Evening star., 1919-11-15

The cloture stands, under +
which the Senate accepted, as re
has been disposed of either by
the foreign relations committee
Senate that he will not consent to
The Vice President further h
luton of ratification would not, |
being brought up in the hope OF
jority desired it.
Quoting from the Constitution. the
Vice President held that the right OF
the Senate to advise and consent IN
the making of treaties should not be
taken away. by any strained construc-
tion of Senate rules.
Vote Was 70 to 16.
%. AS long as a majority of sena-
tors want to try to ratify in some
way" said the Vice President. "the
majority of the Senate has the power
so to act. Adoption of the cloture
rule will not prevent a majority from
attempting to ratify the treaty IN
some way, although it will end the
debate within the time provided py
the rule"
The vote on adopting the cloture
was 7S to 16. The roll call follows:
Against adoption-Republic Bo-
rah, Brandegee. France, Gronna, John-
son (CaIifornia), Knox, La Toilette.
Mccormick. Penrose, Poindexter ana
Sherman; II. Democrats, Gore, KING.
Pomerene, Reed and Shields; S. Total
against, 16. r. ..e,:.&
pvte for Adoption Of cloture.
For adoption-Republicans: Ball.
Calder. Capper, Colt Cutnp1ins. Curtis.
Dillingham;. Edge. Elsihs. Fernald. Frel-
inehysen, Hale, Harding. Jones Wash-
ington), Kellogg. Kenyon. Keyes,
Lenroot, Lodge. Mccumber. Mclean.
McNary, Moses. Nelson. New. New
berry, Norris Page, Phipps. Smoot,
Spencer, Sterling, Sutherland. Town
send, Wadsworth, Warren and Wat
son-37.
Beckham. Chamberlain, Culberson,
Dial. Fletcher. Gay, Garry. Harris
Harrison, Hend derson, Hitchcock Jonh-
son (South Dakota). Jones New mex
ico), Kendrick, Kirby. Mckeliar. MY
ers. Nugent. ,oyesman,, Owen Owen; Fssaan shen.
na nd. simmons, Smith {Arizona),
Smitb SGeorgia), Smith (Maryland),
Smith 1South Caro1ina). Stanley.
Swanson, Thomas, Trammeii. pnoer
wood walsh (Montana). Walsh mas
"a chusetts), Williams and Wolcott-
Al.
senator FAN, republican. New Mexi-
CO, did not vote.
Mr.. La Toilette 0verruled.
A parliamentary jam developed
,vhen vice President Marshall under
took to state his construction OF tne
cloture rule, Senator La Foilette' repuo-
Iican. Wisconsin, made a point OF Or
der. contending that the chair snouio
put the motion.
tor la Toilette appealed from the de-
cision. and Senator Ashurst, democrat,
Arjzona. moved to lay the appeal on
the table.
the Vice Presidents ruling was Ia
bled. 81 to 80, all OF the latter aag oeing
Joined the democrats in
the Vice President.
Mr.. Hitchcock's Substitute.
Whom the Senate met Democratic
,eader Hitchcock presented several
for committee reserva-
ions so as to have them within the
ru1es. which provide that no amend
ments or substitutes can be offered
once cloture becomes effective.
Among the measures Senator Hitch
.ock presented was a resolution for
without reservations. He
out in also a ratification resolution
embodying "as part of the ratifica-
ion" the five substitute reservations
offered by him several days ago.
Those reservations provide:
That the United States would be the
sole Judge whether its obligations
we're fulfilled if it withdrew from
eague membership.
That no question which the United
States considers domestic in character
coufd come before the league.
That the Monroe doctrine should not
That the councils recommendations
under article 10 shall be considered as
merely advice"
That no dominion or colony shall vote
n any league dispute to which any sis
er dominion or colony is party.
Substitute for Article <.
In addition, Senator Hitchcock pre-
sented a new substitute for the ar
icle x reservation already adopted
United States ''does not assume any
,blieations regarding the articles
guarantees until in any particular
case Congress shall SO provide.
Notice was given by Senator Hitch
cock that he would later move to
strike out the preamble requirement
hat the reservation must be accepted
oy three great powers.
"Keep Tab' on Senators Talk.
Actual operation of the cloture rule
struck the Senate as great novelty.
'Tnder instructions from the Vice
PRESIDENT and Secretary Sanderson.
he, executive clerk. was assigned to
keep tab ,on senators talking time.
u splft second watch was used. but
.ntrieg Of time used were made oppo-
lite each senator's name on a roll
all sheet. q minute being the small
Time taken for parliamentary I'm
,uiries, or. in fact. any time under a
minute. was not counted against SEN
The Vice President ruled on an in