The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-04-27
RESOLU LUTON ON
 PEACE IS STILL
 HELD IN SENATE

Washington, D. C., April 27.-Un-
 certainty exists here as to to what
 will be the ultimate fate in the Sem
 ate of the so-called peace resolution
 which leaders in the upper chamber
 have failed to press for consideration up to this time. Although this reso-
 1ution passed the House by a partisan
 vote early in April, the Republican
 majority in the Senate appears to be
 marking time and in hurry to rush
 it to passage, notwithstanding claims
 made in the lower body that it was
 an emergency measure.
 During the debate in the House,
 Democrats who question both the
 constitutionality and wisdom of the
 peace resolution expressed doubt that
 the Senate would expedite it's pass
 age. Some went so far as to pre-
 dict that the resolution would be al-
 lowed to sleep in the upper chamber
 for many weeks or months, if it was
 ever brought up for eetion, and that
 it's consideration in the House under
 a rule limiting debate and precludins
 amendment was a political play in
 tended to embarrass the Administra- ton following the Senate's refusal to accept the peace treaty.
 One of the strongest House, argu-
 ments designed to show the fut1lity
 of the passage of such a resolution
 was that presented by Representative A. w. Barkley, of Kentucky, one of the constitutional lawyers of the lower chamber. Contending that the peace resolution would be ineffective, even if adopted, and that Congress had nothing to do with making peace ] by mere resolution, Representative l Barlley said in part:
 raGnI1IfinT shall have been adopted, if it should be signed Iby the President, or if he vetoes it 1 and it should pass over his veto, then | do our Republican friends propose 1 to adopt another resolution appoint | ing a Congressional messenger to | journey to Berlin and knock on the | door of the German Reichstag and announce to them in stentorian tones that the American Congress has pass | ed this resolution restoring peace and | ask the German government to con | cur in the same, and that they have 1 only 45 days in which to do it. Do you intend to send the Sergeant at Arms over with it, or our genial and accommoda dating Doorkeeper, or will ! it be the Clerk of the House? Or, 1 better still, will the steering commit | tee accompany the precious docu- nent. have waited in vain for some good and wise Republican to an nounce to us the procedure which will | be adopted in order to get this thing | officially before the German Govern ment, which is asked to concur in it. l No such announcement has been | forthcoming. None will be, for there is no power now, and there has never been any power, by which Congress, as the legislative body of the Nation can conduct any sort of diplomatic communication with the German Government, or any other Govern ment,, either in war or in peace. If 1 Congress can not conduct diplomatic l communication with the German i Government, it can not officially l notify Germany of the passage of this 1 or any other resolution, and it will 1 have no effect. whatever, and every 1 body on both sides of this House
 knows that if he has any intelligence 1 whatever.
 1 to substitute this resolution for the | treaty of peace, then we have the 1 power by congressional resolution to | restore diplomatic relations, and if
 we have that power, then Congress 1 can appoint an Ambassador and other 1 diplomatic and consular officers, even l over the objection of the President l and send them to the German Gov
 ernment, and thus restore all the re- {! lations which existed before we en- 1 tered the war"