The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-22
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee Takes Action.
Vote on All Along Strictly
Party Lines.
ALLIES MUST AGREE TO THEM
One Regarded by President as
Equivalent to Rejection.
Hitchcock Plans To Introduce
a Substitute.

Washington, Oct 22.-Four revised
reservations to the peace treaty were
adopted today by the senate foreign
relations committee with the adminis-
tration leaders voting solidly against
them.
The committee also adopted a pre-
amble to the reservations providing
that the treaty should not become ef-
fective until three of the other prin-
cipal Allied and Associated Powers
had agreed to THE senate's reserya-
tons. This, too, was opposed by the
administration senators.
Equivalent to Rejection?
The four reservations approved re-
lated to Article Ten. the Monroe doc
trine, withdrawal, and domestic oues-
tons On most of the roll calls the
division was eleven to six, all of the
Republicans and Senator Shields.
Democrat, Tennessee, voting in the at
firmative.
The reservation adopted relating to
Article Ten was identical, except for
the transposition of one phrase, with
the one which President Wilson an
nounced on his western trip that he
| would be obliged ito regard as a re-
lection of the treaty.
McCumber Joins Republicans.
1t was the first time that Senator
McCumber, Republican. North Dakota,
mad stood with the other Republicans
! of the committee for reservations Re-
| publican leaders declared the pro-
| gram of which the four reservations
were part had been agreed to by all
| the forty-nine Republican senator's
and six Democrats. A number of
/ other reservations remaining on this
program VIII be taken up at another
meeting or the committee late today.
The six Democratic members of the
committee who opposed the reserva-
lions Offered substitutes of an inter-
4 pretatiye character, but they were re-
jected.
Attached to the Article Ten reserva-
ton adopted was a specific declara-
ton that the United States would ac-
cept no mandatory without authoriza-
ton by congress. Later 1t was agreed
/ to make this a separate reservation.
In all, the committee took about fifty
roll calls during its session of two
hours and a half. The only case in
which Senator McCum Der did not vote
with the other Republicans was on
the preamble requirement for accept
ance of the reservations by the other
powers.
/ The preamble for the resolution of
ratification agreed upon reads as fol-
| lows:
| THE committee also reports the fol-
| lowing reservations and understands
| lngs to be made a part and q condi-
| ton of the resolution of ratification,
not to take effect or bind the United
| States until the following reservations
and understandings have been ac-
| cepted as a part and a condition OF
| said instrument of ratification by at
least three of the four principal Al
| lies and Associated Powers. towit.
| Great Britain, France, Italy and
Japan"
Unqualified acceptance or, IL that
cannot be secured. mild reservations,
was what Senator Hitchcock and other
| treaty supporters sought. Compromise
proposals Of all sorts were before the
| committee.
| Hitchcock Plans Battle.
| Hitchcock, leading the administers
| ton forces. today outlined his plan of
battle. Reservations to be agreed
upon by the Republican majority OF
| the foreign relations committee will be
fought by administration forces unless
unexpected concessions are obtained.
/ Comparatively quick work was exc
pected from the committee in franz
ing its ratification resolution. By the
! time IT is ready, the johnson amend-
ment and the two or three miner
amendments will have been disposed
of and the reservation fight will be
shifted to the senate floor. There,
Hitchcock plans. with the support OF
I, friendly Republicans to vote down the
committee reservations, offer a SUBJ
stitute resolution and from that. work
to compromise until the necessary
two thirds vote are obtained.
Rejection Is Defeat?
Republican senators differ with
Hitchcock's Interpretation of senate
rules and declare that If the original
/ resolution is defeated. the treaty IL
thereby rejected. Hitchcock's conten-
ton is that the senate would be voting
only on the resolution of ratification
and that If ii is defeated. another can
I be put up.
Hitchcock is counting on being able
to muster a majority of the senate to
4 back up the chairs ruling on this
/ point
j Early adjournment was secuted by
Hitchcock today. He does not believe
d the treaty can be disposed of by No
/ vember ] 5, and indicated that pro-
tracfed fight is ahead.