SENATE FIASCO

Evening Post, Volume XCIX, Issue 71, 24 March 1920, Page 6

SENATE FIASCO

BITTER AMERICAN COMMENT , "LODGE AND THE TREATY- "* KILLERS" CRIME AGAINST THE COUNTRY ' AND THE WORLD. (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPTRI6HT.) (REUTERS TEIEQRAU.) (Received March 24, 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, 20th March. "The defeat of tKe Treaty is a colossal crime against the I country and the world," said Mr. W. J. Bryan, in a speech. "The action was the more disgraceful because the rejection of the Treaty was reached by a union of the Democrats and the irreconcilables whom Democrats had previously denounced. Congress should fieclare the war at an end. Those who believe that President Wilson may run again for the Presidency argue that it would be'logical for him to come forward now on a- Treaty ratifica- ; tion platform, with the plea- that .the Treaty is greater than politics or'thirdterm traditions." The New York World states that the commanding prestige which the United States won in the warlia-s been frittered away. The New, York Times says Senator Lodge might have secured^ ratification of the Treaty with reservations for every reasonable purpose. The reservations were not obviously intended as dagger thrusts. He has been beaten at his own despicable and deadly game. Upon him the responsibility falls. ■. The Tribune says the defeat is a tragedy, the poignancy of which is intensified by the sordidness of the final scene. The country beholds its President wrecking a great for no better reason than that he could not unconstitutionally have his way.

The Boston Post asks: "What next? Something must be done to end the grotesque situation."

The Chicago Journal says, "Senator Lodge and the Treaty-killers are responsible partly for the revolutionary plot which has just failed in Germany. If Bolshevism follows, he will be responsible." . . -

[An interesting article on President Wilson's* attitude regarding the Peace Treaty, Jbis dispute with Mr. Robert Lansing, a-nd Mr. Lansing's resignation of the Secretaryship of State, appears on page 4.] , .