The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-07
PEACE MOVE BY RESOl LUTON $ FIRMLY OPPOSED E Democrats of Senate Are In Line Against This
 Action DESIRE TO HAVE OPEN DEBATE ON SUBJECT 1 Definite Line of Attack Has Not Been Established
 As Yet

| effeaf4y solid Tn the1f opposition tG !ahe so-called peace resolution and un- aer the leadership of Senator Oscai ". Underwood, minority floor leader. l and Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock, ! raalkiRg Democrat ef=the Foreign Re- laEaoEas geaAzniltee, they will present be impossible for the Republicans ta pass the resolution over the expected ' veto of the President.
 Republican claims that the Demo- eEats would H4ibHster against the res vote in the Senate are repudiated on ] the Democratic side of the chamber ! Tz1e Democrats say they are quite !. willing to face the issue presented ! In the Knox resolution and do not ; intend to avoid it by a. dIIbuster.
 The Democratic program is to have ] reaseaab4e debate on the Knox reso- 4afzea and permit it to come to a 1 vote whenever the Republican ma -jori4y asks for action. If there is any one Democrat Inclined to -fnbuster l the party leaders do not know it and a ene-naan faIbHster would get ne- ! where. The party program does not ! embrace 615bqstering tactics and Re- publican claims that the minority will whip about the stump and at- 1 tempt to forestaM a, vote are declared to be entirely without foundation.
 Democrats say that the politics shown by the nox~FesofN{ion is such that che minority Senators have no hesdtaaey in saBax-ely meeting the is- i sue and permitting it to go to the ! country. The question they say, is l whether peace shall be made in a i constitutional way by ratification of i a peace treaty negotiated in accord 1 ance with precedent and the, Constitu- i tion, or whether peace shall be de- i .clared by a one-s5ded paper reso- : 1ut1on."
 Senator Underwood. the minority l leader, says the Knox resolution is i not only without constitutional stand iaing but that even if it were consti- 1 tutfona1 it is i1aperfectay drawn and amounts to- nothing except a make {! shirt attempt to declare peace ! 'The resolution is entirely one sided" said Senator Underwood, ttand contains nothing actually bringing about peace. Gernaanyss- acceptance of the terms cannot be assured under such 8 resolution and it is proposed .that we take the ridiculous position
 that the war is at an end. present a peace resolution to. Germany and then await for her to take aaer own sweet time about accepting this sort of a peace.
 ''The principle is about the same as | though l were to offer to sell a lot of land to another man for $1,eoO and Ewere to make out a deed to the lot
 and give it to him, saying, Here is I the deed; pay me for the lot when tsever yaou1 feel like it. We would offer Germany something on a silver p4at- Il -{1,a H-1H- Germany will agree to OUT sort of a
 peace.e
 t Senator Underwood said the Senate fDenocrats had not funly mapped out
 their line~of ,attasck D ut sdhat lndoubt- }ed1y the debate would hinge on the
 1lroonstitutionality of the document,
 as well as its zfut1Tity and ineffective mess.
 It is gratifying; to the Democratic Headers of the Senate that the party alignment will be substantially solid
 "a against the peace resoEutlGn No Fn1ore than three or flour recalcitrant Democrats, who were 1.dtter-end op- tponents ,of the peace treaty, are ex-
 pected to vote with the Republicans
 for the mraIkesIhIft resolution and it is
 predicted ffsere may be o1ae or two E42eFUIb1irans voting with the Demo- EeTats against gihRe unprecedented pro-
 posaL
 Outside of this, hsJzVEuer, the party Hines VIII. TEzuadm practically intact
 and The administration supporters fD Efhe Tppr chamber have accepted the E1RernbhEam chaIIenge a4temgJtI1s
 eeare by a TaIer resoHutfon and will tgo to ffEN EDunTy with inc assme- TFrEf tlle resolMt1cn is a. political Ehyplays designed mainly as a cam ETp4ign dssuB and to eoverenp the Re
 D1adirzans' rejection of the peace
 trHatT of Versailles is the contention 1Uf tine SREraEte Democrats who will re- $GfSk every effort to divert attention s6rOnrl the eSEHezsee treatysRsy such uncon- EAstrt1nzi ziuna1 methods.