Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-19
CompromiseDon Peace
Pact Looms in Senate
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promise reservations with a view te
making enough notifications in the
committee program already ap
proved by the senate majority te
enable the democrats to support the
committee resolution of ratification
On this point Senator Lodge was
said to be insistent as he desired al
compromise efforts to be made be.
fore the vote came on the commit.
tee measure.
7 Meantime in the senate two more
reservations were added to the Il
already adopted. The mild reserva-
tionists supported them as the final
qualifications which they would
help to write into the treaty, but
the senate extended its session far
into the evening, voting down num-
erous other proposals in an effort to
clear the way before adjournment
for work tomorrow on the ratifica-
ton resolution itself.
The two reservations adopted to-
day related to the labor provisions
in part thirteen of the treaty and to
voting equality in the league of ma
tons.
The labor qualifications we're Of
fered by Senator McCumber, repub-
lican, North, Dakota, and was &C
cepted, 81 to IS, with nine demo-
Gratis supporting it. A proposed
substitute by Senator King. demo-
crat, Utah. which would have ex-
cluded the United States uncondi-
tionally from the labor provisions
was rejected, 48 to 43, the mild re-
publicans joining the administration
senator's to override the votes of the
irreconsilables and nine democrats.
The proposal relative to voting
equality, presented by Senator Len
root, republican, Wisconsin, won,
IS to SO, on a motion to substitute
it for a less sweeping proposal by
Senator McCumber. 1t then was
formally adopted without roll cali.
Previously a reservation on the
same subject by Senator Johnson,
republican, California. had been re-
jected, 46 to 43, with eight demo-
Gratis voting for itand the mild res
ervationists lining up solidly in op.
position.
Conference Is Held.
The wheels of compromise were
started revolving by the mild reser-
walton republicans early in the day
when they held a conference and
decided on these propositions:
THAT if the democrats voted
down the committee resolution OF
ratification they would support Il
motion to reconsider, thus bringing
the resolution back before the sen.
ate for changes;
THAT they would not support a
motion to sustain the chair in any
ruling bearing out the administra-
tons plan for separate resolution
of ratification after the committee
proposal had been defeated.
That they were willing to see
some modification of the preamble
reservation requiring the affirma-
tive assent of other nations to the
senate's qualifications;
That any further compromise me-
gotiations by the democrats must
be conducted. not with them, but
with the republican leaders;
Of these decisions they informed
Senator's Hitchcock and Lodge, with
the added advice to the former to
move today for any comprmise he
hoped to secure. The conference
between the democratic and republi-
can leaders, at which an earnest
effort at compromise was under
stood to have been made, followed
almost Immediately.
Senator Lodge was said to have
pressed for quick action and to have
been particularly insistent that the
democratic leaders counter propos-
ais be in his hands tonight, so that
a compromise Gould be worked out
before the committee resolution
came to a vote.