Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-05
WILSON BLOCKS
ROAD TO POST
WAR SERENITY
Senator Knox Declares
President Stands in Way
Of National Security.
URGES SENATE
TO CURB POWERS
Wants Presidenss War Emergency
plctation Removed by Repeal OF
Acts Which Gave Him unpreee-
dentsd Authority When War Was
Aesu ali.y-NationaI Advancement
Retarded by Wilson's stubbornness

neutrality-suspicious. Advancement
Retarded by Wilson's stubbornness
BY Associated Press.
Washington, May 5.-opening de-
bate on his resolution to declare the
state OF war with Germany and Aus
tria at an end, Senator Knox. repub-
lican, Of Pennsylvania, declared IN
the senate today that President VIII
son wss arbitrarily maintaining that
the nation technically was at war In
order to coerce the senate into rati7
flying the treaty Of Versailles.
There was no excuse whatever for
Greatly prolonging the war beyond
the signature Of the armistice," SEN
ator Knox said, and the only "ex-
PLANTATION for so doing was the delfb-
crate lim to retain all those auto
cratic executive powers with which
the executive had been endowed for
prosecution Of the war so that they
might be used for other purposes.
The welfare and safety of the
nation imperatively demand that we
have peace. The whole world seethes
with revolution. Our nation Is IN
turmoil Force and strife are ram
pant ana threaten the destruction OF
not only our properly ous even our
HIVES.
We must not hazard a further
p6stpoaenlent in turning our undi-
svi1ed izellpei atlons % hone prop-
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