The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1919-11-20
PEACE TREATY
RESOLUTIONS RE.
JECTED BY SENATE

Washington, d. c., Nov. l9.-Thc
resolution of ratification of the peace
treaty containing the Lodge reserva-
tions was rejected by the senate.
The vote was 80 for to 55 against
adoption.
Democratic senators favoring rati-
fication either without reservation or
with less drastic interpretations voted
against the resolution, which has been
described by President Wilson as one
of null icaton' rather than rattica-
ton.
The negative vote consisted of i2
Democrats and 10 Republicans.
The vo.e cleared the way for the
consideration OF possible compromise
proposals acceptable to the majority
Of the Democrats. and the mild res
ervation group of Republicans.
In order to put the treaty into n
parliamentary situation where an
other vote could be had after efforts
at compromise. the senate then voted
to reconsider its action. The motion
was made by Senator Reed, Democrat,
vote of the Democrats and mild res
ervation Republicans.
The effect of the reconsideration
was merely to bring the committee
resolution back TO the same status il
occupied before the ratification roll
call.
Senator Hitchcock sought to offer
a set of compromise reservations, but
a point of order by Republican leader
Lodge blocked him. Vice-President
Marshall ruled that the reservations
were in order and that the treaty, by
the reconsideration. had been brought
back into committee of the whole.
Senator Lodge appealed from the rul
ing. BY a party vote of from 81 to
AZ the decision of the chair was over
ruled.
The vote having established that
the treaty was in the senate itself,
and not in committee of the whole,
Senator Hitchcock offered resolu-
ton of unreserved ratification against
which Senator Poindexter, Republican,
Washington, made a point of order.
The vice-president overruled the OBJ
lection and an appeal again was taken.
The senate again overruled the chair.
Following the senate clash over
peace treaty he defeated with all
the Lodge reservations attached, Sen
ator Sherman, Illinois, on the senate
floor, declared the American "delega-
ton sent to gay Paree' lost their
characters and our money. but escaped
with their lives and deleted copy Of
the league of nations"
The senator asserted the treaty and
reservations proposed form charter
for an international homicide club
that will convert Europe into legal
lied cockpit" and provide no maximum
of justice and write no code of law
for the nations"
Four prime objections to the Lodge
resolution were raised by Senator
Robinson -- The preamble, the Shan
tung provisions, that regarding article
withdrawal from the league.
THE friends and not the enemies
os the treaty" said the senator
"should dictate the terms of ratiii-
cation"
II the Lodge reservations were all
adopted, senator Robinson said the
president probably" would refuse to
negotiate it.
III he should make the attempt
he added, "it is plain that our self-re-
specting allies would not accept"
Senator Sherman, Republican, of H.
linois, announced he would have to
part company" with some Of his Re
publican associates and vote against
the ratification resolution.
The treaty and the reservations pro-
posed, Senator Sherman said, form Il
charter for an international homicide
club" that will convert Europe into n
"legalized cockpit" and provide no
maximum of justice and write no code
Of law for the nations.