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Show SOUS' ACTION IS DISCOUNTED l London Chronicle Thinks It Unlikely That Treaty-Will Treaty-Will Be Rejected. (New York Times Cable, Copyright.) LONDON, March 4. Tho Dally Chronicle follows the report of the Republican Re-publican senators' round robin with the following statement by the diplomatic correspondent: . "The importance of the above declaration declara-tion outside the United States must-not be exaggerated. Political parties in America are maneuvering for positions, in view of tho presidential election next year, in regard to which it will be Improper Im-proper for onlcoker3 to Intervene with their opinions. The new congress Is not to be summoned by the president until he returns from his approaching visit lo Europe with the provisionally agreed and signed treaty of peace in his pocket, and it is veil' unlikely the senate will then make use of its powers to withhold ratification rati-fication and thus Isolate America as tho only country in the world remaining technically at war with Germany. "Such a course "would make tho senate sen-ate and the Republican party more unpopular un-popular in America than the house of lords became with us in 1903, and it would perhaps divide the Republicans in the senate from the Republicans In tho house of representatives. "In the I lay-Pauncefote treaty, where only one other country besides trie United States was concerned. the ratifying power of the senate was of vital importance; impor-tance; but in the present case, whre ail the great powers and many oth:r 'oun tries ace involved, the I m porta nt power is the powr of ni-otiation, and that is possessed exclusively hy i he executive in America who is the president. presi-dent. "The incident comes to this, that the d e a rn t i o n has not. hr-en made t y t h e senate in .session and that, tn erf fore, it can have no Inimenue bvvond the oo-nv-s! i'' pontics of .Americans them- ' SClvCS." |