Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-11-10
TO OFFER LEAGUE PLAN.
Changes in Covenant to BE Propose
to Be Rejected.

to Be Rejected.
Washington, Nov. TO- Changes in
the covenant which will be proposed
by France or any other nation to in
dnce the United States To enter the
league will not have the slightest
chance of being accepted by the SEN
ate, leaders said.
Opinions expressed by republican
and democratic senators representing
al sides of the treaty .controversy
were in entire agreement on these
two points:
First-1f President Wilson resub-
mits the treaty. it will remain dead"
on the senate file.
Second-f efforts are made to
change the covenant to meet the OBJ
Jections made in America the sup
porters Of President Elect Harding
and the irreconcilables will Join
forces and prevent action. This will
leave the way clear for the formula :
ton of the proposed new association
of nations Of which the newly elected
president is in favor.
1t has been reported that AM
bassador JusseranI upon his arrival
here on Nov. - has been instructed
to take up with the senate certain
notifications.
1t can be stated with complete as
suranoe that If Ambassador Jusser-
| and undertakes this mission his la
Dor will be In vain.
Irreconcilable senators as well as
those who voted for reservations
agreed today in stating that the
treaty 10 dead" Even Senator Hitch
cock. who led the fight, for ratifica-
tion. expressed the belief that should
the president send the treaty again
to the senate he would be engaging
in hopeless task.
The opinion prevails that President
Wilson will be compelled to resuh-
NIT the treaty to keep it alive"
| Everybody agrees, however, that it
will not get beyond the committee
| file Of the foreign relations commit
tee.
While he has had no, intimatior
from the White House as to what the
president proposes to do, Senator
Hitchcock is of the opinion that the
president realizes another attempt tt
bring about ratification will be fruit
less. Inc senator said:
Il, do not believe the senate will
| even get the treaty at the short ses-
sion. AS to what President Harding
| may do with 1t Is an entirely differ
| ent question. The initiative in bring
ing about peace by resolution rests
with the republican majority"
Senator McCumber, Of North Da-
kota, only republican senator who
| favored the treaty without reserya-
tions, believes that all chance of the
United States joining the league -oi
nations either with or without res
ervations. is lost.
There will have to be some new
association or union Of nations If we
are to have an international body to
preserve peace" he said. 1T would
not be possible to get a two-thfrds
vote Of the senate to ratify the
treaty with the present covenant. no
matter what kind Of reservations
might be attached to it. It might
be possible to ratify the treaty with
out the covenant, but I doubt IT.
Senator Borah, leader Of the irrec.
oncilables. said he did. not believe
President Wilson will send the treaty
to the senate again. He added:
TT would do him no good il he did
The treaty would simply be held up
by the foreign relations committee
and would never be voted upon. Per
sonally do not believe the senate
will see the treaty again during the
Wilson administration"
Senator Moses. Of New Hampshire
another irreconcilable, said:
Don't worry about the treaty
Wen never see it again. In my cam
paign for re- election I talked more
against the treaty than I did against
the league Of nations and the people