the decis’on are as
follows:
"I. The act of 1915'(acts 1915, page
IS i is not violative of article 3. section
7. paragraph 8, of the constitution of
this state (section 6437 civil code*,
which provides: 'No law or ordinance
j shall pass which refers to more than
one subject matter, or contains matter
different from what is expressed in
the title thereof.'
"2. When the act of 1915, mentioned
'in the preceding note, is considered, in
•its entirety, in the light of the history
of its passage as disclosed by the ad
:ni.-yiions in the pleadings in the case, it
utficiently appears that the act is ap
plicable to the proposed application for
I < harter. which was the subject matter
of the suit.
"3. The act of 1892 (acts 1892. page
, 37 >. the purpose of which was to carry
into effect an amendment to the consti
tution of this state (article 3. section 7,
paragraph 18; civil code section 6446),
.relating to the incorporation of railroad
(Ccmpanies, is a general law within the
meaning of 'article 1. section 4. para
graph 1 oY the constitution of this
state (civil code section 6391) which de
clares in part: ‘Laws of a general na
ture shall have uniform operation
throughout the state, and no special
law shall be enacted in any case Yor«
which provision has been made by an
existing general law.’ The act of i 915
(acts 1915. page 18) purporting to
amend the above mentioned law, is a
special enactment having reference to a
matter for which the existing gehera)
law provided; and is void as violative
of the provision of the constitution
above quoted.
“(a) It is erroneous to refuse the
mandamus absolute.
"Application was duly made under
civil code sections 2577 to 2597 inclu
sive. to the secretary’ of state for char
ter of a corporation to be called North
Georgia Mineral Railroad company. The
pronoser, route of the railroad extended
a distance of about fifty miles, to a
| place called Wafford's Cross Roads, near
the town of Cartersville, in Bartow
county. Georgia. The Western and At-
(Continued on Page 3, Column 5.)
Text of Wilson's Speech
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Presi
dent Wilson arrived at the
capitol just before 1 o’clock
and promptly at that hour stepped
up to the clerk’s desk in the hall ‘of
the house where both branches of
congress, meeting in special joint ses
sion, were assembled before him. He
spoke as follows:
Gentlemen of the congress:
1 have again asked the privilege
of addressing you because we are
moving through critical times during
which it seems to me to be my duty
to keep in close touch with the
■ house of congress so that neither
counsel nor action shall run at cross
purposes between us.
On the third of February I of
ficially informed you of the sudden
and unexpected action of the im
perial German government in de
claring its Intention to disregard
the promises it had made to this
government in April last, and under
take immediate submarine operations
against all commerce, whether of
belligerents or of neutrals, that
should seek to approach Great
Britain and Ireland, the Atlantic
coasts of Europe, or the harbors of
the eastern mediterranean, and to
conduct those operations without re
gard to the established restrictions
of International practice, without re
gard to any considerations of hu
manity even which might interfere
with their object. That policy was
forthwith put into practice. It has
now been in active execution for
nearly four weeks.
Its practical results are not fully
disclosed.
The commerce of other neutral na
tions is suffering severely but not,
perhaps, very much more severely
that it was already suffering before
the fifst of February, when the new
policjP of the imperial government
was piM into operation. We have
asked the co-operation of the other
neutral governments to prevent these
depredations, but I fear none of them
has thought it wise to join us in
any common course of action.
COMMERCE OF AMERICA
ALSO HAS SUFFERED.
Our own commerce has suffered,
is suffering, rather in apprehension
than in fact, rather because so
many or our ships are timidly keep
ing to their home ports than because
American ships have been sunk.
Two American vessels have been
sunk, the Housatonic and the Lyman
M. Law. The case of the Housa
tonic, which was carryrng foodstuffs
consigned to a London firm, was es
sentially like the case of the Frye,
in which it will be recalled the Ger
man government admitted its liabil
ity for damages, and the lives of
the crew as in the case of the Frye
were safeguarded with reasonable
care. •
The case of the law which was
carrying lemon box staves to Pa
lermo disclosed a ruthlessness of
method which deserves grave con
demnation, but was accompanied by
no circumstances which might not
have been expected at any time in
connection with the use of the sub
marine against merchantmen as the
German government has used it.
In sum. therefore, the situation we
find ourselves against commerce to
the actual conduct of the German
submarine warfare against commere
and its effects upon our own ships
people is substantially the same
♦Wat it was when I addressed you
on the third of February, except
for the tying up of our shipping in
our own ports because of the un
willingness of our ship owners to
risk their vessels at sea without in
surance or adequate protection and
the very serious congestion of our
commerce which has resulted, a con
gestion which is growing rapidly
more and more serious every day.
