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Show LEAGUE LOSHG, OBI'S BELIEF 1 Idaho Senator Says West-: em Sentiment Strongly J Against Proposal. j ! (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) I W ASrlLVCTON. Sept. XT. The fiht ! over the peace treaty with its league of nattons covenant will bo resumed in ' the senate tomorrow with the ad minis- ' tration pressing for Immediate disposition of the textual amendments proposed and ! the Republicans seeking more deliberate consideration. i The Democrats are confident that all the amendments would be defeated if brought to a vote at this time. Tho He- j publicans believe they have the votes to j put through the Johnson amendment. p.iv-' p.iv-' Ins the L'nited States as many votes in I the league assembly us Great Hritain. and that public reaction against the i treaty will produce a majority for the1 other amendments within the net fort- ! ' nicht. , The Republicans art sure of a majority for the reservations to the covenant. I but these will not, come up till after the 1 disposition of tho textual amendments, j The belief that public sentiment is swintiln.k? against the Wilson league was I strengthened by the reports brought back from tho middle west by Senator Borah today. "A majority of tho people of tho middle mid-dle west have come to tho conclusion that they do not want any league of nations na-tions at all," said Senator Borah. "I traveled trav-eled through the middle west for five days, speaking in Chicago. Omaha. Fort I 'adye. Cedar Falls and Waterloo. Iowa. I', is my d. liberate judgment, founded upon the re:'.ectwn of public opinion obtained ob-tained at tru- meetings, as well as by con-versat con-versat ;ous w ith politicians and plain citi-z.r.s citi-z.r.s alike, of both parties, that the tide is runnim: strong against the idea of the l'nited St alts becoming involved in the league pia n. 1 am con tide nt that not less than S S per cent of the people of the bread f'A'tMii I visited, if not an even higher percei tage. favor the Lodge reservations res-ervations to the league covenant just as they were reported by the majority vote of the sena te foreign relations committee." com-mittee." Senator Borah was enthusiastic over the reception accorded h imseii. Senator Johnson ot California and Senator Me-Cormsck Me-Cormsck oi Illinois at Chicago. Ho was par: icularly plea-vd at the rousing attendance, at-tendance, and wild enthusiasm displayed m Omaha, the home of Senator Hitchcock, Hitch-cock, who is conducting the president's light for the ratification of the unamended unamend-ed treat y and covenant in the senate. He said also that the only support the league is apparently receiving in any part of the middle west is from administration adminis-tration Democrats. ' There is no doubt." Senator Borah continued, "that the de:nmsirat ion of straight-out Americanism which the middle mid-dle west is giving is fill'.ac the advocates of ratification with forebodings. For that i.-.ison, as well as f r some others, they are now engaged in t ins frant ie. well-niirh well-niirh desperate, attempt to rush the treaty throuirrt the senate before the tide of opposition op-position that is sweeping across the country carries them off their feet altogether." |