The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-20

cation.
 On the decisive roll call the vote was 40 for ratification to 35 against, the opposition numbering in it's ranks twenty democrats who were unwilling to see the treaty go through with the republican reservations objected to by the President and three democratic aud twelve republican irrecOneiiableS. Twenty-one democrats quit the Presi- but the defection failed by seven votes of providing the two-thirds requisite to rntify.
 The result was regarded every
 where in the capital as having put
 over into the political campaign
 for decision the long and bitter
 fight between the chief executive
 and the Senate majority. move
 to reconsider the vote and try
 once more to ratify collapsed in
 it's inception, leaders on both sides
 agreeing thnt further ratification
 efforts would he waste of time as long as the Senate membership Vremains as it is.
 Whether the President would return the treaty to the Senate remained un- determined, but the republicans served notice that if he did it would repose for many weeks to come in a committee pigeonhole.
 DEMOCRATS ALMOST SOLID
 In the vote of 47 to i7 by which
 the Senate washed its hands Of the
 subject and sent the treaty to the
 White House the republican Iead-
 CTS had the support of the mild
 reservntionists as we'll as the irre-
 conciIabics of their party, while
 the democrats voted almost soiidiy
 in opposition.
 The next step planned by the
 Senate majority is declaration of
 state of peace to relieve the nn-
 ton of the yyar stntus which the
 democrats maintain can be ended
 only by the treaty's ratification. \ fight on that proporai probably
 will begin when the senate recon
 vcncs Monday.
 The roll call on ratification came four months. almost to tfie>Lour, after the failure of the three attempts at ratification on November i9 On that occasion the gretaest strength devel- oped for ratifications with the republi- can. reservations was forty-one votes only seven democrats voting with the republicans in the affirmative The vote against was fifty made up of democrats. Tonight's ralI call follows.
 THE ROLL CALL
 On the roll call twenty-one demo- crats broke away from the adnginis- tration ranks and voted for ratifica- tion.
 The ron call follows
 For the resolution: Repubiicans-- Ball, Calder, Capper, Colt. Curtis Dlt- lingham, Edge, Elkins, Frelinghuyssn. Hale, Jones (Washingtonl. Kellogg Kenyon. Reyes, Lenroot, Lodge. Nc Lean$ McNary, New, Page, Phipps Smoot. Spencer Sterling Sutherland, Wadsworth, Warren and Watson
 Republicans, 2S
 Democrats-Ashurs Beckham. Cham berlain, Fletcher. Gore. Henderson. Ken drick. King. Myers, Nugent, owen, Pitt- man. Phelan. Pomerene Ransdel. smith tGeorgia), Smith (Maryland,. Tramneil. Walsh (Massachusetts), Walsh (Mon- tanaJ and Wolcott--Jl.
 Total for ratification 49.
 Against Republicans-Borah. Brand- egee Fernald France. Gronna. Johnson. tCdiforna), Knox, LaFollette. Mccor- mick Moses, Norris and sherman-12.
 Democrats-C Comer Gulberson. Di5- 1-~.s' ~-'~~Df A'sfsA tH Athi iiroii. HITCHCOCK, Johnson (South Dakota. krby. McKet- lar. Overman, Reed Robinson, Sheppard. Shields, Simmons, Smith tSouth Caro- linal. Stanley, Swanson, Thomas, Under- wood and Williams-23.
 Total against--35.
 Twelve senators, nine republicans and three democrats, were paired ThreS re- pubiicans and one democrat were paired against ratification and six republicans. and two democrats in favor of ratidca- ton. The pairs follow:
 Senator's Newberry, republican, Michi- gan, and McCumber, republican, North Dakota, for ratification with Senator. Fall republican, New Mexico. against. Senators Nelson, republican, Minnesota and Senator Hardigs repnblica,t Dhlo. for ratification, with Senator Penrose, republican, Pennsylvania, against
 Senator Cummins, republican, Iowa. and Townsend, republican, Michigan, for rati- fication with Senator fPoindexter. repub- lican, Washington, against.
 Senators Garry, democrat. Rhode Island. and Jones, democrat, New Mexico. Tor ratification, with Senator Smith, demo- crat, Arizona, against.
 ASSAIL PRESIDENT
 In seven hours of debate preceding the vote republican leaders declared them selves ready to- take the issue to the people. From the democratic side several senators bitterly assaiied the President