Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-05-28
WILSON SAYS PEACE, PLANNED BY 6. O.P., STAINS J, s. HONOR President VetOes Resolution: :: Gives Reasons in
 Message FINAL DEADLOCK ON
 EFFORTS TO AGREE Wilson Fails to Indicate Whether He Again May Submit The Treaty to the Senate-Attempt
 Re-Passage

l INS-l dSSdSS
 i Washington, May 27-President 1 Wilson vetoed the peace resolution to- day and informed congress he could not become party to the peace pro gram framed by republican leaders of the senate and house, because he con sidered it would put an "ineffaceable stain on the nations honor.
 1 To establish technical peace by such method, the president said in his veto message, would be to effect "a complete surrender of the rights of the United States so far as Ger many is concerned" and to. relnouish all the high purposes which led the nation into war and which were en- bodied in the rejected treaty of Yer sailles
 i The presidents act apparently brought to final deadlock efforts of the presidents administration and congress to agree on peace program. Republican leaders conceded they could not pass the resolution over the executives veto though an at tempt will be made in the house to- morrow, and on both sides it was pre- dicted that the issue of the treaty controversy would have to be fought out in the political campaign with democrats and republicans blaming each other fo rthe failure to effect a state of peaece. 1 The president did not indicate whether he might again submit the treaty to tbe senate for ratification, but he said the resolution raised again the question of whether the 1 United States cared to draw apart from the rest of the world or join with other nations in attaining the ends to which the treaty was framed.
 The veto had been expected and re- publican leaders made plain to close the incident promptly by a record votet on repassage of the resolution. The message went first to the house, where it's reading was greeted with cheers by the democrats and derision 1 hy republicans. Without discussion it was agreed to take vote at noon tomorrow.
 The general predictions on the re- publican side was the resolution would fall short by only few votes of the two-thirds necessary to repass it. In the senate, however, it was conceded the prospect was altogether hope
 less.
 Mostly senate and house leaders refrained from comment. The gen. eral tenor of talk by republicans, however, was that the president and not congress should bear the respon- sibility if the nation remained tech
 nically at war. while among demo- cratas it was the nation would hold the republican senate to account for failure to ratify the treaty
 The Message.
 The presidents message follows:
 "To the House of Representatives
 "I return, herewith, without my sig nature, house joint resolution 327, intended to repeal the joint resolu-
 tion of April 6, 1917, declaring state of war to exist between the United States and the Austro- Hungarian gov
 crnment. and to declare a state of peace. I have not felt at liberty to sign this joint resolution because l cannot bring myself to become party to an action which would place inef-
 faceable stain upon the gallantry and honor of the United States. The reso-
 lution seeks to establish peace with T the German empire without exacting from the German government any ac- tion by way of setting right the in- finite wrongs which it did to the peo- ples whom it attacked and whom we profess it our purpose to assist when we entered the war Have we sacri- ficed the lives of more than 100000 Americans and ruined the lives Of thousands of others and brought up- on thousands of American families : an unhappiness that can never end for ,nL In n q !, to state or take further steps to at Itain <? the attainment of hese purposes is provided for in he treaty of Yer sailles by terms deemed adequate by
 1.-the leading statesmen and experts of
 all the great peoples who were asso- ciated in the war against Germany. Do we nok not care to join in the eff , fort to secure them?
 ,, eve entered the war most reluct- antly. Our people were profoundly
 disinclined to take part in European . war and at last did So, only because t they become convinced that it could not in truth be regarded as only a European war, but must be regarded as war in which civilization itself was involved and human rights of every kind as against belligerent government. Moreover, when we en- g tered the war we set forth very defi- 3 nitelv the purposes for which we en- tered, partly because we did not wish to be considered as safely taking part in a European contest. This joint l resolution which I return does not s seek to accomplish any of these ob- }, iects. but in effect makes complete a surrender of the rights of the United
 States so far as the German govern ment is concerned. A treaty of peace s was signed at Versailles on the twenty a eighth of June last, which did seek T to accomplish the objects which we had declared to be in our minds, be- cause all the great governments and y peoples which united against Ger ' many had adopted our declarations oi e purpose as their own and had in sol
 emn form embodied them in communl
 cations to the German government pr' lliminary to the armistice of Novem Der II, 1918. But the treaty assigned + at Versailles has been rejected by thu j. senate of the United States, though l 7. has been ratified by Germany. B, f that rejection and by it's methods Wi
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