THE PEACE TREATY.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12019, 24 March 1920, Page 5

THE PEACE TREATY.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Washington, March 20. Senator Lodge has issued the following statement: —‘.‘The Treaty is gone. It has been rejected by the Senate and sent back to the President, and if he chooses to return it it will have to go through the same process as before. If President Wilson desires to make it an issue in the Presidential campaign, the Republicans are willling to meet the issue.” Senator Hitchcock states: ‘‘The result was what I expected. The Treaty is now before the President, and if there is to he further action he must take the initiative. ” It is pointed out that even if the Senate on Monday adopts Senator Knox’s resolution declaring war between Germany and the United States ended, President Wilson may ignore the resolution on the grounds that the. constitution empowers the President only to proclaim cessation of hostilities. There is a feeling that the United States has been isolated by the Senate’s rejection of the Treaty. The United States may probably now withdraw from the Turkish settlement. Nobody seems to know what action President Wilson will take. The United States has no diplomatic consular officers in Germany, Hungary or Austria, and thus is unable to conduct diplomatic business relations with these countries. Negotiations for a new Treaty would take a long_ time. Meanwhile American trade with the Central Empires is suffering. Received March 24, 9 a.m. New York, March 20 Press comment on the Treaty defeat is generally bitter throughout the nation. The newspapers are not agreed on the culpability, the matter being reviewed according to their partisan feelings.