Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-11-15

Vote Down Doctrine Change
Taking up the committees Mon
roe Doctrine reservation the SEN
ate voted down 81 TO 4S substitute
by Democratic Leader Hitchcock to
declare the doctrine in no way i'm
paired or affected" by the Treaty.
Only two Democrats, Senator Reed,
Missouri, and Shields, Tennessee,
stood with the Republicans for the
committee draft.
The vote adopting the reservation
of domestic questions was SO to
St, all opponents being Democrats.
The Republicans in favor of that
reservation We're Joined by nine
Democrats - Chamberlain. Gore,
King, Reed, Shields, Smith, of
Georgia; Thomas, Trammel and
Walsh, of Massachusetts.
The reservation follows:
The United States reserves to
itself exclusively the right to de-
eide what questions are within its
domestic jurisdiction and declares
that all domestic and political Ques-
tons relating wholly or in part to
its internal affairs, including immi-
grafton, labor. coastwise traffic, the
tariff, commerce, the suppression
of traffic in women and children and
in opium and other dangerous
drugs. and all other domestic ques-
tions, and all questions affecting
the present boundaries of the Unit
ted States and its insular and other
possessions are solely within the
Jurisdiction of the United States and
are not, under this Treaty. to be
submitted in any way either to ar
bitration or to consideration of the
oil N nf "a
League of Nations, or of any
agency thereof, or to the decision
or recomm endation of any other
power"
Another substitute for the COM
mittee's Monroe Doctrine reserva-
ton, offered by Senator Pittman,
proposing that the United States re-
serve for its disposal any question
raised under the Monroe Doctrine,
also was voted down, 50 to AZ.
The committees Monroe Doctrine
reservation was adopted by q vote,
90 to So.
Hitchcock Substitutes
When the Senate met to-day to
consider the Republican proposal to
enforce the cloture rule to limit de-
bate on the Peace Treaty, Demo-
cratic Leader Hitchcock presented
several substitutes for committee
reservations, SO as to have them
within the rules, which provide that
no amendments or substitutions can
be offered before the cloture be-
comes effective. His move was taken
by some senators to forecast Demo-
cratic support of the cloture mo-
ton.
His Reservations
Senator
Hitchcock presented was a resolu-
ton for ratification without reserva-
tions.
He put in also ratification resolu-
tion embodying "as part of the rati-
fication the five substitute reserva-
tions offered by him several days
ago. Those reservations provide:
That the United States would be
the sole judge whether its obliga-
tions were fulfilled, if it withdrew
from league membership.
That no question which the United
States considers domestic in charac-
ter could come before the league.
That the Monroe Doctrine should
not in any way be impaired or af-
fected.
That the councils recommenda-
tions under Article Ten shall be con-
sidered as merely advice"
That no dominion or colony shall
vote in any league dispute to which
any sister dominion or colony is
party.
jam Develops e
A parliamentary jam developed
when Vice-President Marshall un-
dertook to state his construction of
the cloture rule. Senator La Fol-
lette. Republican. Wisconsin. made a
point of order contending that the
chair should put the motion.
The objection was overruled, Sena-
tor La Toilette appealed from the
decision and Senator Ashurst, Dem
ocrat. Arizona. moved to lay the
proposal on the table.
Senator La Fol1ette's effort to cut
off the Vice-President's ruling was
tabled 81 to 80 all of the latter be-
ing cast by Republicans while 1S
Joined the Democrats in
sustaining the Vice-President.
The Vice-President then ruled that
when one resolution of ratification
had been rejected 1t was possible, If
a majority desired. to take up an
other in the hope of a final COM
promise. The decision bore out the
stand of administration senators
who hope to bring action on a reso-
luton of their own after defeating
that containing the committee reser-
vations.