The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1921-05-13
kII1.gI PEACE HELD
UP BY PRESIDENT
Administration Plan May Split the
Senate, Is Report.
HALTS VOTE IN THE HOUSE
u. S 8. at Europe Council Decision
Opens Way for Party Clash
RumbIings of Dissatisfaction
Heard by Leaders.

Washington, May 9:-On the heels
Of President Harding's decision to
resume limited participation in Eu-
ropean councils, it was authoritatively
stated that the restoration of peace
with Germany would be held up pend
ing the outcome of the reparatiOns
controversy.
The Knox peace resolution, passed
by the senate, has been Sidetracked
indefinitely in the house, and it was
learned that house leaders are acting
in accord with the desire of the adj
ministration in deferring action on the
resolution which the senate made such
haste to adopt
Dissatisfaction among Republican
senator's, particularly the irreconsila-
bles, over the Presidents note to the
allies increased to a feeling of in
tense but carefully repressed indigna-
ton when they learned that admins
tratiOn influences were at work against
the Knox resolution In the house.
Consequent elation prevailed among
the Democrats.
Administrations Plans Uninterrupted.
Notwithstanding rumblings of dis
satfsfa ction the administration went
Its way unperturbed by any senatorial
criticism that may have found it's way
to the White House or State depart
ment. The State department prepared
instructions to Ambassador. Wallace at
Paris. and Roland w. Boyden to re-
sumo their posts as unofficial observers
for the American government at the
conference of ambassadors and repara-
tons commission respectively. George
Harvey, ambassador to Great Britain,
who will sit as the American repre-
sentative on the allied supreme cOun-
Gil, will receive his instructions when
he arrives in London next week.
There were no Republican senatorial
Outbursts for publication. Senators
felt their hands tied in more ways
than one. The Johnson-Borah faction
didn't want to set off the explosion
because they feared it would be said
they were hunting for trouble with the
administration. "Old Guardsmen' were
restrained by their traditional adj
herence to party unity. Furthermore.
they realized that the senate, at the
present moment, was entirely power
less, and that nothing could be said
or done to change the situation.
1t was predicted, however, that the
policy mapped out by Harding's note
must inevitably lead to clash be-
tween the senate, or at least a portion
of it, and the administra lion. One Of
the most prominent of the Republican
leaders of the conservative wing de-
clared that the participation outlined
by the President would entangle the
United States in the broils of Europe
as certainly as if the Versailles treaty,
with the league covenant included, had
been ratified.
See U. S. ENHANCEMENT.
In this connection they recalled
President Harding's own vigorous sup
port, while a member of the foreign
relations committee, of the Fall amend
ment to keep the United States out of
the PREPARATIONS commission. Sooner or
later, they thought. the American par
ticipatiOn in the PREPARATIONS contro-
versy must produce a development
that would require the United States
to take an affirmative stan and bring
the whole issue of international policy
again before the senate.
Some resentment was felt that Pres
ident Harding had not consulted the
senate before accepting the allied in
vitation to resume participation in
their councils, although all admitted
that the President was acting entirely
within his authority. So far as could
be learned. no senator knew anything
of the Presidents intentions until the
note was given to the press for pub
lication. The belief was widespread
among senators that the President had
been influenced largely by Secretary
of State Hughes and Secretary of
Commerce Hoover both of whom have
been contending for months that the
United States must take part in the
worldwide economic readjustments
growing out of the war.