Norwich bulletin., 1919-11-11
Fight Over Article 10. Of 1. Of N. In Senate
Developments Promise the Adoption of a Reservation Wholly Unacceptable to the Administration Debate Was Caustic.

Administration Debate
 Was Caustic.
 Washington. Nov. 10.-The fight over Article Ten of the League of Nations covenant neared a conclusion today in the senate with developments prom is1ng adoption of a reservation who'll ly unacceptable to the administration.
 During the day the reservation drafted by the foreign relations committee almost identical with one which President Wilson has announc- ed he would regard as a rejection of the treaty, weathered all attempts to alter it and rallied repeatedly support which seemed to insure it's final ac- ceptance. 4 vote is expected tomor- row.
 The reservation provides that under the article which pledges member states to preserve as against external aggression the territorial integrity and political independence of all other members. the United States shall as- sume no obligation to use its naval or military forces except on exuress authorization of congress in every specific case.
 The debate which summed up six months of senate discussion of the subject reached a high pitch of bit terness several times during the' day. It developed another spirited clash on the question of Irelands status under the article, Senator Williams, demo- crat, Mississippi, assailing Irish i Americans who oppose the league and | Senator Walsh, de;aorcrat. Massachu- setts, replying in I speech charging l that the administration had undertak- en to deprive him of all federal patron 1 age because he did not support the l treaty without qualification
 l Just before adjournment the unit cd republican forces backing the reser- vation were almost split by a demo
 cratic proposal to make the qualifi- l cation even more sweeping in it's terms. But the republican leaders soon recovered their hold on the situation and declared that danger of amending 1 the committee draft had passed. The amendment on which the repub- licans momentarily divided was intro l duced by Senator Walsh, democrat Montana, a staunch administration
 supporter, and would have added tc | the reservation a proviso that the i United States releases all members
 of the league from any obligation to il under Article Ten and declines to par ticipate in any proceedings by the council authorized thereby.
 Republicans of the group irrecon. ciliably opposed to the treatyb quick. ly displayed their pleasure and three of them. Senators Borah, Idaho: Fall
 New Mexico. and Mccormick, Illinois announced theywould support the pro. l posal
 i After some discussion the irrecon- I ciliables, however became suspicion! that the democrats, intending to vott gaiIfFt rat fieatiolt ef stF1eeptreaigS ef4e' the reservations were attached. had se out to make the qualifications as op- I noxious as possible. Senator Fal
 withdrew his previous announcement
 prcnouncing the proposed amendment
 a trick" and the senate adjourned
 without q vote but with the republi
 can forces apparently again solidified
 Earlier in the session the democrat
 he'd made another unsuccessful effort | break into the republican ranks b
 proposing as a substitute for the com mittee reservation one which had bee agreed on some weeks ago by the mil 1 group of republicans. Standing by thei
 agreement to support the committed ] however. all the mild reservNionist voted against the substitute. The vot l was AS to 36.
 By a vote of 45 to 3S the senate re
 jected another motion by Senate . Walsh of Montana to strike out , part of the clause reciting congres. authority over the use of armed fore eS.
 | The only other move to alter the res . ervation came from the irresconciala , bles. Senator Borah proposing to sub 7 stitute reservation which would eX clude the United States from par ! 11z T4
 support from the administration ser
 ators or the mild reservationists an ! was rejected 68 to IS, with the fol
 lowing senators voting for it: I Republicans: Borah. Idaho; Brandt ,. gee, Connecticut; Cummins, Iowa 1 Fall, New Mexico; F'ernald. Maine : Fpance Maryland; Gronna, North De y lkota; Josnson, California; Lafollett I Wisconsin, Mccormick, Illinois; NJ n Lean, Connecticut; Moses, New HamI e shire; New, Indiana; Norris. Zebra: | ka; Penrose, Pennsylvania, and Shel e man, Illinois.
 Democrats: Gore, Oklahoma ar a Reed, Missouri.
 < During the debate on Senator Walsh = proviso. Democratic Leader Hitcl I cock bitterly denounced the commits = reservation and declared that if it we ; adopted there will be no Article Ter Q He said the objectionable feature Vi
 the opening declaration that the Uni n ed States assume no obligation" e.
 cept in certain circumstances, addil
 that there would be no objection { d the democratic side or by Preside
 Wilson to a reservation merely sa.
 ing the United States could not maj
 war without action by congress. h To adopt the reservation as draf H ed, said the democratic leader, wou oo be to desert" the weak natsions th !, country had helped bring into bein Singling out Republican Lead n Lodge, he asked what the latter h: o meant in his senate speech last D ,,ee cember by saying the United Stat must restore" Poland.
 ,e Did you mean restore it tempo 'l arily?" asked MT. Hitchcock. "al
 then cut and run? Did he mean tn le we sould adopt a reservation sayil Il the United States assumes no oblig ; tion?'"
 e q certainly can tell the senat, u what did not mean,' retorted Sen
 tor Lodge. T did not mean we shou
 maintain armies indefinitely to susta
 Poland or an yother nataion."
 CREW OF STEAMER POLAR