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THE ASHEVILLE CIT 16 Pages Today IZEN . THE WEATHER i FAIR. i VOL, XftXlir, NO. 162. ASHEVILLE, N. C, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 3, 1917. PRICE FIVE CENTS ! ., . ,..(., h '''''' J ' ' mm ARMED NEUTRALITY- INEFFECTUAL GERMANTS WAR IS WAGED AGAINST MAMim COXGRESS IS STANDING BY THE PRESIDENT . ; ; . UNMEASURED DENUNCIATION OF GERMANY'S POLICY, "A CHALLENGE TO ALL MANKIND, MARKS APPEAL OF PRESIDENT FOR 99 WAR i"-A Calmly and Dispassionately, the Chief Executive Reviews Long List of German Outrages, Points Out Futility of Armed Neutrality, and Asks Congress to De clare a State of War at Once. CONGRESS IMMEDIATELY TAKES DESIRED ACTION -Vcpfy!ni'ii''' The Man of America's Destiny Bills Declaring State of War Exists Intro duced in Both Houses and Will Be Acted on Today Wild Patriotic Outburst Greets President Wilson, Marred Only by Silence of Few of "Little Group of Wilful Men" Washington, April 2. President Wilson to fciight urged congress, assembled in joint session, to declare a state of war existing between the United States and Germany. In a dispassionate but unmeasured denuncia tion of the course of the imperial government, Which he characterized as a challenge to all man Icind and a warfare against all nations, the presi dent declared that neutrality no longer was feasible jpx desirable where the peace of the world was in evolved; that armed neutrality had become in effectual enough at best and was likely to produce what it was meant to prevent, and urged that con- cress accept the guage of battle with all the re sources of the nation. Nothing Less Than War. T advise that the congress declare the recent course of the imperial German government to be in fact nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States, said the presi dent, "that it formally accept the status or bel ligerent which has been thrust upon it and that it take steps not only to put the country in a more thorough state of defense but also-to exert all its power and employ all its resources to bring the goV- ernment or tne uerman empire to terms and end the war. Resolutions Introduced - When the president had finished speaking reso lutions to declare a state bf war existing were intro duced in both houses of congress referred to ap propriate committees, and will . be debated 7 to morrow. There is .no doubt, of their passage. . The objects of the United States in entering the .war, the president said, were to vindicate the prin ciples of peace and justice against "selfish and auto- cratic power. 1 Without selfish ends, tor conquest or . dominion, seeking no indemnities or : material 1 compensations for the sacrifices it shall make, the ) I - i CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) I V FULL TEXT OF EPOCHAL ADDRESS DELIVERED BY PRESIDENT TO CONGRESS Declares Armed Neutrality Worse Than Inelfectual and Asks Congress to De- clare That State of War EM"fir. many's War Is Against All Mankind." ARMY AND NAVY PREPARATIONS HAVE REACHED A STAGE GUARANTEEING ALL ' IMMEDIATE DEFENSE NEEDS AT PRESENT All Sweeping Steps That Congress Is Expected to Authorize Villi Be Carried Oat Promptly is the Result of Plans Perfected by the Two Departments More National Guardsmen Called ' Into Service for Police Duty In the U. S. WASHINGTON, April 2. Army and navy preparations were bellevad by official tonight to have reached a tar guaranteeing against all 1m m ad lata defense needs and - Insuring that the more sweeping steps congress Is expected to authorise can be carried ut promptly. '.; v .. ;. r Mora Guardsmea Called. ' During the day' more . national guardsmen were called Into the fed eral service, for police doty, making a total ef more than 10.000 of the state troop now assigned to guard against lataraal disorder. - The war department also announced that In order not to handicap government construction work, all guardsmen who are government employes or employes or private plants doing government fjrork will be mustered pot, The guard organizations railed to day are as follows: Virginia iFourth Infantry, first and Second coast artillery. Battery D, Held artillery. . . West Virginia Second Infantry. Vermont First Infantry. ... Connecticut Second and .'Fourth companies coast artillery. , ' Maay Recruits. ' Returns today from recruiting sta tlons showed big gains In the number of men accepted by tha army and navy.) During (March the gain In the army was .TM, and while declining to go into details war department of ficials said the total strength was scaring the authorise? peace man mum of 120,00. The dally returns to the navy de partment showed that Jodaz had set , . J - - - a new record wltb7i applicants ac cepted. Another Indication of the govern ment's preparations for a large army was evidenced today in the announce ment that the old . Fort Ringgold military reservation in Texas, had been restored to the war department for recruiting purposes. It Is as sumed that tha transfer was mad to provide training space. Departmental Plots Complete. ' War departmental plana for tha mobilisation bf a wartime army have been completed for some days and are ready fov submission to the mili tary committees of the house and senetav- No 'details of the proposal to be made as to tha method of sembling tte force WASHINGTON, April 2. President Wilson spoke as follows: 1 . -.' ' . " "I have called the congress Mo extraordinary 'ses-' sion because there are serious' verr nerions. ehmcAs of policy to be made, and made ininiediatelr, which it "was neither right nor constitutionally permissible that I should assume the responsibility of makinff.' 