New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-11
Democrats Two Attempts
ut Amending Reserva-
ton Fail; Republicans
Seem Sure of Victory
Williams Bitterly
PillOries Walsh
Warns BAY State Mem
ber He Can't Be Half
Irish, Half American
N~w York Tribune
Va h 'ngton Puredst

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.-Adminis-
tration Senators made two vain at
tempts to-day to alter the reservation
OH Article X Of the treaty drafted by
The Foreign Relations Committee,
which is almost Identical With one
which President Wilson has announced
ne would regard as rejection of the
Paris convention
The first effort to split the lna- -ority
o1 anti-Administration forces favoring
the reservation was beaten AS to 26.
ne second attempt had not reached
'ote when the Senate recessed tonight,
but it seemed doomed to failure.
speech against Article X by Sena
Tor Walsh, of Massachusetts. stung
senator John Sharp Williams into an
attack on the Massachusetts Senator
-'ir, Wa'shs words, 81 stand here as
the offspring OF one of the oppressed
aces of Eurobe." were taken by Mr..
Williams as text, on which he de-
clared that Mr.. Walsh had no RIGHT to
tand in the Senate as anything but ar
tmercan.
You cant be 100 per cent American
nd 100 per cent lrish," he declared.
ou cane even be 80 per cent Ameri-
can and 80 per cent Jrsh--the one
. would nullify the other and you would
not be anything at all"
Calls Williams to Account
After recalling Mr. Williams's fire.
lent boasts about his own ancestry,
iT. Walsh answered that he was pro-
esting merely as an American against
change in the long established policy
If the United States government which
"ould be brought about by Article X.
The first attempt to split the ma
'ollty for the Lodge reservations was
made by Senator Thomas. of Colorado
de offered as a substitute FOR the com
nittee reservation on Article X the
raft written last summer BY Senator
ticCumber of North Dakota
Right there the Administration lead
Is got tremendous jolt. They had
roped that MIR. McCu1nber. with per-
caps Senators Colt, Nelson, McNary
nd others of the mi rcservationist
Froup. would vote for this text They
Nnew that the mild reservationists ac-
tually preferred this text to the com
'1ittee draft, and the Administration
orces, plus the mild reservationists,
could muster q Majority of the Senate
McCumber Refuses Support
Mr.. McCumber dashed their hopes
ne lOiQ DIitUy HOW IdSL summer. WncE
he was trying to work out coventn
which would permit the ratification of
the treaty, the Democrats had scofed
at him, telling him they would ratify
the treaty without either amendments
or reservations. Their intolerant atti-
tude he said, had forced him TO deal
with the Republicans, and as result
the treaty was now in such shape that
1t could not be ratified at all except
with much stronger reservations than
could have been accepted last summer
The Democrats had lost their chance
Tor compromise, he said, and the COM
promise had now been written by Re
publioans, and was going through in
that form.
When the vote was taken Mr.. Nc
cumDer was borne out, for every Re-
publican Senator voted against the
substitution ,and they were Joined in
this vote by Senators Gore, Reed, Smith
Of Georgia and Walsh of Massachusetts.
from the Democratic side. The vote
was to SO. Senator Shields would
have voted with the majority had he
been present, so that as matter of
fact the Republicans could have lost
five mild reservationists and still saved
their reservation.
Senator Borah then made his at
Tempt TO strengthen the COMMITTEES
this morning, by leaving out all of the
reservation after the fiat statement
hat the United States assumes no OBJ
legation to preserve the territorial in
tegrity of league members under Ar
ticle X.
Plan Proposed by Walsh
This plan was proposed by Senator
Walsh. 1t was to be added to the
committee reservation, and provided
that as the United States was not
bound to 60 to the assistance Of other
league members in preserving their
territorial integrity, they would not be
expected by this country to aid the
United States should it be assailed.
lnis was in lin ewith a long speech
made by Senator Walsh during the
day, IN which he said it was unfair for
TINS country to expect to be aided by
the league, when it did not propose to
send troops anywhere to aid any other
league member. Then he added a sem
tence to his amendment providing that
the united States would not participate
IN the league council or assembly.
Then came the second attempt to
drive wedge into the majority com
mitted to the Lodge reservations. This
time the effort was to get the irrecon-
cilables to vote for an amendment 10
the reservation which would have made
1T so strong that the mild reservation
lists, and even some of the middle of
the road group, would have been com
PEELED TO vote against the whole reser
vation, thus insuring its defeat, as it
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