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On Wednesday week the Senate voted the resolution declaring the

existence of a state of war with Germany by 82 votes to 6, but almost all the Pacificists promised their support once war began. Early on Friday morning after seventeen hours' sitting the House of Repre- sentatives voted the same resolution by 373 to 50, the minority including Miss Rankin, the only woman member. In the afternoon President Wilson signed the joint resolution of Congress and issued a Proclamation to all citizens of the United States declaring the existence of a state of war with Germany and setting forth the conditions governing the treatment of alien enemies.

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