The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-10-22
OPPOSITION FORCES SERVE NOTICE THAT
 PROPOSAL GOES TO
 COMMITTEE TODAY
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oerats want to pursue that course, but general prediction tonight was that committee action wodld be fought off tomorrow to give the administrators forces day or two to think the matter over.
 In their conference today the demo- cratic leaders did not have before the the actual working or the reservations as agreed on by the majority, but they had been told that the four generally regarded as most important. relating to withdrawal. domestic questions, the Monroe doctrine and article 10. fol- lowed almost word for word' the lar guage of those put into the Senate record by Senator McCumber. Most CT the argument therefore was over those four as presented by the North Dakota senator
 SEVEN RESERVATIONS
 In ali seven reservations were in the McCumber series the other three relating to Shantung and equal votes in the league.
 MT. McCumber was one of the seven
 original ''nnsld reservationists" who, under the leadership of Senator Me- Nary republican. Oregon. agreed last July to definite programme. He said the plan he presented today was the outgrowth of conferences between this grour and republicans who favored Stronger reservations"
 Senator McCumber's statement in presenting his reservations was tine only reference on the floor of the Sem ate to the treaty during day of work on an appropriation. Debate on the Johnson amendment will begin tomor- row. with a vote possible before ad- journment.
 FOLLOWS TAFT DRAFT I,a McCt1rnf e r draft of the Article 10 reservation, which has been the troublesome point in all negotiations for an agreement, follows very closely a draft which former President Taft recently sug- gested to Senators McCumber, Kellogg, McNary and Colt, republicans, and which they submitted to Republican Leader Lodge The text of the new Taft reservation, together with ona drawn by him regarding voting power i in the league became public tonight for ] the first time.
 Although Senator Hitchcock. the democratic leader, declined to go
 into details regarding today's con ference. it was said by his col leagues that he had shown for the 1 first time . disposition to feel that ratification of the treaty without l reservations now impossible. | It was declared. on the other hand. that he took no definite stand for 1 acceptance of the opposition offer and that the conference broke np with the question undecided. President Wilson's illness was said 1 to be the big element making for in decision among the democrats. As chiei l executive it will be for him to decide l whether any reservations adopted real ly require the reopening of interna- 1 tiona1 negotiations and his supporters l do not want to accept anything he would consider in that category l Neither do they want to ask for his ad-
 vice unless it is absolutely necessary l especially in view of the fact that yes l terday Senator Hitchcock wIote let ter to the White House Which was l shown to the President. saying MT i Wilson's counsel would not be neces- | sary for another week or 10 days. I Those who argued against ac- | ceptance of the proposed reservn- | tions are snid to have pointed out II that in the McCumber draft the Il language relating to Article 10 is
 identical except for the transposi-
 tiOn of one phrase. with that
 quoted by the President as a re- jection of the treaty in his Chey- enne address on September 23. TEXT OF RESERVATIONS The full text of Senator McCumber | reservations, which he presented 10 printing under the title of 'Suggeste Compromise Reservations" follows: WITHDRAWAL '1. That the United States under stands and so construes article one, that in case of notice of withdrawal from the league of nations, as pro- vided in said article, the United States shall be the sole judge as to whether all it's international obliga- tions and all it's obligations under the said covenant have been fulfilled. ARTICLE 10
 ''2 The United States assumes no obligations to preserve the territorial integrity or political independence of any other country or to interfere in controversies between nations. wheth- CT members of the league or not. under any article of the treaty for any purpose, unless in any particular case the congress which, under the constitution, has the sole power to de- clare war or authorize the employ ment of the military and naval forces of the United States, shall, by act, or joint resolution so declare. DOMESTIC QUESTIONS
 '.3 The United States reserves to it.
 ] self exclusively the right to decide