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PEACE TREATY
FIGHT STARTED
IN The SENATE
One More to Ratify Treaty
Another to COnsummate
Peace
COMPROMISE BOARD
OF TEN PROPOSED
Crisis in Life of the Document is
Expected by the Middle
Of Next Month Say
Leaders

peace treaty controversy was re-
vived in it's full vigor today, just
before the senate recessed for
Christmas.
Two new moves for the formal
establishment of peace, one by
ratification of the treaty and the
other without, were the agencies
which re-opened the fight. Neither
proposal got anywhere, but it
generally was conceded that the
days work would help bring SEN
ate opinion to a focus early in
January.
The suggestion which caused the
greatest stir came late in the day
from Senator Underwood, demo-
crat, Alabama. He proposed ap-
pointment of a committee of 10 to
work out a compromise ratifica-
ton of the treaty. He asked for
immediate action, but Senator
Lodge, of Massachusetts,, the re-
publican leader, forced the resolu-
ton over until after the holidays.
The other move came from Phil
ander Knox, senator from Pennsyl-
vania, and a former republican
secretary Of state. He obtained
approval from the foreign re1a-
tions committee of a resolution
to repeal the declaration of war
and to demand of Germany, on
pain Of an economic boycott, all
the material benefits provided by
the unratified treaty. The mild
reservation group of republicans
promptly served notice they would
not support such a measure and
the democrats predicted it never
would be adopted.
Privately, the mild group ex-
pressed much dissatisfaction with
the days developments and made
plans to go ahead determinedly
with their efforts for bi-parti-
san agreement on reservations.
They protested to their party lead
ers against the Knox resolution
and indicated that they had been
prepared to support the Under
wood proposal if Senator Lodge
had not blocked a vote on it.
Senator Underwood, in present.
ing his resolution, pleaded for act
i've work toward compromise during
the Christmas recess, declaring the
country demanded peace that it
had been demonstrated that little
progress in that direction could
be made in the open senate. In
approving the Knox resolution,
the foreign relations committee
divided z to 3 along strict party
lines, the only mild reservationist
on the committee, Senator Nc
Cumber, republican, North Dakota,
being absent.
Substitute Knox Plan.
Before voting the republican
majority substituted the Knox
proposal, which would require pas
sage by both senate and bureau
and signature by the president,
for one by Senator Lodge, which
was designed to get action by
congress only. The move was tax.
en- to mean abandonment of any
effort to declare state of peace
without the concurrence of Presi-
dent Wilson. In a formal state
ment. Senator Knox explained
that the resolution sought to break
the treaty deadlock. Adoption OF
the resolution, he said, would not
interfere with future ratification
if the senate found a way to ac-
complish it.
Senator Hitchcock, said the reso-
luton was "preposterous" and
designed to defeat the league Of
nations.
Knox Proposal.
The text of the Knox resolu-
ton follows:
Resolved by the Senate and
House of representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress, That the joint resolution of
congress passed April 6, 1917
declaring state of war exists be-
tween the imperial German gov
eminent and the government and
people of the United States and
making provisions to prosecute
the same, be, and the same is,
hereby repealed, to take effect up
on ratification of treaty of peace
between Germany and three Of the
principal allied and associated
powers.
provided, however, that unless
the German government notifies
the government of the United
States that it acquiesces in and
confirms irrevocably to the Uni
ted States all undertakings and
contained in the treaty.
of Versailles comforting upon or
assuring to the United States OF
it's nationals any rights, powers
or benefits whatsoever, and con-
cedesS to the United States all
rights, privileges ,indemnities.
and advantages to
which the United States would
have been entitled if it were
ratifying party to the said treaty,
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