Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-12-02
SENATE DEFEATS
THE PEACE TREATY;
ADJOURNs SINE DIE
Bitter Battle Is Waged Over the
Lodge Reservations.
PACT PROBABLY IS DEAD
Under Its Parliamentary Status 1t
Could Ee Re-Submitted to Next
Session Which VIII Convene
on December I, and Await
Its Turn.

on December I, and Await
Its Turn.
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 extra
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 it 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-
ton 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
40 hnnfnnfncr Of tho session an0
probably passed.
The defeat of the treaty was brought
about by the votes of So Democratic
and Is Republican senators. The Re
publicans who voted against ratitica-
ton were senators who have been
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 against
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 the
instructions of the president and voted
for ratification were Senators Gore,
instructions of the president and voted
Myers, Owen and POmeFene.
Marshall oVerruIed Three Times.
Three times in the parliamentary
skirmish was the vice president over
ruled by vote of the senate for de-
cisions he made with regard to the
procedure. The crucial test came
when Vice President Marshall ruled
that the treaty was still before the
senate and that the Lodge resolution
having been rejected it was in order
for Senator Hitchcock to present an
alternative resolution.
Upon this ruling the vice president
was overruled by the vote of so to 43.
This closed the door to any attempts
to compromise and placed the admin
istratiOn senators in the position
where they were compelled to vote
again on the Lodge resolution and vote
to accept the treaty with those reser-
yatiOns or get no treaty at all.
During the long debate that fol-
lowed, Senators Hitchcock, Swanson
and others in the administration fol-
lowing made frantic but fruitless eff
forts TO effect compromise on the
Lodge reservations. They conferred
with Senators Lodge, Watson. Lenroot
and others, but made no progress, the
Lodge forces standing firmly against
any attempt to swerve them from the
program to which they were COM
United.
Efforts to Place Blame.
In the speeches that were made
while the final vote on the Lodge
resolution was pending, senators 6n
both sides made efforts to place the
blame for failure to ratify the treaty.
Some of the mild reServationiSts
blamed the administration men for not
having arrived ut the conclusion
earlier in the fight that ratification
without reservations was impossible
and asserted that if they had done so
compromise might have been af-
fected.
In final effort at Cancellation Sem
ator Pomerene at 9:15 p. m. moved TO
refer the treaty TO a committee on
Cancellation" consisting of six sena-
tors. including Senators Lodge and
Hitchcock. This motion was defeated
by means of a motion by Senator La
Toilette to lay it on the table.
Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia
then sought 10 avert the impending
rejection of the treaty by suggesting
that the senate adjourn over night 50
that both sides might get together
This motion was defeated by the vote
of - TO IS
Original Pact Defeated.
After the second vote on the Lodge
resolution showed that the treaty
stood no possible chance of ratifica-