This in itself presently ac
complish, in effect, what, the new
German submarine orders were
meant to accomplish, so far as we
are concerned. We only say, there
fore, that the overt act which I have
ventured to hope the German com
tqanders would in fact avoid has not
occurred.
SITUATION IS FRAUGHT
WITH GRAVEST DANGERS.
But while this is happily true, it
must be admitted that there have
been certain additional indications
and expressions of purpose on the
part of German press and the
German authorities which have in
creased rather than lessened the
impression that, if our ships and
our people are spared it will be be
cause of fortunate circumstances or
because the commanders of the Ger
man submarines which they may
happen to encounter exercise an un
expected discretion and restraint
rather than because of the instruc
tions under which those command
ers are acting.
It would be foolish to deny that
the situation is fraught wish the
gravest possibilities and dangers.
No thoughtful man can fail to see
that the necessity for definite action
may come at any time, if we are In
fact, and not in word merely, to
defend our elementary rights as a
neutral nation. It would be most
imprudent to be unprepared.
I cannot in such circumstances
be unmindful of the fact that the
expiration of the term of the pres
ent congress is Immediately at hand,
by constitutional limitation: and
that it would, it) all likelihood, re
quire an unusual length of time to
assemble and organize the congress
which is to succeed it. I feel that
I ought, in view of that fact, to ob
tain from you full and immediate
assurance of the authority which I
may need at any moment to exer
cise.
No doubt I already possess that
authority without special warrant
of law, by the plain implication of
my constitutional duties a,nd powers;
but I prefer, in the present circum
stances, not to act upon general
Implication. I wish to feel that the
authority and the power of the con
gress are behind me in whatever it
may become necessary for me to do.
RECOURSE TO ARMED
neutrality IS FORCED.
We are jointly the servants of the
people and must act together and In
their spirit, so far as we can divine
and interpret it.
No one doubts what it is our duty
to do. We must defend our com
merce and the lives of our people in
the midst of the present trying cir
cumstances', with discretion but
clear and steadfast purpose. Only
the method and the extent remain to
be chosen, upon the occasion, if oc
casion should indeed arise.
Since it has unhappily proved im
possible td safeguard our neutral
rights by,diplomatic means against
the unwarranted infringements they
are suffering at the hands of Ger
many, there may be no recourse*but
to armed neutrality, which we shall
know how to maintain and for which
there is abundant American prece
dent.
It is devoutly to be hoped that it
will not be necessary to put armed
force anywhere into action. The
American people do not desire it,
and our desire is not different from
fheirs. 1 am sure that they will un
derstand the spifjt in which I am
now acting, the purpose I hold near
est my heart and would wish to ex
hibit ii* everytMng I do.
I am anxious that the people of
the nations at war also should un
derstand and not mistrust us. I hope
that I need give no further proofs
and assurances that I have already
given throughout nearly three years
of anxious patience that I am the
friend of peace and mean to pre
serve it for America so long as I
am able.
I am not now proposing or con
templating war or any steps that
need lead to it. I merely request
that you will accord me by* your
own vote and definite bestowal the
means and the means and the au
thority to safeguard in practice the
right of a great people who are at
peace and who are desirous of ex
ercising none but the rights of peace
to follow the pursuit of peace in
quietness and good will—rights rec
ognized time out of mind by all the
civilized nations of the world. No
course of my choosing or of theirs
will lead to war. War can come only
by the wilful acts and aggressions
of others.
AUTHORITY IS ASKED
TO ARM STEAMERS.
You will understand why I can
make no definite proposals, or fore
casts. of action now and- must ask
for your supporting authority in the
most general terms. The form in
which action tnay become necessary
cannot yet be foreseen. I believe
that the people wijl be willing to
trust me to act with restraint, with
prudence, and In the true spirit of
amity and good faith that they have
themselves displayed throughout
these trying months; and It is in
that belief that I request that you
will authorize me to supply our
merchant ships with defensive
arms, should that become necessary,
and with the means of using them,
and to employ any other instru
mentalities or methods that may be
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necessary and adequate to protect
our ships and our people in their
legitimate and peaceful pursuits on
the seas.
I request also that you will grant
me at the same time, along with
the powers I ask, a sufficient credit
to enable me to provide adequate
means of protection where they are
lacking, including adequate insur
ance against the present war risks.
I have spoken of our commerce
and of the legitimate errands of
our people on the seas, but you will
not be misled as to my main
thought, the thought that lies be
neath these phrases and gives them
dignity and weight. It is not of
national interests merely that we are
thinking. It is, rather, of funda
mental human rights, chief of all
the right of life itself. lam think
ing not only of the rights of Ameri
cans to go and come about their
proper business byway of the sea,
but also of something much deep*
er, much more fundamental than
that.
