Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-12
M M'CUMbER OPENS
 FIGHT TO DEFEAT
 PEACE RESOLUTION
Republican Senator Opposes Both Senate and House
 Bills
DEMOCRATS PLAN TO
 RESIST, NOT OBSTRUCT
Charges Wilson Made Colossal Blum der in Carrying the Treaty Into the Campaign-Says Allies
 Deserted

Washington, May 11-Cpposition fire was opened today in the Senate on the Republican peace resolution. Senator McCumber of North Dak kota Republican, a member of the For elgn Relations Committee, delivering the first salvo. Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska, the adm:nistrat on spokesman will follow tomorrow.
 Adoption of the resolution next Thursday or Friday was predicted privately by leaders on both sides. It will be given exclusive right of way beginning tomorrow, and there were no indications of prolonged debate.
 When Senator Lodge of Massachu- setts, Republican leader, called up the resolution, today annd announce ed that it would be pressed con- tinually, Senator Underwood of Ala bama, Dem mocratic leader, stated that while most of the Democrats would resist the resolution there would be no obstruction nor many speeches.
 Senator McCuumber opposed both Senate and House resolutions. Both he declared, would bring dishonor on the United States by desertion of the Allies. As substitute he urged his resolution to restore com mercial relations with Germany, but conceded that it had no chance of adoption because he said the "lines of division between the two factions Of this body have been cemented by partisanship and hardened by time"
 President Wilson was criticized by Senator McCumber, who charged the executive with chief responsibly for failure of the treaty of Yer sailles.
 He declared the president was making a "collosal blunder" in carry ing the treaty into the political cam paign.
 The senator said he could sup. port neither the house peace reso- lution nor the substitute of Sena- tor Knox, Republican, Pennsylvania
 He advocated instead his resolu- tion proposing restoration of com merical relations with Germany, but said he realized that it would be useless to press this measure "where the lines of division between the two factions in this body have been cemented by partisanship and set and hardened by time.'
 League Not Issue.
 "This administration has made many mistakes, but all will become insignificant compared with the colossal blunder of making the presidents individual and autocratic stand on the League of Nations a political issue. And partisan as I am, I confess even now a deep sense of sympathy for the humiliation that awaits the great party (which, with all it's weakness. has subserved a great purpose in our national history.
 eff this were the only issue, the president would stand alone in his determine tion to subvert the will of the nation to his individual convic- tion on this important national question, and his support would be confined to those few states where reverence for Democratic doctrines declared by the head of that party become religious tenet.
 "But you cannot make the Leaague of Nations the real issue in this campaign. If it were the real and only issue I would be greatly con- cerned for the success of my own party.
 "The thought of the people of this country is engrossed with the com plexities that surround us. We are this moment surrounded bv thou sand imminent dangers demanding our immediate attention and solu- tion. We stand almost helpless while debts, national, state. municipal and industrial are piling mountain high. We behold the hours of idle ness of our people ever increasing, production dangerously decfeasing currency becoming more and more inflated, the yoke of taxation over growing more greater and more gall