Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1919-11-21
Bitter Battle Is Waged Over the
Lodge Reservations.
PACT PROBABLY is DEAD
Under Its Parliamentary Status It
Could Be Re-submitted to Next
Session Which viii Convene
on December and Await
Its Turn.

on the Lodge resolution ratification
was refused by the vote of 43 to 81.
The senate then adjourned sine die
and, the house having taken similar
action earlier in the day, the extra
session called by President Wilson to
consider the treaty came to an end
Under the parliamentary maneuyer-
ing of the Republican majority the
treaty was forced into such situa-
tion that it cannot be again consid-
cred unless the president should
choose to resubmit it to the senate at
the session which opens December /.
If resubmstted, it will again 60 to
the foreign relations committee, where
In all probability it will be held for a
long time while railroad legislation
and other matters are being consid-
cred
Peace Resolution introduced.
In the meantime, to meet the situa-
ton brought about by rejection of The
treaty, Senator Lodge introduced just
before adjournment a concurrent res
olution declaring the war with Ger
many at an end.
This resolution viii be taken up at
the beginning of the new session and
probably passed.
The defeat Of the treaty was brought
about by the votes of 4S Democratic
and 10 Republican senators. The Re
publicans who voted against ratifica-
tion were senators who have been
from the very outset of the treaty
fight against the document. All of the
Democrats except Senator Reed of
Missouri were friends of the treaty,
but yielded to the request of President
Wilson for rejection of the Lodge res
Olutlon because of the reservations
which II contained.
The Republicans who voted against
ratification We're:
Senators Borah. Brandegee. Fernald
France, Gronna, Johnson of Califor-
mia. Knox. la Toilette, Mccormick,
Moses, Norris, Poindexter and Sher-
man.
Democrats who declined to obey the
Instructions of the president and voted
for ratification were Senators Gore
Myers, owen and Pomerene.
Ratification of the peace treaty,
with the reservations framed by the
Republican majority and objected to
by President Wilson, was voted down
III the senate earlier in the evening,
with the administration senators lin
ing un solidly against it,
The result was to place the treaty
in a parliamentary status. which its
enemies said amounted at least tenn
porarily to rejection. It's friends, how
ever, had hopes of reviving it at am
other session of congress.
The ratification resolution. which
would have required a two-thirds ma
jority for adoption, mustered only 30
votes to 90 agaiEs, it. Its supporters
were 30 Republicans, Democrats,
and It's opponents 13 Republicans and
~ Democrats.
A Democratic move to have the
treaty referred TO a coucilation com
mittee composed of Democrats and
Republicans was defeated.
Way Clear for Compromise.
The vote cleared the way for the
consideration OF possible compromise
proposals acceptable to the majority
OF the Democrats and the mild reser.
walton group of Republicans.
Republicans against adoption were:
Borah, Brandegee. Fernald France.
Gronna, Johnson of California, Knox,
La Toilette. Mccormick. Moses, Nor
ris, Poindexter and Sherman.
In order to put the treaty into
parliamentary situation where an
other vote could be had after efforts
at compromise the senate then voted
TO reconsider its action The motion
was made by Senator Reed, Democrat.
Missouri, and was adopted by the
vote of the Democrats and mild reSer-
walton Republicans,
The vote on the motion to reconsid-
err was g. to 80.
The effect of the reconsideration
was merely to bring tive committee
resolution back TO the s,,c.4 status 1t
occupied before the ratification roll
call.
An effort by Democratic Leader
Hitchcock to have the senate adjourn
at this stage failed, the mild reServa-
tionists lining up with the other Re-
publicans against the adjournment
motion, which was defeated, 81 to II.
Senator Hitchcock sought to offer
n set Of compromise reservations, but
a point of order by Republican Lead
er Lodge blocked him.
Vice President Marshall ruled that
the reservations were in order and
that the treaty. by the reconsidera-
ton. had been brought back into COM
mittee of the Whole senator Lodge
appealed from the ruling
By party vote of 81 to a the de-
eision of the chair was overuled.
Tie vote having established that the