The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1920-03-24
TREATY RETURNED
TO PRESIDENT AGAIN
For Fourth Time Ratifica-
ton Fails
NOW GOES
INFO CAMPAIGN
After Seven Hours of Debate Decisive
Vote is Taken. % Democrats and 12
Republican "IrrecOncilables" Vote
Against Treaty with Reservations

hepuDllcan "lrrcCOnC1lableS" Vote
Against Treaty with Reservations.
Washington, March 1.-THE treaty
of Versailles failed OF ratification for
the fourth time tonight and then tile
senate voted to send it back to Presi-
dent Wilson with notification that it
had finally refused to alvise and con-
sent to it's ratification"
On the decisive roll call the vote
was 49 for ratification 10 35 against.
the opposition numbering in it's ranks
~ democrats who were unwilling to
see the treaty go through with the
republican reservations Obic>.ed to
by the president and three democratic
and II republican irreconcilablcs.
Twenty-one democrats quit the pres :
1dents Lad and voted for ratification,
but the detection failed b. seven rotes
OF providing the two-tGirls requisite
to latify.
The result was regarded everywhere
In the capital as having put over into
the political campaign for decision tho
long and bitter fight between the chief
executive and the senate majority. A
move to reconsider the vote and try
once more to ratify collapsed in its
inception, leaders on both sides agree
ing that further ratification efforts
would be e. waste Of time as long as
the senate membership remains as It
is.
Whether the president would return
thcTtreitty TO the senate 'rcmained uiia
determined, but the republicans served
notice that If he did it would repose
for many weeks to come in a commit
tee pigeonhole. In the vote Of Al to
81 by which the senate washed its
hands Of the subject and sent the
treaty to the White House the repub-
lican leaders had the support Of the
mild reservationists as well as the ir-
reconcilables Of their party, while the
democrats voted almost soldly in op-
position.
The next step planned by the senate
majority is declaration Of state Of
peace to relieve the nation OF the war
status which the democrats maintain
can be ended only by the trcaty's rat
lfication. A fight on that proposal
probably will begin when the senate
reconvenes Monday.
The roll call on ratification came
four months, almost to the hour, af-
ter the failure Of the three attempts
at ratification on November 18th On
that occasion the greatest strength de-
vcloped for ratification with the re-
publican reservation was Al votes, on
ly seven democrats voting with the
republicans in the affirmative. The
vote against was 81, made up of 13 re-
publcans and 3S democrats. Tonight's
roll call follows:
For the resolutions: Republicans
Ball, Calder. Capers. Cot, Curtis, Dill
lingham, Edge, 'Elkins, Frelinghuysen,
Hale, Jones, (WashD, Kellogg, Ken
yon, Keyes, I1enroot, Lodge, Mclean,
McNary, New, Page, Phlpps. Smoot,
Spencer, Sterling, Switzerland, Wads-
worth, Warren. and Watson-2S.
emocrats-Ashurst, ,Bcckham, Gore,
Chamberlain, Fletcher Henderson,
Kcndrick. King, Myers, Nugent. Ow-
en-, Phelan, Pittman, Pomcrene, Rams
dell, Smith Georgia. Smith, Mary
land; Trammell. Walsh, (Massa-
chusetts); Wolcott, and Walsh (Mon-
tana)-21.
Total for ratification AZ.
Against Repubiicans-.Bo Bran
degee, Fcrnald, France, Gronna, John
son California;; Knox, LaFollette.
Mccormack, Moses and Schrman-12
DemooratsIComcr, Culberson, Dial,
Gay, Glass, Harris. Harrison, Hitch
cock, johnson (South Dakota): Kirby
McKellar, Overman, Reed, Robinson,
Sheppard. Shields. Simmons, Smith,
(South Carolina; Stanley, Swanson,
Thomas, Underwood and Williams. G
%.
Total against-35.
In seven hours Of debate preceding
the vote republica. 'aders declared
Themselves ready to take the issue to
the people. From the democratic side
several senator's bitterly assailed the
president 70 rhis stand and declared
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