The Senate on Saturday last adopted, by sixty votes to
one, a resolution asking the American Peace Commission to secure a hearing for the Sinn Feiners before the Peace Conference, and expressing its " aympathy with the aspirations of the Irish people for the Government of its own choice." We must not interpret this unexpected resolution too literally. Senator Lodge, who has done much to improve the relations between Great Britain and America, voted for the resolution on the ground that, as the League of Nations would interfere with the Monroe Doctrine, the Senate might ea well show its power to interfere in other peoples' business. That is logical, certainly, and illustrates the .difficultias .which must attend the working of a League of Nations in this very iinperfect world. But the
action of the Senate is none the lees certain to mislead the Irish public, who are singularly unversed in affairs.
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