Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-10

BERLIN, July (by the Associated
Press).-Presiden Ebert signed the
bill ratifying the peace treaty at
o'clock tonight, according to the Vor-
waerts and the document has been
dispatched to Versailles.
Ministers Protest.
WEIMAR. July (by the Associ-
ated Press) Most of the ministers
were present at the meeting today of
the national assembly. when DR.. Her
mann Mueller. foreign minister, ex-
planned that the Fastening of the
ratification order would bring about
the lifting of the blockade:
I'VE are about to enter upon forty
years march through desert he
said. 81 can find no other term for the
path Of suffering fuifillment of the
treaty prescribed for US"
DR.. Peter SPAIN, leader of the Cath
Ollie center party. said:
I'VE agreed to the treaty under hard
compulsion. to save ourselves from
anarchy and to preserve the father
land from internal ruin"
Protests Applauded.
Herr Kreizig. socialist; Prof
Schue cking, democrat; DR.. Traub,
national party, and Herr Kahl, peo-
pies party. all violently protested the
Injustice of the treaty, the impossi-
bility of it's fulfillment. and declaring
that the day of Germany's liberation
would come.
These speeches were greeted with
such turbulent applause and hand
clapping that the president of the
assembly. Herr Fehrenbach. called at
tention to the fact that handclapping
was against the rules. and threat
ened to have the galleries cleared.
The debate, however, proceeded, with
similar speeches by other members
and similar applause.
The national party introduced an
amendment in favor of ratifying. with
the express reserve that the sanction
of international law experts of re-
pute should first be obtained con-
corning articles 227 to 230. and that
a neutral court should be created to
investigate the responsibility for the
war.
Text of Resolution.
The text of the ratification resolu-
ton as introduced in the national as
sembly consisted of two clauses read
ing as follows:
The peace treaty between Germany
and the allied and associated powers
signed on June %, 1919, and the
protocol belonging thereto. as we'll
as the agreement relative to the oc-
cupation of the Rhineland, signed the
same day, are agreed to.
"rhis law comes into force on the
day of it's PRONUNCIATION"
Ninety-nine deputies abstained from
voting on the resolution in the ma
tional assembly to ratify the peace
treaty.
In the course of the debate Presi-
dent Fehrenbach protested against
Alsace-Lorraine being torn from Ger
many. He said that the treaty of
1871 simply made good what had been
taken from Germany $50 years be-
fore He hoped that the people of
Alsace-Lorraine would preserve their
German character. customs and cfvili-
Zation.
Part 7 of the peace treaty, COM
prisihg articles 227 to 230. relates to
penalties. Article 227 arraigns the
former German emperor for "a su-
preme offense against international
morality and the sanctity of treaties"
The other articles relate to the bring
ing before military tribunals of per-
sons accused of having committed
acts in violation of the laws and Gus
toms of war; to the handing over of
these persons by Germany and to an
Undertaking, by the German govern
ment to furnish all documents and
information of every kind bearing on
these offenses and violations.