The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-01-08
Mark Sullivan Says
Anti-Leasuers May Win
Under knOX'S Plan
Harding Will Not Try to Cocrcc Senate Majority Now
Swinging Toward Observation-Disclosures RrSoh1-
ton Needs Only Majority Notc-llarding S Plan May
Need Vote Of Two Thirds

, l suspect, but can state it no more
strongly that as suspicion, that tAc
plan which Senator Knox announced last
week as an alternative to our entering
the League OF Nations was the result
Of just such informal caucuscs or
group. 1t is fair To Senator Knox 10
SAY that ne rather cvadcd admitting
this.
Hut Senator Knox certainly did not
stand alone in such a sensational step
aS he took Most OF the cid !rrcconCL-
ahlcs must have been back Of him.
! And the irrccOncilablcs in the new Sen
atc Will he more numerous than in the
last. That is inContcstable.
In the first place. most Of the new
Republican Senators arr irrcconCilaDlc
. In their leanngs. l know this Is 50
, because nave hecn at pains to talk
/ with som" OF them and correspond WIKI
nearly all of them. The bulk Of them
, say they are opposed IL tn" League,
| andp ract!cally all Of them say they
viii he guided by the attitude Of tho Re-
, publican majority or by the Republican
caucus.
Moreover. many oC tho hoId-ov"r
! senator's who last winter were for the
League with reservations have now
! moved closer TO the IRE rurrNahlc posi-
: top Conspicuous among these IS Nc
! Cumher Of North Dakota. Last winter
! II" vas the lone Republican who was
willing 10 vote for the LCOEu" without
, a:,y reservations. Last week Senator
, Me- urnhor called on Harding AMI no.
tihrd him that he mad abandoned his old
| position and had moved toward the IT.
rccouC!lablc group. Furthermore, sever
al Democratic Senators, notably Shields
! " Tennessee, have moved over toward
tn 'trcconcIlahle position.
All in all, the now Senate IS much
NOR" ln<"ly 10 be dominated by the ir-
rHconciIahles than by those VINO are
friends with tn" Leagu" IN any degree
Senator Knox's Plan.
S.ncH Senator kHoN - on" g.. thr
thrc" acknowledged leaders &c tn" r..
r"corc.labl" senators. let us cXamin,
the plan which lrc formally laid before
Harding last week
Senator KrDN'S plan leaves tie league
wholly ont OF consideration. His pro-
ErtmnC is as follows:
First Immediately after March I Son
1t"r Knox will introduce his rrsuiut!."
for q separate peace with Germany.
Th:S resolution viii undoubtedly ~ So
The senate. In fact. n substantially
tthc same form II has already passed
the present senate. hut was vetoed. Of
"ourS", Ivy President Wilson. If thr
Knox r"So.Y:ion could p2ss the present
senate, II would the more readily pass
~" new senate. There can hc no TUc,-
iiun about thai:
Tn" pISs.ug &C the l-uuX resolution.
VIII end tn" sat" OF wa with G"-rarl
and Ci,?u ~, everything ,nuu"rtrd WIKI
that !; viii prepare The ground for tr,
r"N' stop TIL" next StrD = really Sen
at"r kn"T's "Tu!va''rt for our entrance
:uto IN" I.'aGu, uf NntiuN=
IL prpnuNTI .i ll,r- - Of i',,.
""~",utlum already d"S,rln"d or ~ new
~ olutinn, I" introdut" the following
az is the declared policy or III" INT
d States. In order IL mact fully aUd
Fairly our obligations to ourselves and
. g." tn" world. that the freedom and peace
. "t Europ" being again Threatened b
any Nowcr "r combination of powers
the United States will REGARD such -
situation with grave concern "a unr-
acc :" its owl peace and fr'Hl"r~. viii
consult with other i'uwerS affected With
a view %. d"vir.ng means for the r"-
nOval "f such menace. and will. the
necessity arising IL ~" future. cooper
ate with III" friends OF civilization f'r
its defense"
That IS Senator KINKS sub. ti'ute for
our entering tho League Of Nations.
The extent TO which II Will be r"CHiv-
- as Il @!s;lsta"turr sub@ttu," depends
wholly upoN how those who receive Il
already stand on the League 81 Nations
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