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ANOTHER TERM;
ARMED IUTMLIIY
Y FILIBUSTER I SE1T
IS OATH OF OFFICE
BILL DEFEATED B
WILSON TAKES
OATH OF OFFICE
FOR SECOND TIME
Reaffirms Pledge to Uphold Con
stitution of Country.
TURNED ASIDE FROM WORK
Only Long Enough for Chief
Justice White to Admin
ister Oath.
Washington, March 4. Presi
dent Wilson took the oath of
office for his second term at noon
today in his room at the Capitol,
and will be formally inaugurated
tomorrow with public ceremonies
reflecting a great national expres
sion of Americanism.
Before a desk piled with Exec
utive business laid before him in
the closing hours of Congress, and
surrounded by members of his
official family, the President re
affirmed with uplifted hand and
grave features his promise to up
hold the Constitution in whatever
crisis may confront the Nation in
the momentous four years before
it.
After he had repeated the oath
taken first by Washington a Cen
tury and a quarter ago, he kissed
the Bible at the passage reading :
"The Lord is our refuge; "an
ever present help in time of
' trouble."
Chief justice White adminffreM
ed the oath and was the first to
extend his congratulations. Wring
ing the President's hand, the Chief
Justice looked fervently into his
face a moment, and said brok
enly: "Mr. President, 1 am very,
very happy."
Members of the Cabinet then
crowded up with expressions of re
gard. Mr. Wilson received them with
a smile, and then turned back to his
desk to complete his Interrupted task.
Tomorrow, the President will take
the oath again on the inaugural stand
before the Capitol. He might have
omitted today's ceremony under prec
edents established by other Presi
dents, but he decided to comply lit-
erally with the constitutional stipula
tion that he take office at noon on
the fourth of March.
Vice President Marshall did not
take the oath today. He will be
sworn in for his second term tomor
row at the special session of the new
Henate with the usual Vice Presiden
tial inauguration ceremony.
Exercise Today.
The President, after he has taken
the oath and delivered his inaugural
address on an open air stand before
the Capitol, will ride back to the
White House at the head of a parade,
including the distinguished of the
land, military .and -naval organiza
tions and a long line of delegations of
,. private citizens. He will review the
marchers from a stand before the
White House grounds.
Although clear weather had been
promised, no hope for fair skies is
held out by the Weather Bureau for
tomorrow, snow or rain being pre
dicted. One feature will reflect directly the
gravity of the international situation
Down Pennsylvania avenue the pa-
rade will pass between lines of Na
tional Guardsmen chosen from the
New York regiments, forming a mili
tary barrier on either side of the Una
of march.
Tonight, the President had not
completed his inaugural address. It
has been expected that recent devel
opments in the international situation
will have a large lirace in it, and to
night it was bellevecT that the Sen
ate's failure to reach a vote on the
armed neutrality H might be one
of the points on which he will dwell
in outlining his policies for the com
ing Administration. There were no
preliminaries to the simple ceremony.,
marking the beginning of the Presi
dent's second term.
But Few Present.
Accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and
Vance C. McCorihlck, who managed
the President's campaign for re-election,
Mr. Wilson had come to the
Capitol two hours before to clear up
odds and ends of the executive busi
ness passed on to him by the expiring
Congress. Secretary Tumulty and
Cabinet members had gathered in the
room while the President worked. As
he took the oath, Mrs. Wilson stood
near him, dressed In mourning be
cause of the recent death of her sis
ter. Mr. Wilson was sworn In at 12:03
p. m., a few minutes after Congress
adjourned. With a stern inflection
in .his voice, he repeated the oath as
It was read by the Chief Justice:
I do solemnly swear that I will
fc faithfully execute fhe office of
President of the I'nltcd States
and will, to the best of my ability,
preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution of the United Slates.
James D. Maher, clerk of the Su
preme Court, held out the Bible used
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TWELVE SENATORS
ON ARMED NEOTRALITY MEASURE
Successful Filibuster by Stone,' LaFollette and a Few Others Pre
vented Bill Reaching a Vote Dramatic Scenes Enacted in
Senate Chamber at Closing Session, Continuing Throughout
Saturday Night and Until Adjournment at Noon Sunday.
