The  President  followed.  He  knew  of  the  statement  signed
by  the  39  senators,  namely:  *

Now,  therefore,  be  it  resolved  by  the  Senate  of  the  United  States
in  the  discharge  of  its  constitutional  duty  of  advice  in  regard  to
treaties,  that  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Senate  that,  while  it  is  the  sincere
desire  that  the  nations  of  the  world  should  unite  to  promote  peace
and  general  disarmament,  the  constitution  of  the  League  of  Nations
in  the  form  now  proposed  to  the  Peace  Conference  should  not  be  ac
cepted  by  the  United  States.
