Evening journal., 1917-01-04
KAISER Will MAKE
Definite Peace move
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Senator Lodge sounded the keynote OF
the whole present plonoatic situation
when he declared the Senate ought
not TO approve the Presidents note
without careful study.
The Senate manifestly is perplexed
at just how far Wilson proposes to go !
with the implied threat Of a break
The Senate in common with the pub
lic does not know exactly what Wilson
wants or what he intends to do, &C
cording to Lodge and others For this
reason those opposed to the admins
tTat'on and this opposition includes,
apparently, some Democrats, declare
the senate ought to know just what 1t
IS endorsing before IL goes ahead with
the Hitchcock resolution
The attack on Bernstorff yesterday
by Lodge was a precedent Lodges
action in naming the German Ambas-
sador personally on the Senate floor
in such debate was given all the
more significance in view OF the Bay
State Senator's heretofore rigid and
unbending adherence to that gey OF
bogeys-Senate rules and procedure.
In fact, Lodge himself emphasized
this significance when he frankly de-
clared he realized his naming of Bern
storff was contrary to the written
rules Of the Senate
On the whole, the situation re-
sembled largely the fight over the res
olution to warn Americans from trav-
cling on armed ships In both cases.
enormously vital interests are con-
cerned
"a raWN Tsm aaNr fsafr
tration view, was a question OF abridg-
ing American rights in order to dodge
trouble with Germany on submarine
warfare. The present situation, ac-
cording to administration followers. is
an attempt to get American endorse
ment of the idea OF forcing a state
ment of peace terms under the threat
that America may join the war, in
case annoying conditions become
more intolerable than at present and
It Is emphasized that the administra.
ton believes that Germany will re-
open her submarine frightfulness
campaign II peace moves fail The
Republicans propose, however, that
the veil OF secrecy shall be lifted from
the present situation and that II the
Senate votes IL shall vote frankly on
the Presidents note-nOt as a peace
proposition but as a peace move with
war string to 1t.
Lodge fairly ripped into "adminis-
trative secrecy" He declared against
American interference in European af-
fairs; held Europe ought to make her
own peace. and excoriated the admin
lstration for seeking "a blanket en-
dorsement" to its entire negotiations.
"I shall resist the attempt to bring
the Senate into approving blindly any
steps OF which we are not informed y
he said. I'VE do not ask what the
President is doing, but II any approval
OF his acts is wanted, we ought to know
what we are approving"
Discussing secrecy, Lodge turned to
the press gallery and mentioned the
stories from abroad which said Count
Andrassy declared at Budapest that
President Wilson knows Germany's
peace terms.
"These terms" he said, may have
come to President Wilson in other
than the usual channels. It is entire
| ly within his discretion TO have these
come secretly, but when our cooper
alton is invited, we are etntled to have
the same information that the Presi-
ueul mas
I'VE ought not to be asked to act
in the dark" Lodge said with great
emphasis. He presented various notes
reported in the press, growing out OF
recent peace overtures.
Immediately after Senator Lodge
concluded his remarks, Senator James
Hamilton Lewis. Illinois, Democratic
whip. took up the fight for the ad-
ministration.
Lewis scoffed at Lodges idea that
the Hitchcock resolution involved en-
tangling alliances or dangerous pros
poets. On the other hand he con-
/ tended that the resolution solely ap-
proves Wilson's dispatch Of the note,
! with its request for peace terms.
THE resolution does not ask for
approval of contents OF the note" said
Lewis 1T merely approves action OF
the President in sending the note"