Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1920-03-21
FATEFUL TREATY
FINDS HAVEN OF
PEACE At LAST
Returns to White House
After Stormy Senate
Career = Will Probably
Have a Nice Long Rest
Before Fight Resumes
[Republican A. p. Leased wireJ

lhcpuDtlCdH ~ r. Leased wire
WASHINGTON, March 2O-After a
troubled eight months sojourn in the
senate, the treaty with Germany was
back in the keeping of President Will
son tonight with note appended say
ing that ratification had been refused.
What the presidents next move
would be remained conjectural. White
house officials declined to comment.
The general feeling of officials else
where about the Capitol, however was
that Mr.. Wilson probably would let
the treaty lie on his desk %hile the
bitter controversy it has raised is
fought out in the political campaign.
The treaty was taken back to the
White house early in the day by a
bevy of officials and messengers from
the senate in pursuance of an order
adopted last night after a fourth vote
on ratification had failed to muster
the necessary two thirds. = was de-
livered to Secretary TumuIty. who re-
ceipted for it in the name of the presi-
dent.
Will Try to Declare State of Peace
Scarcely had the bulky document
passed physically out of the Capitol
building when some of the senators
who worked for ratification began
movement to recall it and try once
more for a compromise. However, the
prediction of leaders on both sides was
that no proposal for, another recon-
sideration ever would take serious
form.
The unsettled state of senate opin-.
ion. nevertheless. had the effect or
slowing up the plans of the republican
leaders for passage of declaration
of peace. and ii was decided after
many conferences that the resolution
for that purpose probably would not
be urged before late next week Pre-
viously the purpose has been to pring
it up Monday and press il for early
action
In making this decision the majority
managers in the senate are under
stood to have been influenced in part
BY undetermined factors in the house,
which also would have to act on
peace resolution and whose leaders
baIked at a similar proposal last Qe-
cember Most of the ranking mem
hers of the house foreign affairs COM
mittae, in whose hands the peace res
oIution vxouid fall. were out of town
and had not informed their associates
of their attitude
Moves for Declaration
During the day the senate was not
in session. but the question OF peace
declaration was raised in the mouse
nv Representative Tinkham. repuDnc-
an. Massachusetts, Who introduced
declaratory resolution and nad IL re-
ferred without debate TO the 1orelsn
affairs committee I'm its general pro-
yisions If follows the resolution or
senator Knox. republican, Pennsylva-
MIA which is backed by the republican
senate leaders. Both provide Tor re-
neaf of the declaration of war, for Ger
tain settlements with Germany anu
for declaration of international
policy 4;,,, :.
Until some affirmative actlon
taken by congress or the president 10
end the war status legally, the teen
nica1 position of the country reIhdl1s'
officials saw just what 1T was the DAY
the arnistice was signed War iegis-
Iation continues in force and under the
war department Interpretation VI thc
situation the president retains ms war
powers as commander In chleI 70 heep
American troops at whatever posts IN
Germany he thinks necessary 10 en-
force the armistice terms
The president has expressed en-
obatic disapproval of securing teen
,icaI peace status by any method ex-
-ept ratification of the treaty Sena-
fors generally do not believe he mas
altered that position and the repuoh-
.an senate leaders confidently expect
that if they pass a peace resolutloiI
he will veto it. They hope, however,
to secure enough democratic support
to reDass it in both houses by the nee
essarv two-thirds majority.
Rush Pact TO White House
senate officials who have had physi-
cal custody of the treaty since July
30 when President Wilson himself
carried it into the senate chamber, lost
no time today in obeying the manuate
to return it to the White House Ac-
companied by several messengers.
George A. Sanderson. secretary OF the
senate. took it to the executive or
f;ces bright and early this morning,
and had to wait nearly an hour before
Mr. Tumulty appeared TO sign LOT IL
The big volume, wrapped IN pro"I
naper and bound up with red tape, at
first was taken into the office OF Ru-
dolph Forster. executive clerk OF the
white House, but Mr.. Sanderson de-
clined to leave it until he had re-
ceipt signed by the secretary to the
president When Mr.. Tumulty arrived
he went for a talk with the president.
Almost an hour elapsed before he
returned to find the treaty on his
desk and Mr.. Sanderson and his as
sistants waiting
LET IL Lie Here"
After the receipt had been signed. /
one of the messengers took up the 1
treaty to hand it to Secretary Tu- i
multy. but the latter demurred
Let it lie there" said Mr.. Tumulty,
and the delegation from the senate
departed
Three courses are open to Mr.. Will I
son. He can return the treaty to the
senate. in which case the republican I
leaders declare it will be pigeonhoied
indefinitely; he can do nothing, while /
he waits for the verdict of the people
in the political campaign, or he can
treat the treaty dead letter, so
far as international diplomacy is con-
cerned, and proceed 10 negotiate I
separate peace with Germany, a step /
which he alone under he constitution +
could initiate.
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