Vernon Parish Democrat. (Leesville, La.) 1917-193?, 1919-11-29
SENATE REFUSES
TO RATIFY TREATY
All Resolutions for Approval
Are Lost by Decisive
MajOrities.

| al attempts to ratlfy the peace treaty
had failed the senate "wednesday gave
up the attempt and laid the treaty
aside
All compromise efforts to bring rati-
fication failed, the three resolutions OF
ratification all going down by over
whelming maiorities. The republican
leaders apparently despairing of bring
ing two-thirds of the senate together
for any sort of ratification then put
in a resolution to declare the war with
Germany at an end.
| Two of the three ratification votes
we're taken on the resolution drafted
| by the republican majority, containing
reservations which President Wilson
had told democratic senators in a let
ter earlier in the day would mean null
LITIGATION of the treaty On each Of
the votes most of the democratic sup
porters of the treaty voted against rat
ification.
The first vote on this resolution
stood 80 for to SIS against On the
second vote, taken after several hours
of parliamentary wrangle, in which the
democrats made vain efforts to win
over some of the republican group of
mild reservationists, forty-one senat-
ors voted in the affirmative, and fifty
one in the negative
The third vote was on a straightout
ratification without reservations,
which got only SO votes to SO opposing
it. Only one republican, Senator Nc
Cumber Of North Dakota, voted with
the democrats in its support.
The resolution for ratification with
out reservations was put in by Sena-
tor Underwood, democrat of Alabama,
after the second defeat of the other
measure. 1t was held in order and
voted upon without debate, but when
Senator Pittman, democrat of Nevada,
sought to get action on another reso-
luton containing interpretative reser-
vations, the treaty consideration was
cut short by point of order by re-
publicans.
The roll call on the Underwood reso-
luton of unqualified ratification fol-
lows:
For adoption Democrats: Ashurst,
Bankham, Beckham, Chamberlain,
Dial, Fletcher, Gay, Gerry, Harris, Har
rison, Henderson, Hitchcock, johnson
of South Dakota, Jones of New Mexico,
King, Kirby, Mcclellan, Myers, Nugent,
Oyerman, Owen, Phelan, Pittman,
Pomerene, Ransdell, Robinson, Shep-
pard, Simmons, Smith of Arizona,
Smith of Maryland, Smith OF South
Carolina, Stanley, Swanson, Under
wood, Walsh of Montana, Williams
and Walcott.-TOtal 81
Republican: McCumber.
Grand total 3S.
Against adoption - Republicans:
Ball. Borah, Brandegee, Calder, Cap.
per, Colt, Cummins, Curtis, Dilling
ham, Edge, Elkins, Fernald, France,
Frelinghuysen, Gronna, Hale, Harding,
Johnson of California, Jones of Wash
ington, Kellogg, Kenyon, Keyes, Knox,
LaFollette, Lenroot, Lodge, McCor
mick, Mclean, McNary, Moses, New,
Newberry, Norris, Page. Penrose,
Phipps, Poindexter, Sherman, Smoot
Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland, Town
send, Wadsworth, Warren and Watson
Total 46.
Democrats: Gore, Reed, Shields,
Smith of Georgia, Thomas, Trammell
and Walsh Of Massachusetts. Total z.
Grand total So.
Senator Culberson, democrat, of
Texas, was paired for the resolution
with Senator Nelson, republican, of
Minnesota, against, and Senator Fall,
republican, of New Mexico, who was
absent, was announced as against
adoption.
President Wilson Wednesday strong
ly urged administration senators to de-
feat the Lodge resolution of ratifica-
ton, declaring it meant rather ''nulli-
fication" of the treaty
The appeal was made in the form
Of letter to Senator Hitchcock, adj
ministration leader, who read it to a
caucus of Democratic senators.
my Dear Senator: You were good
enough to inform me that the Demo
cratic senator's were planning to hold
a conference before the final vote on
the treaty and that they would be
glad to receive some word of counsel
from me.
Il should hesitate to offer in any
detail but on this all important ques-
ton Of ratification, with the present
resolution containing so many reser-
vations, l can not hesitate to say in
my opinion the resolution does not pro
vide for ratification, but rather for
notification. sincerely trust the
friends and supporters of the treaty
will vote against the Lodge resolution.
Il understand that the door VIII be
open to a genuine resolution Of rati-
fication. I trust that all true friends
Of the treaty viii refuse to support
the resolution.
Always silver Lining.