11 " ' , : ' "On the third of Fpbrurv . lastrT offlrriallxr laid h fore you the extraordinary announcement of the imperial Uerman goyernmentr that ott and after the first day of February, it was its purpose to put aside all restraints of law or of humanity and use its submarines to sink every vessel that sought to approach either the ports of Great Britain and Ireland or the western coasts of Europe or any of the ports controlled by the enemies of Germany within the Mediterranean. , w ' Seemed to Be Object. "That had seemed to be the object of the' German submarine warfare earlier in the war, but since April of last year the imperial government-had s somewhat : re-, strained the commanders of ltg undersea craft in con formity with its promise then given to us that passenger boats should not be, sunk and tbat duewarning would be -given to all other vessels which its submarines might seek to destroy, when.no resistance was otterea or escape) ax- (CONTINUKD ON PAGE NINE) , . E EE AID STEAMER T ORPEDOED BY GERMArJ II- NEW YORK. ADrtl 2 The Amerl. can steamship Altec, first armed mer. chant vessel to sail from a port on this side of the Atlantic, was sunk by a German submarine off an Island near Brest, Prance. The cable mas- saga from the American consul at Brest that tiroturht tha news of the shin's slnklnr to , her owners, the Oriental Navigation - company, gavef no inkling as to the fate of her crew. An Associated Press dispatch from Paris said, however, that while some of the men aboard the Asteo were rescued, a number of them were missing and protoafclv had perlsneo. A French patrol boat picked up nine teen of the crew. TBtrty-nine ra crew. The Altec, under command of Cap. tain Walter O'Brien, was manned by crew of thirty-nine, seventeen or this number. Including the captain. were American cltiaens. Tha vessel was armed with two five- Inch guns, one forward and one aft, manned br naval" gunners under command of a warrant off! car. Tne fear was expressed by the owners that the gunners on the Asteo had no chance to show their skill. The Altec, a slow-moving rretgnter of 1,722 tone, steamed from New Tork for Havre. March IS. with a full cargo of foodstuffs and general supf plies valued at more man aouu.vuv. She was due at Havre tomorrow and probably was less than 100 miles from that port when torpedoed. OCARD'8 PERfiONNEU late tonight after hearing of the rranch admiralty dispatch Indicating that all of the members of the naval guard were safe, IMcretary uanieis made public the guard's personnel. It was composed of Lieutenant William F. Gresham and twelve enlisted men, rffltarhed from the crew of the gun- boat Dolphin stationed here. - Following are the en I lata a men. with tha residences of their next of kin: ' - James A. Blevins. itoatswain's mate. second-class. Cart a r eouaty. Tenn.; Thomas - E. Dillon, quartermaster, nrst-clasa. Jersey City, N. J.v William H. Douglas, coxswain. Terra Haute, Eopoiucri, Doaiswam s third-class, Baltimore; Ramus! Bar! Israel, seamen, Helleman, Ala.: Clar ence H. Kelly, quartermaster, Trenton, N. J.i Joseph Klewinsky, seaman, see- , ond -class, Newburg, W. Vs.; Wo. T. Romlnger, - gunners' mate, second-. class. Elisabeth ton, Tann, Joseph A. Ruoker, seaman, Roanoke, Ala., and Clarence W. Whitney, quartermaster, second-class, Cincinnati. r John Small Chairman Rivera and Harbors Committee- Weaver's Assignments. WASHINGTON. D. C April !. John Small tonight was made chair man of tha committee on rivers and -harbors, thus giving to North Carew Una another big committee assign ment He secured hie place by virtu of being at tha top of the list. . Representative Weaver went en ex penditures In the Interior department -rneular affairs and the territories. . Representative Robinson went ea election somber one, Insular - affairs and labor. t " 1 PROCLAIM UBERTT. Greenville.' ffl. C) News: pra claim liberty throughout all the world and onto all tha Inhabitants . thereof was tha noble and sublime message which the declaration ti democracy rings out to the peoples ol the earth thle day. - ( -I, . . THE WEATHEH. . .Coatiqaed on Page Threevi I k A Inhn T . fil.K Wuhlnaton. D C: I ' WASHINGTON. April t Fofeca- have ten given AA-,, udr4okxm. roxawaln. Minna-1 for North Carolina: "sir and roole Jacob slUiiaer. iectnciaa, ivwut, timuiiuM nviouy tvpolis;
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