I am thinking of those rights of
humanity without which there is no
civilization. My theme is of those
principles of compassion and of pro
tection which* mankind has sought
to throw about human lives, the lives
of non-combatants,- the lives of men
w’ho are peacefully at work keeping
the industrial processes of the world
quick and vital, the lives of women
and children and of those who supply
the labor which ministers to their
sustenance.
We are speaking of no selfish ma
terial rights, but of rights which
our hearts support and whose foun
dation is that righteous passion for
justice which all law, all structures
alike of family, of state, and of
mankind must rest, as upon the ul
timate base of our existence and our
liberty. I cannot Imagine any ptan
With American principles at his
, haart hesitating to defend these
things.
EIT BICE iff SUES
BACK DE HIGH PRICES
Campaign of Education Begun
in New York by Food
Supply Committee
>
(By A«»ociated Breai.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Appropria
tion of $6,000,000 for federal relief in
the food situation and for investigation
to devise better marketing and distri
bution methods was proposed in a res
olution introduced today by Senator
Borah, of Idaho. Action was deferred.
NEW YORK. Feb. 26.—A campaign of
education against high food prices was
extended today through several avenues.
This plan was adopted by the board of
health after an investigation to ascer
tain just how much suffering existed
among the poor, and by the mayor’s
food supply committee. It was endorsed
by Governor Whitman, who summed up
his view of the situation by saying “the
people have simply got to eat what they
can assort to eat.”
The food supply committee sent to
homes throughout the city by means of
public school children one million cir
culars urging citizens to eat rice instead
of potatoes, onions and cabbage. George
W. Perkins, chairman of this committee,
asserted that New York City might ex-
CUIURD LINER SH
WITHOUT WARNING.
. SO LONDON REPORTS
11 •
Consul Frost at Queenstown
Reports Some Are Known to
Be Missing and That One Is
Dead •
(By Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 26.—-It Is stated au
thentically that the Laconia was tor
pedoed without warning.
Wesley Frost, American consul at
Queenstown, telegraphed the American
embassy here today:
"Cunarder Laconia torpedoed 10:50
Sunday night. Two hundred and sev
enty-eight survivors landed. Details
lacking, but known some missing, one
dead.”
Survivors of Laconia
Number 270, Is Report
(By Associated Proas.)
QUEENSTOWN. Feb. 26.—The Cunard
line steamship Laconia, of 18,099 tons
gross, which sailed from New York Feb
ruary 18 for Liverpool, has been sunk.
The survivors of the Laconia are said
to number 270. They will be landed to
night.
Steamer Sailed From
New York February 18
(By Atsociated Press.)
NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Twenty Ameri
cans, all native born, were members of
the crew of the Laconia. With the ten
American passengers this makes a total
of thirty Americans aboard.
The Cumard liner Laconia sailed from
New York on February 18 with 100 pas
sengers, among whom were ten or more
Americans.
First cabin passengers totalled 33 and
second cabin 42. The crew numbered
216. There were no steerage passen
gers.
Five thousand sacks of United States
mail were carried by the Laconia,
The Cunard line received confirmation
from the British admiralty of the de
struction of the Laconia. Americans
aboard were Miss Phyllis Barker, New
York; Arthur T. Kirby, Bainbridge, N.
J.; Mrs. F. E. Harris, N<w York; F. P.
Gibbons, of the Chicago Tribune; Mrs.
Mary E. Hoy and Miss Elizabeth Hoy,
of Chicago, and Rev. James Wareing, of
New York.
The Laconia was one of the largest
vessels of the Cunard fleet and the larg
est thus far sunk since the new German
submarine warfare was commenced. She
registered 18,099 tons, was 600 feet
long, 71 feet beam and 40 feet depth.
She was built in 1911 at Newcastle.
pect only slight reductions in food prices
unless the people made up their minds
to adopt substitutes for expensive food
stuffs. Enough rice Is available at a
low price, hd said, to afford relief until
legislative action can be taken.
On Wednesday, it was announced pub
lic hearings will begin at Albany on the
Wicks bill creating a state department
of foods and markets. Governor Whit
man. who has been here since Friday
night, devoting nearly all his time to the
food situation, said that while prices
were unquestionably high throughout the
state, he found no conditions elsewhere
resembling those in New York City.
The governor received personal proof
of advancing prices yesterday when he
found many dishes on the mefiu at the
hotel where he was staying cost 10 cerfts
more than on Saturday.
The department of health, in a report
| |o the mayor, found that a marked in
: crease in the export of staple foodstuffs
I had a great influence in raising prices,
i but declared nevertheless, that there was
less deyendency and real need in the city
| than had been common for many years
I past. At the same time the department
| reported that families whose incomes
; were SBOO a year or less would suffer
Iby their inability to buy sufficiently
! nourishing food at the present prices,
j The report urged that the poor be edu
i cated to buy food more intelligently and
i said that the well-to-do might contribute
toward this education "by altering hab
its of carelessness and extravagance in
' their homes”
A number of retail grocers today join
ed consumers in the boycott against po
tatoes, onions and chickens, and agreed
! not to sell these articles.
