The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1919-11-28
GO
THRU BY CLOTURE
Peace Treaty Propositions
Passed by hajorities Rang
ing From II to .22.
GAG RULE VOTE, 78 TO 16
Vice President says He Will Hold
Other Ratification Resolutions
May Be Taken Up if the
Present One Fails. :..

Washington.-At last clamping down
:ne lid on it's peace treaty debate, the
senate substituted action for discus
sion with vigor' THAT quickly adyanc-
ad the ratification fight into its final
stages.
Working under cloture for the first
time in history, the senate adopted the
reservations written by the foreign re-
,ations committee and set the parlia-
mentary stage for a decision or dead
,ock on the treaty. e.
Republican and Democratic leaders
worked together to invoke cloture,
oiling up a majority for it, which far
exceeded the two-thirds necessary for
adoption. In the count<of IS to 16, the
TWO parties contributed about evenly.
The rollcall over, however, and clo-
:ure a fact, the Republican managers
.ook complete charge and swept every
hing before them. Reservation after
reservation went through just as it
came from the committee, until the
Democrats apparently abandoned hope
Of making notifications and resigned
themselves to a passive resistance.
Majorities ranging from IL to %
marked adoption of ten reservations.
In every case except one the Re
oublicans voted solidly for the COM
mittee proposals They were. Joined
IN every ro1lcall by from four to nine
Democrats In all, an even dozen SEN
ators of the administration party
broke away during the day to vote for
reservations. The sole detection from
he Republican ranks was on the
Shantung reservation, Senator Nc
Cumber, of North Dakota, swinging
over to the opposition. -
The reservations adopted accom-
plished these things:
Effect of the Reservations.
Forbid acceptance of any man.
datory by the United States with
out the consent of congress.
Take away from the league Of
nations all jurisdiction over
American affairs, such as immi-
grafton, the tariff, labor, bounda-
ries and coastwise traffic.
Preserve the Monroe Doctrine
and refuseto submit to the league
any question relating to that doc
trine:
Repudiate the Shantung settle
ment and reserve full liberty of
action to the United States in any
dispute which may arise between
Japan and China under the terms
of that settlement.
Reserve to the United States
the right to veto any appointment
by the president of any Ameri-
can representative in the league
of nations. -. 49,.
Preyent interference with Amer
lean trade with. Germany by the :
reparations commission, except by
the approval: Of congress. :'~@ .
Refuse to permit the expendi-
ture of American money by. the .
league, except when. regularly .ap-: :.
propriated by, the, congress. - -,
Reserve to the United States
the right to increase its armament
at anytime without: the consent
of the league in case Of threatened -
invasion. -
Permit the United States to ex-.
arcise its own discretion in the (
mattersof boyeottng, the: nation
ais Of covenant breaking states
residing within the United States.
Safeguard the rights of Ameri-
can shareholders in German own. :
ed concerns seized in the United
States during the war. -
Not the least significant of the de
yelopments,, in the view of senator's
looking forward to a complex parlia-
mentary snarl before final action on
the treatyais reached, was ruling b.
Vice President Marshall just: preced-
ing the cloture< vote@ :He held that.
should the administration senators
vote down ratification with reserva-
tions, as they threatened to do, they
will have opportunity later to get ac-
ton on a compromise ratification reso-
luton.
Senator Lodge served notice that Ii.
would appeal from the decision Of the
chair.
The Democrats will thus be faced
with a dilemma. If they decide to
vote down the Lodge reservations they
cannot be certain that these votes will
not really mean the death Of the
treaty so far as the United States is
concerned.