Warren sheaf., 1919-11-26
WILSON BLAMED FOR
DEFEAT OF TREATY
Senator Frank B. Kellogg Gave Out The
Following Statement Upon His Ar
Es rival at st. Paul, Nov. %, 1919.

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I regret exceedingly that the Treaty
was not ratified with reservations.
Many Of the Republicans worked earn
Iestly from the start to accomplish this
object. These reservations which were
adopted by a large majority of the
Senate were prepared, not by members
OF the Foreign Relations Committee,
but by the friends Of the Treaty. and
We're fair, reasonable, protected Amer
ican rights and American interests, and
did not destroy the Treaty nor the
League Of Nations.
E At. the end, the American League to
enforce Peace, including Mr.. Taft,
President Lowell of Harvard, and the
men who so earnestly worked for the
Treaty, endorsed every one Of the re-
|seryations and advised the ratification
Of the Treaty with the reservations,
and made only one suggestion, which
was that the form of the Preamble be
changed, and if that had been salts
factory to the Democrats, we would
have been willing to agree to it. The
only difference on this point was, in
stead of having it accepted by our
Allies by exchange of notes, to have
the acceptance by acquiescence.
For. months, the friends of the Treaty
on the Republican side advised the
President and the Democratic leaders
that reservations, in substance like
those passed, would have to be adopted,
not only to ratify the Treaty, but to
make. it safe and satisfactory to the
American people. But they have all in
sisted, as the President has, that the
! Treaty must be taken without the
dotting of an 'i'' or the crossing of a
ST.
The Republican friends of the Treaty
stood day after day and voted against
every single amendment to this Treaty
which would necessitate sending it
back to Germany, and only voted for
! reservations which would not require
it to be sent back to Germany, and
which would not change the Treaty as
between other nations, but would leave
it as it is, simply reserving certain
rights to the American people.
In the main, these reservations are
what the President claimed the Treaty
meant in any event. If that was So
they had no reason to object to them
except the Presidents arbitrary atti-
tude that what he had done must not
[ be changed or defined. AS matter
of fact, in my judgement, some of the
articles would not bear the construction
which the President placed upon them
and it was the plain duty of the Senate
of the United States to make the mean
ing clear.
I know that many members on the
Democratic side who voted against the
Treaty favored these reservations and
believed in them and voted as they did
because the President dictated it. The
talk on the last. night Of the session
| about a compromise came with bad
grace, because they knew the reserva-
tiOns had to be framed and voted on in
the Senate before the Resolution on
Ratification could be voted on at all
and not afterwards, and the only time
compromise could be had was before
a Resolution of Ratification was pro.
posed, which had to be one calendar
day after the reservations had been
agreed to, and during all that time, they
refused to entertain any compromise
whatever and stood for the Presidents
uncompromising attitude. As late as
Tuesday morning, the Republican
friends of the Treaty, had meeting