Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1919 — G. O. P. FIGHTS WILSON [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. FIGHTS WILSON

Republican Senators Issue Ulti- . matum on League Plans. Resolution Signed by 37 Members— Demand Peace First, Then World pnion Action. Washington, March 4.—Thirty-seven of the forty-nine Republican members of the senate in the next congress, which will ratify the peace treaty, served notice on the president and the peace conference that they cannot support the league of nations constitution in its present form. A resolution supported by these Republican holdover senators and senator's elect, which was offered in the senate by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican leader, declared that the league constitution, as submitted by President Wilson “should not be accepted by the United States,” and called upon the peace conference to conclude pence at once with the enemy and reserve the peace .league plan for later “careful and serious consideration.” The declaration is virtually an ultimatum to President Wilson on the eve of his departure for Paris to segregate the league of nations consttution from the peace treaty if he desires a prompt ratification of the treaty of peace by the Republican senate of the next congress. The votes of the 37 Republican senators who signed the declaration w’ould be sufficient to prevent ratification of the treaty by the requisite two-thirds majority. When Senator Lodge offered this resolution, Senator Martin, Democratic leader, and Senator Swanson, Democratic member of the foreign relations committee, promptly objected to its consideration, which would have been possible under the rules only by unanimous consent. Senator Lodge replied he realized It would be impossible to obtain consideration of the resolution in the few remaining hours of this congress, but said he desired to state that it had the support of a large number of members of the present and of the next senate.