The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-24
RESOLUTION OF
 SENATOR KNOX
 WILL BE VETOED
Hitchcock Says All Subter fuges of Republicans Are
 Doomed.

Washington, D. C., May 14~Inat lthe President under his oath or or flee to observe and support the con etitution of the United States will veto the Knox peace resolution when lit reaches the White House, was fore cast in the Senate when Senator Hitchcock ranking Democrat of the Foreign Relations committee, assert ed that subterfuge propositions o1- fered by the Republican majority in lieu of the peace treaty were al1 doomed to defeat"
 It is possible that the two houses will 2 gree on a composite peace re- solution" fashioned along the lines of the measures offered by Senator Knox and Representative Porter, and it will be approved by partisan major ities in both houses after agreement in conference committee. It will be impossible, however for the resolu- tion to be passed over the veto of the President
 Tn vetoing the peace resolution, the President probably could find no bet ter reason than that advanced more than a year ago by the Republican floor leader of the Senate, Senator Lodge. In a signed article in The Forum, Senator Lodge wrote that it would be dishonorabIe for the United States to attempt to make a separate peace with Germany. It would not be playing fair, he said, with the a1- lies of this government and would amount to national dishonor.
 At that time, however, . separate peace resolution was not contemp- lated and Senator Lodge was can didly discussing peace making by or derly processes.
 Senator Hitchcock reminded the Senate that the Republican majority had made five attempts to frame a peace resolution to take the place of constitutional peace treaty. The first he said, was a declaration o1 peace but Senator Knox discovered that Congress did not have the power Ito declare peace, that proposal hav- ing been debated and rejected in the constitutional convention. Finally he said, the resolution as now pre- sented proposed to declare the wal at an end. Senator Hitchcock asked what difference there was betweer the two propositions.
 "Congress has no power to declare pea ce," said Senator Hitchcock, "st now we have raised the interestnis distinction between declaring peac' and declaring war at an end. Wha is the difference?''
 Senator Hitchcock recalled that il December, 1918, Senator Lodge ant other Republican senators were con demning all suggestions that tn United States make a separate peac with Germany. He quoted Senate Lodges views in The Forum article which said in part:
 We cannot, in the first place make peace except in company witt our allies. It would brand us witl everlasting dishonor and bring rui1 to also if we undertook to mak a separate peace"
 Do the supporters of this pendin Knox resolution asked Senate Hitchcock, want to brand us wit dishonor and bring ruin upon us? I one provision of this resolution it i stated that the United States doe not waive any of its rights under tn treaty it has rejected. Could any thing be more ridiculous than to as sume and indicate that we have an rights to waive after we have refuse . to ratify the treaty which grant them?
 "The treaty itself provides tha s'the treaty will enter into force fc each power at, that date of the dc posit of ratification Yet the pend ing resolution gravely provides ths we waive no rights under 1t 2 though we got some rights by refu. ing to ratify the treaty.
 Altogether the five desperate q tempts to defy the Constitution an substitute a resolution for a treat make a fine display of legislative e, perimentation''