Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1919 — KNOX ASSERTS PEACE LEAGUE MEANS SUICIDE [ARTICLE]

KNOX ASSERTS PEACE LEAGUE MEANS SUICIDE

“National suicide” would be the effect America’s entrance into the league of nations under the revised covenant, declares Senator Knox, of, 'Pennsylvania, former secretary of state and a republican member of the senate foreign relations committee in a statement issued Thursday. The Senate, Mr. Knox asserted, has power to amend the peace treaty. “The contention that the senate, which, under the constitution must ‘advise and consent’ to a treaty, cannot giv.e its advice and consent upon such terms as it chooses to impose , he said, “is in my opinion, wholly untentable and contrary to precedent.” “It is my intention at a convenient time to discuss the revision at some length, with a view to showing, as I claimed in my address delivered , in Pittsburg MSy 2, that the revised draft is more objectionable than the

original one, that the changes do not meet the objections so generally made to' the original, and that it would be equivalent to national suicide ta enter such a compact, and further that without authority from the peopele, the treaty-mking power, nor indeed congress, cannot delegate to any five, nine or other number of representatives of foreign governments, powers that the people have delegated to them or reserved to themselves.”