Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1919-11-11
CLAUSE IS ADOPTED
IN SENATE, 90 To 49,;
REPUBLICANS SOLID

WASHINGTON, o. CA reser
walton purposing to safeguard the
nations right to withdraw from
membership in the League of Nations
was adopted by the senate Saturday
with every Republican senator AVID
six Democrats voting for it or paired
in its support.
Holding the whip hand by a safe
majority, the Republican leaders
swept aside every suggested modi-
fication and carried the reservation
through exactly as approved by the
foreign relations committee. Two
Republican senators of the mild res
ervation group led a stubborn fight
to alter it but. after they had failed
voted for adoption.
-,,e final count was fifty to thir-
ty-fve, and pairs announced for tbs
absences showed the entire senaFe
membership to be divided, fifty five
to forty-one. Five Democrats, Sen
ators Reed, Missouri; Gore, Oklaho-
ma; Smith, Georgia; Walsh, Massa-
chusetts, and Cham berlain, Mis-
souri,, voted in the affirmative, while
Shields, Democrat, Tennessee. was
paired in favor of the reservation.
Thirteen more of the reservations
favorably reported by the foreign re
lations committee are yet to be voted
on.
Cleared of the smoke of Iasl
weeks parliamentary battle, the
M. It spectacular perhaps in the sen
ate's history, the treaty situation al
present is this:
Status of Treaty
All textual amendments proposed
to the treaty have been killed b.
the senate.
Sen" rs, working now n commit
tee of the whole, are trying to draft
the resolution by which they will
ratify the treaty. They are votinG
one paragraph 1t a time. Clauses ne
cepted will be written into forma
resolution after all proposals have
been voted on. Two clar~-~ favor.
ed by the senate focei..n :oa~
committee, have been accepted by
the COMMITTEES OF the VIII Thir-
teen more remain to be cd OF
and then ind senate Wi.
come forward with tneir own pro.
posed reservations which likewisI
will be passed on by the committee
of the whole.
The committee Of the who.e is n.
almost meaningless Dhrac>. and is
practically another way of referriag
to the senate. Although it has Il.
important meaning in the house
about the only purpose of the con!
mittee of the whole in the senate ::
90 give bills and reso',- '... chance
to be voted on a second time. A
senators attend whether the sena te
is in formal session or committee -
the whole, and the status automati,
cally changes without even WORD
from the chair.
When the committee of the whois
has finished with the res y
and has formally drafted - ~, iatC
a resolution, this completed resolu,
ton viii be formal - 20 thG
senate and voted on. Shn"Id it be
rejected, there is where authorities
fall out. Democrats say that if the
resolution is beaten, the only thing
to do is to offer another one which
is more likely to pass. Republican.
say that the treaty will automatj.
Cally be dead. The point remains tc
be threshed out by the chair, WING
may in the end be overruled. Sons
say the treaty cannot be killed until
the senate by a two-thirds vote de,
cides to postpone consideration in
definitely and that otherwise the
treaty is before the senate until dis.
posed of. Should it fail to be rati.
fed before the end of the special
session, il will be taken up in regu-
lar session December 1 exactly where
the special session left off.