Washington, March 4. Twelve Sen
ators, led by Senator LaFollette and
encouraged by Senator Stone, 'Demo
craUc chairman of the Foreign Rela
tions Committee, in a filibuster ' de
nounced by President Wilson's spokes
men as the most reprehensible In the
history of any civilized Nation, defied
the will of an overwhelming majority
in Congress up to the last minute to
day, and denied to the President .a
law authorizing him to arm American
mercnant snips to meet tne uerman i
submarine menace.
Unyielding throughout the 2i hours
of continuous session to appeals that
their defiance of the President would
be humiliating to the country; un
compromising In a crisis described to
them as the most serious to the Na
tion since the War Between the
States, LaFollette and his group of
supporters refused a majority of theii
colleagues an opportunity to vote on
the armed neutrality bill, and it died
with the Sixty-fourth Congress. To
fix responsibility before the country,
76 Senators, 30 Republicans and 48
Democrats, signed a manifesto pro
claiming to the, world that they fa
vored passage of the measure.
This declaration, embodied in the
record of the Senate, referred to the
fact that the rfouse Thursday night
had passed a similar bill by a vote
of 403 to 13, and also recited that the
j Senate rule permitting unlimited de-
bate gave a small minority oppor
tunity to throttle the will of the ma
Jorlty.
Text of Manifesto.
The text of the manifesto Is as
follows:
"The majority of United States
Senators favored the passage of the
Senate bill authorising the President
of the United States to arm American
merchant vessels, a similar bill hav
ing already passed the House by a
vote of 403 to 13.
"Under the rules of the Senate al
4owing debate, It appears to be im
possible to obtain a vote previous
to noon March 4, 1917, when this ses
sion of Congress expires. We desire
the statement entered on the record
to establish the fact that the Senate
favored the legislation, and would
pass it if a vote could be obtained."
Thirteen Senators declined to sign
the declaration, but one Senator, Pen
rose, Republican, of PennsylvanUy
nounced that he would have wted
for the bill had opportunity been
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offered him. The 12 who went on
record with the 13 members of the
House against granting to President
Wilson the authority in the crisis
were: ' j
Republicans CUpp. Minnesota:
Cummins. Iowa: Gronna. North Da
kota; Kenyon. Iowa; LaFollette. Wis
consin; Norria, Nebraska: Works,
California 7.
Democrats Kirby. Arkansas; Lane,
Oregon; O'Gorman. New York; Stone.
Missouri; ardaman.. Mississippi 5.
Hoase Opponents.
Associated ith them in opposition
to the armed neutrality bill were the
following: 11 Representatives who
voted against the House bill Thursday
night:
Republicans Benedict California:
Cary, Wisconsin: Cooper. Wisconsin;
Davis. Minnesota llelgesen. North
Dakota: Lindbergh. Minnesota; Nel
son, 'Wisconsin: Stafford. Wisconsin;
Wilson. Illinois.
Democrats Decker. Missouri;
Shackleford. Missouri; Sherwood,
Ohio 3.
Socialist London. New York 1.
The 7 C Senators who signed the
manifesto were:
Democrats Ashorst. Bank head.
Beckham. Broussard. Bryan. Cham
berlain. Chilton. Fletcher. Hardwlck.
Hitchcock. Hollis. Hughes. Husting.
James, Johnson. South Dakota; Kern,
Lea, Lee. Lewis. Martin. Virginia;
Martine. New Jersey: Myers. New
lands, Overman. Owen. Phelan, Pitt
man. Pomerene. RansdelL Reed. Rob
inson. Sanlsbury. Shafroth, 8beppard.
Shields. Simmons. Smith. Georgia;
Smith. Maryland; Smith. South Caro
lina; Swansea. Thomas, Thompson.
Tillman, Underwood, Walsh and WU-
Republics n Borah. Brady. Bran
degee. Catron. Clark. Colt.' Curtis,
Dillingham. Dupont, Fait Fernald.
