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SENATE RATIFIES
GERMAN TREATY
Also Passes Peace Document
VIII austria and Hungary.
ALL AMENDMENTS VETOED
Reservations Reported by Foreign Re-
Iatons Committee Are Adopted.
johnson Hits at Hughes.

Wa>hingI"n Oct. l".-Thr senate
ratified the treaty OF peace with Ger
many with The reservations reported
by the foreign relations committee.
The vote wa> &C for ratification 10
20 against. or eight more than the ne
cessary tWo-thirds majority. Four
teen Democratic senators voted i'll ia
vOr of ratitirutiOn, and two RepublI-
can senators, Borah, of Idaho, and La
Toilette. of Wisconsin,, voted against
it, \ third Republican. Senator Nor
riS. of Nebraska, who was absent on
account of sickness, WaS paired
against the treaty.
Soon afterwards the senate ratified
the peace treaty with Austria by the
same vote Another and similar peace
treaty with Hungar! also was ratified,
completing the administrations inn
mediate peace program with the for
mer Central Powers.
Prior to The vote ON ratification of
the German treaty Republicans and
Democrats resisted all attempts 70
amend the treaty or the reservations
reported by the foreign relations com
mittee.
The latter. which were adopted with
out record vote, provide the United
States shall not have representation
on the allied reparatiOnS comlnlS>ionS
or on any other international agency
without expressed consent of congress.
An effort to substitute the treaty Of
ii 7 nJl1
tons was also voted down. % to -.
The motion was made by Senator
King, Democrat, Utah, but Senator
Lodge, Massachusetts, Republican
leader. said the substitute was not in
order. the Versailles treaty NOT being
before the senate and moved to table
the King proposal.
The motion was supported by the
solid Republican membership and five
DemocratS-Reed. Missouri: Shields.
Tennessee: Walsh. Massachusetts:
Watson, Georgia, and Williams, Mis-
Sissippi. The latter BAKED his opposi-
ton on the Lodge reservations. which
he criticised vigorously.
Another reservation proposal b.
Senator McKeller Democrat. TemeS-
see. providing Germany should ack-
nowledge and accept full responsible
ity for provoking the war was defeat
ed. &c to u Senator McKeller said
the pending treaty did not tx Ger
many's guilt, but Senator Lodge said
it gave this nation an option to claim
such admission from Germany.
An amendment offered for Senator
King, declared against contiscatiOn
of property of German citizens, SeiZ-
ed by the alien property custodian.
was reje ctcd. without a roll call
Prominent among the speakers were
Senators Johnson. Republican, Cali
fornia Hitchcock. Democrat. Nehras-
ka. and Pomerene, Democrat. Ohio, in
favor of ratification, and Senator La
Toilette. Republican. Wisconsin, in on-
position.
Senator Johnson said he did not
hold the fears of Senator Borah, OF
Idaho, and other "irreconcilableS" that
the treaty would entangle the United
States in European affairs. This dan
ger. he asserted, came principally from
Secretary Hughes.
The California senator said Hughes
had favored entering the league of ma
tons and also resubmisSion of the
treaty of Versailles to the senate. but
that he relied upon President Hard
ing to avoid European entanglements.
The California senator served no.
tice if an endeavOr was made ito take
Us into the Preparations commission |
shall be no less active or irreconcil-
able than in the contest which was
finally won before the American people
themselves"
IF congress is no longer responsrrt-
10 the people" Senator Johnson con-
Guided. 1--WE may despair of democ-