Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1920-03-20

WASHINGTON, ID. g., March 70
The treaty Of Versailles failed of
ratification for the fourth time lasi
night and then the senate vote to
send it back to President Wilson
with a notification that it had finally
"refused to advise and consent TO its
ratification.
On the decisive roll call the vote
was 40 for ratification to 35 against.
the opposition numbering in its hanks
90 democrats who were unwilling to
see the treaty 20 through with the re-
publican reservations objected to by
the president and three democratic
and twelve republican irreconcilables
Twenty democrats quit the presi-
dents lead and voted for ratification
but the detection failed by seven
votes of providing the two-thirds
requisite To ratify.
The result was regarded every
where in the capital as having put
over into the political campaign for
decision the long and bitter fight be
tween the chief executive and the
senate majority. A move to recon
slider the vote and try once more tc
ratify collapsed in its inception, lead
ers on both sides agreeing that furth-
er ratification efforts would be
waste of time as long as the senate
membership remains as il is.
Whether the president would re
turn the treaty to the senate remain
ed undetermined, but the republi
cans served notice that if he did i
would repose for many weeks Z
come in a committee pigeon hole. II
the vote Of AZ to 81 by which tn,
senate washed its hand on the sub
ject and sent the treaty to the White
House. the republican leaders had the
support of the mild reservationists
well as the irreconcilables of theiI
party, while the democrats voted al
most solidly in opposition.
The next step planned by the sen
ate majority is a declaration of
state Of peace to relieve the natiol
of the war status which the demo
Gratis maintain can be ended only b!
the treaty's ratification. A fight OF
that proposal probably will begin
when the senate reconvenes Monday
The roll call on ratification came
four months, almost to the hour, aft
er the failure of the three attempts
at ratification on November 10. On
that occasion the greatest strength
developed for ratification with the
republican reservations was III votes,
only seven democrats voting with the
republicans in the affirmative. The
vote against was 81, made up Of IL
republicans and 80 democrats. To-
nights roll call follows:
For the neutrality-suspicious.
Ball. Calder. Capper, Colt Curtis, Dill
bingham, Edge, Elkins, Frelinghuysen,
Hale. Jones Washington. Kellogg,
Kenyon. keyes, Lenroot. Lodge, Nc
Lean, McNary, New, Page. Phipps,
Smoot. Spencer. Sterling, Sutherland.
Wadsworth, Warren, Watson and
Wolcott, republicans-29.
Democrats: Ashurst. Beckham.
Chamberlain. Fletch,-, Gore. Hen
derson. Kendrick, King, Myers. Nu-
,gent. Owen. Phelan, Pittman, Pomer-
enc. Ransdell, Smith (Georgia)
Smith (Maryland), Trammell, Walsh
Massachusetts, and Walsh mon
tana)-2O.
Total for ratification, 40.
Twelve senators. nine republicans
and three democrats were paired
Three republicans and one democrat
were paired against ratification and
six republicans and two democrats IT
favor of ratification. The pairs fol
low:
Senators Newberry, republican
Michigan. and McCumber, republi
can. North Dakota, for ratification
with Senator Fall, republican, New
Mexico. against.
Senators Nelson, republican, Min
nesota. and Senator Harding, republi
can, Ohio. for ratification, with Sen
ator Penrose, republican, Pennsyl
vania. against.
Senator Cummins, republican