Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1921-05-05
WAR IS ENDED,
SENATE VOTES
Passes the Knox Resolution and
Sends 1t On to the
House.
PRESIDENT WILL SIGN BILL
Vote Stood 49 to %, Republicans Pre-
senting Solid Front in Support
Of Measure-Forma Treaty
With Germany Likely.

Washington, May 2.--The senate, by
a 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-Senato Nelson of Min
nesOta-was paired" so that his
name doesn't appear in the official roll
call.
Reserves v. S. Rights Under Treaty.
An amendment by Senator Town
send Of Michigan, amending the Ian
guage of the resolution, was defeated,
4 to 90 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
reparations controversy.
The Knox resolution repeats the
declarations of war against Germany
and Austria and declares the war for
mally ended. 1t 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
tho rocoIutinn undouhtadIy ,uo,,Id no
followed by 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
well nigh insuperable.
Senator Borah of Idaho followed
this with a statement that ii would be
infinitely worse to ratlfy the Yer
sailles treaty proper than the league
covenant.
Lodge Predicts New Treaty.
Senator Lodges prediction of new
treaty came out In the debate when
Senator Shields of Tennessee, Demo
crat, had declared 1t impossible TO
separate the league covenant from the
treaty.
rs II to be supposed" asked Sena-
tor Lodge, that we are TO go on in
condition of technical war?
"The allies did not ask our leave
90 make their peace. They cannot ex-
Iect us to remain at war while they
are all at peace.
and Is we choose to make peace by
this resolution and by treaty with
Germany, which probably will follow,
we surely are not deserving them"
One Way to Kill League.
THE authority of the League of
combs the Versailles treaty that II is
impossible TO have II exist without
the league" said Senator Shields.
"Thus the iniirmlties involved In the
covenant of the League of Nations af-
fected the treaty To such an extent as
70 make the document-the treaty
PROFESSIONALLY bad, and the only
possible thing to do Is to scrap the
entire document. AS To the resolution
having that effect | have been of the
opinion that that was the object of It,
That Is why l am going to vote for
H."
1.-THE covenant is so intertwined and
involved" Senator Lodge agreed,
"that II will require on the best cal
culation that have been able to make
at Least - amendments 10 the treaty
of Versailles to get the league ont of
II, and when we have got IL out moth.
ing but the shell remains"