Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1916 — GORE RESOLUTION WILL BE TABLED [ARTICLE]

GORE RESOLUTION WILL BE TABLED

Ship-Warning Measure to Be Brought Up Today. SENATOR'S CHARGE DENIED Lawmaker Tells of Report That President Said Clash With Germany Might End the European Conflict Soon. Washington, March 3.—The Gore warning resolution is to be called up In the senator today. Administration senators, after consultation with Republican headers, agreed to bring to a vote a motion to table the Gore measure the moment it is up for consideration. The senate is to be put on record as a roll cay will be ordered on the motion to table, which Is not debatable. No substitute will be offered. Gore Bill to Be Tabled. Both Democratic and Republican leaders asserted that no sort of a resolution like the Gore measure could pass the senate and predicted the motion to table would carry overwhelmingly. The senate was the storm center in the fight being waged by President Wilson to force a speedy vote on his foreign policies. No action was taken ih the house, the matter being delayed. Minority Leader Mann went to the White House and conferred with the president for an hour. Later ho declined to talk. As he left the president sent for Secretary Tainsing. Gore Precipitates Fight. Senator Gore precipitated the question in the senate when in an address In support of his resolution to warn Americans to keep off armed belligerent merchantmen he declared the impelling reason for his course was a report that President Wilson had told certain congressmen that a war between the United States and Germany “might not be ungrateful and might result In advancing civilization by bringing about the end of the European war by midsummer.” Senator Stone vehemently denied the president had made such a statement.

Wilson Denies Charge. The following statement was Issued at the White House: "When the attention of the White House was called to certain statements in Senator Gore’s speech, the president authorized an unqualified denial of any utterance to which any such a meaning could be attached." Senators James, Williams and Lodge defended the president’s attitude. Conferences were, he’d and finally it was decided to bring the Gore resolution up today on a vote to table it. Senator Lewis of Illinois determined not to introduce a resolution pledging President Wilson the confidence of the senate in his dealing with the submarine warfare controversy and Senator Stone also abandoned his plan for a substitute resolution. Both Sides Violate Law. Both sides in the war, the president said, had committed acts in retaliation against acts of the other side which were not In strict accord with international law. The president declared, it was said, that to warn Americans to keep off armed ships of belligerent nations would be In effect acknowledging justification for attacks on such ships. He contended that unless he was supported by the congress and the nation he might find 1t impossible to so steer the policies of the government that the United States would not become Involved with other nations. In reply to questions at one of the conferences the president Is understood to have said that following out the notes of the United States government diplomatic relations might be broken off with a nation which caused the death of American citizens in disregard of international law and the stand of the United States. The president added, it was said, that he had been informed from certain sources that breaking diplomatic relations might precipitate war. He said that he could not certainly predict what might follow, but that despite his earnest efforts to keep the United States out of war he must uphold the rights of American citizens to the freedom of the sea. The president was eaid to have been asked at one of the conferences what effect the entrance of the United States into the war have. He is understood to have replied that it might shorten it. It was denied in well-informed quarters that the president had any intention of conveying the impression that he desired the United States to enter the war in order to shorten it or foj any other reason.