Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1921-07-02
Peace Plan
Completed
InCongress
Final Legislation to End State
OF War With Germany
Awaits Signature of
President.
Passes Senate, 38 to 1c
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Washington, July 1.-The war
with Germany and Austria is over,
so far as the congress of the United
States is concerned. The final legis-
lative action to end the conflict was
taken today and as soon as Prcsi-
dent Harding does his part, as he has
already pledged himself to do, peace
will be formally restored, approxi-
mately two and half years after
hcstilities ceased.
The conference report on the
peace resolution was adopted by the
senate today, by vote Of SO to lo,
| following favorable action on the
measure by the house yesterday. The
report was then sent back to the
house to be signed by the speaker
i'll regular session.
A moment later it was back again
before the senate where Vice Presi-
dent Coolidge attached his sigma
ture. 1t was then sent at once to
the White House. 1t probably will
be forwarded to President Harding
at the summer residence of Senator
Frelinghuysen in New Jersey.
May Delay Signature.
The reservation of peace may be an
accomplished fact tomorrow, al
though belief prevailed in some
quarters that the president might
withhold the formal proclamation of
peace until July 4th to give Inde-
pcndence day special significance
this year. -.
The resolution as finally adopted
by congress, merely declares the war
with Germany and Austria at all end
and reserves to the United States all
rights and privileges which this ma
ton would have obtained under the
treaty of Versailles. The provision
repeating the declaration of war was
stricken out because of the conten-
tion of house members that it might
be construed as a reputation of the
war.
The senate republicans, as usual,
presented solid front in favor of
the peace resolution. All of the 70
votes against it were cast by demo-
Gratis. Three democrats, Shields of
Tennessee, Walsh of Massachusetts,
and Watson of Georgia, supported
the resolution, while several others,
including Reed of Missouri, were
paired in favor of it.
Brandegee Attacks Plan.
The roll call was preceded by
hours of debate described by Sem
ator Brandegee of Connecticut, IS
'inconsequential, idle, fruitless and
unnecessary"
Most of the talking was done by
half a dozen democrats, who con-
tinued to protests against the reso-
luton as an unprecedented method
of making peace.
Senator Brandgee, one of the most
influential of the "irreconcilables,"
served notice that any attempt to re-
vive the treaty of Versailles, in
whole or in part, would be most Bit
terly contested. Resubmission of
the treaty, he declared, would be "an
untoward event"
Democratic senators wanted to
know if the American troops would
be brought back from Germany up
on the proclamation of peace.
1T is my hope and my expecta-
tion," said Senator Brandegee, THAT
the troops are to be returned from
Germany as soon as the president
signs this resolution. If the troops
are in Germany to enforce the terms
OF the Versailles treaty, as some of
my democratic colleagues have inti-
mated, then there is all the more rea-
son-and my desire for it is all the
greater-that they may be returned.
My hope is that America may get
back to peace status with Germany
and mind her own business as far as
Europe will allow us to do So"