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Show Republican Solons Will, Press for Support for Root's Movement for Modification of Pact. Scheme to Separate the Treaty From Covenant Doomed; President Is Facing Fight, However, j By ARTHUR SEARS HENNING. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) WASHINGTON, June 12. With the Knox resolution formally abandoned tonight to-night by Senator Lodge, majority leader of the senate, and with tho creation of a league of nations and American participation par-ticipation therein virtually assured, the fight between the president and his opponents oppo-nents in tho senate has narrowed down to tile question of whether ,lho United States shall qualify its adhesion to the covenant. Tho Knox resolution, which requested the peace conference to submit tile treaty in such form that action upon the league of nations covenant could be reserved for more mature deliberation, was abandoned aban-doned after it became evident that the defection of ten Republicans made its adoption impossible. Senator Lodge announced an-nounced the withdrawal of the resolution in the following statement: "I am very strongly in favor of the Knox resolution. I think the league and the peace with Germany ought not to be Interlocked. We ought lo be able to ratify the peace with Germany at once and then give the proper discussion to the covenant of the league of nations, which involves the entire future of the country. MOVEMENT TO DEFEAT COVENANT IS FAILURE. "I should like to bring the Knox resolu-! resolu-! tlofi to a vote at once, but, after consul-j consul-j tatlon with Senator Knox this afternoon, I I have come to the conclusion that In the present situation of the approprla-, approprla-, Uon bills, and especially the array bill I nov before tho senate, we ought not to press the Knox resolution at this moment, mo-ment, because it wOl lead to debate, and nothing should be allowed to Interfere with the passage of the appropriation bills before July 1." Tho movement to defeat acceptance of the entire league of nations covenant has fa-lled, It being evident that opposition to the adoption of any league of nations plan Is confined to less than ten Republican Repub-lican and Democratic senators. The movement to separate the league covenant from the peace treaty, ratify the terms of peace with Germany and subject the covenant to mature deliberation, delibera-tion, and perhaps to a, national referendum, referen-dum, appears to be doomed to failure, tbe opposition being practically identical with that to the moribund Knox resolution. resolu-tion. Senator Knox contemplated making an effort to divorce the covenant from the treat y when t he peace terms reach the senate, but unless he can win over the nine or ten Republicans who deserted him on the Knox resolution, and are opposed op-posed to the program Involved, the move will be defeated. Opponents of the covenant in the form i it will be submitted by the president are i fast rallying around former Senator j Root's statement of objections to various ' provisions and his proposal that the j league plan be mtiried with three reaer-i reaer-i va t ions, eliminating article X. reafiirm-I reafiirm-I the Monroe doctrine and providing for withdrawal at will from the league. ! RALLY TO SUPPORT j ROOT'S PROPOSAL. ! The Root letter was prepared following a conference of the former senator and , a score of Republicans senators, who i reached the conclusion that the most feas-I feas-I iMe means of fighting the objectionable ! features of the Wilson plan is to propose 1 the suggested qualifications to American : adhesion to the covenant. In the fight in the senate there will he on tho one side almost all of the Republicans and a few Democrats who ; maintain that American rights and Interests Inter-ests will he seriously sacrificed unless reservations res-ervations are made by the United Plates in ratifying the treaty, and on the other i side the president and a iare proportion of the Democrats contending for ratifi-: ratifi-: cation without qualification on tlie ground 'that American interest s are sufficiently protected by the covenant as submitted". 1 Senator Hitchcock and other Democratic : leaders expect the president to disclose at j the earliest opportunity that he Is opposed I to the Root program, and that he will (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) LODGE SAYS KNOX'S PLAN SIDETRACKED (Continued from Page Ono.) endeavor to Induee the people to compel its repudiation. To carry this point for ratification without with-out reservation the president wiil need to reduce the opposition to thirty-two votes or less, thereby enahliiiK ratification hy tho requisite two-thtrda majority. Inasmuch Inas-much as the senators who favor the adoption adop-tion of reservations to the terms ot tne covenant are said to number al present about flftv. Mr. Wilson faces the task of oonvertins nearly twenty senators by arcument or backfire from, the states in which ho will utKe the people, to insist upon the acceptance of his pence plan without change. REPUBLICAN LEADERS PROFESS CONFIDENCE. . So long;, however, as the opposition can muster ;thlrty-three or more votes it will be in a position to reject the treaty unless the president consents . to modit ications. The Republican leaders are confident that they can hold far more than thirty-three senators In line for tho rejection the treaty unless modified, and that in this way they can force the president to come to terms on the question of safeguarding American rlphts and Interests. It is regarded as a. foregone conclusion that the president will fight tho elimination elimina-tion of article X to the last ditch. In this article the members of the league guarantee guaran-tee the territorial integrity of all member nations against foreign aggression. The opposition contends that under