SPECIAL CONGRESS SESSION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 18 November 1937, Page 9

SPECIAL CONGRESS SESSION

INTEREST DIVERTED FROM MAIN BUSINESS lUoited Press Association —By Electrlo Telegraph—Copy rich tl WASHINGTON, 17th November, i The quarrelsome mood of Congress | was again illustrated when the Senate i spent the day heatedly debating an anti-lynching measure. The Bill was continuously opposed by Southern Senators and hard pushed by the northerners. It threatens to make the special session ineffective. Reflecting the likelihood of another diversion of Congressional interest from the main business of the special session was the introduction by Senator R. M. La Rolette, jun., of* a constitutional amendment limiting the power of Congress to declare war and another, requiring a plebiscite before the United States could engage in war. Both amendments are very similar. They stress the necessity that the men who suffer and die in war should have the right to decide its declaration. Senator Graves introduced a measure j designed to take the profits from war I through the universal conscription of 1 both men and resources. I