Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1921-05-05
SENATE DECLARES
WAR At AN END
Knox Resolution Is Passed and
Goes to House.
HARDING WILL o. K. MEASURE
Republicans Present Solid Front in
Support of the Bill, the Vote Be-
ing 40 to 23-Formal Treaty
With Germany in Sight.

Washington, May 2.-Tne senate. by
vote Of 40 to %, adopted the Knox
resolution declaring the war with Ger
many and Austria formally at an end.
| The measure was sent to the house.
| President Harding has already indi-
Gated that he will sign the resolution
without delay.
In the senate vote the Republicans
presented a solid front in support of
| the resolution. The only Republican
who declared himself in opposition to
| the measure-SenatOr Nelson of Min
nesota-was paired" so that his
name doesn't appear in the official roll
call.
Reserves U. S. Rights Under Treaty.
An amendment by Senator Town
send of Michigan, amending the Ian
guage of the resolution, was defeated,
4 to 26. Senator Sterling of South
Dakota was persuaded by Republican
leaders not to offer his amendment
declaring the support of the United
States for the allied position in the
The Knox resolution repeats the
declarations of war against Germany
and Austria and declares the war for
mally ended. It reserves all the rights
obtained by the United States under
the terms Of the Versailles treaty.
Senator Lodge, the Republican lead
er, announced that the adoption of
the resolution undoubtedly would be
followed by a treaty with Germany.
At the same time he pictured the diff
fculties of ratifying the Versailles
treaty without the League of Nations,
as suggested by President Harding in
his annual address in congress, as
we'll nigh insuperable
Senator Borah of Idaho followed
this with statement that it would be
infinitely worse to ratify the Yer.
sailles treaty proper than the league
covenant.
Lodge Predicts New Treaty.
Senator Lodges prediction of a new
treaty came out in the debate when
Senator Shields of Tennessee, Demo
crat, had declared it impossible to
separate the league covenant from the
treaty.
us it to be supposed" asked Sena-
tor Lodge, ''that we are to go OH in a
condition of technical war?
'"The allies did not ask our leave
TO make their peace. They cannot ex-
Dect us to remain at war while they
are all at peace.
"And as we choose to make peace by
this resolution and by a treaty with
Germany, which probably Will follow,
we surely are not deserving them.7
One Way to Kill League.
1.-THE authority of the League Of
Nations so permeates and so honey
combs the Versailles treaty that it is
impossible to have it exist without
the league" said Senator Shields.
'"Thus the infirmities involved in the
covenant of tie League of Nations af
fected the treaty to such an extent as
TO make the document-the treaty
prope-incurably bad, and the only
possible thing TO do is 20 scrap the
entire document. AS to the resolution
having that effect / have been Of the
opinion that thai. was the object of
it, That is why I am going to vote
for it."
"The covenant is so interviewed
and invofved,' Senator Lodge agreed,
chat it will require on the best cal
culation that I have been able to make
at least y amendments to The treaty
of Versailles to get the league out of
it, and when we have got it out moth
ing but the shell remains"