Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-20

and to those associated with him at Paris that the senate never would ac cept the league of nations covenant. They had paid no attention to it. he continued, and now were to reap the consequences.
 Blame for the present situation in the senate was placed upon the repub- licanS by Senator Underwood, demo- crat, of Alabama, who called upon them to go to the country with the 'assimilated issue" and said there would be no question of the peoples verdict While the Alabama senator was speaking, Senator Swanson. dem ocrat, of Virginia. was busily engaged in conferences upon the floor with Senators Lodge and Watson in an ap- parent eleventh hour attempt to brin.; about compromise.
 Claim by Underwood.
 Senator Underwood said the Ameri- can people demand peace at the hands of the senate.
 This side of the chamber he said, pointing to the democratic side. lis not responsible to the country for the action the senate may take. The con- trol is in the hands of the republicans. The republican party is responsible to the people for the peace of the na- tion. What a spectacle is presented to the nation tonight by the way the re- publlcans are exercising the power en- trusted to them by the people of the United States"
 Senator Underwood said that the Lodge resolution in the vote taken up- on it tonight received only little | more than one third of the member ship, the vote being. he said. a repu- 1 diation of the exercise of power by | the republicans. He criticized the i parliamentary license" by which they | were able to bring a 'repudiated res |, olution' before the senate and charged | that an attempt was being made ito
 drive an unwilling majority to accept the dictates, of a small minority
 Senator Underwood urged all sena
 tors who had voted against the Lodge
 resolution to ''repudiate it." He then l explained what future procedure could
 be had.
 we shall maintain that we are ell titled to offer other resolutions of rat itication," Senator Underwood de- clared. "The vice president already has ruled correctly that we have that right. But majority of the senate I destroyed hts ruling. When this res
 Olution (of Senator Lodge) is voted
 uown again We must fact the fact
 whether a partisan majority, whict intends to destroy this treaty. can bt .I Icontrolled, and by indirect measures
 say to the senate You shall ratify al
 we present it or; not at all.
 l That is Inc issue" Senator Under l wood added. l am prepared to meet i land the American people will know | who is to ratify this treaty and whl is to destroy it"
 ' If further resolutions are kept ou T by majority vote after the Lodg,
 resolution is again defeated. Senato Underwood said Senator Lodge eithei would have to adjourn the senate O
 notify the president by a resolution that the senate would take no furthe action on the treaty.
 The parliamentary situation. ex plained privately by leaders on botl
 sides, was that with prospective re jection again of the Lodge resolution Mir. Hitchcock would again seek t.
 offer substitute resolutions, be sus , tained by the vice president and hay
 a majority overrule the vice president F shutting out the substitute resolutions
 This, they explained, would leave tn senate in the position of refusing t F ratify the treaty but without reject l ing it.
 |. Several courses then would be oper g the leaders stated. The presiden T could withdraw the treaty if he de
 sired, they said, and re-submit it i ? present or amended form; or the trea g ty could be left pending in the sen !, ate or recommitted to the foreign re ], lations committee.
 ,, Pittman and Penrose Clash. Senator Pittnan and Senator Pen 2 rose. republican, Pennsylvania. clash f ed during a discussion of responsi n bility for the tieup. Senator Pittma ' charged that every reservation in tn
 Lodge resolution was dictated by re
 publicans desirous of killing the trea : ty.'
 r Every democrat Senator Penros = tpterjected, ''has voted on orders frol = the White House."
 S T deny that" Senator Thomas, dem ,. crat, Colorado. declared.
 T You're about the only one who ca ' deny it." Senator Penrose replied.
 Senator Smith, democrat, Georgi: 5 who had voted for ratification wit
 the reservations. made plea for
 compromise and moved that the ser
 ate adjourn until tomorrow to perm 1T negotiations between the two side . The motion was voted down. = The vote on the motion to adjour u was 43 to 42. ,l j. Lodge Resolution Again Rejected. 1t For the second time the senate tt
 night voted down the treaty ratifics d, tion resolution containing reserve
 tions to which President Wilson ha le objected.
 otI As on the previous roll call. Il or ] democratic senators lined up almo without defection against ratificatio The vote on the second rejection the Lodge resolution was fl for ado] le tion and 51 against. less than the r, 'n quisite two-thirds and also less ths
 a majority.
 'e Thirty -four republicans and sevt ,o democrats, Gore, Myers. Owen, Pom ,e rene, Shields, Smith (Georgia} al re Walsh of Massachusetts voted f or adoption.
 a The ocposing democrats, were joil in ed by thirteen republicans. Bora .e Brandegee. Fernald. France. Gronn e Johnson (California); Knox, Lafo
 lette, Mccormick Moses Nuger xe Poindexter and Sherman. a. As soon as the Lodge resolution W v- voted down tht second time the sena of began voting on an unreserved rat III fication resolution presented by Sc he ator Underwood, democrat. Alabama.
 Unreserved ratification also was d he feated. the mild reservation repub ce cans voting = ainst it. he The vote rejected unqualified raj 90 fication was 36 for adoption and
 against. Advocates of unqualified "a
 ification included 37 democrats al or one republican. Senator McCumber. ii. Seven democrats, Gore, Re, a Shields, Smith (Georgia); Thom. a. Trammell and Walsh, Massachuset
 voted with the republicans in oppoi e. tion.
 lst At 1o.so tonight the peace treaty v