Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-21
COMP PROM|SE ON
TREATY PROPOSED
BY REPUBLICANS
In Place of Article Ten Plan
Would Have u. S. Enter
European War That Might
Menace Civilization.

| lbf MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL LEASED wIrEl
Washington, Dec, 2O.-The peace
| treaty controversy was revived in its
| full vieor today. lust before the SEN
/ ate recessed for Christmas
TWO new moves for the formal es-
| tabllshment of peace. one by ratifica-
| ton of the treaty. and the other with
out were the agencies which re-
opened the fight Neither proposal
got anywhere. but it generally was
! conceded that the DAYS work would
! help bring to a focus early in Janu-
arv the trend of senate opinion to-
ward some sort of q settlement
| The suggestion which caused the
| greatest stir came from Senator I'M
proposed a resolution for appoint
ment of committee of ten senator's
! to work out a COMPROMISE ratiflca-
/ ton of the treaty He asked for inn
mediate action, but Senator Lodge of
| Massachusetts. the republican leader
forced the resolution over until after
the holidays.
The other move came from Senator
Knox of PENNSYLVANIA. who secured
arproval of the foreign relations COM
mittee for a resolution to repeal the
declaration of war and to demand of
Germany, on pain of an economic
| boycott all the material benefits pro-
vided for under the unratified treaty.
The mild reservation group of re-
publcans asserted thev would not
support such a measure, however, and
the democrats predicted 1t never
would be adopted.
The mild group made plans to go
ahead 9aiortiir ,,diN u IN fheir ~fforis
Irm Il oi-prtt&an agreedieut Oh resel-
vatious They protested to their party
leaders against the Knox resolution
and Indicated that thew had been pre-
pared to SUPPORT the Underwood pro-
posal
Senator Underwood in presenting
his resolution. made a plea for active
ri tnNKy n
the Christmas recess. He suggested
that the vice president in naming the
ten conferees should act on the ad-
vice, of Senator Lodge and Senator
Hitchcock of Nebraska. the acting
democratic leader
Text of Resolution.
The text of the Knox resolution fol-
lows:
"Resolved, BY the senate and house
of representatives of the United States
of America in congress assembled, that
the Joint resolution of congress passed
April 6, 1917, declaring state of war
exists between imperial German
government and the government and
the people of the United States ana
making provisions to prosecute the
same be, and the same is hereby re-
pealed, to take effect upon the ratifi-
cation of a treaty of peace between
Germany and three of the principal
and allied associated powers.
provided. however that unless the
German government notifies the gov
ernment of the United States that it
acquiesceS in and confirms lrreVoca-
bly, to the United States all undertake
ings and covenants contained in the
treaty of Versailles comforting upon
or assuring to the United States or its
nationals. any rights, powers or bene-
fits whatsoever, and comedies to the
United States all rights, privileges. in
IDENTITIES. reparations and advantages
to which the United States would have
been entitled If 1t were a ratifying
party to the said treaty, the president
of the United States shall have power
by proclamation, to prohibit CONNER
cial intercourse between the United
States and Germany and the making
of loans. or credits. and the furnishing
of financial assistance or supplies to
the German government or the inhab-
itants of Germany. directly or indf-
rectly, by the government of the United
states or the inhabitants of the United
States.
"Anv violation of the prohibition
contained in such proclamation by the
president shall be punished as provid-
ed in section 16 of the trading with
the enemy act approved October 6,
1917.
Cites Act of Congress.
1T is further resolved, that the
United States reaffirms the policy ex-
pressed in the act of congress approved
August 20. 1916, in the following
words:
81, ~It is Is hereby declared to 2 be the the
and settle its international disputes
through mediation or arbitration to
the end that war may be honorably
avoided 1t looks with apprehension
and disfavor upon a general increase |
armament throughout the world.
and the authorization and request |
made in said act to the president that
he; A.
of the world to send representatives !
to conference. which shall be charg- |
ed with the duty Of formulating a 4
r,iau for a court of arbitration or !
other tribunal to which disputed dues- |
ferred for adjudication and peaceful
settlement to consider the question of |
disarmament and submit their rec |
ommendation to their respectlVe gov
ernments for approval. is hereby re- |
newed ~
language of said act. that the repre- |
sentatives of the United states in said |
mission hv eminence in the law and
bv devotion to the cause of peace |
and said representatives be. appointed |
bv the president bv. and with the ad-
vice and consent of the senate,
A provision also is included in re-
affirming the general desire of this /
nation to help establish a world con- |
cert for amicable settlement of in
ternaticnal disDutes
Up to President.
The committee substituted the |
Knox proposal for a concurrent res |
oiution previously presented by Chair
man LODGE thus apparently abandon |
inp the effort to declare peace by a !
concurrent measure without the sig |
nature OF the president,
on adoption of the Knox resolution
in the committee. Senators Lodge,
Massachusetts. Borah. Idaho: Brand |
egee. Connecticut: Knox. Pennsyi-
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