Harding. Jones. Lodge. McCumber,
dexter. Sherman. Smith. Michigan ; ,
Smoot, Sterling. Sutherland. Town-
send. Wadsworth. Warren. Watson !
and Weeks. j
Of the seven Senators not record-1
ed, three, Gallinger and Gon. Repub-1
licans. and Gore. Democrat, were '
absent on account of sickness. Sen- j
a tors Lippitt. Republican, and John- :
son. of Maine, and Smith, of Arizona. (
Democrats, were absent . from the ;
city. Senator Culberson, Democrat i
did not reach tbe Senate In time to j
be recorded. i
- - Draaaatlc Close. j
- Hoars before the end. Senators who J
fought throughout the night to break j
down tbe filibuster conceived a way ;
to thwart LaFollette' plans to oc
cupy the center of the legislative
stage at the climax of tbe bitter fight
Its execution brought the session to a
dramatic end. with LaFollette fight
ing for a chance to deliver a speech
on which be had worked many days.
He saw friends of the doomed legis
lation inflict the death blow he plan
ned. Instead of LaFollette, Senatot !
Hitchcock, leader of tbe majority in
favor of the bin, talked oat the waa-
ing boar of the sessloa.
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HOAX PLAYED ON,
LOWER HOUSE I
CLOSING HOUHS
Woman Received as Miss Ran-!
kin Was Not Congresswoman. !
CANNON CALLED TO CHAIR
He and Speaker Clark Made;
SpeechesPatriotic Demon
stration Marked Close.
Washington. March 4 A hoax
played on membeis of Co: gre.-w today
overshadowed the Mngw:K. cheering i
and speech-making Hint mirk the end
of every session.
It centered about intrust in Mins
Jeannette Rankin of Munlana. the first
woman ever elected to the United
States CongresB who will take her seat
in the next House. She was expected
to be here today, but did not arrive,
and Mrs. George W. Edmonds, wife of
Representative E-lmonds. of Pennsyl
vania, received tbe tnuuderous ova
tion that awaited her.
So well did Mrs. Ldmund play her
role that hundred. of p-rns wno
shook hands with her in an im-
promptu reception following un
I nouncement from the tluor of the
presence of MUa Kankin. went away
unaware of her real identity.
Today's demonstrations lasted more
than an hour. As Speaker Clark's
gavel dropped promptly at noon,
members of 'the floor and the press
gallery', who previously had been sup
plied with books of old-fashioned
song.-t. burst into "Columbia, the Gem
of the Ocean."
Mrs. J. Charles Linthicum, wife of
Representative Linthicum. of Mary
land, rose in the gallery and unfurled
hugs -silken flag; on end of which
was gathered np by Mrs. Champ
Clark, wife of the Speaker. A storm i
of applause followed. !
"Mar Spangled Banner." I
In another part of the gallery. Miss
Leona Sherwood, a daughter of Rep
resentative Sherwood, sang The Star
Spangled Banner." Mrs. David H.
Kincheloe, wife of Representative
Kincheloe. of Kentucky, whistled
"Dixie" with help from the crowd.
"How Dry I Am." sung with particular
feeling by "wets," who were so over
whelmingly defeated in the last Con
gress, followed.
In tribute to the late Representative
Conry, who .for many years led the
singing on the floor, Representativs
Gallivan sang. "The Vacant Chair."
In the farewell speeches preceding
final adjournment. Democratic Leader
Kltchin and others declared the House
had done its work this session and
blamed the Senate for any embarrass
ment which the Government may suf
fer through work not done.
"The House, Democrats and Repub
licans alike," said Mr. Kitchin, "have
met every responsibility and perform
ed every duty imposed upon it by the
Constitution and by the country. If
the President should find this country
In the midst of a sudden emergency
and look about him for authority and
means to protect the rights of Ameri
can ships and American citizens from
unlawful attacks upon the seas, and
find it not. the fault will lie, not with
this body, but" with another body. I
believe, Mr. Speaker, that the country
ought to know this truth."
Called Cannoa to Chair.
Speaker Clark called Representative
Cannon, his Republican predecessor,
to the rostrum and asked him to pre
side. Banging the gavel while the
members laughed and applauded. Mr.
Cannon said it always was in order
for the Speaker of the House to say a
word, and he talked about the United
States as a Government of the people
and the virility of the American citi-
xenship. Amid applause and cat calls.
he put through a resolution thanking stage tomorrow. In North Carolina,
Speaker Clark for his services. the Roanoke and Neuse Rivers are
Speaker Clark made a speech say- rising rapidly and may overflow to
ing this Congress was the best behaved morrow, while the upper James in
one he bad ever seen, and that the I Virginia is threatening to go out of
acute partisanship that was evident its banks.
when he first came to Congress 24 j The floods are the result of heavy
years ago had been almost abolished
in the House.
