The Washington times., 1920-05-12
BILL IS
DOOMEDTOD|E
Hitchcock
Nebraska Senator Says State
of War Can End Only
BY Treaty.
FLAYS KNOX SUPPORTERS
AntI.Administration Forces At
tackled Because Of Fight
on Wilson.
FLAYs KNOX SUPPORTERS
BY J. BART CAMPBELL,
Int~rnatienaI News Service.

Iutrrnatf0mas NSVs
Efforts of the Republican major
ity In control Of Congress to re-
establish peace between the United
States and the Central Powers ex-
cept by the Senate ratifying treaties
in a constitutional way are "ali
doomed to defeat" Senator Hitch
cock, Of Nebraska, declared in the
Senate this afternoon.
Regarded as Wilson Propaganda.
In Hitchcock's prediction was read
by Republican Senators as reitera-
tion of the Presidents threatened veto
of the Knox peace resolution and
any other legislative move Congress
possibly might make to end the tech
nical state OF war.
The ADMINISTRATOR peace treaty
manager and the ranking Democratic
member OF the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee, Hitchcock, ironically
referred to the anti-Administratio
forces in the Senate as having stag
gered from side to side over a zigzag
course for six months" in seeking 10
re-establish peace by resolution In
stead OF py treaty.
Quotes Lodges Article.
Hitchcock quoted Senator Lodge.
the Republican leader, as having
stated in a magazine article in De-
cember, 1918:
1--WE cannot in the first place make
peace except in company with our
allies. 1t would brand us with ever
lasting dishonor and bring ruin to
us also IL we undertook to make a
separate peace"
In reverting sarcastically to the
series of peace resolutions sponsored
by Republican Senators during the
treaty fight and ending with the one
of Senator Knox now before the Sen
ate, Hitchcock declared them to be
desperate attempts to defy the Con-
stitution and substitute a resolution
for a treaty in a fine display OF leg
isIative experimentation"
He summed them up as follows:
"Resolved that the war has ended:
resolved that peace exists; resolved
that we force Germany to grant us
what we might get if we signed the
treaty; resolved that the President
be requested to negotiate a separate
peace; resolved that we will not give
up German property: resolved that
we will not waive any rights under
tho treaty--one and all OF them fool
ish and futile attempts to evade the
constitutional way OF securing peace
by ratifying the treaty negotiated in
a constitutional way.
"All of them are hopeless. All OF
them are doomed to defeat All OF
them are attempted simply as des-
perate means of getting out OF bad
x4-hirh raTfQin statesman
find themselves in"
Hitchcock declared Senator Knox
was making an utterly futile and
hopeless effort to make peace set
Element with Germany to take the
place OF the treaty of Versailles."
"Truly the mountain has labored
and brought forth a mouse" he said.
"onered All Compromises.-
Senator Kellogg, Republican, of
Minnesota, interrupted Hitchcock to
ask him what he thought OF the
Presidents oregon letter.
"The President declared his devo-
tion TO the League of Nations and de-
nounced the Lodge reservations"
Hitchcock replied. "He indicated
again he would never consent TO
ratification of the treaty with the
Lodge reservations. / would never
consent to those reservations. They
were matched by reservations offer
ed by this side. myself offered five
reservations as a basis OF compromise.
we on this side have offered all the
compromise, you have offered none"
"would not ratification OF the
treaty. have been realized long ago "
your side had met us half way on the
Lodge reseryations?" asked Senator
Ienroot. Republican. Wisconsin.
at would not" Hitchcock answer