Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1919-11-20
RECESS Of
SENATE 4
REAL RELIEF: |:
LODGE AND HIS FOLLOWERS
WILL CONTINUE FIGHT TO
HAVE AMERICA DICTATE POLL
CIES OF THE WORLD-WHITE
HOUSE is SILENT.
(By United Press. J

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2O-Hope
has not been entirely abandoned by
the action of the Senate late yester-
cay in failing to ratify the peace trea-
ty in any form. 1t is stated on
high authority that another effort will
be made at the regular session to
have the treaty passed, even if some
of the reservations are accepted.
1t is understood that Senator Lodge
and his followers are determined to
continue the fight until they have
made it possible to frame treaty
and then tell the world it can take
it or leave it. Such policy as has
already been pointed out by the Pres
iident, would be the veriest folly.
All compromise efforts to bring
ratification failed, the three resolution
of ratification all going down by over
whelming majorities. The Republi-
can leaders apparently despairing of
bringing two-thirds of the senate to-
gether for any sort of ratification
then put in resolution to declare
the war at an end.
Two of the three ratification votes
were taken on the resolution drafted
by the Republican majority contain
ing reservations which President Will
son had told Democratic senators in
a letter earlier in the day would mean
notification of the treaty. On each
of the votes most of the Democratic
supporters of the treaty voted against
ratifcations.
The ratification resolution which
would have required a two-thirds ma
jcrity for adoption mustered only
thirty-nine votes to ffty-fve against
it. Its supporters were thirty-five
Republicans and four Democrats and
its opponents thirteen Republicans
and forty-two Democrats.
The result was to place the treaty
in a parliamentary status which its
enemies declared amounted at least
temporarily to rejection. Its friends,
however, had hopes of revising it at
another session of congress.
DIPLOMATS ARE HOPEFUL.
Foreign diplomats here disposed to
believe the Peace Treaty is not dead
and that it would be revived and rati-
fed before the end of the year. Dip
lomatic opinion is divided. Repre-
sentatives of the small countries con-
sidered the defeat of the Treaty dis
Y astrous. Representatives of the lar
ger countries don't consider the mat
ter serious.
In the Serbian quarters it was stat
ed "The Rejection is a bad thing for
the small nations because the small
nations look to the United States for
support. The League scheme will go
through anyway. South American
n seemed to show a lack of interest,
SeTis lust a case of politics, said the
attn American representative. -
non think the rejection will have
s3serious effect on South America.
Practically all of the South American
L
countries are with the United States
Wi do as they do" Senator Hitch
cocks comment on the defeat of the
Treaty was "At least we are still
: alive" The Nations attention is rlv-
eted on the White House today for the
next move in the Treaty fight.
Friends of Mr.. Wilson who remember
ed his fighting characteristics before
his illness couldn't believe he would
swallow defeat of the Treaty and
League of Nations after sacrificing
his health in the interest of both