this article there will be continual need of the employment employ-ment of American forces to aid in settling the quarrels of Europe. It is viewed by tome as a British bulwark, inasmuch as it would prohibit the extension of foreign for-eign aid to revolutionists in Ireland, Egypt and India. In which current disturbances dis-turbances and disaffection suggest the possibilities of rebellion nourished from outside sources. But it is this article, In part, at least, which the president contends accomplishes the beneficent purpose pur-pose of extending the Monroe doctrine to the entire world. Knox's Proposal. A number of senators, notably Senator Johnson, contend that any reservations would be of no- more effect after the ratification of the covenant as a world constitution than were the reservations of some of the American states to acceptance accep-tance ot the American constitution. To meet this criticism Senator Knox proposes that there be inserted in -the resolution of qualified ratification the express provision pro-vision that the ratification shall not be deemed binding until the conditions on which the United States joins the league are-accepted by all the signatories to the treaty. If this program should be carried out it would in effect write into the covenant an amendment that the United States should not be required to yield the Monroe Mon-roe doctrine, should not be bound to comply com-ply with any obligations under Article X, and should he permitted to withdraw from the league at. will upon two years' notice. It would not be necessary, however, how-ever, to send the treaty hack to the peace conference for reconsideration, as would be the case If the treaty were amended outright. Smoot Approves. "I approve of the program of action outlined in the Root letter," said Senator Smoot of Utah, "and I have reason to believe that it is likewise npproved by almost all other Republicans. I do not see how the president could oppose the Monroe doctrine reservation, and, unless American obligation under Article X is set aside. I do not believe the treaty will receive the support requisite for ratification." ratifi-cation." Senator Borah reserved comment until he could determine "how far we can l'o in protection of American interests by Mr. PRoL"" f reS0I'Vatis cTOPaso(i bv f "1 agree with Senator Root aWi, , y, said Senator Xew of Indiana .'r'" tiling I thniK is as certain as mvn.."" can he. and that is unless this . is amended and safeguarded TV '' reservations as aro (sugnestcd bv i. " It cannot pass the senate. I ilm , Ko't in favor of clearing out those obi'SI able features. I think the rea.n,t:o,"-tne rea.n,t:o,"-tne acceptance of Senator Knot', '"r osition are put in his most con'vhw'?'" style and ought to convince auvbo,h ' "e the United Stales under no drnin, , ? , should accept the treaty without " S reservations." &lloh u Hitchcock Predicts Defeat. Senator Hitchcock. tho nr,ci,i spokesman In the senate predict C':t,'! detcat or the Hoot program U the "Senator Hoot's proposition," h .., 'is the natural sequence of the f.,i 'l the Knox resolution. It is Prnblii,!. ,,ot last attack on the league of .alio ,,s le 'i ator Root's plan to eliminate seclln,, , " ' of tile league covenant Is not a 'ii," lei tion. but an amendment. It woYil.i ?" necessary to .submit to the other ,, ; '8 heioro tlo peaco treaty could ' a effective. I have been much e ,0' ." by the trend of things durlntr 1 1 6 ,VS' week. his is the most adroit rm,v, , ! opponents have yet made, hut I thi'i , will go the way of all the fornicr mo vl " Senator Mct'iunber of North 1m ' who was ready to accept lte'r &, 111 the lorni submitted bv the hr,..,i" said that the Root resorvatio! L ' 'cut the very heart out of the rovenin '5 Ho dec:ared that the Monroe d.,c" J'', drahed!'rotCted 11,8 . Important Action Expected WASHINGTON'.. June - W,h'o,v desultory debate. on the peace treaty -,m ' its league of nations covenant expe,'tcd as the result .'Of the decision of Ttephi(..,, ' leaders not to call up the Knox re', h i congress will start tomorrow onTl of important legislative action ri , activity is expected to be manlfede. , tho senate, with a view to pass ir,g m,,' J,' priation bills needed, to continue VovLn' ment operations after the end of the . ont fiscal year on June 30 . The SSSMluO.OOO army- appropriation hill is to come up tomorrow In the senate n, will be followed hy the naval appfwSn -lion bill. . The sundry civil appropri in ' measure will- he transmitted tomorrow ,! the senate., and probably will come ,, tor action immediately after the nilllt irv measures. Senate leaders boiieve night sessions. that all annm-l.,,i, , measures can be passed bv June 3D W with President Wilson not expected in return before the first week of July hht,, of a few days in federal funds Is' sfeniMl certain to result, as.it is planned to hold tho bills until he arrives at -the 'White i house. .The lack of funds, Demorritlc leaders declare, will be technically not actually, embarrassing to government activities. Busy Week Is Assured. " WASHINGTON, June 22. Final emrt-ment emrt-ment this week of the bills to repeal the daylight saving law rind to end government govern-ment control of telegraph, telephone and other wires is considered assurer. The house this week is scheduled to rib-vote rib-vote ilself largely to disposing of con- I ference reports on the appropriation iii!ls and prohibition enforcement legislation. Passago of the prohibition measure by the house this week is anticipated, but with appropriation bills having right of way In the senate, leaders doubt whether tha prohibition hill can be enacted by Jnlv 1. when wartime prohibition is made effective. ef-fective. ' Further steps are planned this week- by committees in the investigation of objections objec-tions to senate confirmation of Attorney General Palmer. . ' I , |