THE AMERICAN SENATE.
A CORRESPoNnENT in New York writes to say that remarks by a writer of a letter which appeared in our columns were not fair to Senator Lodge and the majority of the Senate in the matter of the Covenant and the Treaty of Versailles. He makes his complaint in the following terms, which we are glad to publish :— " After the Senate rejected the Treaty and Covenant, and it had been returned to the President, Senator Lodge moved to bring it back before the Senate for further dissassion. Then he proposed ratification with certain reservations, which his Committee on Foreign Relations adopted, or approved, so that they went to the Senate, where they were discussed, with such suceccs that when on March 19th, 1820, -the Senate took its final vote for ratification with those reservations, twenty-three Democratic Senators voted for it, including Senator Underwood, Democrat, the newly elected minority leader. Mr. Wilson controlled more than one-third of the voting Senators, headed by Senator Hitchcock, and he thus defeated ratification in the only form in which it then could be ratified."
We certainly had no intention of throwing any reflection editorially upon Senator Lodge or the majority in the Senate. It cannot be made too clear that we are not editorially responsible for the opinions expressed in the letters we publish and that we do not favour correspondence which favours our views. The exact opposite is the ease. We give the prefer- ence to letters which challenge and oppose our own views.
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