Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-13
Senator Thomas, Colorado Democrat, Issues Warm
 ing to Party
DISCUSS SLIGHT TO SENATOR CHAMBERLAIN
OregOnian Defended From Alleged Thrust - Hitchcock Attacks Knox Resolution to Declare
 State of War Ended

Thomas, democrat, Colorado, that if the party "pledges itself at San Francisco to the unconditional rati- ficaton of the treaty of Versailles it will do so because it doesn't want to live any longer and takes that means of making it's dissolution known"
 The senator was discussing Presi- dent Wilsoh's recent telegram to G. E. Hamaker. chairman of the demo- cratic central committee of Mutt nomah county, Oregon, on the league of nations. The letter had been brought into the debate on the Knox peace resolution by Senator Kellogg, republican, Minnesota, who inter- rupted prepared address by Sena- tor Hitchcock, the administration leader in the treaty fight, to ask the Nebraska senator's opinion of it.
 Senator Thomas said the president had charged "almost directly every senator voting against the treaty or for the treaty with reservations with dishonor."
 "This letter, like q bolt from the blue, is addressed to some obscure and unknown individual in Portland, Ore, whose chief claim to prominence l understood, is his animosity to Ore gon's great senior senator (Mr. Cham berlainD.
 "With all due respect to the presi- dent, he might at least have given this document to the world thru the official organization of the national democratic party CT the senate and house leader. He might at least have selected some prominent and well-known agency"
 Praising Senator Chamberlain's war record, MT. Thomas said that the Oregon member Contributed more to the success of American arms than any of his associates" and expressed the hope that Oregon would not unseat MT. Chamberlain.
 Senator Jones, Washington, also joined in the tribute to Senator Chamberlain.
 Senator Phelan. joining in the de- bate declared that "the value of the services of the senator from Oregon are so great to his country that the majority of his associates would hate " iooC iiIs puI CiC PiSSiuSnt CH- titled to his views"
 "It is unfair to infer," said Sena- tor Phelan, "that there was anV intention on the part of the presi- dent to reflect on the Obregon sen ator by the letter you have men toned. The secretary to the pres ident, in his behalf, has dsavowed such intent"
 "I don't know," retorted Senator Thomas, "that the disavowal has been made, but it ought to be. The president has right to his views. comes to the senate again while I am here my vote will be the same"
 "The mountain has labored and brought forth mousse" said Hitch cock. "The peace resolution is before us. It is not exactly still-borne, but its feeble character suggests a dis ture.
 "Great expectations for an act of congress that would force a peace high hopes that resolution by con- function of a peace treaty are aban- us ment to be forced by a resolution of mandatory requirements as the price of severing commercial relations, we are merely to repeal the war deciara- tion, declare the war at an end and invite the president to negotiate a separate peace"
 MT. Hitchcock cited three similar resolutions which he said had been sponsored since last November by Senator, Lodge of Massachusetts. the republican leader, and Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, author of the pend- ing resolution. The latter MT. Hitch cock said is the fifth peace resolu- tion offered by the republican leader ship.
 ~In reaching this important con clusion," he said of the pending meas. are, "the supporters of the novel plan have staggered from side to side over big course for nearly six months"
 Senator Hitchcock denied that con. gress has the power to make peace although it has authority to declare war. The states voted unanimously against giving congress peace making jurisdiction, he said.
 Knox's recent argument that the war actually was at an end was dis missed summarily by MT. Hitchcock who conceded the point and asked: Narrow Distinction.
 "Then why this resolution? Hostil- ities ceased eighteen months ago and our army was promptly demobilized and reduced to peace basis. Since