REJECTED.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1920, Page 7

REJECTED.

SENATE RETURNS TREATY. RATIFICATION NOT AGREED TOMOVE TO END STATE OF WAR. By Telegraph.—Prear Assn.—Copyright. Received March 21, 5.5 p.m. Washington, March 19. The Senate adopted a resolution to return the Treaty to President Wilson with notice that the Senate had failed to ratify it. A further motion was introduced into the Senate recommending it to reconsider tho rejection of the Treaty, but Mr. T. R. Marshall (the Deputy President) ruled it out of order. Ratification of the Treaty was defeated owing to the attachment of the KepubljiQan reservations, the requisite two-thirds majority not being obtain-' ed. The vote was thirty-nine to forty-five-Before the adjournment of the Senate, Senator Knox introduced a motion declaring war between the United States and Germany has ended. The motion was tabled and will be taken up on Monday.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RELATIONS WITH GERMANY. THE TREATY MUST BE ENFORCED. Received Ma:eh 21, 5.5 p.m. "Washington, March 20The Treaty has been returned to President Wilson with a notification of its ticn-rat iiication accompanying it. Ssnatoi Knox introduced a motion to rj'jeal the declaration of war, and notifying Germany that unless she accepts all the undertaking's contained in the Treaty, the President will be empowered to proclaim prohibition of commercial intercourse between the countries Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. "THE TREATY NOW DEAD." REVIVAL REPORTED HOPELESSReceived March 21, 5.5 p.m. ■ Washington, March 20. Following tlie Senate's rejection of the Treaty, a lively debate occurred on Senator Robinson'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. A. roll call revealed that fourteen more Democrats voted for acceptance of the Treaty with the Lodge reservations this time than voted on the first vote. A roll call to-night showed that twentyone Democrats and twenty-c-ight Republicans voted for ratification, and twenty-three Democrats and twelve Republicans voted against ratification. Senators, after the adjournment, expressed the opinion that the Treaty was now dead, without hope of revivi-fication.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.