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Show PLANNING ATTACK. According to the latest advices from Washington, the Knox and Fall resolutions resolu-tions are considered to have outlived their usefulness, which is a mild way of stating it.. Many of the senators have left the capital, but some of the leaders have remained behind to work out plans of action after the peace treaty has been presented by the president, presi-dent, which will be some time next week. All indications point to an out and out fight over unqualified ratification. ratifica-tion. Quite a number of Republicans are expected to support the reservations advocated by Elihu Root, while a few of them, in company with Reed of Missouri, Mis-souri, have given notice that they propose pro-pose to "die in the last ditch." The Democrats, supported by a number of the Republicans, will struggle to secure acceptance of the covenant without the alteration of a single provision. Jn the meantime the president is preparing pre-paring his address while homeward bound, and will have everything in shape by the time he reaches New York next Monday. If Mr. Wilson carries out his plan of touring the country coun-try in support of the league covenant and the senators who are against a league of nations in any form go out upon the stump, there will be much excitement ex-citement for the next two or three months throughout the United States and the outcome will have a direct bearing upon the presidential campaign next year. Leading Republican papers like the Philadelphia Ledger, Chicago News, Los Angeles Times and Denver News, are outspoken in support of the league and they have no sympathy with the senators who would render the work of the peace conference null and void. Many other Republican papers favor acceptance of the covenant as it stands and are taking the blind and binsed party leaders to task. Mere political po-litical organs, which have feebly echoed every attack made upon the league, continue the practice of sniping at the treaty in the hope that the opposition will finally develop a line of attack that will result in a return to conditions condi-tions that existed prior in 1914. |