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Show M FLAYS m DRAFT 5 Entrance of U. S. Into lH;Vised Covenant Would S5!je National Suicide. N -"V I -LsHIXGTOX-, May 15. "National L dc" would be tho effect of Amcr-D Amcr-D entrance into tho league of na-' na-' under tho revised covenant, de-.d de-.d Senator Knox of Pennsylvania, W er secretary of state and a Ee-,can Ee-,can member of the senate foreign 'mi committee, in a statement is-today. is-today. c senate, Mr. Knox asserted, has fktl ,r to amend the peace treaty. U I me contention that the senate, r the constitution, must 'od-and 'od-and consent upon such terms chooses to impose,' " he said, is. ly opinion, wholly untenable and tarv to precedent." sardine; the revised covenant for league, Mr. Knox made the follow-jtatement: follow-jtatement: . t is my intention at a convenient ,,lv to discuss tho revision at some 111 Ol!"'h with a view to showing, as 1 "ie'd in an address delivered in Umir - ibure on May 2, that the revised ":t is more objectionable than the nal one, that the changes do not the objections so generally made 311 Ollie original, and that it would bo Valent to national suicide to enter such a compact, and, further that out authority from the people the j Vim (' -y-making power, nor indeed con-0ll con-0ll .'J, cannot delegate to any five, nine ther number of representatives of au tl.' im governments powers that the Jn't le have delegated to them or re-;d re-;d to themselves." |