Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — GORE RESOLUTION LOST IN SENATE [ARTICLE]

GORE RESOLUTION LOST IN SENATE

President Sustained 68 to 14 When Resolution Amended By Author Comes Up In Senate. Washington, March 3. —By a vote of 68 to 14, the senate today carried out President Wilson’s wish and killed Senator Gore’s resolution to warn Americans off armed belligerent ships. In a turbqlent scene, such as is seldom witnessed in the senate, the voting proceeded with senators shouting objections, futilely demanding recognition to explain their positions an! making hot retorts to each other, all of which were out of order. After having maneuvered for two days to get the resolution in such parliamentary position that it was disposed of without debate, the senate then proceeded to a general discussion of the subject which continued all afternoon to the dismay of administration supporters. There were free expressions of opinion that the senate’s action because the vote actually was taken on a motion to table the Gore resolution with a correction by the author and a substitute by Senator McCumber, was jn effect a “Scotch verdict” and had not actually accomplished the purpose of the president. Such statements aroused the president’s friends who feared they would produce an effect exactly opposite to that intended —a notice to the world that the senate stands behind the president in his demand on Germany for the rights of Americans traveling the seas.