The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1919-10-31
COMMITTEE 0. KS
TEN RESERVATIONS
PROVISION STIMULATES tn EY
MUST BE ACCEPTED BY THREE
OF THE GREAT POWERS
SEN. LODGE IS CONFIDENT
He Declares Reservations Represent
Compromise Behind Which Ma
iority of the Senate Is Pledged
to Stand Firmly

Washington, Oct. 23.-ReOpening its
consideration of the peace treaty, the
senate foreign relations committee
yesterday adopted 10 revised reserva-
tons, including provision that the
senate qualifications must be accept
ed by three of the other great powers
before the ratification becomes eff
fective.
Among them was new proposal
which administration senator's declar-
ed would break down the economic
boycott feature Of the league Of ma
lions covenant, and a reservation on
Article X. differing only in the trans
position of one phrase from that
which President Wilson has announc-
ed he would treat as rejection OF
the treaty.
The 10 reservations were part OF
list presented by Chairman Lodge and
declared by Republican leaders to rep
resent compromise behind which
majority Of the senate is pledged to
stand. The administration members OF
the committee, headed by Democratic
Leader Hitchcock, tried In vain to Sc
cure modification Of the majority pro-
posals and then voted solidly against
all Of them.
Showing for the first time, however,
willingness to include reservations
Of an interpretative character In the
ratification resolution, Senator Hitch
cock and his colleagues offered sub
stitutes for several of the reservations
presented, but not single substitu-
ton or change was made at their sug-
gestion.
The 10 subjects covered by the res
ervations were:
Withdrawal from league member
Ship Article X the right Of congress
to authorize mandates; national SUI
premacy over domestic questions; the
Monroe doctrine; Shantung; limita-
lions on the PREPARATIONS committee !;
the power of congress to determine
| contributions to league expenses; the
| right to increase armament in certain
| circumstances, and the right to con-
| tinue trade with Il covenant-breaking
| state.
In the vote on one of these reserva-
tons, Senator McCumber, Republican,
North Dakota, who had stood with the
mild reservationists' against all
previous committee proposals, voted
with the majority. In every case, too,
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see, voted with the Republicans. the
count on all important roll calls re-
lating to the reservations standing II
to g. On the provision requiring the
assent of other powers, however,
which was contained in Il preamble to
the reservation group, Senator Nc
Cumber joined the six Democrats in
opposition. 1t was said that part of
the program, together with some adj
ditional reservations to be taken up
later, had failed to secure the support
of all of the mild Republicans" The
leaders, however, asserted they had
the votes pledged to carry all of their
proposals through the senate.
Action on three reservations on the
majority program was deferred and il
was said more would be added to the
list before the next meeting of the
committee, which probably will be
held tomorrow. The three passed over
would provide that congress appoint
the American delegates to the league
and delegates to such other interna
tional bodies as it chose: that steps
should be taken by the league to pre-
vent the white slave traffic; and that
the section validating the acts of the
alien property custodian should not be
binding in any case where the laws OF
this country We're violated.