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Show KNOX ACTION Proposes Senate Declare Itself Definitely On the League Covenant. WASHINGTON. June 12 Senator Knox's resolution to put the senate on record against accepting the league of nations in the terms of peace treaty, was reported in an amended form by the .senate foreign relations' committee. commit-tee. The committee struck out the section sec-tion of the resolution which would declare de-clare it a policy of the American government gov-ernment that whenever the peace of Europe became again threatened the United States would cooperate to remove re-move such a menace. A resolution reserving the right of the American congress to determine the justness of the obligations imposed impos-ed upon this country under the much-dlscussed much-dlscussed section ten of the league of nations' covenant, was meanwhile Introduced In-troduced today by Senator Sterling, Republican. South Dakota. The motion to cmond the Knox measure was made by Chairman Lodge and had the support of Senator Knox and all other Republican members fcx-cept fcx-cept Senator McCumber of North Dakota. Da-kota. No other amendments were adopted. The vote to favorable report stood 8 to 7. WASHINGTON, June 12 With the investigation of how treaty copies reached New York, brought to a standstill stand-still almost as soon as it started, the senate today again turned its attention atten-tion to the more direct issues Involved in the league of nations fight. , The foreign relations committee took up the resolution of Senator Knox, Republican of Pennsylvania, proposing that the senate declare in definite terms its stand regarding the league covenant- The general prediction was that the resolution would be reported to the senate during the day. possibly stirring up another debate on the sub-Jeet. sub-Jeet. Action must go over under the rules, however, until tomorrow, when Senator Knox expects to begin an ef fort to bring It to a vote. Cummins' Bill Passes WASHINGTON. June 12 Without a record vote, the senate today passed the bill of Senator Cummins, Republican Republi-can of Iowa, amending the railroad control act so as to restore the rate-making rate-making powers of the Interstate commerce com-merce commission. The measure now goes to the house. 00 |