The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-11
TEXT OF RESERVATIONS TO
 TREATY OFFERED ID SENATE
four Changes That Were Reported To Upper Body Yesterday By Foreign Relations
 Committee Majority.

permitted. No American soldiers orI sailors must be sent to fight in other lands at the bidding of a League of Nations. American lives must not be sacrificed except by the will and com mand of the American people acting through their constitutional repre-j sentauves in Congress.
 This reservation also covers the subject of mandates. According to the provisions of the covenant of the League the acceptance of a mandate by any member is voluntary, but as to who shall have authority to refuse to accept a mandate for any coun- try the covenant of the League is si-
 .ent. The decision as to accepting mandate must rest exclusively within the control of the Congress of the United States as the reservation pro- vides. and must not be delegated even by inference to any personal agent or any delegate or commits sioner.
 '3.-The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all do- mestic and political questions relat- ing to it's affairs, including immigra- ton, coastwise traffic. the tariff, commerce and all other do-
 nestle questions, are solely within the Jurisdiction of the United States and are not under this treaty submit ted in any way either to arbitration or to the consideration of the council of the League of Nations, or to the decision or recommendation of any other power"
 This reservation speaks for itself.
 II is not necessary to follow out here all tortuous windings, which to those who have followed them through the labyrinth disclose the fact that the League under certain conditions will have power to pass upon and decide questions of immigration and tariff as well as the others mentioned in 1 the reservation. It is believed by the 1 committee that this reservation re- i licves the United States from any | dangers or any obligations in this di- | rection.
 The fourth and last reservation l is as follows:
 "4.-The United States declines to | submit for arbitration or inquiry by
 tha assembly or the council of the League of Nations provided for in said treaty of peace any questions ! which in the judgment of the United ] States depend upon or relate to it's
 long established policy, commonly
 known as the Monroe Doctrine; said doctrine is to be interpreted by the
 United States alone, and is hereby de-
 clared to be wholly outside the jur-
 isdictiOn of said League of Nations and entirely unaffected by any pro- vision contained in the said treaty of 1 peace with Germany"
 The purpose of this reservation is clear. It is intended to preserve } the Monroe Doctrine from any inter-
 ference or interpretation by foreign powers. As the Monroe Doctrine has protected the United States, so, it is believed by the committee will this reservat ton protect the Monroe Doc Urine from the destruction with which
 it is threatened by Article 21 in the covenant of the league and leave it.
 where it has always been, within the sole and complete control of the 1 United States