DEAD WITHOUT HOPE OF REVIVAL

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 69, 22 March 1920, Page 7

DEAD WITHOUT HOPE OF REVIVAL

MOTION TO END STATE OF WAR.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—«)PTRIGHT.>

(AUSTRALIAN • NEW ZBAMND CABLB ASSOCIATION.

WASHINGTON, 19th Mafcsh,

> The Senate adopted a resolution to return the Treaty to President Wilson, with a notice that the Senate had failed to ratify it. The voting was 41 to 42..

The Senate rejected a. provision that the ratification was not binding unless • the President deposited it in Paris three months after the Senate had acted finally.

The debate on the ratification indicated an adverse vote,' 'Senators blaming each other for the Treaty's failure to pass.

WASHINGTON, 20th' March.

The Treaty has been returned to President Wilson, .with a notification .of its non-ratification accompanying it.

- Senator Knox has introduced a motion to repeal the declaration of war, and notifying Germany that unless she accepts all the undertakings contained in the Treaty, the President will be empowered to proclaim the prohibition of commercial intercourse between th&coun-

Following the Senate's rejection of the Treaty, a. lively' debate occurred oil Senator Bobinson's motion to reconsider the Treaty. The Democrats and mild Republican reservationists made strenuous efforts to obtain a vote on this motion, but the adjournment followed, when the motion 'was declared out ' of. order.

. The roll call revealed that 14 niore Democrats voted for the acceptance of the Treaty with : the Lodge reservations this time thail on the first vote. The roll call to:night showed that 21 Democrats and' 28 Republicans voted for ratification,- arid 23 Democrats and 12 Republicans voted against ratification. Senators, after' the adjournment, expressed the opinion that the Treaty was now dead, without a hope of revivification.-