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Show REJECT PEACE PACT AT GLOSIKGSESSION LODGE RESERVATIONS AND UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE DECISIVELY VOTED DOWN. Resolution Proposing That Congress Declare the War With Germany at an End is Sidetracked. War-time Regulations to be Continued. Washington. Failing after three attempts at-tempts to ratify tlie peace treaty, the senate on November 10 laid It aside, ended the special session and went home. The first vote on the resolution stood 39 for to 55 against. On tlie second vote, taken after several hours of parliamentary par-liamentary wrangling, in which tlie Democrats made vain efforts to win over some of the Republican group of mild reservationists, forty-one senators sen-ators voted in the affirmative and fifty-one in the negative. The third vote was on straight-out ratification without reservations, which got only 38 votes to 53 opposing it. Only one Republican, Senator McCum-ber McCum-ber of North Dakota, voted with tlie Democrats in its support. Republican Leader Lodge declared that the voting constituted a final decision de-cision on the peace treaty unless President Presi-dent Wilson circumvented the senate rules by withdrawing it and then submitting sub-mitting it again to the senate. In other quarters there was much difference of opinion, but the general sentiment seemed to be that there was only a slender chance that the treaty would come up at the beginning of the next session of congress, beginning next month. One effect of the senate's failure to ratify the treaty will be the continuation con-tinuation of various war-time laws and regulations at least until the new-session new-session opens. Among these is the war-time prohibition act. The resolution presented to declare a state of peace will come up at the beginning of the new session and is expected to start another stubborn fight. The administration is understood under-stood to be opposed to such a method of legally ending the war and in the background is n constitutional nnes- tion as to whether congress can do so by a resolution not requiring the president's presi-dent's signature. As soon as the Lodge resolution was voted down the second time the senate sen-ate began voting on an unreserved ratification resolution presented by Senator Underwood, Democrat, Ala: bama. Unreserved ratification also was defeated, de-feated, the mild reservation Republicans Republi-cans voting against it. After disposing of the treaty, Senator Sena-tor Lodge introduced a resolution proposing pro-posing that congress declare the war with Germany at an end. It was suggested among the Democratic Demo-cratic senators that President Wilson might be asked to feel out the other powers as to their attitude on reservations reser-vations with the idea of bringing the treaty to some sort of a ratification after congress reassembles. |