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Show j THE COVENANT FIGHT. i j The foreign relations committee is j to report the peace treaty to the senate J at; noon tomorrow and tho debate is ! .scheduled to begin on Monday next. In the opinion of Senator Simmons of i Nort.li Carolina, former chairman of tho j finance committee, who favors ratifi- cation without qualification, it will bo netessary to mako concessions to those favoring reservations. The North Caro- j lina senator has been discussing a I "compromise" on conservative reser- i rations of an interpretative character ' with tho Democratic members. This i may le the outcome. In the meantime ; the president is touring the country for ; the purpose of bringing pressure to bear upon tho senate in order that the i covenant may be ratified as it stands and sonic of tho opposing senators hare i taken tho stump with an entirely dif- i l'crent object in view.' Already there are signs of imt'C:"Uco t upon the part of the business 1 I financiers. A few days ago 1 . ! Cary, of the United States s-.- u- poration, in the course of an address ; beforo the American Bar association, ! declared for the covenant and said that he assumed that it would bo ratified by tho senate very soon. Thomas W. , T..',, nnnt of flip -firm T P Afnrrrun ! and company, is not so sanguine. In a statement issued Sunday night the Xew York banker predicted that if the I senate continues to delay the ratification ratifica-tion of the peace treaty there will bo , renewed Bolshevik efforts throughout ; Furore which will spread -to America; further chaos among the newer nation- alities abroad; starvation for millions i of persons in Europe duriug tho com-! com-! ing winter, and the probable forcing of ; this country to enter the league of na-! na-! tions as a novitiate, "hand in hand i with Germany." j According to a copyrighte'd Berlin ; dispatch to the Chicago Tribune, German Ger-man statesmen see in the attitude of the United States senate towards the 1 Versailles treaty mora than a possibility possibili-ty of the signing of a separate peace ! between America and the cerftral pow-i pow-i ers. Senator Knox has openly advo- catcd such a plan and has declared' against ratification. . Robert von Schel-Icn-Steinwartz, one of Germany's former for-mer representatives in Washington, London and other capitals, is very hopeful that under the leadership of Chairman Lodge the enemies of the treaty will be able to prevent ratification. ratifica-tion. In speaking of these senators ' the German diplomat says: It can be regarded as certain the treaty displeases them because they see in the extreme oppression of Germany, for which America is partly responsible, a danger of future complications which might draw America into the whirlpool. Therefore, it is like the hint of the dawning of a better understanding when the proposition is made that America sign a separate peace with the central powers. We Germans can only hope events in the senate may be the expression or the cause of a strong change of independent public opinion. They may possibly lead to a separate peace. Above all, they may re ive the original conception of a leaguo of nations. with its clearness and strength, through which alone it can bring about a new and happier epoch in the history' of mankind. We do not believe the senate will act in accordance with the wishes of the defeated Germans and undo the work of t ho soldiers and sailors of free America. |