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DECLARATION OF WAR AS URGED BY PRESIDENT WILSON
JOINT RESOLUTION INTRODUCED BY CONGRESSMAN FLOOD LAST NIGHT AT CONCLUSION OF PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.
"Whereas, The recent acts of the Imperial German Government are acts of war against the Government and people of the United States.
"Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Imperial German Government which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared, and
"That the President be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to take immediate steps not only to put the country in a thorough state of defence, but also to exert all of its power and employ all of its resources to carry on war against the Imperial German Government, and to bring the conflict to a successful termination."
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