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SOUTH
F OOD DANGER
Rivers Are Out of Banks in Some
Sections.
Many Homeless and Much Prop
erty Damage, but No Loss
of Life Reported.
Five Southern States. Tennessee,
Alabama, Georgia. North Carolina and
Virginia, are threatened with disas
trous floods.
Rivera already are over ' their
banks in east Tennessee,, southern
Georgia and eastern Alabama with
considerable property damage and
hundreds homeless In Tennessee. So
far, no loss of life has been reported.
Chattanooga and Knoxville, in Ten
nessee, and Montgomery and Tusca
loosa, in Alabam, are the cities most
directly threatened. Lowlands around
the two Tennensee towns already have
been flooded and In Chattanooga
many residents have been driven from
their homes. Suburbs of Knoxville
are cut off by flood waters.
Besides the Tennessee River, the
Cumberland in that State is expected
to reach the flood stage tomorrow.
Pigeon River has overflowed its
banks.
Rivers at flood stage in Alabama
are the Alabama. Black Warrior.
tTombigbee and Chattahoochee. In
, Georgia, the Oconee, Ocmulgee and
! Chattahoochee are to be at flood
rains for the past several days
j throughout the South. Flood stages
; in the 10 rivers are predicted on the
present rainfall, and. "disastrous re
sults" are expected should the rain
fall continue. Generally rain or snow
j is forecast for tomorrow in the five
; States affected, but fair weather is
promised for Tuesday.
I The threatened floods apparently
j cover a wider area than any floods
; recorded in the South In recent years
and all indications are that in some
places, particularly in eastern Ten
' nessee. they will be the most dis
astrous in many years.
MOON RESOLUTION IS
SIGNED BY PRESIDENT
Postpones Effectiveness of 'Bone
Dry Amendment Until First of
July.
Washington, March 4. President
Wilson today signed the Moon reso-
lutlon adopted last night by Senate
,and House, which postpones until
i July 1 the effectiveness of the liquor
f amendments to the postal appropria
tion bill. These amendments prohibit
the shipping of alcoholic liquors into
States which -prevent their manufac -
iture and sale and close the' United
States mails to newspapers or any
publications or cards- carrying liquor
advertisements which are to be sent
into States which prohibit the circu
laUon of such advertisements. In those
I Commonwealths.
of Office Today
MARSHALL,
VOTES TO
Would Follow United States in
Dealing With Germany.
President Refuses to Approve
Action Because He Holds Such
Power Rests With Him.
Peking, . March 4. The Cabinet
today decided that China should Join
the United States in breaking oft rela
tions with Germany. This decision
was submitted to- the President, who
refused to approve the Cabinet's
action, saying such power rested en
tirely with him. Premier Tuan Chi
Jul Immedately resigned and left for
Tien Tsln, accompanied by several
other members of the Cabinet.' The
resignation of the entire Cabinet is
expected.
Parliament Is virtually unanimous
in favor of the opinion of the Cabinet
The leaders of all the political parties
are adversely criticising the Presi
dent's position. The Vice President of
the Republic supports the Cabinet.
An official statement issued from
the President's office says that the
break between the President and the
Premier was due to personal differ
ences rather than to the foreign
policy. President LI Yuan Hung has
sent representatives to -Tien Tsln to
Induce the Premier to return to
Peking.
According to the President's office,
the Immediate cause of the break was
a dispatch sent to the Chinese Minister
at Tokio, committing China to a rup
ture of relations with Germany and
union with the Entente Powers under
certain conditions.
The President r.efused his approval
because, he declared. Parliament must
sanction all measures contemplating
war as well as a direct declaration of
war.
President Li Yuan Hung justifies his
position by article 35, of the Provi
sional Constitution, which reads as
follows:
','The Provisional President shall
have power, with the concurrence of
the National Council, to declare war
arfd conclude treaties."
ALL EFFORTS TO FLOAT
STEAMERA. XRAVEN FAIL
Cargo Is Thrown Overboard and
the Yamacraw and Tug Res
cue Are Still Standing by
Stranded Steamer.
Norfolk, Va., March 4. All ef
forts of the wrecking tug Rescue to
float ,the American steamer A. A.
