The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-02-09
HARDING ID URGE QUICK PASSAGE OF
 KNOX RESOLUTION
President-e -eIect Has Been Listening to Col. Harvey'S \ "Hymn of Hate" and May
 Seek to Scrap Treaty
By ROBERT T. SMALL

St. Augustine, Fla, February B. Special )-When Warren Harding, as President of the United States. sends his first message to the extra session of Congress he will ask for the irnme- diate passage of the Knox resolution declaring the war against Germany and Austria at an end. Europe has been at peace and in virtually fulfil relationship with Germany for nearly two years. America still remains in the role of belligerent.
 MT. Harding will announce that i'm mediately the resolution of peace is passed by Congress and approved by himself, he will undertake the nego- tiation of a commercial treaty with what was once the German empire. This commercial treaty may be made broad enough to include some of the matters covered in the treaty of Yer sailles to which it seems the United States, under the new administration, is not to become a party.
 TO SIDESTEP STIGMA
 By the negotiation of a commercial treaty to cover disputed points grow in gout of the war and to regulate the commercial relationship between the TWO countries III the luluTe, lAe United States will avoid the stigma of having made a separate "peace" with Germany. It will be argued that the rest of he world being at peace with Germany this country could do not more than declare the state of war at an end. With the close of war new commercial treaties always are in order, and so the negotiations in be- half of this country will be declared in order at once.
 It is the present purpose of Sena- tor Harding and his closest advisors to .'scrap" the treaty of Versailles in it's entirety. Whether this intention will be adhered to, once the responsi- bility for Americas relationship with the world rests heavily upon the shoulders of MT. Harding, remains to be seen. There is no doubt the fact will be borne in upon Mir. Harding that if the United States casts the treaty aside completely, history will record that the United States repudi- ated entirely the work of it's accredited commission al Paris.
 WILSON OR SENATE
 There always may remain a dispute as to whether the obstinacy of Presi- dent Wilson or the partisanship of the Senate primarily was responsible, but Mr. Harding is cognizant of the fact that with the passage of the peace resolution and the opening If negotia- tions with Germany, the official act of repudiation will be part of his ad- ministration. Some of the senator's closest political friends are telling him he should be forever proud of such a repudiation and he appears inclined at this time to agrgee with them Col George Harvey spent two weeks with the President-elect at Marion recently and poured into his ears a daily hymn of hate for the treaty and all of it's works.
 Senator Harding will refer to the matter of quick peace with Ger many in his inaugural address. He believes that the official re-establish- ment of business relationship between the United States and Germany may be regarded as an importance step to- ward world rehabilitation. This would be entirely true if the matter of Ger many's reparation payments to the allies has been definitely settled and the terms formally accepted by the German government.
 THAT TARIFF WALL
 There is a difference of opinion among the President elects advisors as tot how beneficial the opening of the German markets to American
 
 about the United States is to be raised to the prohibitive point.
 The date of the extra session of Congress still is doubtful. Two dates are in MT. Harding's mind The first is March 2S and the second April 4 with the odds favoring the latter. The Senate already has been called in ex- tra session March to act upon the cabinet and other appointments MT. Harding may desire to make. There is said to be very good chance that Mir. Harding will hold the Senate in session until the new House is ready to meet and the work of the new ad- ministration definitely is under wey.
 No time is to be wasted in yielding the ax on all democratic office holders after March 4. and it is said the Senate will be able to spend at least four weeks in the confirming of presidential appointments. All the republicans are anxious to get the faithful on the payroll at the earliest possible moment