The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-06-14
KNOX RESOLUTION
BEING CROWDED
Appropriation Bills Demand
Attention of Senate
Till July |
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
MAY BE FINISHED
Hoped Treaty of Peace Will Be Signed
Before Senate Has Time to Discuss
the Appropriations May Be
Completed by Gable.


WASHINGTON, June 14.-With just
y possible legislative days between
now and July l the league of nations
and the appropriation bills are elbow
ing each other for right of way on a |
single track legislative road.
1t is, of course, merely coincidence, |
but it is a most interesting one, that
the date most recently assigned at
Paris for getting the treaty signed is
the same on which the new appropria-
tion acts must come into force if the
government shall continue to pass
bills The necessity to get the appro-
pration bills passed is obvious. No
body disagrees on that point, while on
the other hand the anti-lcague SEN
ators want if possible to obtain some
definite declaration on the Knox
resolution before the peace treaty is
signed.
While they say it is not necessary
to their program to get such action
there is little doubt that if the appro-
priation measures were not in the way
they would right now be engaged in a
race to beat ratification with the resolu-
| tion.
The legislative situation is that
there is short calendar in the senate
and that appropriation bills of the
greatest Importance are being pushed
| through the house and senate COM
mittees as fast as possible Senate
leaders said yesterday they hoped to
pass the agricultural, the deficiency and
the District of Columbia appropriation
bills next week After that. the mill
J tary, naval and sundry civil appropria-
tion measures must get consideration
before July /. The program is to take
mp the Knox resolution not earlier than
| Tuesday and possibly not to take il mp
next week at all. depending on progress
with the appropriation measures.
All sides are now settled in the def
mite conviction that just as soon as the
Knox resolution gets before the senate
the big fight viii be on. Senator Lodge
! Mass has gone to Massachusetts for
few days. but his absence NAV not
interfere with proceedings. In his alb
senee Senator Knox tPa.) may call the
resolution up any time after Monday
and ask immediate consideration.
If there is objection, which there Ger
tainly viii be, he will move to take il
). up, which would make it unfinished
{ business This motion opens the merit:
of the resolution to debate and the mo
5 ment it is made the talkfest viii be on
+ Nobody is willing to guess how long tn,
f debate on this motion may last and i
makes little difference, because the fun
: damental question will be just as com
@ pletelv before the senate in connection
d with this motion as on the final vote
!, Precisely how the appropriation bill
:, will stand if they are passed so lat
e as not to reach Paris for the Presiden
i, tial signature before July |, is a ques
!; tion that is not being discussed wit
d much animation. When the emergene
l. bill for the war risk insurance bu
# reau was passed the President cable
an authorization to make drafts agains
i the appropriation pending his reeeiT
e and signature of the measure, and thi
N was accepted. Doubtless the same cours
1r will be pursued as to the other apprt
D. priation bills if necessary.