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Show i SENATE APPROVES PEACE RESOLUTION SUBSTITUTE FOR THE HOUSE PROPOSAL ADOPTED BY VOTE OF 43 TO 38. Measure Provides For Repeal of Declarations of War Against Gen-many Gen-many and Austria and For Retention Re-tention of Ail Property Taken. Washington. The Knox peace resolution, reso-lution, repealing the declarations of war against Germany and Austria, was adopted by the senate on May 15 by a vote of 43 to oS. The measure will be laid before the house, and that body, having already passed a resolution similar in principle, princi-ple, is expected to concur in the senate (unendmonts without delay. The resolution will then go to the president. It is regarded as a certainty cer-tainty that the president will veto the measure promptly and return it to congress. Prediction is made in some quarters that he will resubmit the peace treaty along with his veto message. mes-sage. Rather strict party lines are drawn in the resolution, and Republican leaders have little hope of passing it over the president's veto. At the same time, there is no expectation that the treaty can be ratified by the present senate, so that a continuance of the present technical state of war until March 4, 1921, appears inevitable. The Knox resolution provides : First For the repeal of declarations of war against Germany and Austria. Second For retention of all enemy property taken over during the war by the alien property custodian until a settlement of claims by treaty between be-tween the United States and Germany. Third For repeal of all wartime legislation. Fourth For holding all rights, privileges pri-vileges and advantages obtained by the United States under the treaty of Versailles. The chief point of difference between be-tween the house resolution and the senate resolution as reported by the foreign relations committee was elim inated in the course of the debate in the senate. It requests the president to open negotiations with Germany for the purpose of reestablishing friendly relations and commercial intercourse. |