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Show LEAGUE PLAN FACES DEFEATIN SENATE CHANGES IN CONSTITUTION IS SOUGHT BY THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS OPPONENTS, Thirty-seven Republican Members of -Senate Approve Resolution Which Means Measure May Not be Approved in Present Form. Washington Names of thirty-seven Republican members of the new senate, sen-ate, a number sufficient to block ratification rati-fication of a treaty, were' read in the senate Monday by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, who said they had approved ap-proved a resolution setting forth that "the constitution of tlie league of nations na-tions in (lie form now proposed to the peace conference should not be accepted accept-ed by the United States." The list was inserted in the record by the Republican leaders after Democrat Dem-ocrat Leader Martin and Senator Swanson of Virginia had raised simultaneous sim-ultaneous objection to consideration of tlie resolution, which he had introduced intro-duced after long conferences with minority members and communicated by telegraph and telephone with Republican Re-publican senators and senators-elect who are not in Washington. AVhile opposing tlu constitution as' now drafted, the resolution set forth that it was tlie desire of the senate that the nations of the world should unite to promote peace and general disarmament: It also said it was the sense of the senate that the "negotiations on the part of the United States should immediately im-mediately lie directed to the utmost expedition of the urgent business of negotiating peace terms with Germany," Ger-many," and that then tlie league proposal pro-posal should be taken up for careful and serious consideration. |