The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-11-20
TREATY OF PEACE .
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reservations it is expected. THIS
| Lodge resolution can carry by a Ina
jority which can be easily obtained IN
| both houses, 1t Is declared by repupll-
| can senators.
| Should administration senator's fail
to get together with republicans on
compromise resolution alter the new
session begins, the senate foreign
relations committee is expected to re-
port out this Lodge resolution.
Action will be pressed in the senate
and with the concurrence OF the
house, peace will then have been tech
nicallyi obtained SO tar as congress Is
concerned.
Belief in some quarters that Presi-
| dent Wilson would call another spe-
! cial session before December l, and
force the senate TO resume considera-
ton OF the peace treaty was secuted
! by Senator Hitchcock. administration
leader. He announced he will go TO
| his home in Omaha during the recess
and that the president has no inten-
ton OF calling another extra session
I SO far as he knows.
| The senate's action in refusing TO
ratify the treaty marked the climax OF
OllG VI tAS pIltCl POi1IASoi OdeASS
since the founding OF the government.
l For the first time in American his
tory, the senate openly challenged the
presidents traditional supremacy IN
| foreign affairs.
Text Of Resolution.
| WASHINGTON, Nov. 2o.-The
Lodge resolution to declare peace
VIII, irt, l.. concurrent
measure requiring approval Of the
house but, according to general prac-
tice, no action by the president, fol-
lows:
Whereas, by resolution Of con-
gress, adopted April 6, 1917, and by
treason of acts committe0 by the then
German government, state OF war
was declared to exist between that
government and the United States;
land,
Whereas, the senate acts of the
German government have long since
Leased; and,
Whereas, an armistice signed No
vember II, 1918, hostilities between
Germany and the allied and asso-
ciated powers were terminated; and,
Whereas, by the terms Of the
treaty of Versailles, Germany is to
be at peace with all the nations en-.
gagged in war against her whenever
three governments, designated there
/ in, have ratified said treaty: now,
therefore.
g BE it resolved, by the senate, the
house OF representatives concurtng,
that the said state OF war between
Germany and the United States Is
hereby declared to be at an end"
Next Move From White House.
[By Hugh Baillie. United Press Staff
Correspondent
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. 90 The
nations attention was riveted on the
| white house today for the next move
| in the peace treaty battle.
Friends Of President Wilson could
| not believe he would swallow defeat
Of the treaty and the league of ma
| tons, in the interest of which he has
Ealready sacrificed his health.
| The president, it was undertsod to.
day, is working on statement to the
people, telling them that chaos con.
fronts the world as a result OF the
treaty failure that it is victory for
4 bolshevism and Germany, and putting
! the blame on leaders OF the opposf
/ iton in the senate.
! His hottest shot may be reserved
| for his message to the regular session
| OF congress December i, to which he
| intends to submit the treaty
/ One of his first moves was ex-
pected to be formal withdrawal of
the treaty from congress-where it
! has been laid on the table--so that it
may be presented again. Failure OF
! the treaty knocked the ground from
under hopes that there would be a
''wet" Christmas.
| Peace through treaty ratification is
| farther away than ever before, 1t
| seemed. The only chance of the
vets was that the president would
| issue a proclamation of peace and
| lift the wartime prohibition ban re.
CARELESS Of consequences. but this
seemed hardly probable.
The administration today was anx-
| iously awaiting the worlds reaction
| to the treaty defeat. Government Of
lficials believed it would be severe
shock to other nations which partici-
pated in the peace conference, point.
ing out that America took the lead
throughout and now refuses to accept
the document or be a party to any
of the arrangements 1t sets up.
President Wilson himself Is known
to believe that, with the United
States standing aloof, Europe is liable
to be plunged into another war, worse
than the one just ended, in which
( this country will again become in
yolved. Those close to him say he
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