Evening journal., 1921-10-19
PEACE EPACTS
PASS SENATE
Treaties With Germany,
Austria and Hungary
Finally Ratified
BALL AND DUPONT
FOR RATIFICATION

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19-The SEN
ate last night ratified the treaty Of
peace with Germany with the res
ervations reported by the foreign
relations committee.
The vote was Sc for ratification
and 20 against. or eight more than
the necessary two thirds majority.
Fourteen Democratic senators vot-
ed in favor of ratification and two
Republican senators, Borah. of Ida
no, and La Toilette, of Wisconsin.
voted against it. A third Repubh-
can senator. Norris. of Nebraska,
who was absent on account of sick
ness, 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 Hungary also was ratified. com
pleting the administrators imme-
diate peace program with the form
The fourteen Democratic support
ers of the treaty were: Ashurst.
Broussard, Dial. Fletcher, Gerry,
Hendricks. Myers owen, Pomerene,
Ransden, Shields. Trammen. Under
wood. Walsh, OF Mass. Two other
Democrats. Smith, of South Carolina.
and Hitchcock. of Nebraska, were
paired in favor Of ratification. other
Republicans were paired for ratih-
cation and other Democrats against.
Senators Ball and dupont OF Del
aware, voted for ratification.
Prior to the vote on ratification
Republicans and Democrats resisted
all attempts to amend the treaty or
the reservations reported by the for
eign relations committee.
The latter, which were adopted
without record vote. provide that
the United States shall not have
representation on the allied repara-
tions commission. or on any other
international agency without express
consent of Congress.
An effort TO substitute the treaty
OF Versailles with the twelve Lodge
reservations was also voted down,
50 10 26. The motion was made by
Senator King, Democrat. Utah. but
Senator Lodge. of Massachusetts. the
Republican leader, declared that the
substitute was not in order. the Yer
sailles treaty not being before the
Senate and moved to table the King
proposal The motion was support
ed by the solid Republican member
ship and five Democrats-Reed. Mis-
souri,: Shields, Tennessee; Walsh,
Massachusetts; Watson, Georgia, and
williams, Mississippi. The latter
based his opposition on the Lodge
/ reservations which he criticized Wig
orously.
Another reservation proposed by
| Senator McKellar. Democrat, Ten
nessee, providing that Germany
should acknowledge and accept full
responsibility for provoking the
war, was defeated, 66 to II. Sena-
tor McKellar said the pending treaty
did not fix Germany's guilt, but
Senator Lodge said it gave tnis ma
ton an option to claim such admis-
sion from Germany.
An amendment offered for Sena-
tor King, declaring against confis-
cation OF property of German citi-
zens. seized by the alien property
custodian, was rejected without a
roll call.
Prominent among the speakers to-
day were Senators Johnson, Repub-
Mcan, California; Hitchcock, Demo-
crat. Nebraska, and Pomerene, DEM
ocrat. Ohio. in favor OF ratification,
and Senator LaFollette, Republican,
Wisconsin, in opposition to such ac-
tion. Senator Johnson said he did
not hold the fears OF Senator Borah,
OF Idaho. and other 'irreconcila-
lbles" that the treaty would entangle
the United States in European af-
fairs. This danger. he declared
came principally from Secretary
Hughes.
The California senator said Mr.
Hughes had favored entering the
, League Of Nations, and also re-
, submission Of the Treaty OF Yer.
sailles to the Senate, but that hs
, relied upon President Harding tC
Z avoid European entanglements.
Senator Hitchcock. ranking Dem
n ocratic member. and former chair
n man Of the foreign relations com
n mittee. and Senator Pomerene, an
h other Democratic member. contend
d ed II was necessary TO establish
n peace by the Only method now pre-
sented. Both said they had urge'
ratification of the treaty of Versatile
but that the pending treaty offere'
e the only method OF effecting peace
Senator shortridge, Republican
= California. also urged ratification.
Senator Lafollette opposed tn
e treaty because 'fts ratification vii
involve this country in the quarrel
OF Europe for a period Of fort
years to come" He asserted that tn
people at the last two nations
elections had demanded that thi
A, government be kept free from Euro
pean dissensions and that attentio
10 be directed to domestic condition.
which he declared menace the sta
bility OF American democracy"
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