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Mgr. 1,000 $5 to $10 BOOKS (LOU’S MISTAKE) These were bought for resale and the edition changed. Now Selling For 95c or 10 for $7.50 Build Your Library At Lou’s Expense Special report Cutoff of Yietnam war funds not likeb Editor’s note: In the debate now taking shape in the Senate over Vietnam, much will be said about who has the constitution al authority to wage war. The following article puts the ques tion in historical perspective. By JOHN ZECKLER Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON — In their ef fort to cut off funds to carry on the Vietnam war, Capitol Hill foes of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia are reaching for the ultimate weapon available to Congress to try to influence presidential decisions. But just as nuclear power has become too awesome to be use ful in settling disputes between nations, the drastic nature of the step proposed in Congress is likely to keep it from being tak en. If the certainty they would be provoking a constitutional crisis does not deter the House and Senate from acting, the possibil ity that they might be depriving American soldiers under fire of anything they needed probably will. The House already has made it clear it will not move in this direction, decisively rejecting several proposals last week. That in itself should be sufficient no tice that even if the Senate does adopt any of the several meas ures before it, they are unlikely to go any further. But that is not to say Senate approval of a proposal to with draw financial support from the war, or even the Cambodian cam paign, would not have a profound effect on President Nixon. No presidential policy is likely to last very long or be very effec tive without majority support of the people’s elected representa tives. 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The Constitution divides re sponsibility between the execu tive and legislative branches, but hardly balances it. Congress has the power to declare war and provide for any army and navy, while the President is comman der-in-chief of the armed forces. The President has the power to negotiate treaties, but must get the advice and consent of the Senate. The balance that exists under this arrangement has been a seesawing one for 180 years. Strong presidents and times of crisis have tended to enlarge presidential powers. Congres sional influence has bloomed in other, more peaceful administra tions. For the most part, 19th cen tury presidents were more in clined to observe congressional prerogatives in foreign affairs than their 20th century succes sors, although Presidents of ev ery era have sent U.S. troops abroad without obtaining con gressional approval. The difference between then and now is mainly the differ ence between the foreign rela tions of the 19th and 20th centu ries. Sending gunboats to tiny, back ward countries to protect Ameri can citizens whose danger was usually in direct proportion to the degree of American interest in the area and pursuing the pi rates of the Barbary Coast are hardly the equivalent of the prob lems with which modern presi dents have confronted Congress. Since 1950 the dominant posi tion of the United States in in ternational affairs, the rise of Communist power to challenge it, the changing nature of war and the increasing destructiveness of weapons have created a situation never envisioned by the founding fathers. During the last two decades the presidential power to com mit U.S. troops to battle without prior approval by Congress has been used extensively—in Korea, Lebanon, the Dominican Republic and to dispatch more than a half million men to Vietnam. It is the growth of that power the Senate wants to check. If it were simply a constitu tional question to be discussed and voted on in the abstract there is little doubt both houses of Congress would be in wide agreement that something should be done to curb presidential pow er. But now the abstract question can’t be separated from the Viet nam war and that is what makes it so hard for Congress to do anything at this time. With the United States deeply involved in Southeast Asia and the future course of events there very uncertain, the President, as commander-in-chief, has a strong constitutional basis for conducting the war as he sees fit. To say that Congress has the constitutional power to stop fi nancing the war doesn’t dimin ish the President’s constitutional power to conduct it. If both should choose to go the full route, the resulting impasse would produce a constitutional crisis of unpre cedented proportions. That the Vietnam war and not the balancing of constitutional powers is the real issue in the Senate is indicated by the di rectly opposing views taken by Sen. J. William Fulbright, D- Ark., before and after Vietnam. The office of the president, re garded by Fulbright as the most effective source of foreign policy in 1961, is now seen by him as one with unchallenged power of life or death over American citi- less that commitment had ben concurred in by Congress. It b; no force of law but its sponsos feel it should have led Nixonfe seek congressional approval l*. fore sending troops into Camfo dia. If such resolutions are tooweii to command presidential compli anee and cutting off funds is t« drastic a step for Congress ti take, debate and voting on sutl proposals do provide the focusfe public opinion. And that is the real pows Congress can bring to bears the President. had Fulbright hoped a start been made on beefing up con gressional prerogatives last sum mer. 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