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Armor Plate Board to
Reach Rome Tuesday
(Special Dispatch to The Journal.)
ROME, Ga., Feb. 26. —The armor plate
plant board will reach Rome from Gads- i
den at 5:40 Tuesday afternoon and will j
remain here until 7:25 Wednesday eve-,
ning, leaving at that time for Washing
ton. In accordance with the desire of
the board no formal entertainment will
be given them. Members of local com
mittee will .dine with the board Tues
day evening, ’and the board will be :
guests of the Rotary club at luncheon
Wednesday. Rome’s claims will be pre
■ sented at the hearing Wednesday after
i noon at 3 o’clock. None of these affairs
i will be public.
NUMBER 42.
CONTINUED INVASION
OF AMERICAN RIGHTS
TAKEN TD CONGRESS
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President Asks Power to Put
United States irr State of
Armed Neutrality to Meet
German Submarine Menace
(By Associated Press.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26—President
Wilson appeared before congress at 1
o’clock this afternoon and asked for au
thority to place the United States in a
state of “armed neutrality,” to resist the
German submarine menace.
Continued of the plain right*
of heutrals on the high seas, further
, sacrifice of American lives and ships, the
intolerable blockade of American com
merce—almost as effectual as if the
country were at war—have taken th<
place of a dreaded "overt act” which
was expected to shock the world—and
have forced the president into the next
step toward war.
News of the sinking of the liner La
conia with Americans aboard was re-1
ceived here as the president was on
his way to address congress. Although
without details, its grave possibilities
£lded emphasis to the president’s words.
President Wilson, asking to be em
powered to taJie whatever steps are neU
essary, which concludes the arming of
ships, the convoying of merchantmen
by war vessels, or what other aft
' necessary, made it plain again that 1 hi
wanted peace, but not at the price ol
1 American lives and rights, driving the
American flag from the seas.
Congress is expected not only to au
thorize the president to use the aimed
forces of the country, but also to pro-
I vide money.
I Once before, in the infancy of the re-
■ public, a state jof armed neutrality wa*
proclaimed to check "predatory vio
lence” upon American rights, in the wac
( between France and England, budit did
not result actually in war for the United
i States. ,
NOW UP TO BERLIN.
Whether another armed neutrality will
mean war depends on whether Germanjs
realizes that the United States is ready?
to protect its neutral rights by what*
ever means are necessary.
With a full realization of the solemni
ty of the occasion the president took hia
action today with the calm confidenci
that congress and the country will stanfl
behind mm.
The grim-faced body of senators aiß
representatives who less than a montM
ago heard the president pronounce thH
words which announced a severance oj
diplomatic relations with Germany—afl
act which in all the history of first class
nations always has led to war—heard
today in tense silence and grave atten
tion the words which carry the American
republic a step further in its stand
against ruthless sacrifice of neutral
rights and lives —and a step nearer war
if it must be.
HEAR SPEECH IN SILENCE.
The president’s address was delivered
without applause. The gravity of the
moment, as if by common consent, pre
vented any uproarious bursts of enthu
sias. j
From Republicans and Democrats who
have been pressing for forward action
there were vigorous nods of approv*!.
The element classed as pacifist and those
who are accounted as sympathizers with
them heard the address in silence, and
when it was over, refrained from expres
sions, saying they were "thinking.”
/To the very end there was no ap
plause but when it was concluded thera
was a storm of cheering and handslapJ
ping.
Senator Stone said administration
leaders had not yet definitely decided
whether the legislation the president
asks would be introduced first in the
house so as to carry the credit. A bill
rather than a resolution, combining a
grant of authority and the appropriation,
probably will be drawn.
Immediately after the p/esident left
the capitol a meeting of the house for
eign affairs committee was called and
Chairman Stone, of the Senate foreign
relations committee, said his commit-,
tee would be called together later this
afternoon.
Senator Simmons, chairman of the
finance committee, said he believed
$500,000,000 would be sufficient at this
time and that it might be provided by
an amendment to the revenue bill now
before the senate.
Several influential Republican sena
tors declared today that they did nci
| "want to sign a blank check” for the*
president, and predicted that a filibuster
' against the legislation he requested to
force an extra session of consre«%
Those Republicans expressed a view
that the president’s attitude was not suf
ficiently definite. They, would not say.
however, that an extra session, which
i they regard as imperative, would be used
to fight the legislation the president re
quested.
The view taken by Democrats is that
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