Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-18
TWO MORE FALL
AMENDMENTS TO
treaty beaten
Only Two More Changes Pro.
posed by Committee to Be
Acted On.

q record vote, the senate today threw
out two more of the amendments
written into the peace treaty by the
foreign relations committee.
| The two amendments had been in
troduced by Senator Fall of New
Mexico, republican, and had as their
/ common purpose curtailment of the
power of the American representative
on the reparation commission, an in
ternational body set up by the peace
treaty to fix and collect Germany's
reparation bill.
The vote came sooner than had
been expected, the leaders agreeing
to it as part of a plan to complete
the consideration of amendments as
soon as possible so that the senate
might get down to the real work of
drafting ratification resolution.
Only two of the committees 46
amendments now remain to be con-
sidered and it is hoped to bring them
to vote early next week. Both re-
late to equalization of voting strength
in the league of nations.
| Action on the two Fall amendments
came near the end of session which
had been enlivened by sharp debate
over the dispath of American troops
to Europe for service in connection
with the Silesian prebiscite and by a
new move from administration quar-
! tiers to meet the objections of Irish
Americans to the league covenant.
Some progress also was made in the
formal reading of the treaty text, and
the foreign relations committee took
under advisement an offering from
| Col. E. M. House to appear before it.
/ - r,sl L. u l1n1r,
in the senate chamber as the time for
preached. AS the question was put,
braska, the administration leader,
asked Senator Fall whether it was
his purpose to request a roll call, and
it would be useless, since he realized
the measures would be beaten. In
quick succession the two votes then
were taken by reclamation, no one
asking for count.
Irish Case Introduced.
The only speeches made on the
amendments were by Senator Fall ard
by Senator Kellogg, republican, of
Minnesota, who argued that the pur-
pose could be served sufficiently by
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day various other features of the
treaty and the peace negotiations
were discussed, Senator Brandegee,
republican, of Massachusetts,, and
Wadsworth, republican, Of New York,
attacking the despatch of troops for
Silesian duty, and Senator Hitchcock,
and Senator Nelson, republican, of
Minnesota, defending the action.
The move to further Ireland's cause
in the league was made by Senator
Walsh, democrat, of Montana, who
introduced resolution expressing it
as the sense of the senate that once
the league is organized, the United
States should bring before it, under
article II, the right of the Irish peo-
pie to self government. It was this
article which permits any member
state to call attention to any condi-
ton threatening the peace of the
world, which President Wilson re-
peatedly quoted on his western trip
as holding out hope for subject peo-
pies, and embodying his views on the
Irish question.
In their reading Of the treaty text,
a formality required by senate rules,
the senate clerks about completed
during the day the first half of their
task. Most of the time they were
droning away with an audience of
less than half dozen senators, and
when they resumed in filled cham
Der after the vote on the Fall amend
ments, their voices were drowned out
so effectively that Senator Robinson,
democrat, of Arkansas, asked that
they "be called to order so as not to
interfere with the conversation on the
floor" The reading will be resumed
tomorrow and the leaders hope to
complete it during the day.