Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1917 — SENATE PASSES THE WAR RESOLUTION [ARTICLE]

SENATE PASSES THE WAR RESOLUTION

bate In Which LaFollette Is Fbved—Armed Forces. • > Washington, April 4. —The resolution declaring that a state of ww exists between the United States and Germany was passed in the senate tonight by an overwhelming majorityIt will be taken up for passage in the house tomorrow. * The war resolution was passed by ‘the senate tonight by a vote of 82 to 6. It goes to the house where debate will begun tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock to continue until action is taken. Senators who case the negative votes were Gronna, of North Dakota; LaFollette, of Wisconsin; Norris, of Nebraska; Lane, of Oregon; Stone, of Missouri, and Vardaman,-of Mississippi. The resolution, drafted after consultation with the state department, ami already accepted by the house committee, says the state of war thrust upon the United States Uy Germany is formally declared and directs the president -to employ the entire- military t nd naval forces and the resources of the government to carry on war and bring it to a successful termination.

Action in the senate came just after 11 o’clock at the close of a debate that had lasted continuously since 10 o’clock this morning. The climax was reached late in the afternoon when Senator John Sharp Williams denounced a speech by Senator La Follette as more worthy of Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg than of an American senator. The great crowd was awed by the solemnity of the occasion and sobered by the speeches they had heard. After the vote was announced the senate remained in session only a few minutes.