Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-11-28
SENATE REJECTS
PEACE TREATY.;
QUITS sine DIE
Pact Is Dead Unless Resubmitted
by President at Next
Session.
BITTER BATTLE IS WAGD
Should Il Be Sent Back to Body on
December There Would Be Great
Delay, as Other Legislation
Would Hold Precedence.

Washington, Nov. 20.-The treaty Of
peace with Germany was rejected by
the senate. On the final vote taken
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 ezra
session called by President Wilson to
consider the treaty came to an end.
Under the parliamentary maneuver-
Ing Of the Republican majority the
treaty was forced into such a situa-
ton that it cannot be again consid-
cred unless the president should
choose to re-submit 1t to the senate at
the session which opens December 1.
If re-submitted. it will again go 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-
tion 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 will 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 38 Democratic
and 13 Republican senators. The Re
publicans who voted against ratif1ca.
ton were senators who have beer
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
Olution because of the reservations
which it contained.
The Republicans who voted agains
ratification were:
| 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 th,
instructions of the president and votet
for ratification were Senators Gore
Myers, Owen and Pomerene.
During the long debate that fol
lowed, Senators Hitchcock, Swanson
and others in the administration fol
lowing made frantic but fruitless e1
forts to effect compromise on tn
Lodge reservations. They conferre
with Senators Lodge, Watson, Lenroo
4 and others, but made no progress, tn
Lodge forces standing firmly agains
any attempt to swerve them from tn
program to which they were CON
I mitted.
| Efforts to Place Blame.
| In the speeches that were mad
while the final vote on the Lodg
resolution was pending, senators O
both sides made efforts to place tn
blame for failure to ratify the treat,
Some Of the mild reservationist
blamed the administration men for nc
having arrived at the conclusio
earlier in the fight that ratificati6
without reservations was impossibl
and asserted that if they had done s
a compromise might have been a
fected.
In a final effort at conciliation Sci
ator Pomerene at 9:15 p. m. moved I
refer the treaty to a committee O
conciliation" consisting of six sen,
tors, including Senators Lodge all
Hitchcock. This motion was defeate
by means of a motion by Senator L
Toilette to lay it on the table.
Senator Hoke Smith Of Georgl
then sought to avert the impendin
rejection of the treaty by suggestin
that the senate adjourn over night s
that both sides might get togethe
This motion was defeated by the vol
Of AZ to 48.
Original Pact Defeated.
Il After the second vote on the Lods
resolution showed that the treat
stood no possible chance of ratific
ton, Senator Lodge yielded to a r
quest made by Senator Underwood fl
a vote on ratification without reserv
tions. This was defeated, 3S to SO.
By making a motion to reconsid,
this vote and then lay that motion {
the table, which was carried, Senat,
Lodge placed the last barrier again
any attempt to bring the treaty aga
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