The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-11
'ENATE BUSHES
TREATY ACTION
)reign Relations Committee
Votes 9 to 7 to Amend
Article Ten.
|DO?7 -FOUR RESERVATIONS
'esolution of Ratification Provides
That All Must Be Accepted by at
Least Three of the Five Prin-
clpaI Allied Powers.

Washington, Sept 6.-The peace
#eaty was ordered reported to the
Sfnate by the foreign relations cons-
yittee with four reservations and four
#nendments. The reservations are
hade part of the resolution of rati-
cation, which also provides that they
lust be accepted by at least three of
be principal allied powers, Great
britain, France, Italy and Japan, be-
pre- the United States consents to be
n party to the treaty. Senator Lodge
4ill write the committee report.
& The resolution for ratification of
Pie treaty with reservations adopted
y the senate foreign relations COM
Z1ittee Is as follows:
4 Resolved, Two-thlrds of the senators
present concurring therein, that the
Henate advise and consent to the rati-
cation of treaty Of peace with Ger
5hany, signed by the plenipotentiarles
Bf the twenty-seven allied and associ-
ted powers, at Versailles, on June
RS, 1919, with the following reserva-
ions and understandings TO be made
part and condition of such ratitica-
j ion, which ratification is not to take
Effect or bind the United States until
he said following reservations and I'M
|lerStandings have been accepted as
h part of and a condition of said in
ftrument of ratification by at least
three of the four principal allied and
associated powers, to-wit: Great Brit
bin, France, Italy and Japan.
!. The United States reserves to
itself the unconditional right to with
|lraw from the League of Nations
upon the notice provided in article L
of said treaty of peace with Germany.
2. That the United States declines
TO assume, under the provisions of
article Y or under any other article,
any obligation to preserve the terri
torial integrity or political independ-
ence of any other country or to inter
fere IN controversies between other
nations members of the league or not,
or to employ the military or naval
forces of the United States in such
controversies, or to adopt economic
measures for the protection of any
other country whether member of
the league or not, against external ag-
greSsion or for the purpose of coerc-
ing any other country, or for the pur-
pose of Intervention In the interna-
tional or other controversies which
may arise in any other country, and
no mandate shall be accepted by the
United States under article XXII, part
/ of the treaty. except by action OF the
congress of the United States.
3. The United States reserves to IT.
self exclusively the right to decide
what questions are within its domestic
and declares that all do
nestle and political questions relating
to its affairs, including immigration,
coastwise traffic, the tariff, commerce,
and all other domestic questions, are
solely within the jurisdiction of the
United States and are not under this
treaty submitted In any way either to
or TO the consideration Of
the council of the assembly of the
League of Nations, or to the decision
or recommendation of any other power.
4. The United States declines to sub
init for arbitration or inquiry by the
assembly or the council of the League
Of Nations, provided for in said treaty
Of peace, any questions which in the
judgment of the United States depend
upon or relate TO its ong-established
policy commonly known as the Mon
roe doctrine; said doctrine is to be In
terpreted by the United States alone,
and is hereby declared to be wholly
outside the jurisdiction Of said League
Of Nations and entirely unaffected by
any provision contained in the said
treaty of peace with Germany.