sess., p.9     ; Henry St. George Tucker, Limitations
 
on the Treaty-Making Power (1915) 342, 358-357.)
 
     In August 1919 Senator Fall of New Mexico presented the following question to President
Wilson:    "In your judgment, have you not the power and authority, by proclamation, to declare
in appropriate words that peace exists and thus restore the status of peace between the
Governments and peoples of this country and those with whom we declared war?" The President
replied' "I feel constrained to say . . . not only that in my judgment I have not the power by
proclamation to declare that peace exists, but that I could in no circumstances consent to take
such a course prior to the ratification of a formal treaty of peace." (58 Cong. Rec. Pt. 4, pp. 4178,
4177.)
 
     The question of the procedure for terminating war was raised by House Joint Resolution
327 of May 21, 1920 intended to repeal the joint Resolution of April 6, 1917 declaring a state of
war to exist between the United States and Germany, and the Joint Resolution of December 7,
1917 declaring a state of war to exist between the United States and the Austro-Hungarian
Government, and to declare a state of peace. (59 Cong. Rec. Pt. 7, p. 7423.)
 
     The resolution was vetoed by President Wilson on May 27 on the ground that it did not
"accomplish any of these objects" for which the United States had entered
the war. He stated:
                                                  " .........I have