The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-02
SENATE REJECTS
 PRESIDENTS PLEA FOR A MANDATE
Resolution Respectfully Declining" to Grant Au- thority Is Passed By
 Vote of 52 to g
By Associated Prsss

Washington, June l. - President Wilson's plea for. an American man.
 date over Armenia was rejected in the Senate today by a vote of more than two to one.
 Thirteen democrats cast their votes
 with the united republicans in the final roll call and the resolution respectful ly declining to grant congressional authority for the mandate was adopted 52 to 23 in the -orm drafted by the republican leaders.
 The resolution will be sent to the House tomorrow, and the leaders there plan to adopt it without change on
 Thursday. They say they hope for as decisive majority as the measure was given in the Senate.
 In the debate today the democratic Senate leaders counseled delay and tried in vain to put the decision over until the next session of Congress- Scarcely a voice was raised in out t-and- out advocacy of accepting the man. date, and on a motion to amend the resolution so that the requested au- thority would be given, only twelve ] senators, all of them democrats. voted in the affirmative. Recorded against the motion were twenty-three demo- crats and thirty mine republicans. SECOND MOTION LOST In their effort to ward off action, which they argued was advisable be- cause of the peace deadlock. the minority leaders had better success.
 A motion to send the resolution back to the committee with instructions that it be reported after ratification of a peace treaty with the central |powers must cred almost~-selid demo- cratic support. but was lost 43 to 34s The roll call on final adoption of the resolution follows:
 For the resolutions:
 Republicans-Ball, Berah. Brandege. Calder, Capper. Colt, Curtis. Dillng-
 ham, Edge, Elkins, Fall Fernald
 France, Frelinghuysen, Hale, Harding Jones of Washington, Kenyon. Reyes,
 Knox, Lenroot, Lodge, Mccormick, Me
 Cumber Mclean, McNary, Nelson, New,
 Norris, Page, Phipps, Poindexter, Shoot, Spencer. Sterling, Sutherland, Townsend, Wadsworth and Wat son-39.
 Democrats-Beckham, Chamberlain, Dial, Gerry. Harris, Myers. Nugent Pomerene, Reed, Shields, smith of Georgia, Thomas and Walsh of Massa- chusetts-13. Total, 52.
 Against the resolution
 Republioans-None.
 Democrats-Ashurst. Gay, Harrison. Hend~e on. Hitchcock, Kendrick. King, | Mcclellan, Phelan, Pittman. Ransden Robinson, Sheppard, Simmons, Smith of 1 Arizona, Smith of Maryland Smith of South Carolina, Stanley, Trammell | Underwood, Walsh of Montana. Will Hams and Wolcott-23. Total. 23 WOULD DISCOURAGE ARMENIA | Several of the democrats voting against the resolution, including Senator Hitch lcock of Nebraska who led the admins | trations fight for ratification of the treaty of Versailles, announced that they did so only because they felt the direct language of the measure would discour- age the efforts of the Armenian people. Senator Hitchcock presented an amend- ment, which he said would make the res- olution acceptable to him. providing for a joint commission of Americans and Ar menians to rehabilitate the new republic economically. It was rejected, 43 to 34, with only two republicans-Senators Kenyon of Iowa and Townsend of Michi- gan-supporting it.
 Leading the fight to recommit the reso- lution, Senator Underwood of Alabama, the democratic leader, declared it would be equally inopportune'' to accept or reject the mandate until the details of peace had been worked out. The na- ton. he argued, could not properly decide whether it wanted to take such respon-
 sibilty until it had decided finally the gr eater question of whether 1t should Joln tke League of Nations.
 Senator Walsh, Montana, and several other democrats, declared the foreign re- | lations committee had drafted the reso- | (Continued on Page TwO)