The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1919-11-20
pRESIDENr WILL REFUSE THE
LODGE RESOLUTION
Considsrs Ratification Under Such
Plan Would Nullify
"A 49,. - - Pnct. III 49,

Washington, Nov II. The presi-
dent is ftH Of fight. = IS.
Secretary Tumulty made that state
nert siter . brief conference with
the president Monday afternoon with
rs4Ard 70 the treaty situation.
| The president. spent some time
lss1lning himself On the soutl, porticS
81 The White House. . y.
Vashington, Nov. I7.-Presidcnt
Wilson will pocket" the treaty ii the
Lodge resolution Of ratification as
| pissed by the senate.
The president made that statement
| to Senator Hitchcock Monday il, a
conference.
The announcement was made by
Senator Hitchcock on leaving the
White House
II found the president very much
Improved and more aggressive ? said
Senator Hitchcock. "He informed
me he had read and considered the
Lodge resolution Of ratification and
that he considered il qualification Of
THE treaty 4
ibid the president say he would
pocket the treaty il the Lodge reso-
iution of ratification was passed. he
was asked. 81,
3"He told me he would" replied
Senator Hitchcock
Senator Hitchcock declared the ad-
ministration forces would offer a
resolution of ratification if the Lodge
resolution was defeated.
1--WE will do that ON the assu1np..
ton that the vice president will rule
that it does not have to go to the
foreign relations committee Senator
Hitchcock continued. IF that ruling
should be overthrown, i believe the
treaty would be dead
For the first time in it's history, the
senate made unfinished business the
only order of business, Vice Presi-
dent Marshall ruled in ordering all
business other than the peace treaty
out of ogder at the opening of the
senate, Monday.
Senator Hitchcock is full of fight.
He said: . e~1ss%t
when Senator Lodge said the
treaty was dead, he meant that his
resolution will be beaten. Perhaps
he thinks that would beat the Treaty,
hut it will not. When his resolution
IS beaten, we can offer a resolution OF
ratification ourselves. If that be
beaten, then we may get compro-
mise under which the treaty may go
through. If compromise be impos-
sible, then there will be a new situa-
tion but there is certainly none yet.
IF there be no compromise and no
treaty it is manifest that the situa-
ton, then created, will be bad. Al
condition OF no treaty would demor-
alize the whole peace settlement. |
Failure of The United States to act
would have an extremely adverse ef-
feet on conditions in Europe as the
best settlement is, of course. predi-
Gated on the cooperation OF the Unit
ed States and as have said, the abb
sence of the United States would d S.
organize and disrupt the we'll ma
tured plan to restore peace to . the
world by means of the present treaty.
1t is now generally conceded that
The Lodge ratification resolution, in
;luding the Lodge reservations. will
De defeated. Republican mild res
do not wholly agree
With Senator Lodge that such an IN
favorable vote would be a death blow
70 the treaty. e
Vice President Marshall has ruled
hat the defeat of the Lodge resol,i-
ion of ratification will not be final
election under parliamentary law;|
hat it will still be possible for other
resolutions of ratification to be Of
'Ared |