Omaha daily bee., 1920-04-10
Republican Majority in the
House Completes First Stage
Of Program to End War
Despite Defeat Of Treaty.
RESOLUTION NOW GOES
TO SENATE COMMITTEE
Substitute Offered by Demo.
Gratis, Repeating Emergency
Legislation Without Termi-
mating State of War. .
BY ARTHUR SEARS HENNING

by AKl lux SEANS 1ENNlNG.
Chicago Tribune Omaha Bee Leased Wire.
Washington, April 9-With pass
sage of the peace resolution by thu
house tonight by vote of 243 to
$50 the republican majority in con-
gress completed the first stage OF
their program to end the war with
Germany in defeat OF ratification OF
the Versailles treaty and its league OF
nations covenant.
This unprecedented measure for
terminating the three years state of
war will be transmitted to the SEN
ate tomorrow, where it will be ref
ferred to the foreign relations COM
mittee. 1t is expected that the COM
mittee will report it promptly to the
senate, where the democrats intend
to filibuster it's adoption with pro-.
longed speeches and to load it down
with riders. including the league OF
nations covenant.
Defeat Substitute.
After the two days debate in the
house, in which nearly 20 members
delivered arguments for and against
a declaration of peace by congreTi
the democrats offered a suhstitT ]
resolution, repeating war Legislation
without terminating tbe state oil
war. This move was defeated, III to
22l.
On the final roll cali % democrats
joined with the republicans in sup
port of the resolution. Only two re-
publicans, Representatives Kelley of
Michigan and Fuller of Massa-
chusetts, voted in the negative. Rep
resentative Keller of Minnesota, an
independent, voted for the resolution,
while Representative Cars, also of
Minnesota, another independent,
voted against it. Representative Ran
dali of California, prohibitionist, cast
an affirmative vote.
Takes Shot at Wilson.
Representative Longworth OF
Ohio, republican, in one of the
closing speeches, accused President
Wilson of responsibility for delay
ing peace.
"There has been and is now one
insurmountable obstacle in our path
toward peace and that obstacle is
the president of the United States"
he said. More than a year ago
treaty of peace might have been
negotiated and ratified had he not
forced the inclusion in manner and
form inseparable from the rest of
the instrument and purposely so
made, as he frequently boasted, the
child of his brain, that un-American
monstrosity known as the Wilson
league of nations.
ut still remains, though twice
repudiated, an integral part of the
treaty, in the exact phraseo1ogy
bargained for and brought back
from Paris by the president.
"As he stepped on the shore of
France from the imperial yacht, the
George Washington (Heaven save
the mark-) he was acclaimed and
hailed as a sort of demi-god, and
small wonder, for had not the Amer
ican forces clinched the victory and
was he not the titular head of the
American nation? The manner in
which the people of Europe bade
him farewell upon his return from
his second voyage overseas is a
different story and one over which it
is we'll to draw the veil" -.
Kelley Springs Surprise.
Representative Kelley of Michi-
gan, republican, sprang surprise
by speaking in opposition to the
resolution.
IF you pass this resolution TODAY
the moral effect of it and the opin.
ion of America will be not what is
intended but that this house has ap-
proved the course of those who
stood against the treaty in the SEN
ate with or without reservations and
in favor of a separate peace" he
SAID. This is resolution to make
a separate peace with Germany
without terms, without pledges,
without guarantees of any kind,
shape or description"
Representative Smith of Illinois
spoke for the resolution as one of
the republican members of the for
eign affairs committee.
Representative Juul of Illinois re-
ferred to the abrogation of the
treaty with Russia years ago and
pointed out that commercial rela
tons eau be maintained without a
treaty.
Representative Britten of Illinois
said the peace resolution would be
Immediately passed "if America
could realize that there are posi-.
lively millions of lean, hungry, sad.
faced, tubercular children in Ger,