Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-12-21
League Question
Will Be Settled

WASHINGTON. -. C.-tSpccial Cor.
respondonce. What are the chances
~ the Peace Treaty and the League
of Nations In the Senate at this scs.
sion and the next Congress?
This question II engaging the atten'
ton Of members 81 the Senate and
also 81 agitators who originally adv.
Gated the League aud who are still
bent on League. some sort Of
League or any kind % League. Jus,
No Il In a League" These advocate.
scem 10 be obscessed with the name
and not what the League means Il
seems to have fascination for them
that leads them to stlll pursue the i'm
possible. So they are still taking about
League and II they cannot get Z
League. why. AN Association 81 IA.
tions" will do Just NJ well All their
enthusiasm can be- readily transferred
from League 20 an Association"
Opponents Of the League among the
people. convinced that the results e!
the November election forever settled
the League question In this country.
are not paying sny more attention TO
The scheme.
Senator's. knowing equally well that
the League In dead past all resurrec.
ton. also are apathctic concerning IN"
peace-de resistance ~ the Wilson
dream. This applies In the Senate 20
both proponents and opponents ~ the
celebrated pact.
II IL reported here from ,imc -
time that President Wilson conteni.
plates sending tho Versailles Pact
hack 90 this session ~ the Senate.
lie will have no chance to do 50 In
the next Congress. because by thu
time the first session uf the next Con.
gross IL called into extra session Nv
Mr.. Harding MFR. Wilson will have re-.
tired to the shades ~ private life
Therefore " the League II rcsuhmit.
ted by Mr. Wilson II must be done
within the next few months and be.
fore this session ndjourns next March
ith. The reports are that Mr. Wilson
will resubmit the League and the
Treaty 20 the Senate nj this session.
with another recommendation that Il
he passed without doiting an ~
crossing a l. II would be- just like
Mfr Wilson 10 do that And while
such resuhmi~lon ~ the Treaty
would be nothing hut an example ~
''bullheadedncss. to use an inelcgani
hut forceful expression. on the part
| u! the President som o. retire. u would
not surprise Senators " the President
takes such action. while often mis-.
| taken Mr. Wilson II always deter.
mined Regarding the League he stir
believes that he il right and NIL tn
people ~ the United States who op
/ pose his scheme are wrong The
| League may go 90 the Senate AMI
agsin II may not II will not he r."
submitted II MIR Wilson takes the ad.
vice ~ some 81 his advisers who have
n scnse Of the fitness ~ things as
they are. no, as some would like a.
have them. and who have good com.
/ mon sense.
So much for the League at this ses
sion.
II the League is not submitted e.
the Senate nj this session neither vi !
the treaty with Germany or Austria
be sent In TO tho Upper House.
II IL probable. therefore. that the
whole matter will 60 over 10 the mex,
Congress IN that Congress nothinG
will I've heard 81 the League. Hut tho
treaty with Germany and Austria will
have to he considered In that Con.
grcss This will take the form 81 q
new treaty or new treaties with which.
~ course the Wilson administration
viii have nothing 20 do. II II eN.
pectcd that early In tho March spc'
ciai sessiun " the next Congress n
treaty viii I've made with Austria and
Germany. declaring the technical state
~ war which s,ill exists between thes'
countries and the United States nj an
end That will 10 about all that vii
bc done.
|, 7, In possible that the League will
be revived IN the March session under
some other name. such ~ an Also
citation ~ Nations" n suggested hS
Mr.. Harding during the campaign
But nm Association" II proposed hy
the Harding Administration. viii he