Raven, aground on a reef off Bodies
Island, have resulted in failure. The
ship, in the opinion of the life guards
on watch on the shore. Is being stead
ily swept inshore. They believe she
will be a total loss. "
Today the crew of the Raven In
the hope of lightening the ship's bot
1 torn, again began throwing her cargo
Into the sea. Three hundred more
carboys of acid have been washed
ashore.
The coast guard cutter Yamacraw
and the tug Rescue are still standing
by..theBteamer whose . captain ,.an
crew have declined to abandon her. -
BREAK
PRESIDENT HAS
1 AUTHORITY
TO 1,1 SHIPS
Strong Statement From White
House on Senate Filibuster.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS
Would Be Called, if Senate Will
Amend Rules to Avoid Such
. Contingencies, Is Intimation.
Washington, March 4. Presi
dent Wilson tonight informed, the
country, in a statement, that he
may be without power to arm
merchant ships and take other
steps to meet the German subma
rine menace, in the absence of
aumui ujr 1 1 uiii vuugl Cio.
An extra session of Congress,'
the President says, is required to"
clothe him with .authority, but It
is useless to call one while the
Senate works under the present
rules which permit a small minor-
ity to keep an overwhelming ma
jority from acting. ' . . .
The President proposes, there--fore,
that the special session ' of
the Senate, which he has called to
meet tomorrow, revise the rules
"to supply the mians of action
and save the country from dis
aster." s
"A little gjoup of wilful men,'
says the President in his statement,'
"representing no opinion,- but
their own, have rendered the great
Government of the United States
helpless and' contemptible."
The President's statement In ; full :
follows: ',.
"The termination of the last session
of the Sixty-fourth Congress bjr con
stitutional limitation discloses a sit
uation unparalleled In the history of
the country, perhaps unparalleled In
the history of any modern Govern
ment. In the immediate presence of
a crisis fraught with more subtle and
far-reaching possibilities of National
danger than any other tbe Govern
ment has known within the whole
history of Its International relations,
the Congress haa been unable to aot
either to safeguard the country or to
vindicate the elementary rights of tta
citizens. .....-.; . . . ..
"More than S00 of the lit nam
bers of the two houses were ready
and anxious to act; the House of
Representatives had acted by- an
overwhelming majority, but tbe Sen
ate was unable to act because little
group of eleven Senators had deter
"The Senate has no rules by which
debate, can be limited or brought to
an end, no rules by which dilatory
tactics of any kind can be prevented.
A single member can stand In tbe
way of action If he have bat the phy
sical endurance. The result in this
case Is a complete paralysis alike of
the legislative and executive branches
of the Government.
"This inability of the Senate to act
has rendered some of the most nec
essary legislation of the session im
possible, at a time when the need for
It was most pressing and most evi
dent. The bill, which would have
permitted such combinations of capi
tal and of organization In the export
and Import trade of the country as
the circumstances of International
competition have made Imperative
bill which the business judgment of
the whole country approved and de
manded has failed.
Other Measures Lost :?
"The opposition of one or two Sen
ators has made It Impossible to In
crease the membership of the Inter
state Commerce Commission . or to
give it the altered organization nec
essary for its efficiency. The conser
vation bill, which should have re
leased for immediate use the mineral
resources -which are still looked -up
in the public . lands, now that their
release is more Imperatively neces
sary than ever, and the bUl which
would have made the unused water
power of the country ' Immediately
available for industry have both
failed, though they have been tinder
consideration throughout the sessions
of two Congresses and have been
twice passed by the House of Rep
resentatives. '-!' l". J.
"The appropriations for the Army
have failed, along with tbe appropria
tions for the civil establishment of
the Government, the appropriations
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iur ing military Acuumiiy m.i i ci
Point, and the general deficiency bill.
"It has proved impossible to ex
tend the powers of the shipping board
to meet the special needs of the new
situation into which our commerce
has been forced, or to increase the
gold reserve of our National banking
system to meet the unusual circum
stances of the existing financial sit
uation. "ft would not cure the difficulty to
call the Sixty-fifth Congress in extra
ordinary session. The paralysis of the
Senate would remaiaY The purpose
ana iimj spini ui ituua bv
Ing now. The Congress Is more defi
nitely united tn thought and purpose
at this moment I venture to say, than
It has been within the memory of any
man now In Its membership. There
is not only the most united patriotic
purpose, but the objects members have
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