Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-11-21
TREATY Is DEFEATED
LODGE RESERVATIONS REJECTED
TREATY UP AT DECEMBER
SESSION. !.

SESSION.
Washington, Nov. 19.-Failing after
three attempts to ratify the peace
treaty, the Senate late tonight laid it
aside, ended the special session and
went home.
All con. n.promise efforts to bring rati-
fcation failed, the three resolutions OF
. ratification all going down. by over
whelming major1ties. The republican
leaders apparently despairing Of bring
ing two-thirds of the Senate together
for any sort of ratification then put in
resolution to declare the war ut an
end.
Two of the three ratification votes
were taken on the resolution drafted
by the republican majority containing
Reservations which President Wilson
had told democratic senators in let
ter earlier in the day, would mean null
lifcation of the treaty. On each Of the
votes most Of the democratic support
! ers Of the treaty voted against rati-
fcatiOn.
Democrats Gain Few Votes.
! The first vote on this resolution
stood 80 for to IS against. On the
second vote taken after several hours
of parliamentary wrangling in which
the democrats made vain efforts to win
over some of the republican group of
mild reservations, Al senators voted in
the affirmative and 81 in the negative.
The third vote was on straight-0ut
ratification without reservations which
got only 38 votes to SO opposing it. Only
one republican, Senator McCumber,
North Dakota, voted with the demo-
Gratis in it's support.
Republican Leader Lodge declared to-
days voting constituted final deci-
sion on the peace treaty unless Presi-
dent Wilson circumvented the Senate
rules by withdrawing it and then sub
mitting it again to the Senate. In
other quarters there was some differ
ence of opinion, but the general senti-
ment seemed to be that there was only
slender chance that the treaty would
come up at the beginning Of the next
session Of Congress, beginning next
month.
Action Kills VETS Hopes.
The effect Of the Senate's failure to
ratify the treaty will be the continu-
alton of various war time laws and
regulations at least until the new ses-
sion opens. Among these is the war
time prohibition.
The resolution presented tonight to
declare a state of peace will come up
at-the beginning of the new session and
is expected to start another stubborn
fight The administration is under
stood to be opposed to such method
of l. gally ending the war and in the
backg4 4ound is constitutional question
as to whether Congress can do so by a
resolution not requiring the President s
! signature.
it was suggested tonight among dem
ocratic senators that President Wilson
might be asked during the recess to
feel out the other powers as to thor
attitude On reservations with the idea
; of bringing the treaty to some sort OF
F, a ratification after Congress reas-
sembles.
Seek Eleventh Hour Compromise.
The second vote on the majority s
ratification resolution was made by tnc
reservation who voted with the
democrats to get the measure before the
Senate and thus give an opportunity
for an eleventh hour compromise pT''p-
osition. Once that had been accom-
plished, however, the mild group held
out against all efforts of the democrats
to put in their substitute reservations,
so that when the second vote was reach
ed after several hours of sparring, the
situation virtually was unchanged.
The resolution for ratification with.
out reservations was put in by Senator
Underwood, democrat, Alabama, after
the second defeat of the other measure.
1t was held in order and voted upon
without debate, but when Senator Pitt
man, democrat, Nevada, sought to get
interpretive reservations, the treaty
consideration was cut short by point
Of order by Republican Leader Lodge.
Vice President Marshall held that pre-.
vious decisions of the Senate in over
riding his rulings would operate to sus'
tain the position taken by Senator
Lodge.
Pact Dropped by Acclamation.
1t was on viva vocc vote that the
treaty after being before the Senate
for many weeks then was laid aside
On Senator Lodges motion to ia ke ~
, legislative &hsiness, no roll call was re,
,.quested and the vice president declared
it adopted by acclamation.
Senator Lodge after adjournment to-
night, declared "the treaty is dead SO
! far as this Senate is concerned.'
Republican leaders said the Senate
need not advise the President of its ac-
tion nor return the treaty to him with
formal notice.
/ "The President may withdraw it
when the Senate reconvcnes, Senator
Lodge said, "and, Of course, he can
then re-submit it in tho next session.
"But the treaty is dead in this Sen
ate, and they killed it as ] told them
thev would if they voted against it,
Pact Net Dead, Says Hitchcock.
Senator Hitchcock said tbe treaty
was not dead and that he presumed rhe
President would resubmit 1t December
l, although he had no definite word
from the President to that effect. HI
said he thought the republicans had
worked themselves "into 'cry avk