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Show AUSTRIA INCLUDED IN PEACE PROPOSAL SENATE COMMITTEE SUBMITS A RESOLUTION DECLARING STATE OF WAR ENDED Substitute for the Measure Recently Passed by House Is a Straight Out Repeal of the War Resolutions and Restoration of Peace. Washington. A joint resolution proposing pro-posing repeal of resolutions by congress con-gress declaring a state of war with Germany and Austria Hungary was reported out Friday by the senate foreign for-eign relations committee by a strict party vote. Introduced by Senator Knox, Republican, Repub-lican, of Pennsylvania, as a substitute for the Republican resolution recently passed by the house, the measure was formally presented to the senate late in the day by Senator Lodge, Republican Repub-lican leader. Leaders of both parties predicted several weeks of discussion with little lit-tle prospect for action until near the time set for a recess for national conventions. con-ventions. In some quarters the opinion opin-ion was expressed that President Wilson Wil-son in the midst of the debate might return the treaty of Versailles to the senate. Straight out repeal of the war resolution reso-lution is the principal object of the Knox substitute, which would request the president to establish friendly diplomatic dip-lomatic relations with Germany and with "the governments and people of Austria and Hungary." Like the house resolution, it would reserve all American Amer-ican rights under the treaty of Versailles Ver-sailles and provide for repeal of war legislation and war powers of the president. pres-ident. It would hold German property prop-erty until all American war claims were satisfied, but does not include the house provision for acceptance of the resolution's terms by Germany within firty-five days, under penalty of a commercial embargo. A formal report only on the resolution reso-lution was filed by Senator Lodge and Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, administration ad-ministration leader in the treaty fight, decided to submit no minority report, but to present the opposition's argument argu-ment during debate. |