New-York tribune., 1920-03-21
Treaty Dead Until
After the Election
Senators Agreed No Ac-
ton viii Be Taken:
KnOx Resolution Nest
From The Tri6une's Washington Bureau

From The Tribune's WASHINGTON Bureau
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The SEN
ate will delay action on the Knox reso-
luton establishing a separate peace
with Germany, Senate leaders, said to-
day, until President Wilson has had an
opportunity to act.
The next move in the long treaty
fight that resulted yesterday in sec
ond failure to obtain its ratification by
the Senate, and in sending the pact
back to the White House. is "up to the
President" according to Senate lead
ers, and both Republicans and Demo-
Gratis are anxiously awaiting to see
what the President will do.
Senator Lodge announced that the
Knox resolution will not be brought
into the Senate until the end of next
week, at the earliest. Should the Presi-
dent decide to resubmit the treaty to
the Senate, it will remain in the hands
Of the Foreign Relations Committee
until after the Presidential election in
November Senator Lodge said.
No effort will be made by the Demo-
Gratis to take the treaty back into the
Senate or to revive consideration of it,
they declared to-day. The Administra-
tion leaders have decided to accept the
action Of the Senate as final. and they
began to-day to prepare for the forth
coming battle over adoption of the
Knox resolution.
Democrats Bady Disorganized
81 think that quite a lull will occur
in the treaty discussion and Senate
action on it," said Senator Hitchcock
leader of the Administrator forces, be-
ton at Augusta, Ga. "The Dem ocrats
are badly disorganized, and there is a
disposition on both sides to wait until
the President takes some action.
think now that the Senate did right in
sending the treaty back to the Presi-
| dent.
81 do not believe that the President
will sound out European sentiment be-
fore he decides what he will do.
There will be long discussion on
the peace resolution when it comes up.
Most of the Democrats will oppose it,
think, and | am personally doubtful
whether the mild reservationists' on
the Republican side will support it,"
"The treaty will not be considered
again by the Senate until after the
elections, if the President decides to
resubmit it," said Senator Lodge. at
will have to be referred to the Foreign
Relations Committee and take the same
course as before. But the committee
will go into the peace negotiations very
thoroughly before it would report the
treaty to the Senate
Senator Lodge said that Colonel E. M
House, the Presidents closest advisor,
and member of the Americal peace
commission at Paris, would be called,
and that the committee would not re-
port the treaty again until after it had
studied the process verbale of the Paris
Conference, which President Wilson de-
clined to transmit to the Senate when
the treaty was first considered. Con-
cerning the Knox resolution, Senator
Lodge said:
Knox Anxious for Peace
"The Knox resolution will not be
taken up Monday, as was planned. Many
Senators have gone out of the city for
a brief rest, and Senator Knox is con-
fined to his home with rheumatism. We
will 60 ahead with the appropriation
bills for few days. l am anxious to
see peace established, but l don't think
the resolution can be brought up until
the end of next week"
Senator Lodge said that personally
he did not believe the President will re-
submit the treaty to the Senate.
the "irreconcilables," said that he
would remain in Washington ''to see
that the treaty is dead"
II want to remain here and make
sure that the treaty is dead and rot
ten," said Senator Borah. He added
that he felt certain the Knox resolu-
tion would receive the solid support
of the Republicans. The "mild reser-
vationists," he said, made an agree
ment with Senator Lodge before the
treaty was revived in January that
how
would permit the treaty to come to
second vote in the Senate.
Against Reconsideration
Senator Robinson, of Arkansas, who
led the fight on the floor for the Dem
ocrats yesterday, said to-day he will