PEACE TREATY.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15978, 21 November 1919, Page 2

PEACE TREATY.

U.S. SENATE'S ACTION, Australian aid N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November 20. The Senate rejected the ratification resolution • with out reservations, and then adjourned eine die. UNITED STATES RESERVATIONS. WASHINGTON, November 18. The Senate rejected a reservation providing that the United States shall not be bound by any treaty provision beyond her obligations to 00-belligerents and humanity which are to the Constitution. The Senate adopted a reservation stipulating that Congressional assent is needed for the participation of the United States in the labour provisionsof the Treaty. PARTIES STILL MANOEUVRING. WASHINGTON, Nov, 19. The Democrats hope to defeat ratification With reservations, and to force another vote on the plain issue of ratification. The Republicans are reported to he ready to offer the Democrats, if they will accept the reservations, that a "proviso he inserted allowing the Powers to accept them by not objecting to them. Congress has begun the formal debate on ratification. President Wilson, in a letter to the Democratic Senators, advised voting against the treaty with reservations as they involved the treaty's nullification, BOLIVIA RATIFIES. > LA PAZ, Nov. 17. Bolivia has ratified the Peace Treaty. ♦