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THE DAY BOOK
An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday
VOL.6, NO. 129 Chicago, Wednesday, February 28, 1917 3!
HOUSE BLOCKS WILSON
AS WAR LOOMS-LIMIT
EXECUTIVES POWER
Restricts Use of Arms on U. S. Merchant Ships
Filibuster Threatens in Senate Berlin Justifies
Laconia Sinking Son of U-Boat Victim
Demands Reprisal.
Washington, Feb. 28. The house
foreign affairs committee today up
held Pres. Wilson's request for power
to meet the international situation,
but with two important restrictions.
Authorization for use of "other in
strumentalities," aside from guns,
gunners and money, was stripped
fjom (he original FJoqd bill, thus lim
iting, perhaps, the president's au
thority to some extent
The second restriction was inser
tion of a provision against use of war
risk bureau to insure ships carrying
munitions.
The latter provision may bring the
whole armed ship and munitions
questions into the present aituatio